The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-02
BY TELEGRAPH,
The Tilton.B ,echer Trial.
Nav YoRE, March

At the opening OF the Tilton- Beechcr
trial, Gen Tracy continued his address.
He had shown them, he said, that after
the Woodruff publication, Beecher, by the
advice of the mutual friend, Francis d.
Moulton, had accepted the policy of ST.
lence. In 1870 Titons difficulties with
Bowen arose, and were augmented, so Til
ton says by Mr.. and Mrs. Beecher. On
December Goth, charges against Beecher
were made, and II was then determined TO
suppress them. Bowen promised TO sup
port Tilton in his charges against Beecher,
and got him to take letter to him. But
Bowen after this became Titon's enemy.
Two days after this Tilton found himself
deserted by Bowen. and had made himself
inimical TO Bcecher. The next day Moul-
ton comes and carries away all letters, not
as an emblem of war, but one of peace.
The only criticism to be passed on defend
ant was that having accepted the policy of
silence he endcavored, faithfully. to carry
1t out. Tilton himself was thea covered
all over with stories of scandal those rails
ed by Bessie Turner, and his wife threat
eniug to leave him for his infdelity and
crueltes to her. Bessie Turner was com
PEELED to sign a ietraction of her stories,
and she was sent away to prevent her tell
ing, and so her stories were suppressed.
Then Tilton published stories circulated by
Bowen against Beecher, in the Golden Age.
Mrs. Tilton's stories about her treatment
must also be suppressed, and she was led
to believe that the stories must be
denied. Tltons manner of conduct
ing affairs was to make statements and
publish them, while Mouton's way was
to preserve silence and allow other parties
to make statements. With Beecher silence
was duty, but with Moulton and Tilton
it was only policy, and they took these
means to keep the scandal alive The
failure of the Golden Age had blasted the
hopes of Titon and he was compelled to
look for other avenues of success. The
money drawn from Bowen in April, 1872,
was all expended in his paper. He would
in December, 1872, to friends of Beecher
and advised them to buy the New York
Express, which was then for sale, and for
Beecher 10 take charge of it, while Tllton
should go abroad for some months, and
when he came back, to take foremost
place on the editorial staff of that paper.
Not only were these meetings held ia this
| city but also in New York and twice at the
| Union League Club. This, gentlemen,
was nothing but scheme for Matchmaking.
He, Beecher's counsel. would show them
so by witness who was known through
out this country almost as well as the de-
PENDANT himself. Here was a letter sent
from complaining friend which was
fiction invented by Tilton and never re-
ceived by him. The letter in opening says,
"Thanks for your good lettero bad advice
This letter ended with threat that If he
should speak it would send thunderbolt
through other hearts. Titon said, upon
the witness stnnd, that he had written
letter to complaining friend. He, the
speaker, was prepared to show you that
he did, The speaker then read the letter,
''and regular coincidence" remarked
General Tracy, is attached to this, that
upon the day that Mr.. Titon wrote the
letter to complaining friend he drew
his last dollar from Woodruff Il Robinson.
Mr.. Tilton wrote what is termed the Gold
| ;,In Lao. all t.,e ell,
that Mr.. Tilton attempted to publish the
article secretly and without any one know
ing by whom the article was written. This
characteristic has marked Mr. Tilton's
proceedings from the very beginning Of
this action. lie was able to show that
Mr. Tilton had told "a prominent Brooklyn
journalist that Mr. Bcccher had not COM
mi,tcd adultery with his (rilton's> wife,
but had made improper proposals
which Mrs. Tilton, had rejected. lie
was able to show further, that Mr.. Tilton
put the Golden Age article into an cnyel-
ope and gave it to this journalist but
Tlton was still afraid and it was not until
the following spring that another journal
got hold of it, and the Golden Age article
and was surreptitiously published.
Sam Weller is nothing to Mr.. Theo Tiiton
in striking illusions. You have heard
from Moulton the exhibitions that Tilton
ma c because of his promised pecunary
aid from his friends for the Golden Age.
The speaker remarked that Mr.. Tilton's
sole love was money, and that money was
all he wanted. Gen. Tracy said that more
unskliful bunglers than Mr.. Tlton
and Mr.. NIoulton never had
charge OF so great case.
The trparte agreement was published with
out the knowledge of Mr.. Beecher, and he
therefore was not responsible for its publ
? cation. That is another characteristic
which has marked this case from the be
ginning, that Mr.. Beechcr has been helt
responsible by Mr.. Tilton for everythin!
that everybody did. The publication o
+ the trpartc agreement was an &C
+ cident, not one of the parties havin!
. the slightest intimaton of its appearing
in print until it was published. Mr.
: Beecher was held responsible for it
: When Tilton grew tired of silence whicl
had been observed from the first he at las
: decided that the policy of silence shoul
not hereafter DO adhered to. Mr.. Beeche
: said "Let it come, am prepared for i,
| defy you"