Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-19
ABUSIVE ~EPITHETS
Hurled at Each Other by Editor Damn md
Ex-President CIevelnnd-Sfrong Lam
guage and the Word Liar


Ex-President CIevelnnd-strong Lam
guage and the Word Liar
Freely Used.
NEW YORK, April 1S.-Editor Dana and
exsPresidept Cleveland have been calling
each other names. Two days ago the Sun
published a dispatch from Washington
which stated that Mr.. Cleveland had lately
been gaining weight at the rate of 25 pounds
a month, and this fresh fat, added to his al
ready enormous proportions, had been
smothering every vital organ in his body.
In pursuance of the advice obtained, the
correspondent continued, Mr.. Cleveland had
put himself under doctors treatment, and
added: st is said that one feature of the
treatment in the ex-President's case will be
daily exercises in a sort of treadmill, or
mountain climber invented by DR..
Schweninger."
The next day World reporter interviewed
Mr. Cleveland regarding the Suns story.
The ex-President said:
have not seen the article you refer to, and
If it appears nowhere else but in the Sun there
is not the least chance of my seeing it. OF
course the entire thing is lie, without the
you say that the venerable editor of the Sun
supposes that he has at last hit upon subject
which can be used to annoy me- In this he is
mistaken. He must be his own juuge OF social
decencies and proprieties. am not sure that
he should at his time of life and in his appar-
emily peculiar mental condition be molested in
his amusement
Mr.. Cleveland stated. according to the
World reporter, that the 'seniie liar and
thier, Dana," had dragged his wife's name
into these attacks, and this he regretted
more than anything else.
To-day tho S1f7l nditnri al1v rnpea Ia n mr.
tion Of Mr.. Cleveland's statements, and
comments thereon as follows:
The Stuffed Prophet of William street. in q
rage OF wounded vanity, is thus reported:
There is only one thing" Mr.. Cleveland re-
sumed, and tender expression lit up his face
They are not confined to myself. 1t seems that
the senlle Dana does not contine his warfare to
men. Women are not free from his dastardly
assaults. Mrs Cleveland has not escaped. 1t
is bad enough tor Dana to print his lying state
ments regarding myself: but it is infinitely
more cowardly and dastardly for him to in
clude, as he has done, my wife in his attacks
Nothing could be more contemplate or SO far
removed from all instincts of manhood
To no habisual reader of the Sun, Mr.. Dana
continues, 1s 1t necessary to say that this is a
cowardly lie. 1t is not less a lie because it is
uttered by man who has been President of
the United States. 1t is not less cowardy be-
cause 1t proceeds from husband whose in
feriority IN social, moral and intellectual quail
able womnn linked to him by the name they
bear in common.
Passing over the blackguard epithets in
which the half-drunken Deputy Sheriff reap
pears, and finds his only possible retort, we
come to this more serious matter. To provoke
sympathy for himself, Mr.. Cleveland deliber-
ately drags the name of his wife into an inter-
view intended for publication, charging the
Sun with an offense which, if the charge is
true, ought to render this newspaper odious to
every gentleman on Manhattan Island, to every
honorable man who respects womanhood. The
charge is false, and MIR. Cleveland knew it was
false when he uttered it.
There is but one answer that we care to
make. We invite Mr.. Cleveland to point to a line
or word that ever appeared in the Sun con-
cerning the good woman whose name he thus
degrades which justifies, directly or indirectly,
the statement contained in the paragraph
quoted above If he cannot do that-and he
cannot-we invite the attention of the COM
munity to the portrait of selfish poltroon, an
unworthy husband, about whose conduct in this
affair nothing can be said by any person of
sensitive perceptions that will not leave on
the coarse and swollen face peeping from be-
hind the edge of his wlfs's garments a red
mark like the sting of a whip lash.'