A Secret Life_ The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland - Charles Lachman [179]
230. “Henceforth” he would run the newspaper “in the interests of the Republican Party,” New York Times 5 August 1884.
231. “Of the truth of the story,” Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 14 August 1884.
232. “They are, and God knows they are true too,” New Rochelle Pioneer, undated.
233. A “swell” free buffet seven days a week. Michael and Ariane Batterberry, On the Town: The Landmark History of Eating, Drinking, and Entertainments from the American Revolution to the Food Revolution (Oxford: Routledge, 1998), 145.
233. His mother would receive the extraordinary sum of ten thousand dollars. Chicago Inter-Ocean, 29 September 1884.
233. I have read the statement published in the Buffalo. Chicago Tribune, 30 October 1884.
235. Without being “molested,” New Rochelle Pioneer, undated.
235. Don’t worry, I am going away. Note published in Tell the Truth, or the Story of a Working Woman’s Wrongs (New York: Popular Press, 1884). The pamphlet was distributed by the Republican Party and consisted of reprinted articles from the Evening Telegraph and other anti-Cleveland newspapers.
235. She was a “magnetic girl . . . full of life. New York Mercury, as quoted in Chicago Tribune, 13 August 1884.
236. “Mrs. Halpin is evidently an epileptic,” Boston Globe, 2 November 1884.
237. “I am known in this city and no one can point,” Brooklyn Times, undated, reprinted in Tell the Truth pamphlet under the headline, “Maria Halpin’s Parent Relates the Story of his Daughter’s Career.”
238. “Betrayed into the hands of her enemies,” New York Star, undated, as quoted in Tell the Truth.
239. “I have had trouble enough already, without more,” New York Star, undated, reprinted in Tell the Truth.
241. “Yes, I know Cleveland, perhaps better than any man living,” Chicago Tribune, 30 September 1884. Cleveland’s letter to Talbott does not survive.
242. “They engaged me to care for a young child,” ibid., 1 October 1884.
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244. “I’m glad you’ve come. I want to talk,” Hudson, 184–190.
247. “I hope it will die out at once,” GC to Daniel Lamont, 14 August, 1884, Nevins, Letters, 40–41.
248. “As a candidate for the presidency I knew that I should,” Harry Thurston Peck, Twenty Years of the Republic, 1885–1905 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), 234–236, Blaine withdrew the lawsuit in December 1884, complaining that the “law gives no adequate redress” in cases of libel involving a public figure.
249. Cleveland descended the staircase and strode. New York Times, 30 July 1884.
249. “If one of you young fellows doesn’t take,” Nevins, 175.
250. “I hope that brass bands and such nonsense,” GB to Lamont, 10 August 1884, Nevins, Letters, 39.
251. “Remember me to Apgar,” ibid., August 11 1884, 40.
251. “Very frequently had no better couch to sleep on,” New York Times, 27 October 1884; Nevins, 177.
252. Hendricks, along with two nieces, was traveling. Chicago Tribune, 18 September 1884.
252. “For many years, days devoted to business,” Michael Farquhar, Treasury of Great American Scandals (New York: Penguin Books, 2002), 166.
253. “The issue is evidently not between the two great parties,” Buffalo Evening Telegraph, 21 July 1884.
254. “Filthy and disingenuous,” New York Post, 8 August 1884.
255. “Moreover, he has, we are informed,” ibid., 12 August 1884.
255. The “Rev.” Ball, who originated the vile slander. Boston Herald, 10 August 1884.
256. The Twinings had arrived in America: Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven County, vol. II (New York and Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919), 282–286.
257. “When he was younger than he is now,” Twinings’s report published as, The Facts and Evidence Concerning the Private Life of Grover Cleveland, 27 October 1884.
258. “Everybody and his eldest son,” Boston Globe, 30 August 1884.
258. “Indignant and disgusted with the people,” Buffalo Courier, 31 October 1884.
260. “The facts of the case show that she was not seduced,” ibid., 11 August 1884.
260. “There was no abduction,