Show WE ARE informed by the dispatches that on Wednesday a gang of clergymen clergy-men of various denominations got themselves together in New York and adopted resolutions endorsing the Republican candidates for President and VicePresident as men of personal purity and denouncing the Democratic nominees The number of these pious gentlemen is variously estimated at from 200 to 1000 but nobody seems to know who they are whence they came or where they held their meeting The probabilities are that the whole business is a hoax concocted by the Blaine managers and circulated by the Associated Asso-ciated Press But if true Cleveland will undoubtedly rejoice as will all his friends It si a sad reflection upon the character of any man to be endorsed en-dorsed by alleged ministers of the gospel who are so reckless of their own reputations and whose moral senses are so blunt that they will declare Blaine and Logan men of personal per-sonal purity Clergymen of this kind are those who run away with Sunday school funds abscond with the contribution contri-bution box and elope with the wives of parishioners The fewer endorsements a candidate has from clergymen of this kind the less close need be the watch upon him |