The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-29
WOODRUFF AND TILTON.


week, pamphlet biography. of Vic
toria c. Woodruff, written by Theodore
Tilton. The most remarkable thing
about this pamphlet is that Mr.. Tilton
should allow his name to go to the
world as the author of such q mess of
silly and absurd stuff as composes this
pamphlet. His mind must have become
infatuated with the lovely Victoria, or
else infected, by association with her,
with many of her half-crazy fancies. We
trust that we have none of that preju-
dice against Mrs. Claflin-W oodhull-
Blood, which Brother Tilton ascribes
to those who do not readily fall in with
her foolish whims. We have no per-
sonal objection whatever to her running
a paper, TO her being wildcat broker,
or to her being self-constituted candi-
date for President. Our business is
with Tilton's pamphlet. It's vagaries,
its foolishness, its inconsistencies, its
absolute righteousness, and wfthal its
seeming seriousness, excel any piece of
literature we have taken up lately. Had
Victoria been the author we should not
have thought anything of its contents,
but would merely have passed it by IS
the utterings of a crazy seeker after
notoriety. But coming from Tilton,
we are somewhat surprised. How a
a man of his mind and reputation could
lend his pen to writing up this, at best,
adventures, and attempt to palm her
off as patron saint, is to us unaccount-
able. The biography, to say nothing Of
the cause in which it is written, is as
silly as the prattlings of moonstruck
puppy-lOve.
Victoria was born, he tells us, the
same year that the present Queen of
England was crowned; and that her
parents little dreamed that their daugh-
ter "would one day aspire to a higher
seat than the English throne" Her
aspirations and what the parents
thought about them, we have no doubt,
puzzled the public very gravely III 1888.
Tilton's solemn attempt to make an i'm
portant event out of the fact that Wood
hull was born the same year the Queen
of England assembled the throne, and
that thereby she is destined to be the
President of this Republic, is ridiculous
In the extreme. In this connection he
makes another strong point for his
great woman, to the effect that Queen
Victoria Ordained a gift" to all the
little Victorias which should be ushered
into this wicked world in the year 1888
but notwithstanding she has been urged
to do so, our Vic. has never been over
to Windsor Castle to get her "tin whiS-
tle." Tilton supposes the Queen is still
holding 1t in store for our "Ohio babe,
who came into the world uttering cry
which seemed to say, "Long live the
Queen" The "hogs seemed to say,
farewell, brother Watkins" In view
of the great improvement in the art OF
making ''tin whistles" and candy toys
since 1888, we sincerely hope that
Woodruff Blood will not be put OF
with any of the Queens old-fa-hioned
toys, manufactured thirty-three years
ago. Says Tilton:
"Mrs. woodruff, who IL now q candidate FOL
| the Presidency Of the United States, should
defer this visit after the whistle) till after hel
| election, when she will have beautiful op
portunlty to invite her elder sister in Sover
| eignty-the mother Of our mother country-tS
visit her fsirest daughter, the Republic Of th'
West,''
If Woodruff runs any chance of mis-
sing the souvenir which the Queen hal
been saving for her, by waiting unit
after the election, we advise her not tc
"stand on the order of her going" but
to go at once. Republics are some
times ungrateful. "White man II
mighty onsartin," and Mickey may pos
sibIy slip up of obtaining the required
number of electoral votes to gain thu
White House, Notwithstanding the pre-
dictions of Demosthenes and the fonG
anticipations OF Theodore.
After q childhood Of cruelty to hel
on the part of her parents and
poor relations, such as thousands o.
children have gone through; after years
spent with drunken husband, such a.
thousands of better women have had Il
endure; after spending time as an &C
tress in California, the "Little Queen,
as Tilton fondly calls her, "struck ile'
as spiritual medium. His description
of her parents leads US to believe they
were o couple of cracked-brained old
fools, both principally noted for theiI
violent fits of madness. 1t is evident
from the actions OF her parents and her.
self, as described in this pamphlet, and
from the fact that she has an idiotic son
that the family has been and is afflicted
with lunacy.
1t was not until, she appeared as q
spiritual medium and doctor that Til
tons heroine began to obtain the
much desired notoriety. She was per-
mitted by the spirits, which were al
ways her guardian angels, to wander in
obscurity, to go through extraordinary
hardships and trials, until she began to
humbug the people. Then she rapidly
rose to distinction and wealth. In this
field she did wonders, and supernatural
powers are ascribed to her by her adj
miring biographer. Among other
things, she raised her idiotic son from
death. One day after her son had been
dead about two hours she rushes In ex-
claiming: 81 will not permit his death"
With "frantic energy" she barred her
bosom, caught up the lifeless form of
her son, pressed 1t to her own, and after
remaining in a 'trance" (of course)
seven hours, the child was brought back