A Secret Life_ The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland - Charles Lachman [178]
188. “Mr. Hendricks is a man whom very few understand”: ibid, 12 July 1884.
189. “Shorn of their plumes,” ibid., 14 July 1884.
190. “I am directed by Mr. Blaine to thank you.” Boston Daily Globe, 28 September 1884.
9. “A TERRIBLE TALE”
191. “Is there someone you wish to see?” Frank H. Severance, ed., The Periodical Press of Buffalo vol. 19, (Buffalo: The Buffalo Historical Society, 1915), 335.
192. “He looked me up and down,” ibid., 340.
193. “I wonder what I will write about tonight?” Ibid., 173, quoting Joseph O’Connor, editorial writer of the Buffalo Courier.
194. “We have no politics . . . We are not Republican, nor Democrat,” Vance H. Trimble, The Astonishing Mr. Scripps: The Turbulent Life of America’s Penny Press Lord (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1992), 75.
194. “Everything was done to make the paper a success,” Buffalo Morning Express, 18 August 1885.
196. It was one of the finest estates in Augusta: Norman L. Bassett, Sprague’s Journal of Maine History, vol. 8 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1909), 342. Author’s note: Blaine’s mansion is now the official residence of the governor of Maine.
196. Zemro Smith sat down with Blaine: New York World, 19 May 1885.
197. “Secret consultation,” ibid.
197–204. “Responsibility for the disclosures,” Boston Journal, 30 July 1884.
205. The cause of his derangement: New York Times, 15 July 1884.
206. Theodore Roosevelt expressed the sentiment. Ibid., 21 July 1884.
206. “Absolute integrity has never been questioned,” ibid., 16 July 1884; 22 July 1884.
206. “Great bombshell,” Nevins, 162.
207–210. Titled “A Citizen’s Statement,” Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 21 July 1884.
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211. Went around to all the major newsstands trying to buy. Utica Herald, undated.
211. “Whatever you do, tell the truth,” GC telegram to Charles Goodyear, 23 July 1884, Nevins, Letters, 37.
211. “Filled with anguish,” Nevins, 168.
212. “The issue of the present campaign is moral, not political,” New York Times, 23 July 1884.
213. “Great revulsion,” Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 23 July 1884.
214. “The conclusion I draw from these facts is that.” M. A. DeWolkfe Howe, Portrait of an Independent (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), 150–152.
215. “I learned last night that McCune had started,” GC to Daniel Lockwood, 31 July 1884, Nevins, Letters, 38.
216. “They would bring the blush to the cheek of,” Rochester Herald, 23 July 1884; New York World, 24 July 1884; New York Morning Journal, 24 July 1884.
217. “The Telegraph is little, but it is mighty and will prevail,” Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 23 July 1884.
217. “All honor to the bravest paper in Buffalo!” Buffalo Evening Telegraph , 27 and 28 July 1884.
219. “Owing to late developments from Albany,” New York Times, 7 August, 1884.
219. Beecher had been sued for adultery,” Debby Applegate, The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (New York: Three Leaves Press, 2006), 462.
221. “I told him,” King later said. New York World, 8 August 1884. The headline accompanying Horatio King’s interview was, “Cleveland’s Vindication.”
221. He had erected the mansion in 1879: New York Times, 17 March 1889; 8 December 1889.
221. Wallpaper so “exquisite,” Applegate, 457.
223. “My husband has been quite ill for several days,” New York Tribune, 7 August 1884.
224. The facts seem to be that many years ago when. New York World, 8 August 1884.
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227. “Interview Mrs. Maria Halpin who is said to have had child,” Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 14 August 1884.
228. Roosevelt read the telegram: Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 14 August 1884.
228. Secor, Seacor, Secord, and finally to Seacord. Morgan H. Seacord, Biographical Sketches and Index of the Huguenot Settlers of New Rochelle, 1687–1776 (New Rochelle, New York, The Huguenot and Historical Association of New Rochelle, 1941), 47.
229. She had been living a “quiet, decorous, unobtrusive” life: Boston Globe, 6 August 1884.
229. Mrs. Halpin was to remain in “strict seclusion,” New York Morning Journal, 14 August 1884.
230.