Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — BEECHER. [ARTICLE]

BEECHER.

Brooklyn Aug 7 —The Union prints the following from Peekskill: Rev. Henry Ward Beecher passed nearly the entire morning In listening to astat.ment from General Horatio 0. King, of Brooklyn. General tving has just, returned from Buffalo, where he lias been engaged in making for Mr. Beecher a careful investigation of the scandalous stories in circulation about Governor Cleveland. The result of his investigation is entirely favorable to the Governor, and Mr. Beecher is highly delighted. To a Union reporter Mr. Beecher said this morning. “I have been undergoing a judicial process. I have been way down in the mud, but now th° clouds are breaking away, and I am beginning to understand that these stories about Governor Cleveland are unirue and a vile slander. You may say that I expect to brand the men who have piomul-g:u<-d tUem as olacKmailers and liars; far I now expect the Governor acted the part of a man in this aflair T shall take the stump for him and tell the people of this country that they must elect him Piesideuf. I shall enter this campaign with an enthusiasm second only to that with which I entered the war. Take mv word for it, tins scandal if false will make Governor Cleveland President.” Mr. Beecher said he felt like another mini since his talk with General King, and that a great, weight has been lifted off his mind- No one can he found to father the calumnies excent the ger tieman known in Buffalo as Elder Ball, pastor of a small Baptist church Ball is best described as a political striker. In 1881, be demanded and received SBO for alleged service to the Independent Republicans. In a recent canvass he begged $250 trom Senator TitU3 and a like sum from H. R. Jones, County Treasurer. both Democrats. One of the stories circulated by Ball relates to an oocurance twenty.four ye \>s ago. an innocent frolic in which the participants were legal chums of the 0> v. einor, ana there were no women present. A committee oi three Independent Republicans, composed of a leading clergyman. a lawyer, and a merchant, demanded of the editor of the Bufialo Telegraph the proofs which he said he was ready to produce. He was greatm alarmed, and, on the plea ot sicknes,, asked tor delay-. The committee wjf, make a thorough investigation and give the facts to the public over their signa turfs as soon as the Telegraph gives its reply. The Doctor Mitchel who figures with hall as a supporter of his charges is from Washington, and is air intimate friend ol Mr* Blaine. lie has been in Bufialo but three years, more than half which time G’overnor Cleveland has been in Albany- He has publicly ad*-, mitted that he knows nothing except by hearsay, and liis informant is Ball, F. D. Lock, partner ot Sherman b |Rogers,

and an intimate friend of Mitchell, has withdrawn from his church, and other leading members have also withdrawn until he publicly retracts his sentiments. There ie much excitement in Bnfialo, and the most promirent people denounce the authors of the slanders The report of the committee may be expected in a day or two