| Show editorials EDITORIAL S THE BROOKLYN SCANDAL tire tin beecher mflton scandal is in process of revivification and further statements aro are going the rounds of the papers it is such a nasty business that a pair of tongues are needed in the tile handling thereof yet it is a matter of such hueh grave moment that public journals ean can hardly ignore it 11 while it is a very difficult thing ming to believe all that has been pu published bUshed canceri concerning 1119 1 I 1 this altair and while there are few persons who credit the tile whole story asit has lias appeared in print still there is a deep seated feeling in the tile public mind that there is for forthe the tho scandal some foundation which is of a nature by no means honorable to some of the principal actors in the tile drama in the chicago times of may 5 is a rather mixed statement upon the subject and some things are said which challem challenge o notice the article appears as dispatch from 1 rom new york it commences by stating that the sunday review of may ath contained the thunderbolt boiled down which mr E H G clark has fired from tile tiie walls of troy the thunderbolt was prefixed with half a score prurient sensational headings then followed the true story which was wag to the effect that mr tilton asserted that in the fall of 1870 mrs nim 1 tilton just back from a watering 0 place ewas was visited by mr beecher who in a moment of fervid pastoral duty 11 besought her to accord him tho the favors of Wifel wifehood lood that mrs tilton declined the honor told her husband of the circumstance and at his ills request gave him the following memorandum yesterday afternoon my friend and pastor henry ward beecher solicited me to become his wife in in all the relations which that term implies the statement also says that tilton then was editor of the new york independent and the brooka lyn union which brought him a year that six weeks after the above named circumstance tilton told toia bowen nowen of it that tilton said that for a year previous bowen had been accusing beecher of adulteries adul teries and rapes that bowen urged tilton to go for beecher that tilton wrote the following note which bowen delivered ile lle henby HENRY nily W sir for reasons which you will understand and which I 1 need not therefore recite I 1 advise and demand that you quit plymouth pulpit forever and leave brooklyn as a residence TilEO THEODORE dore DORr TILTON 1 1 it is further stated that miltn til ton told mr frank moulton of the affair that moulton asked if bowen had signed the note as well as tilton and was answered no that moulton then said sald to tilton then you are a ruined man that when bowen handed beecher the letter ho lie said mr beecher a letter from tilton tilton is your implacable enemy but I 1 will be your friend 1 that shortly after bowen discharged tilton that eight months after mrs tilton being sick in bed beecher called upon lier iier and demanded a retraction which she wrote to the effect that mr beecher in ills his intercourse with her had conducted himself as a gentleman and a christian that when tilton heard of this he besought moulton to visit beecher and demanded the retraction paper filat moulton iid ild did lid so obtained it promising to protect it with a revolver if necessary and has kept it ever since so that lie might prevent beecker beecher beecher and tilton fron from harmin harming 1 each other next it is said that mrs woodhull became acquainted with tilton and got hold of the story and lest she should let it out tilton grew very friendly with her that lie he found that she could not be bought in th that atway way that when snubbed iky ivy lythe the rights woman in 1872 she sent them her tit for tat proofs declaring that if they disgraced t her for teaching freelove free love she would disgrace them for practicing ita it and that tilton was very much astonished and disgusted t thereat this is reported as t s the gist of tile the true story in the be review the correspondent of the times then goes on to say that in the afternoon he interviewed tilton upon apon tile the subject that tilton said lie was never more in the dark than now liow that letter after letter had appeared in the papers giving him as their author but of which lie he knew know nothing that lie he did not deny dens liisi letter to bowen of jan 1 1871 that published was not a copy that ike lue had llad no personal knowledge of E H G clark dark of troy and that tile tiie article the ho review contained several inaccuracies but tilton did deny its general truthfulness though e several passages relating beecher and mrs airs tilton lie deny most emphatically and yet says the tiie correspondent calie he read these same passages to me from his own manuscript last thanksgiving day which caused the tile correspondent to think that tilton was on his ills guard purposely evading and denying and playing the tilo role rolo bravado declaring lie he did not care a snap what the tilo papers said or wo woodhull odil ull uli claflin 0 or r blood did the correspondent says notwithstanding this statement that what tilton read to me as ill lil his s story tallies exactly with what the thunderbolt says in reference to mr beecher soliciting mrs tilton and other matters in which the honor of a wife was attacked that tilton alluded to the fact well known to those who are au jail fait in this matter that mr bowers first wife now dead eleven years was also a victim to mr Be echers lust that mr Be beecher echers friends had bad offered for a controlling interest in the brooklyn union that during the incarceration of woodhull and claflin in ludlow street jail a western pennsylvania gentleman named westbrook ex min ister and ex lawyer and now a coal operator called upon them heard their story then tilen interviewed tilton who read to 11 him im the statement now published in the thunderbolt and supplemented the same with reading the recital of a case of gross violation by mr beecher of a lady boss dy named proctor that tilton interviewed miss proctor and asked cherif her if she had told bowen of the outrage that she said yes and swooned that tilton admitted to the correspondent that he had such interviews with westbrook and proctor but evaded direct questions about the lady and said the story was exaggerated that tilton said tile tiie original statement of the s scandal candal was in the hands of moulton which tile the latter confirmed anz and and that the correspondent in answer awer to inquiries by tilton as to how the town talked of the scandal said every man mail I 1 had met that morning among them several prominent members of plymouth church believed it now while they tiley never id did before and gave as their opinion that mr beecher ini must us t comedown come down from ills pulpit thus we leave thi this s scandal for every one to think as lie he pleases nebout it A sorry and mysterious piece of business it is at besl best |
