A Secret Life_ The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland - Charles Lachman [176]
112. She utterly “loathed” the man: Chicago Tribune, 19 September 1884.
113. “Pray that I may meet some good soul,” Jean Richardson, A History of the Sisters of Charity Hospital, Buffalo, New York 1848–1900 (Lewiston, New York The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005)
113. “Guarantee against destructive tendencies,” Buffalo News, 5 May 1901.
113. “I went through all the halls and rooms and saw all of the patients,” State of New York, Eighteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Charities, 1885, 311–312.
114. He came to the asylum once a week to offer: Sisters of Charity Hospital Archives, 75 Years Providence Retreat, 1860–1935, 26.
114. “Without warrant or form of law”: Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 21 July 1884.
115. “Long enough to get straightened out,” Lynch, 71.
116. Cleveland had “plotted” her abduction and “hired the men to carry it out,” Boston Journal, 30 July 1884, interview with Milo Whitney.
117. Appearing under the name The Misses Kendall: Author interview with William H. Kendall III, 12 June 2009.
119. Grover Cleveland was a “seducer”: Chicago Inter-Ocean, 29 September 1884.
120. The Halpin family was not willing to risk a “public scandal,” Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 21 July 1884.
121. The lawsuit had been irrevocably “compromised,” Boston Journal, 30 July 1884.
122. The sun could one day “blaze up” and destroy the earth. New York Times, 2 January 1877.
122. “Taken by his guardian,” Buffalo Orphan Asylum archives, Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, C82–1.
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125. Finally, Cleveland said, “All right, I’ll run,” Lynch, 79.
125. Sheehan had a reputation for shiftiness and political malfeasance. New York Times, 1 November 1894.
125. “I’ll be damned if I’ll run with that Irishman,” Lynch, 79; Armitage, 82. In John B. Weber’s biography, he says the actual quote was, “None of that Irishman for me.”
126. The “boy judge,” Armitage, 59.
126. “I think you’d better accept,” ibid., 86–87.
127. “Great unwashed,” Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 26 October 1881.
128. “lordly manners,” ibid.
129. A Buffalo policeman stood outside each polling station: Buffalo Morning Express, 6 November 1881.
129. His reputation for pugnacious honesty. Nevins, 80.
129–130. “But now that you have taken upon yourself the burdens,” Barnum, 185.
132. “I cannot remember a time when interest,” Armitage, 101–102.
132. “While I was your attorney I was loyal,” ibid., 105.
132. “I have made the greatest mistake of my whole life,” Nevins, 86.
133. “Gruff as a mastiff,” Armitage, 141–142.
134. “Best available engineering skill,” Nevins, 87.
135. “Has always been devotedly attached to her,” Buffalo Morning Express, 20 July 1882.
135. “Her children arise and call her blessed,” Harold I. Gullan, Faith of Our Mothers: The Stories of Presidential Mothers From Martha Washington to Barbara Bush (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001), 137.
136. “I shrink from it every time with just the same reluctance you would feel,” Moses Coit Tyler, In Memoriam Edgar Kelsey Apgar (Ithaca, New York, Ithaca Democrat Press, 1886), 133.
137. An “ugly-honest man”: Nevins, 98–99.
138. “Men come here daily from all parts of the state,” Armitage, 166–167.
138. “I am gratified with the interest you take in my candidacy,” GC to Edgar K. Apgar, 29 August 1882, Nevins, Letters, 15.
139. “A man for the hour,” Armitage, 169.
140. “I’ll do that and better,” Mahoney said. Armitage, 153; Lynch, 97.
141. No one here expresses any confidence in his nomination,” Lynch, 103.
141. “Deposits placed in his mind were as safe as those made in a bank,” William C. Hudson, Random Collections of an Old Political Reporter (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., 1911). The description of Hudson is from the introduction by St. Clair McKelway, 9.
142. “Mr. Cleveland, you will be the nominee. Ibid., 132–134.
143. “John B. Manning has been in to see me tonight,” GC to Wilson S. Bissell, 19 September 1882, Nevins, Letters, 17.
143. “He’s our kind of people,” Armitage, 154.