A Secret Life_ The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland - Charles Lachman [183]
346. “Utterly unfit for young girls,” Washington Post, 12 February 1888.
18. THE TRIAL
348. “Dirty and disreputable,” Dunlap, 42–43.
348. “A direct menace to the integrity of our homes,” Ladies Home Journal, May 1905.
348. “The place is full of rumors about Mrs. Cleveland,” Dunlap, 52, quoting Sir Cecil Spring-Rice.
349. “Called her wicked names and finally slapped her face,” Chicago Tribune, 7 December 1888.
350. “I can only say in answer to your letter.” New York Times, 8 June 1888.
350. His “tongue is considerably longer than his judgment,” ibid., 10 June 1888.
350. “Of course, I don’t believe these rumors,” ibid., 8 June 1888.
351. “It was mainly because the other party had the most votes,” Lamont scrapbook, Nevins Collection, Box 104.
351. “I am sorry for the president,” Dunlop, 58.
352. “Mrs. Cleveland looks up to her husband,” Atlanta Constitution, 25 November 1888, quoted by Dunlap, 58.
352. “The place I hate above all others,” GC to William Vilas, 20 May 1888, Nevins, Letters, 207.
352. “Jungle of gifts,” Nevins, 448.
353. “We’re coming back just four years from today,” Crook, 197–198.
353. “Things are getting into a pretty tough condition,” GC to Vilas, 20 May 1888, Nevins, Letters, 207.
353. “Why hasn’t Lena sent my corsets,” Dunlap, 63.
355. Moot rose and presented his opening statement: Four Great Lawyers of Our Time, amemoir privately published by the Buffalo law firm Kenefick, Cook, Mitchel, Bass and Letchworth, undated, 10.
355–379. Author’s note: No official transcript of the Ball vs. New York Evening Post Corporation trial exists. The Q and A and opening and closing arguments in chapter 18 are taken from a variety of sources, primarily contemporary newspaper accounts published in Buffalo in February 1890 and court papers on file at the New York State Appellate Division Law Library in Rochester.
357. “Remote deity,” Allan Nevins, The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922), 529. Nevins once worked at the Evening Post.
357. “Smacked of sensationalism,” New York Times, 22 May 1902.
358. Locke was also a voracious reader: Four Great Lawyers of Our Time, 3–5.
363. “It was torture,” Buffalo Times, 5 February 1890.
367. Once he had treated the son of a tribal chief. Buffalo News, 14 August 1910.
371. A pallid George Ball sat at the plaintiff’s table. Buffalo Times, 6 February, 1890.
373. “In this an attack had been made not only upon the living but upon the dead.” Author’s note: The quote is from the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser account of the trial (6 February 1890.) Although there are no quotation marks, it appears to be directly taken from John Milburn’s closing arguments.
375. “If it pleases Your Honor we desire to reopen our side of the case,” Buffalo Times, 7 February 1890.
378. “Without the slightest leaning one way or the other,” Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 7 February 1890.
378. No one expected a victory for Ball. Buffalo Courier, 8 February 1890.
379. It had taken six more ballots before reaching a unanimous verdict: Buffalo Courier, 8 February 1890.
19. KEEPER OF THE FLAME
381. Two days before she passed away, Maria wrote out a will. New Rochelle Pioneer, 22 February 1902.
381. “Do not let the funeral be too public,” Utica Journal, 10 February 1902.
382. Then a hearse carried the coffin down a rain-slicked country road. Records from the Davis Funeral Home, New Rochelle, New York, courtesy Rick Moody of New Rochelle.
382. “The well-known stove and furnace dealer,” New Rochelle Press, 8 February 1902. Also see New Rochelle Pioneer, same date.
383. “But for this woman [Mrs. Baker],” Brooklyn Eagle, 9 February 1902.
383. On October 30, 1909, Byrne was sitting. Buffalo Courier, 1 November 1909; death of Byrne from Courier, 31 October 1909.
383. He was boarding a trolley in front of the Iroquois Hotel. Buffalo News, 14 August 1910; 16 August 1910. Bull was eighty-three when he died. Some accounts put his age at eighty-five.
384. The 342-acre site opened on May 1, 1901. Thomas E. Leary and Elizabeth Sholes,