Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — SAID TO HAVE BEEN MORTON. [ARTICLE]

SAID TO HAVE BEEN MORTON.

The Anonymous Giver of $12,000 to the Yellow Fever Sufferer*. It is asserted in New York that the anonymous giver of the $12,000 for the benefit of the Florida yellow fever fund is no other than Levi P, Morton, the Keptiblican candidate for vice president. The only name Accompanying the donation at the time it was made was “An American J’ but it now seems reasonably certain that the “American" w; s Mr. Morton. ._ When we remember the quiet and unostentatious way in which he contributed to the fund for the starving poor of Ireland, and how the name of Ireland's benefactor escaped not by any word or sign of his, but actually against Ids will, there is certainly a strong probability ; that the contribution to the Florida fund came from the same source. Mr. Morton, as is wbll knoWn. has never been kickwafft in giving to worthy objects, and he has sedulously avoided publicity in all such matters, • It is often said that comparisons are odious, but we naturally contrast Air. Morton’s gifts with those <>f Mr. Cleveland, the: contrast being marked got so much by difference in amounts as by a wide difference in the objects of the gifts. Thus there is no very great difference in money value between ■ Mr. Morton’s gift of $12,000 to the Florida yellow fever fund and Mr. Cleveland’s gift of SIO,OOO to the Democratic campaign fund, but the objects of the respective donations do not bear any re--seniblanee to each other. There is little need to comment upon tire difference. The people can appreciate it just as well as if it.were made the subject of an es-say,-and they can decide between the two men without any suggestions from anybody.—San Francisco. Chronicle.