Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — The Charges Against Cleveland. [ARTICLE]

The Charges Against Cleveland.

The Facts Respecting the Grave Charges Against Graver Cleveland. The Chicago Tribune says it has received from a Presbyterian clergyman in Buffalo, whose name is at anybody’s service, the following letter: Buffalo, N. Y., July 2t. .. . : K - “ A To the Editor of thfc Tribune. It seems to me that a leading question of this campaign ought to be: “Do the American people want a common libertine for their President?” If not, it is very easy for you to show that they ought not to choose Mr. Cleveland, of this city. Every word which you will read concerning his character in or from the Buffalo Telegraph of this date, I have reason to' know, is trilff Unfortunately for clean men, who will vote the Democratic ticket this year, in the interest of “purity and reform' the publication referred to is not a campaign lie, but the saddest and most solemn truth.. The man who prepared it for the press is one of the best known and most highly honored clergyman; and ho did it after personal investigation, and influenced only by a sense of the sternest moral obligation. The dispatch annexed, has been telegraphed from Chicago to the San Francisco Chronicle: , The following letter hah been tqceived by Rev. C- R - West, editor of the Advance, a leading Baptist paper of this city: Buffalo, N. Y.. July Dear Advance—lt may be too late to do any good, and may not be needed, but I fed moved to warn yon against saying much to the credit of Grover Cleveland. He is a libertine. No Christian should condone his crimes so far as to recommend his candidacy. About seven years ago he seduced the head of the cloak department in Flifit & Kent’s, leading merchants here. He kidnapped the woman after the boy was born, sent her to the Catholic Insane Asylum and took the child from her. She escaped, got Milo W. Whitney to help hes, finally settled and gave up the child for SoGO. This I know to be true, for I have it confirmed by Flint & Kent, by Mrs. Whitney, her attorney, and by Mrs. William Baker, where the woman boarded. Mr. Cleveland has the reputation herb of the grossest licentiousness. Judge James Sheldon, of the Superior Court, told me. this week, that he had direct proof of his recent attempt to seduce a young lady of excellent character, but she, becoming aware of his intent, repelled him- so spiritedly that he beat a hasty retreat. 1 have written to the Independent and the Christian Union, and they will play shy of him, though they did speak of him aS irreproachable. Having seen rtothing in the Advance to alarm me, I did not write you. but it will do no harm for you to know the facts. George H. Ball. Rev. Mr. Ball is pastor of the Hudson Street Baptist Church. of Buffalo.