The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-08-13
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Mr.. Reecher and the Bowen-Tilton Scandal
New York Correspondence Of the Boston Joorpal
Mr.. Beecher's letter has put auietus
on the scandal-mongers who have been
making things red hot for some months
The only question now up is, what shall be
done with the men who, according to the
present outlook, originated the vile calun-
MES, printed and sent them abroad ahout
the Brooklyn pastor. From the start Mr.
Beecher has been in favor of leaving the
thing entirely alone, and letting the authors
of the scandal bear, if they can, the indig
nation of the public The standing com
mittee of the church have not been a unit
in regard to theabe course of procedure
The idea OF retaining men in good and reg
ular standing who are reported to have
mahgned the pastor in the foulest manner
was too monstrous, in the opinion Of many
to be borne At length Mr. Beecher
withdrew his opposition, and told the Com
mittee to go ahead Everybody. of course
knew everything. Proofs were plenty as
blackberries The names of parties who
had heard men utter calumnies were OBJ
tanned. The Committee started off to find
proof Every rumor, statement, charge
fact, was hunted up Two-thirds of them
were lies. The parties said to have re
ported certain things denied ever having
opened their mouths. individuals who
had held conversation with men promi-
nently accused deny ever having any con
Yersation with the parties on any subject
Written documents have been explored
and been found to be hearsay matters, the
writer's having been told that somebody
heard somebody else say something. The
Committee are out of breath and out
of patience The men who have
astounding disclosures to make de-
cline to make them. A formidable docu-
ment to be published turns out to be a re
hash of the old scandals. A letter written
by Mr. Beecher, Of which only the sigma
ture is shown, with the question, DO you
know his handwriting? Is that it?''
Yes, that is Mr. Beecher's handwriting,
| should know it anywhere, turns out to
be polite but positive declination to ad-
dress a public meeting. So the matter
stands at present And the investigation
will prove that this whole scandal, origina-
ting in business misunderstanding and
malice, and made public to secure hush
money, will end in consigning some par
ties to merited social contempt, and allow
others to mediate on the uncertainty of
human plans behind the CRATES of prison.
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Some of our country cousins of the Mis-
souri, press imagine that we want to take
the Democratic party from under its pres
ent name, that it may be- e-christened and
sent out to fight the Republicans as new
army. This would be deception without
hope and altogether too thin if we may
adopt the language of the ancient Romans
Let the Republican and Democratic par
ties, what there is left of them-that is
those who pay allegiance to King Caucus
and are fond Of the rule of rings and spec.
ulative combinations fight one another te
their hearts content. Meanwhile let the
honest people, the tax payers, the advocates
of reform, watch their opportunity to ster
in between, and seize the power wrongfully
wrested from them.-St Louis Repub1i-
ran