The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-04-30
Tne Brooklyn Idiots.
Farmer Reynolds, in the Grand Rapids Ea-
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If the jury in the scandal trial dis
agree in anything else, they ought to be
unanimous in verdict that all the lead
ing characters in this great foul play"
are a pack of downright fools. Beecher
is fool for taking u fancy TO the little,
weazen-faced, hollow -chested Elizabeth,
in the first place. How any healthy we'll
balanced masculine could become en-
amored with such a charmless creature,
that is, if the reporters don't lie and the
photographs are all right is an inscruta-
BILE mystery. Then Beecher's letters
show him to be an idiot. Any ordinary
schoolboy that would write such a mass
of insanity and twaddle would either be
expelled as hopeless, or made to stand
on the floor with a split stick on his
nose.
TiIton is a fool, and worse than a
fool All his spooney, soul-stricken
effusions to Elizabeth show it. Nobody
but fool-and great fool at that
would voluntarily, advertise his wife as
a courtes2n and himself a cuckold. 1t
is only the more contemplate to be done
in self defense or self-protection. A
higher order of gallantry than that can
be obtained in the domestic relations of
the brutes. Who ever heard of even a
dog turning against his female mate?
The lion and the wild boar will inter
pose their bodies and defy death in the
protection of the brute mother and her
Young. Tilton is a fool because he has
put this nasty matter in the papers and
in the courts. Any man who will figure
up with the alleged seducer of his wife
as to the doubtful parentage of her child
is an abomina bic fool. And he is an
arrant coward and an abject puppy be-
sides. Instead of hero he must be an
irredeemable ass-an unmitigated,
pusillanimous jackass, if any one may
be pardoned for the use of such inoffens-
i've terms.
Elizabeth is a fool. If guilty, she
was fool to own it. She was fool to
let Beecher fool with her, anyhow. Til
tons idea that she don't know when she
is insulted makes her a most insipid
fool. Why, any third-rate servant girl
| in fourth-class hotel knows better than
that. This idea that full grown fe-
male don't know when she Is seduced,
and is so innocent as to mistake sexual
intercourse for religious sacrament, is
childish and contemplate. There isn't
a ten-year-old girl in the United States
unless she's fool) that can be fooled
like that. Besides, Mrs. Tilton's letters
show her to be a downright gusher and
| idiot.
| Mrs. Beecher is fool for not scalp
ing Henry Ward; innocent or guilty,
he ought to be scalped. His letters
show enough for that. Besides, Mrs.
Tilton showed more than what was found
in his letters.
| OF course Frank Monlton is fool.
If he hadn't been one, he never would
have acted as news carrier in this dirty
matter. He wouldn't have lied for eth
er or both of the parties. He would
have promptly kicked Beecher and sent
Tilton TO lunatic asylum.
Bessie Turner is fool She is fool
to suppose that anybody will believe
that Tilton could have taken her from
her own bed and carried her to his bed
without waking her up-and she gush-
ing, full blown girl-bosh.
And the counsel on both sides are
fools. They are fools to drag ont the
testimony as they have. They are fools
in not getting all the money in the case,
and then telling their clients land at
least two-thirds of the witnesses) to take
arsenic, or go to-Europe.
Than the Brooklyn trial, there never
was dirtier job conceived of. 1t is a
disgrace to the nation. 1t is shame to
religion. 1t is disgrace and ruin to the
contestants. 1t is legal and moral luna
cy. There is not an atom of good in it.
1t was conceived in idiocy and rotten
ness, and will probably end in sorrow
and death. And the publication of the
trial in the newspapers ought to be dis
continued. At least, these are our senti-
| nents