National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-05-10

part Of 1919, when on the occasion OF Wood
hull being snubbcd by tho women rights
women, she sent them her tlt-for-tat proofs,
declaring that II they dlsgraced her for teach
ing free-loye, she would Disgrace them for
practlclng II. At last Woodruff & Claims
bombshell was touched of, much to the as
constituent and disgust, so Theodore says, OF
himself. Such Is tho gist Of Tllton's true
story as II appears In Clark's thundoTbolt.
TILroN ISTERvIEwED.
i interviewed Tilton this afternoon, and
was dumbfounded as We walked the heights,
observed by all we met. He said he was never
more In the dark any time during the past
year than now. Letter after letter had APP
peared In the papers, Of which he was given
as the author, and OF which he said he Knew
nothing. He does not deny the contents of
his Of his letter to Bowen, dated january l,
1871, but says that It Is not correct copy.
He denies any personal knowledge OF Il. IL.
tive knowledge Of ever having met the gem
tlemani believes that man named Clark did
once bring him letter OF Introduction from
James Rcdpath, but has entirely forgotten
the circumstance. Ho criticised the article
In the Reuie,1, pointed out several minor In
general truthfulncss Of tho account Several
passages abiding TO Mr.. Bcecher's proposals
to his wife he did most emphatically deny,
and yet he read those self-samo passages to
me from his own manuscript last Thanks
giving day. II was evident Mr.. Tllton was
ON HIS GUARD
and purposely eyadlng and denying, this,
too, at al Interview to which was invited
by him, he well knowing my character as a
journalist, and evidently expecting me To
make use Of anything he might communi-
cate. Ho played tho role Of brayado TO per-
lection, and said that he didn't caro- a snap
about what hepapers said, or what Mesdanles
Woodhun and Claiiin or Col. Blood did.
There did not exist, no said, single scrap OF
paper emanating from his pen which he was
not willing to have given TO the world at any
timo, whether addressed to man or woman.
Alluslon being made by me 10 the manuscript
statement OF his case which he had read TO
me last winter, and which was intended at
the time for private circulation, and possibly
publication, he sail that there were at that
time certain contingencies existing which az
fected not himself but others, but that now
happily these were all removed. Notwith-
standing this statement, my recollection Is
perfect that what Tilton read to me as his
story tallles exactly with what the thunder
bolt says in reference to Mr.. Bcecher solicit
ing Mrs. Tllton to extend to him tho favors
Of wifehood, and, furthermore, that the let
ter from Tllton 10 Bowen, but recently pub
lished, was there IN eIte1lso, the one case
being that In which the honor OF his wife was
attacked, tho other springing from business
and salary relation with II. @. Bowen. Mr..
Tllton then alluded to the fact, well known
to those who are du fat in this matter, that
Mrs. Bowen's arst wife, now dead eleven
years, was ....r ......
| , . ALSO A VICTIM
to Mr.. Beechers lust, which very reasonably
accounts for the yindictlye spirit shown by
Mr.. Bowen when he urged Tllton to write
that demand for Beechers resignation which
he SO obhglngly carried, and which he was
| amaFt annmUh mot In Rinn In VlRW nf Tho
fact In this connection, that notwithstanding
the hot shot the Eagle is pouring into the
| Union, Of which Bowen Is proprietor, calling
HIN the slanderer Of his pastor daily, and In
view, furthermore, that last Wednesday Mr..
Boecher's friends offered sl25, 900 for the pur-
chase OF a controlling Interest In the Union,
the situation Is certainly suggestive.
Not the least dlsgraeeful feature, therefore,
| OF this thoroughly dlsgraceful affair, Is the
barefaeed attempt OF Beecher's friends to
hide the shame OF the dead wife with the
glamour OF gold. It may be well to mention
here fact not generally known. During the
incarceration OF Woodruff and Clahln in the
Ludlow street jail, where they were visited
daily by Geo. +. Train, gentleman from
western Pennsylvania, named Westbrook, ex-
minister and ex-lawyer, and now successful
coal operator, also called upon them and
heard their story. Thence he went to Tilton
and interviewed him. Tilton read him the
statement now published In the thundcrboit
previously read to nc, and supplemented
that reading by the recital Of a gross rape
by Mr., Beechor upon the person OF u celc-
brated literary lady Of thls city by the
name Of Proctor, dressing the story up In
glowing and dramatic colors. This is the
case alluded to In the letter from Tilton to
Bowen, lately published, in which the gross
ness Of the rape was concealed by the char.
acterlstic stars. WestbrOok, himself Is my
authority for this; and, further, that Tilton
told him that upon learning Of this rape from
Mr., Bowen, Tilton called upon Miss Proctor,
and asked her II she had told Bowen OF the
outrage, and that she said she had, and i'm
mediately swooned at his feet, On recover
Ing her consciousness he asked her whether