The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-05-30
THE BEEcHrn SCANDAL.
The Tsrribls story at Last out--Bsechsr
and Mrs. Tilton-Tflton and .Bewsn-A
Dark Chapter All Around.


Dark Chapter All Around.
The special correspondent Of the
Chicago Times, May 4th. sendsthis:
| New Yonx, May 4.-While tue
church bells were ringing this morn
ing in New York and Brooklyn, the
news-boys were yelling in the City Of
Churches: "Sunday Reriew--full ac-
count OF the great Beccher Scandal
I bought copy OF the paper. and
found that some light at last was
breaking in upon this Plymouth
Church putridity. The Reriew con-
tanned the thunderbolt boiled down
which Mr.. e. II. G.. Clark has fred
ut Brooklyn from the halls OF Troy.
This remarkable document has been
extensively canvassed and anxiously
looked for.
Then the true story is given, which
is in effect this: Tifton asserts that
in the Fall OF 1870, Mrs. Tilton being
Just back from q watering place, Mr..
Beecher visited her, and in q mo-
ment OF fervid pastoral duty, he
sought her to accord TO him all those
peculiar favors which her sex admits
OF. Mrs. Tilton declined the honor
with the mature sadness of common
sense. Then she told her husband.
He asked her to make q memoran-
DUN. This is IL:
Yesterday afternoon. my friend
and pastor, Henry Ward Beecher,
solicited me TO become his wife in all
the relations which that term implies.
Tilton was then editor OF the New
York Independent, and OF the Brook
lyn Union, making all of SIS. 900 q
year. Six weeks after the occurrence
Tilton tells Bowen of the honor Mr..
Beecher intended to confer upon his
(Tilton's) wife. Theodore also says
that for q year previous Bowen had
been accusing Beecher of adulteries
and rapes.
Bowen urged Tilton TO go for
Beecher. and finally Tilton wrote
this note, which Bowen delivered:
HEsRy w. BEEcHgR-Sir: For rea-
sons which you will understand. and
which need not therefore recite, /
advice and demand that you quit
Plymouth pulpit forever and leave
Brooklyn as q residence.
THEoDoRE TnToS.
Then Mr.. Frank Moulton comes
on the scene. He is prominent
member of the church. Tilton told
him about the note to Beecher. ibid
Bowen sign with your" said Moulton.
mo- "Then you are o ruined
man." Moulton was right. When
, Bowen handed Beecher the letter he
a. said: "Mr. Beecher, letter from
Tilton. Tilton is your implacable
enemy, but I will be your friend" !"
! Shortly after, Bowen discharged
Tilton. Some eight months after.
. Beecher fearing the gathering storm.
: called on Mrs. Tilton. She was sick
) in bed, but her pastor sought her
side and demanded a retraction,
: which she wrote, saying that Mr..
: Beecher, in his intercourse with her
!, had conducted himself as gentle.
. man and Christian. This is the
: sweet concisiveness of Mrs. Tilton,
which Woodruff speaks OF. When
Tilton heard OF this, he besought
!. Mouiton to visit Beecher, and de.
: mand the paper containing the re-
traction. The meeting was stormy
- one, but Moulton was implacable.
), Beecher asked him what he would dc
with it if he had it? "I will keep
!, this memorandum and the first one
together" said Mr.. Moulton, land
thus prevent you and Tilton from
; sarming each other" ''But, can
= confide in your" implored Beecher
"Wili you protect the paper?"
:. .sI will" quoth Moulton.
= = "How?' queried Beecher.
"With this. il necessary" said
Moulton, and he brandished revol
, yer. Then Mr.. Beecher gave up the
y document, and Moulton has kept i
!, since. All this dramatic scene is in
- Tilton's true story. Now we have
J; Woodruff on the scene. Tilton finally
: making her acquaintance. One day
: !. she showed him copy OF the World
u containing letter of his, in which
: she had written this passage: ..
y y know clergyman Of eminence il
= Brooklyn who lives in concubinag'
. with the wife of another clergyman
of equal eminence.'
doctor, you know whom mean,
said vicky.
8, "No."
= : 81 mean you and Beecher."
10 Then Tilton sought to get on th
20 right side of Woodruff. and begal
3. that celebrated intimacy with he
n. which resulted in his writing he
,e life, and an account Of the night
j frances she and old Demosthene
A. enjoyed together; but he foun
OF Vicky could not be bought in tina
ne way. Her first shot came in th
e. early part of 1873, when, on th
o. occasion of Woodruff being snubbe
: by the woman 's-rights women, sh
10 sent them her tit-for-tat proofs, Dc
Of claring that if they disgraced her fo
e. teaching free love. she would dir
al grace them for practising it. A
yh last Woodruff & Clafin's bomb wa
" touched of, much to the astonist
j ment and disgust, so Theodore says
az of himself. Such is the gist {
AZ Tilton's true story as it appears
al Clark's thunderbolt. I interviewe
Ie Tilton this afternoon and was duml
ev founded as we walked on tt
NJ Leighth, observed by all we me
or He said he was never more in ii
o. dark any time during the past yes
nj than, now. Letter after letter ha
or appeared in the papers, of which
was given as the author, and ,
which he said he knew nothing. b
wo does not deny the contents of b
,ht letter to Bowen, dated, January