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*T-vy-- N. Y-lt;^THTTRSDAY, AVGVBT 7, 1884*FOR PRESIDENT,JAMES G. BLAINE,op HAW*.FOR VICE PRESIDENT,GEN. JOHN A* LOGAN,op ILLINOIS.Mud for the Million.“ One of the reasons,'* says the New York Tribune, “why ‘reform1 movements have become so distasteful, is that, if successful, they generally involve public impoverishment Your full snake can never swallow as much as the snake that has been starved. Another is that, as often managed, they tend to degrade public discussion and public opinion. Each 4 Holier-than-thou *. outbreak aims at a campaign of nastiness. The men who set out to prove themselves .much purer - and nicqr than the rest of mankind, as if by an immutable law of theii being, use slanders instead of syllogisms, and ignore principles in their hunt for peccadilloes. They insult the rest of the people by professing to be the only men who care for morality, and the ha* bitual answer is to prove them immoral, or defenders of gross immorality in the model candidates they put forward.Thus, instead of a campaign of intelligent, manly and decent discussion, the Pharisees usually bring to pass a campaign of personal scandal and blackguardism. The saints spend their time in trying to prove other people sinners, and the other people generally have no trouble in turning their enemies’ guns on their own camp. The tendency is to ignore questions of theOoopmtowztA dispatch to the iSfM York Time* from Richfield Springs, relative to the Cooperstown shooting affair, says:Tbree years ago Steers met Miss Tese ’White apd fell in love with her? This was not reciprocated, and Steers’ father, who tas imdncome of $40,000 a year, sent hini abroad. Young Steers returned last summer and-renewed bis proposals, and was again refused. His father then sent, him to India.This.summer he returned again, and Wednesday celebrated his twenty-first birthday by inviting Wilson Sturges., son of Judge Sturges, of Cooperstown, to accompany him as a member of a birthday party. They went to Miss White’s residence and invited her and two lady companions to row across Lake Otsego for lunch, with the subsequent intention of dining at Hyde Clarke’s, at Hyde hall. Miss White is a cousin of the Clarkes. They, J. Pell Clarke and Hyde Clarke, are among the leading society men here.Mbs White is a tall and pretty girl and lives with her widowed mother near the bead of the lake. After the suicide a reporter called at the residence of Mrs. White, but was unable to see Miss White, who was suffering from severe nervous prostration. Mrs;White volunteered the following information:u Mr. Steers came here Wednesday, accompanied by Judge Sturges' son, and asked my daughter and her two lady companions to a little picnic across the lake. They all consented and went away hjippy. After luncheon they proposed a visit to Hyde Hall. My daughter got into Steers' boat and was hurriedly rowed across. He sprang on the dock and assisted Tese. On landing he said:“ Now, Tese White, once for all, will you ncarry me ? 441 cannot,” was her answer. 44 Then I'll shoot myself,” he said ; and, drawing a pistol from bis pocket, he shot himself under the right eye, the ball coming out at the back of the head. Death was instantaneous. My daughter cried for help and ran to Hyde halL”The body lay upon the dock all the afternoon, covered with leaves and evergreens, awaiting tho arrival of the coroner from Cooperstown, eight miles distant
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Greene Chenango American
Greene, New York, US
Thu, Aug 07, 1884
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