, 1874-08-23
Moufton to Be Called Again Before the
Investigating Committee.
Frank Prepared to Meet Beccher's
Blacl1lnail Charges.
Ben Buffers Part in Connection
with the Scandal.
The New York Papers Dccry Moulton's
Statement.
AN OTHER TALK WITH MoULToN.

AN OIdEA TALK WITH mouLION.
Special Corre&pondence Of the Chicago Tribune.
New YORK. Aug. 23-Whcn Frank Moulton
leturncd to Brooklyn, I.callcd at his house and
breakfasted there, a1r. Tilton being present.
Ills conversation with me occupied two hours.
Whi1e there, Alr. Goodseu, Of the Graphic,
brought In the proofs Of his statement. He and
Goodsell took them apart, and directly they
both returned to me and said, 'To-morrow af-
ternoon they so to press. It is. understood TINT
you can hare them early that morning for The
CHICAGO TRIBUNE. No otler paper out of New
York will get them until the afternoon
Said l; "Who advised that paper as the ve-
hicle OF their first production:" Myself
said hloulton. !" and wholly upon this idea: that.
by the Graphic process Of photo-lithosraphy,
could show the reading public the letters as We
eee them now
PERFECT TRANSCRIPTS,
with all their erasures aud imperfcctions. II I
could ret the people to SEQ tue iac:s over the
heads OF the distorted mediums OF the editorials
printed here. l believed that public opi,on
would arise which not even the Plymouth parson
could shake; for it has seemed of late that only
oCe man can be permitted to live in Brook lrn
Therefore I have these letters produced to the
eve as well ss the mind, By photo-lithogEa ply /;
and nov l must so to proof-readlng. II yon
will come here tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock,
I will talk to you only, without reservation, all
day."
The next day (Fridar), vas at Mr.. Mou1ton's
door by 10 o'clock a, NJ. He took me to his IL
brary, at the top Of the house. and there spent
all the day. nobody being present except when
the Graphic came at II o'clock, and Mr.. Eddy,
Mr. Moulton's confidential friend, came later in
the afternoon.
"llr Moulton," ead, ''as you- reputation
is being mercilese1y assailed, tell rue how you
got into
LARGE nus1SEss-PAR1NERsu1p
in Now York"
Said MouIton "When WAS q boy IS years
old lust after loft school with Titon, saw IN
advertisement Of the house OF Woodruff i Fob
inBon, wanting boy. i answered it. There
worked as O clerk for seven years., and was then
admitted to the firm"
al How many people are in the firm? What
do they deal in? "Salt, salt fiHh, and tie
warchousing business 1t is the largest firm of
its kind in the United States"
"Whnt has been your taak there?" "Every-
thing. Ipeyer had a desk i'll the office, but had
to keep all parts Of tho business in my mind.
For years / was tho .out-of-door man, to 20
among the shipping-stores on the rharves, and
sell salt and salt fish. have never borrowed any
money IN my ifc, and have not been in want OF it.
Until stepped in between classnate and
Gbertine preacher, never heard the epithet Of
b]ackmal applied to anybody Of my acquaint-
ance>"
"Why yore you selected in this transaction as
THE CUSTODIAN AND p1r1oMAT1sT I"
BECAUSE it is part of my business to con-
duct negotiations of cool sort. such as once
came up between our house and the Produce E1-
change where. with everybody. and the Prcsl-
don't too, on the other side, won the case, and
took away - 900 By plain statement. Illton
had been wearing kind Of woful. wretched face
for some time. The night drew Beecher to SEQ
him Has the night he told me his trouble. My
heart at onco jumped to those poor children, my
self being deprived Of as much family as l have
desired, and struck right out on line Of poll
cv. natural Is it seemed TO me to be: to rebuild
and compel harmony. I had no need of either OF
those men,-no time for years OF arbitration,-
no curiosity as to their secrets. TIE reason I
cannot make the evidence e1onerate Beecher Is,
that
he Is THE GUILTY PARTY.
He waa, before, Abe1tiue aud minister. He
il nov liar and sneak. No word can be
coined until the day of Eternity, to describe the
mans pertidY to me. By the advice Of attor-
ncys, he has brutalized this issue to the last
degree, and made the only noble deed Of years
subject Of accusation Of blackmail against
man whom but week before be clasped in his
arms and called the noblest friend God ever
made for him."
"Do you mean that, in assisting Mr.. Tilton's
paper Burreptitiously through you, no was Berry
ing justcef"
"Tes; say that, having crushed that man
like cowaru,--i1st abusing Lis hospitality and
bis household, and then meanly having him dis
charged bg Bowen, to keep him poor and unin-
Buential.-Mr. Beecher could do 10 less in LIS
contrite moments than to help Tlton's paper on
its feet. He has now sworn away that solitary
act of atonenent bY calling the thing black