The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-08-06
Beecher Tlltou Scandal.

We hoped in this issue to record TIE
conclusion Of this monstrous affair, but
neither Mr.. Frank Mou!ton's or Mr.. Beech
er's statements have reached the committee
as yet. We feel somewhat Encouraged FROM
the fact that Mr.. MouItnn has returned to
the city and his evidence will raT rest on
Mr.. Tilsan'r willingness to have lin exam
ined, as both Mr.. Beecher and the com
mittee have requested his attendance and
he (Moulton) promises. in case both parties
consent to his appearing. Of late this
toysome scandal has only been tossed about
by the ladies' of tho Womans Suf.
lrage aud Free Love persuasion. Mrs. Z.
Cady Stanton has squealed again although
Miss Susan B. Anthony failed to appreci
ate or endorse her first statement. Mrs.
E. Cady pretended to feel indignant, or
in other words assumed an imaginary in
dignation by saying that "neishcr NJ. or
Mrs. Tilton need be ashamed of such ac-
quaintances as Grace Greenwood, Celia
Burleigh, Anna Dickinson, Lucy Stone,
Susan B. Anthony or Paulina Davis, who
have all been honored visitors at Ills house
1t is beneath the dignity Of any msn or
committee of men to attempt to shadow
lives like these," But as none of the above
named women h1ye rushed to Iilton's res
cue rs yet it is but fair to suppose that
they are not in unison with his avowed
free love doctIins and have net been inyi
scandal and as the committee have not
attempted to shadow any Of their lives, we
are at a loss 10 see jus. vi here Sister Cady's
Gdzelie perches in ills last encounter. II
may have been in grcatrui acknow Wedge
ment IF sister Fcrnands Jones of Chicago
whose fellow feeling. brought her to CaIy >
rescue.
Pbmaix like these free lovers rise up all
around hopping and spattering like bottle
Of sody-water; its no won Ter they make a
fearful explosion after having such a foul
scandal c1rked within all these long years.
Mrs. S. D. Powers was interviewed BY a
Chicago Times reporter while rushing on
to New York by lightning express. She
seems to know not only oil about Mr.
Reechers amours, hut Mr.. Tilton's with Mrs
Vic. Woodruff, and that neither Tilton' 5
CT Victoria friends denied the fact besides
several tit-bits of scandal; and even blaz0ns
the statement, asking that it be pa. on the
bulletin boards, that she was denied the
privilege Of sitting under the droppings Of
the Ply mouth sanctuary by one Of the dca-
cons for suspected intimacy with the Rev.
Henry Ward Ye Gods wha: temptations
have bIoomed 50 tcmptinslv around this
man Beecher. If the strong E.in4ei want
noteretY at such fearful price we think
it cruel to deny them.
p This matter of a dividing line between
the Woman suffrage and Free-love party
Is tast becoming question Of imp9I lance
and as the Grace Greenwood party hay e
held their peace and preserved their wo-
manly dignity, unsulied, should in our
j Judgment BE denomna.ed the pure Women
Suffrage party. While sister Cady STAN
ton will Tor all We can see take rank with
Victoria, Mrs Powers and others of the
bullying, blubbcrOg stripe Of free lovers.
In the mean time if Mr.. BeecIer comes
out with flying colors as we now think he
will, be is the luckiest man en- American
soil. Let the bells be tollcd and the free
they may seek their affinities amo! those
that hare gone before them.