New-York tribune., 1874-12-22
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
rur ppOOKLyN SCANDAL.

THE BROOKLYN SCANDAL.
A COMPLAINT THAT TILTON Is NOT TREATED WITH
SUFFICIENT CONsIDERATrOh-A COMPARISON oF
"JIM" FISK AND HENRY WARD BEECIIER.
TO me Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR. have always looked to TIE TRIBUNE
"A the one paper OF NcwYork City from which wo could
expect that CALM judcous. and impartial treatment o
current n-potca quest ions that Is 80 becoming W
paper which justly recognized all over the worid az
the great American newspaper Rarely indeeu ha'c
had occasion to question decisions It's opinions on
ordinary questions. but I must say that have Deeh
grievOsly shocked at your hlppant anu partlsah-hy
bitterly pdrtisanreatment OF tho paintif IN the uh'
fortunate Brooklyn scandal At one period In the scan
dal you tried be fair and think you succeeded ana
gave no just complaint to the friends OF either
party But you now apparently so warped In your
prrj jIiiccs In the that with Plyino
Church you clap your hands anu thro"
your cap In the mir ana dance rigad0on
because the friendlcss plaintiff Is nlnstly, as THINK
cut o from his evidence and made to 90 into court WIN
gag In his mouth. judge who Is not ABOVE snSp'e'o"
and who has for months boen Illuminating ms lega
opnions ON tho subject through tho cOuns OF his loo
organ as II he wcro au attorney for hc dcfc,e decides
that wronged man. or q man ut least who says he has
been wrOngcd shall be allowed to state his only
far as the defendant sees lit to let him. Immediately
you strike the man In the face and do all you to
prejudice him before the law AMI before his country
men. Is that American fair play Is that American
justcei 1t Is not the that Horace Greeley would
taken in such and ii other journal In the
country would do IT, Horace Greeloys should
SEQ evenhanded justice and fair play be m"tcd
unto Horace Grcclcys friend do not insunderstani
me- do not ask you to play the advocate OF Mr. Til
TOMS do ask that you do him Justice. aud that
you do not kick him when he Is down.
In this struggle you should sink your sympahrs ana
do jistce both men, and speak out "a TIE TRIBUNE
has eyer done when wr9ns is aiepicd Mr. Tton = 81.
story Is true He should have every opportunity for
proving IT, while Mr.. Brcchcr should be accorded every
opportunity OF defending himself You seem to sn'cr
a. Mr. TOn bccau>e he cannot come forward anu
that he saw the accused IN Gd3tnte on any one
OccasOn Il there one Grim. IN u hundred
where snch evidence bo hail. where the evidence
Is other than cumulative and crcumstanta, as Is
the with Mr. TiltUul
1t IL Unbt vcrY clever piece OF pcttfOgginS TO
bring man down In is evidence to two days our or
period OF four years but do you Tor moment believe
that the great Christian world cares whether MI
Bcccher guilty OF the crime certain dayf No;
what every Christian the country wants tn know
whether he has been guilty OF tue crime at anv time
the past ak Whcn the Late jim FISK uS"a
by his plrainOurS, he always saved them OH
by asking bill Of PARTICULARS AMI when lie was
driven the wall by the plundcred stockholders OF
Erie, he would the last resort ask for bill OF partlc-
ularJ OF times and places aud amounts. The man who
then stood between Fisk aud vengeance ~ the same
that stands between Beecher and an outraged
husband. T.. L.
Brooklyn, ". Y Dec. Il. 1874.
I'VE presume the writer of the foregoing is a type
of not nconsidcrable class Of people who have
warmly cspOuscd one side of this deporable scandal
and consider any comment upon it which does not
proceed from their point of view as essentially one
sided, bitter and unjust We arc glad, however, to
give them hearing. We add to it this suggestion
that the less Mr.. TiltonS partisans say about his
being Mr.. Grcclcy's friend, the bctter.-Edl