The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-02-04

before Kinsella's wandering fancy was
attracted to the wife of the present SUI
perintendent Of public schools. Thus
again did HE adulteries fall within the
scope Of the Board Of Education, Of
which he was, and still is, member:
Mrs. Field and he kept up .
vicious relation for two: years. occasional
ly interrupted by Mrs. Kinsella's exhibit |
ton Of q revolver, and Mr.. Fields threat
to put his wife in mad-house. While |
still under the Field regime, Kinsella|t
entered one'of the public schools in the
vertiginous stage of inebricty. and;placing
his cigar upon the school Bible, called,
rather too ingeneously, for brandy-and-
water. The refreshment was not pro-
duced, and .kinsella proceeded to execrate
in no mild or stated phrases, the incom-
pleteness of school system which did
not provide such luxuries for an official
visitor. OF course the male principal re-
sented this impeachment of his hosplt:ll'
ty, and an outrageous scene followed.
Bowen, who was at the time editing the
Union after fashion of his own, cordial
| " detested Kinsella for his arrogance,
and, perhaps, for his success. Of course
the brandy and water episode provided at
least an alcoholic fame for his boilers,
and for two weeks he kept RAINING away
at his adversary with full head OF steam.
So vigorous was Bowen, and SO numerous
were Kinsella's enemies, that shortly
mass meeting was convened, and the
Academy of Music overfowed with pro-
tests against Kinsella's behavior. Now,
I MARK WHAT FOLLOWS:
Henry Ward Beecher was asked to speak
and consented but. at the last moment,
without giving any reason. shut himself
up in his bedroom and refused access to
the Committee which waited upon him.
Mr.. Beecher had been notified by has
present champion, the editor Of the Ed-
gle, that he had the true story Of the
Bescher-Tilton case in has table draver.
Just after the meeting, while the pro.
tests of the community were still ringing
iu his ear, Kinsella, by appointment, met
Mrs. Field at q tavern in the outskirts of
BROOKLYN. Their interview was, all Of a
sudden, interrupted by the frantic intru-
sion of Mrs. Kinsella, who slapped her RI
walls face, and then, Ainging open the
doors, called upon some score of her hus-
!band's constituents to gaze upon an
adulterer and his paramour.
You can imagine with what grateful
alacrity Bowen seized upon the chance his
enemy had afforded him. The Union
fairly bristled with sensational head.
lines. Everybody was interviewed, .
from the tavern-hostlers upward. The
city absolutely smclt of sour champagne
and dusty silks. Meanwhile. Kinsella,
who is not by any means Of heroic
strain, fed to Albany, and there began to
+ arrange for an elopement to Europe, not
daring to return to Brooklyn and face
the rage Of its people.
BUT HIS sUBoRDINATEs SAVED HIN
from the necessity Of such q fight
They knew that if Bowen could be put OF
the defensive and greater scandal thar
Kinsclla's be set aaoat, their chief
catastrophe would "blow over. The de
sideratum was, how to do these two thing
4 in one. One Of Kmsella' 8 subordinates,t tn
Mu,doon before referred to, was Per
sonallv very intimate with John W. Har
= man. one Of Tilton's friends who came i
possession Of . proof-slip Of Tilton'
famous letter to Bowen, which he had,
n | believe, "borrowed" from the Gotde1
n Age Office. Muldoon went to Harma
!. and managed to effect = loan Of the proc
:. slips. This point gained. council
. war was held, and Kinsella stole back I
New York, and, in hiding at the st. Nict
Of olas Hotel, awaited the explosion OF tn
t. mine under Bower feet. There was
$. ramshacklc Sunday newspaper in Brocl
"a lyn at this time, which had originally bee
:. STYLED the Sunday Eagle. The Dali
=. Eagle, however, by process Of law, con
IN PEELED il - drop its appropriate title. NJ
u L became the Sunday Dash. -.
m To save Kinsella by exposing Bowen
the character of . perjured slanderer
Beeeher, without any hostile aiius'on
- Beeoher or Tilton, and in absolute VOL
ne ton Of his ewn solemn promise to Beech
that the Eagle would never. directly
e) indirectly. refer to the then dorma
y. scandal, Kinsella caused Tilton's letter
d. Bowen to be first published il the D0s
Of and next day in the Eagle. He saw
no himself for the time being, but
a RuINEp BEEcHER.
ae' Everybody forgot the Kinsella.Field mi
Sc ter in the dominating mystery Of Beec
en- er's relation to Tilton and Bowen. Bow
10. dropped his attack on Kinsella, and to
led to defending himself. Then came I
lat Tripartite Agreement; then other ang
o. respondence; then the trial CT Tilt
rB- Plymouth Church; then the CIR
ouncil: then DR.. Bscon's letter th
do. Tilton's response; then Beecher's Inv
in tigating Committee; then the food
en- .sstatements;' and finally the cure
lei trial. -
in You will, therefore, please correct "
an. history Of this case, and REL d the Cal
id Is veil Is the ehtect1
IA. No wonder tie Eagle has tried to CO
no. nens.te for its editor 3 selfish violation
~. his pledge. BY adopting Mr.. Beeche
md case recklessly.
uly No wonder the chief proprietor Of
the Eagle spent whele morning in the &
the pany Of Tracy, Moulton and Ben But
the aryuiag quiet settlement OF the {,