New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-02


December he possession Of contracts which gave
him securer and better position than that OF editor,
which gave him 900 year, as he has attempted 10
impose upon your Observation-Disclosures very successfully
on his testimony to be sure, and we shattered 10
atoms the whole fabric of that view by the testimony
our par-that 1t not until late on the night OF the
3lst when the chimes Of St. AIMS ringing out the
old year and ringing in the year. that the first notion
came 10 him that any moth had corrupted the garment or
his pride II IL OF the gravest importance TO this plain
til that be should strike out this state Of facts IA within
the consciousness Of himself and Mr. Beecher, and
matter OF substance and Of fact, at the time OF the
decisive interview OF December 80, 1870 Well, what
arc TO say this subject nowf How do the proofs
stand nowi Why, gentlemen, shall not weary you nor
myself by long observation upon the general mass
OF this evidence on that point for it is all one way
Now gentlemen T asked Mr.. Triton IT, after the inter
view with Bowen the 9th dav OF December ne don
go his house. exhibit great Distress and say ne was
ruined and then, by conduct pursued there indicate the
extremity and the extremity OF his resort
for means to light further completion the hopeless
contamination Of IT, No Az usual, he wants to have
circumstance to f0rtfy his statement and he says
was not ruined !" and through long direct examination
they made IL appear that he was worth some 100000 or
S35 600 all made up this way Speaking Of the begin
mig of 1871, he says:
owned a house. in which lived No. ia Livingston
ST., which, with its library, furniture and pictures
suppose valued at about $4,000 owned piece OF
LlcWellyn PARK, AT
100000 I owned a share OF THE NETWORK TRIBUNE,
valued, think. at that time, at little more than
Ged at about 81 500 I owned piece Of land. nttle
fragment OF IT, Prospect Park In this city, valued
at about 81 600
Then he gives his mortgages and then the fact that THE
TRIBUNE stock had been assigned to his father But
counting all that up comes this in the end, that he
had house and furniture whatever 1t might be WORTH
which brought him ineOme that lie had about SiOoo
on deposit with the firm of Woodruff Robinson, which
was drawing suppose, four five per cent Interest,"
they made the account at that he had
fragment Of land near Prospect Park, which produced
assessments daughter i farm in Iowa which had the
crop OF wild land taxes, and the lewelyn PARK
property which ended having been got for advertising
and having been turned over TO his particular friend
Franklin Woodruff additional security Tor the
mortgage OF $500 upon his house. Now there Is an
other friend sticketh closerto his property-than
brother Laughter never such a set Of friends
as the has about him Help him help him !!
Why all his property to nothing. It amounts to
nothing. That is no imputation upon Mr.. TiltOn, no
reproach The reproach in the false and shallow at
tempt to impose upon your understanding that ne was
a OF income and property and the attempt ends
1 say, in this Lewellyn Park property, salable
never sold coming to be needed in the generous
estimate of OF his best friends further support
a lien of 81, 800 his LvingstOnst house. Any in
comet Oh no. no income from anything The Tribune
stock belonged to his father, and 1t so remained No In
come from anything And proved TO you, out Of his
mouth, think, that from that ls OF January, 1871
down to the time that he stood before you, with the ex
ception OF what he might picked up in OF his
broken and dscredited lecture tours that he took in
1923, didn't he addressing Mr. Tracy
Mr.. Tracy-1s7I-2.
Mr. Evarts-OnIy in ls7l-2f
Mr.. Traey-Yes.
Mr.. Evarts-well, he made some money then in 1s71-2
but in 1928, and proved by him that all the
money that he had had and that he had spent was tue
~ 900 that the hands of Woodruff Robinson 70
start with the 81 900 that he had got out Of Bowen III
the manner that you pretty we'll understand and
will still better understand after have remarked upon
it, the money help Bessie Turner's schooling, paid by
Mr. Beecher and the $1,000 that Mr. Beecher also had
contributed to The Golden Age in its necessity excepting
that Mr.. MoutOn, Mr. Franklin Woodruff Mr. j. p. Rob
nsOn, Mr. Mason, and Mr.. SOuthwick had made up a
contribution the object to which Mr. Beechcr
gave So 900 in its necessity, Of $4,000, Onehaf OF
which was consumed and the other half returned to those
munifcent donors of the money that he got from
Bowen.
Gentlemen, how do we stand upon the question
whether in the middle Of the week Of December that
closed that year Mr. TltOn had absolute pros
tration OF his affairs and cOnvulsyey scrambng
out OF the food that overwhelming him aud selling
upon any straw even upon a wOman's hand, careless
whether be drowned her with himself provided he saw
the last chance of her feeble aid saving hlm-Whdt shall
we say about that He carries it, as say, with high
head through his direct examination. Nothing! Why,
we had just made the bargains there was not any
trouble had talked, 10 be sure, and he had said,
when had thrown out ntimitOn that he had better
run after Mr. Beecher and let goI sent him on that
scent, aud we had combined in great move,
that Bowen said would be successful, 70 drive
Beecher from further editing the rival news
paper The Christian Union, and that would
take effect IL hours, and that he and I-BOwen and /
should OF the situation. clear OF rival and
clear OF hated enemy, enemy if an enemy because
We had injured him, enemy hated II hated and do
not doubt that Mr. Bcecher hated by these mem,
Mr.. Beecher know that they had injured him
Now TO be sure when the examinaOn-Or, in
deed the direct, but fully on the crOss-it was
made appear that the vg0r and success OF that war
against Mr. Beecher that was commenced on Christmas
did not up the sounding phrase OF the manifesto
and all that had OF it, although what had occurred
had not been displayed to yOu II H. for TtOn
could not speak OF il, and Bowen was not called
what had occurred between Mr. Beecher and
Bowen-when it proved that the next dlv
after Bowen carried this missve that was to hurl
Mr. from his pulpit and from his editorial chair
and to drive him from Brooklyn when It was given in
evidence that all that happened between the Joint
that brave that the time they met which
the next day Mr.. Bowen, with conntenanca livd with
rage and with greater excitement than Mr. Tton sup
posed 1t possible for him any man. perhaps, to ex-
hibt shook his fist in Mr. TltOn face and said TO him
II you ever mention that was an ally, that was
eonsprator that knew heard Of that letter that
you wrote and carried to Beecher, will cashier you
will drive you out OF the once Will call policeman
and turn yOu into the street.
When that proved it was pretty evident that Mr.
Tilton did not stand velvet with Mr.. Bowen the
9th day OF December and that is the last time they
met as understand the testimony of Mr.. Tton.
Now, don't you think on his own showing, when he
home that Tuesday that he did feel that he was
pow and John hndt him hal he &
going to be turned unless he arrested the hand
contrvanee exhausting malice and reaching all prospect
being supported by proof and carrying any pac
teal results, had been the only scheme that he could
suggest his temporary salvation That petsrd had
been fired by this engineer, aud who hosted by IT,