Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-08-26

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y and also know your embarrass
2 ments. | anticipate my Wester
t trip, where may be alone wit
; him, exceedingly.
: / now come in my narrative L
, give an account of the origin O
. the somewhat famous tripartit
J agreement. Shortly after the fore
, going letter was written Mr.. Tiltol
returned to the city, thorough,
: discouraged with the result of hi
lecturing tour. The Golden Age
} which had been established abou
twelve months, had not succeeded
and was understood to be losing
money. His pecuniary ALLEGATIONS
were pressing. and although hi,
claim against Bowen for violation
of his two contracts had a year
previously been put under exclu
sive control of Moulton, with 9
view of settlement, it had not a:
yet been effected. About this time
Mr.. Moulton, who was sick, sent
for me and showed me a proof OF
an article prepared by Mr.. Tilton
for the Golden 1ge, and which has
since been published In the Brook
lyn papers, in which he embodied
a copy Of a letter written by him
to Mr.. Bowen, dated January /,
1871, in which he charges Bowen
with making scandalous accusa-
tons against my moral character.
This was the first time that | had
ever seen the charges, and / had
never heard Of them except by
mere rumor, Mr.. Bowen never hav-
ing Mt any time said word to me
on the subject. | was amazed at
the proposed publication. / did
not then understand the real object
Of giving circulation to such sland-
ers. My first impression was that
Mr.. Tilton designed, under cover
of an attack upon me, in the name
of another, to open the way for
publication of his own pretended
personal grievances. | protested
against the publication in the
strongest terms, but was informed
that it was not intended as a hos
tile act to myself, but to Mr.. Bow
en-. | did not any the less insist
upon my protest against this pab-
LEGATION. On it being shown to
Mr.. Bowen he was thoroughly
alarmed and speedily consented to
the appointment of arbitrators to
bring about an amicable settlement.
The result of his proceedings was
that Mr.. Bowen paid Mr.. Tilton
over 81 900, and that written
agreement was entered into by
Bowen, Tilton and myself of am
ncsty concord and future peace.
1t was agreed that the offensive
article, the publication of which
has produced such an effect upon
Mr.. Bowen and secured a happy
settlement, should be destroyed
without seeing the light. 1t was
an act of treachery peculiarly base
that this article when permitted to
get into lands which would insul G
it publication, and that it was pub
lished. ! was assured that every
vistage of it had been destroyed
nor until a comparatively recent
period did l understand how Mr..
Tilton secured the publication
without seeming himself to he re-
sponsible for the deed. Finally
after attempting to obtain money,
both from myself and my wife, as
the price of its suppression, the
Woodruff women published their
version of the Tilton scandal in
November, of 1871. The details
given by them were so minute,
though so distorted, that suspicion
was universally directed toward
Mr.. Tilton as the real author Of
this, which he so justly called a
wicked and horrible scandal,
though it is not a whit more horri-
bic than that which he has now
fathered, and not half so wicked
because, those abandoned women
did not have personal knowledge
of the falsity of their story as Mr..
Tilton did of his. To rid himself
of this incubus Mr.. Tilton drew up
volumnous paper called a true
statement, but which was Familiarity
called Tilton's case. l had some
knowledge of its composition, hav-
ing heard much of it read, but
some documents was only referred
to as on file and other had not been
manufactured. Tilton's mania for
compiling a statement was one of
my familiar annoyances. Moulton
used to tell me that the only way
to manage Theodore was to let him
work off his periodical passion on
some such document, and then to
pounce on q document and sup
press it. This particular statement
was a special plea or abatement of
the prejudices excited 10y his Wood
hull partnership. 1t was q waddle
of garbled statement, manufacture
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