The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-17
The &atlail 1aitu Olote.
MONDAY, AUGUST II, 1874.
THE TILTON.BEECnER SCANDAL.
Continuation OF Esceoher's state
ncnt.

BEEcHER REGRETS FOR HAVING DROPPED
TILTOS.
Continued from Saturday. Giobel
believe that Bowen had an interview
and received some further information about
Mr.. Tilton from my wife. to whom | had
referred him, although | have no doubt
that Mr.. Tlton would have lost his place
! ut any rate. | have, also, no doubt that
my influence was decisive and precipitated
| his final overthrow. When came to think
it all over felt very unhappy Mt the con-
temptation Ct Mr. Tiltons impending dis
aster had loved him much, and nj one
time lie seemed like n son to the. My in
| fluence had come just at the time of his
first unfolding, and had much to do with
his early development | had aided him
externally to bring him before the public.
We had been together in the great contro-
vcrsies of the day until after the war, and
our social intercourse had been intimate.
1t is true that his nature always eXagger-
ated his own excelencies. When lie was
but boy he looked up to me with aiiGc-
tionatc admiration. After some years he
felt himself my equal, was very compan-
ionable, and when he had outgrown me and
reached the position of the first man of the
age he still was kind and patronizing /
vanity and had believed that larger OK
perence, with some knocks among strong
men, and by sorrows that temper the soul,
he would yet fulfill n useful and brilliant
| career But now all looked dark. He
was to be cast forth from his eminent pc.
sition. and his affairs did not promise that
sympathy and strength which makes ones
| house, as mine has been in times of adver-
sity, refuge from the storm and tower
of defence.
Besides generous suffering, | should
have had a selfish reason for such if | had
dreamt that was about to become the in
strument by which MIR. Tilton meant to
fight his way back to the prosperity which
he had forfeited. 1t now appears that on
the 2ith of December, 1870, Mr.. Tlton
having learned that | had replied to his
threatening by expressing such an opinion
of him as to set Mr.. Bowen finally against
him and bring him face to face with imme-
date ruin, oXlortcd from his wife, then suf-
fcring from n severe illness, n document
eliminating me, and prepared an elaborate
attack upon me.
npAv,rtc INTERVIEW Writ Triton.
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'oi caiieu AZ ny ,Uuse H"n .i.e"e oa
nes'ness anu s"iu, WISH you 10 20 WIN
me ana see MI inton. reriieu Una. /
couiu not lheh, us WAS Was Jus' gong 10 my
prayer hiee'ing' II" Wv nios' poS'''sc
iiu"hei ne SAUL gu iii"s' sO' oo'iieoouy
else VIII taNe cary VI t'.c niee'ins'
"ei' WIN i'i",' no' h"o"i"G Wh'' '.ouoir
ngititeu h'in, pu. s"sur,y .,''.H .t '.ia' !
nisn. no" iV",.i '"' so'u,'o' VI '"e iooeh,
threatening ie''ei:. OF ,i;s v;oit, to Which
he replied that Mr.. Iilton would inform
me, or words TO that effect.
On entering his house Mr.. Mou.ton lock-
ed the door, saying something about not
being interrupted. lie requested me to go
| into the front chamber over the parlor |
was under the impression that Mr.. Tilton
was going to pour out upon me his anger
for colleagung with Bowen and for the adj
vice of separation given to his wife. l
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h lii" , ~ in nroancno discord in
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Confession 'lau peen "i nav. ~ NM ~ yu's
BIN months previous t'"t ms sens' Vi ''o',