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anybody can make.
Yrs Ever
MARK.
If you run across anybody who wants a bust, be sure and recommend
Gerhardt on my say-so.
But Howells was determinedly for Blaine. "I shall vote for
Blaine," he replied. "I do not believe he is guilty of the
things they accuse him of, and I know they are not proved
against him. As for Cleveland, his private life may be no
worse than that of most men, but as an enemy of that
contemptible, hypocritical, lop-sided morality which says a
woman shall suffer all the shame of unchastity and man none,
I want to see him destroyed politically by his past. The
men who defend him would take their wives to the White House
if he were president, but if he married his concubine--'made
her an honest woman' they would not go near him. I can't
stand that."
Certainly this was sound logic, in that day, at least. But
it left Clemens far from satisfied.
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