A Secret Life_ The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland - Charles Lachman [180]
260. “To see grown men, apparently in their right mind,” Twain quoted in Farquhar, 166.
261. “Have just received your package of Boston Journals,” New York Post, 13 August 1884.
261. “Abundant rumors” that Cleveland’s immoral behavior. Mark Wahlgren Summers, Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President 1884 (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 279.
262. “On coming down to breakfast one morning,” New York Times, 27 October 1884.
262. “Everything looks well for Cleveland,” George F. Peabody to William Gorham Rice, 7 September 1884; Box 7, Folder 1, William Gorham Rice Papers, New York State Library, Albany, New York.
263. An “oversensitive and insecure” woman. Applegate, 85. Applegate relates the story of the hot bowl of soup on page 84.
263. Provocative evidence about her “abysmal” marriage, ibid., 444. 264. “What! The Governor took no personal physicians,” New York Times, 27 October 1884.
264. “I am shocked and dumbfounded by the clippings,” GC to Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, undated but around 20 October 1884, Nevins, Letters, 45. The letter was read by Reverend Beecher before a large rally in Brooklyn the night of 23 October 1884.
265. “Crushed in spirit and broken in health,” New Rochelle Pioneer, 13 September 1884.
266. Frederick, “at the suggestion of my mother,” Boston Globe, 2 November 1884.
266. “Grover Cleveland is the father,” New York Morning Journal, 14 August 1884, reprinted in Tell the Truth, 31.
267. “I would rather put a bullet through my heart,” ibid.
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268. “The scandal business is about wound up,” GC to Wilson Bissell, 11 September 1884, Nevins, Letters, 42.
268. “On some other shoulders than mine,” GC to Charles Goodyear, 14 September 1884, ibid., 43.
269. Beard was born “deaf as a post,” Morning Oregonian, 15 September 1895. Judge ceased publication in 1947.
271. “We trust the skies will smile upon our festival,” Buffalo Courier, 2 October 1884.
271. “O hell! A man don’t decorate or illuminate his house,” GC to Bissell, 5 October 1884, Nevins, Letters, 44.
272. “Balm to the wounds of slander,” Buffalo Courier, 3 October 1884.
272. “Lady of the highest social station and of the most rigid code,” The Facts and Evidence Concerning the Private Life of Grover Cleveland, a political pamphlet distributed by the Cleveland campaign, 44.
272. “Beyond anticipations,” GC to Bissell, 5 October 1884, Nevins, Letters, 44.
272. “And now that the Buffalo rumpus is over,” ibid.
273. Brooklyn’s “best families,” Brooklyn Eagle, 23 October 1884.
274. “Before many of you were born I was rocking the cradle,” ibid.
276. “Immovably opposed” to her going public, Boston Globe, 10 August 1884.
278. Frederick T. Halpin, being duly sworn. Affidavit in possession of author. It was also published in several newspapers 30 October 1884.
278. Maria B. Halpin, being duly sworn. Chicago Tribune, 31 October 1884. Affidavit in possession of the author.
279. “Leave his house,” Boston Globe, 2 November 1884.
279. “I did not intend to say anything about the affair,” Chicago Tribune, 31 October 1884.
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283. “And spontaneity will win?” Hudson, 205–210.
285. The Fifth Avenue Hotel was the social. New York Times, 4 April 1908.
286. An “insult to Christian civilization,” Summers, 280.
287. “Flicker of annoyance,” ibid., 282.
287. “I am the last man in the United States,” ibid., 285.
288. “Now swallow the Cleveland pill,” Nevins, 171.
288. “I must tell you about one girl here,” W. F. Lampton, “Mrs. Cleveland as a College Girl,” Ladies Homes Journal, March 1904, 12.
288. “Five minutes more that time and we should never have been married,” Nevins, 302.
289. Her dorm room was still fragrant with roses. Annette Dunlap, Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America’s Youngest First Lady (Albany: SUNY Press, 2009), 22.
289. Frances asked around and found somebody. New York World, 8 November 1892.
290. “Girls, wouldn’t it be pretty nice for me to spend a winter,” Lampton, Ladies Home Journal, May 1905.
291. “A fellow can’t