The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-03-02

! FRIDAY we had arrived at what is known in
this case "a the Woodruff publication. We
nave shown YOU chat after that publication
! Mr.. Beecher, following the advice and judgment-
/ the honest judgment as he then supposed OF the
mutual friend Moulton, assented 10 the policy OF
silence. This policy was accepted oy ALL The
long pursued in reference to this scandal. Tue
fact tnaE the defendant assented 10 this policy and
/ adhered 10 IL Tor several years has been
and now Is the very corner stone OF this
( prosecution The most OF your time has
TO prove this Iact--a fact never denied, out always
admitted But this TACT did not originate with
Mr.. Beecher. Ii We are 70 believe the piantIn the
policy oil silence aHd suppression mad been
adopted oy himself long before Mouton bore 10
memorable interview on the night OF December
80. Titon now asserts that he then knew and
ne now knows Yet he had Maintained silence
and affected suppression 50 complete that the
/ facts had never come TO the ears OF Mr.. Beecher.
For 1t Is conceded 10y all the parties thai down TO
know that he was IN any wise involved in nlton's
domestic ANTIQUITIES, except that he had concurred
from her husband. and had repeated to MIR. bowen
stories affecting Mr.. Tilon's character In respect
BowEN's PART IN THE DRAMA.
set on by Bowen, Tllton wrote and sent mat In
soent demand 'hat MT says raven a
signed as a reason why ne could not sign the ie.-
ter with MN mat ne naa Just a.d MS aii
Tlton would make the attack, he would assume
and carry on the hight. lie bore tue letter 10 MT.
Beecner. and then, IN the twlnKng OF an eye,
Bowen slipped through Tllton's fingers Ike an eel.
Two days alter signing the letter Iiton found him
an enemy instead OF q friend. mus deserted Oy
Bowen, liable himself to be assaied oy MI.
Beecner, and threatened with dismissal from
both papers, his ruin seemed inevitable un-
less he could suppress the puDhcaron OF his letter
and repress the indignation OF Beecher which that
letter mad aroused. For THIS purpose we have seen
how. ike a coward, he attempted TO interpose the
body OF sick and suffering wife between himself
anu the man he had grossly outraged.
SILENCE AND SUPPRESSION
Mr. Tracy insisted, was the policy OF Mouton and
1ilton. Mr.. Beecner did not make but only as
messenger OF peace, and carries away with MIN
what IS now called the letter or contrition. And
on February !, Moulton. finding that Mrs. Tilton
was not so completely reconciled as he desired she
the correspondence bearing date on that day. in
order TO establish more perfect peace and 10
The only criticism which the defendant Is liable.
inthls respect, IS that OF having assented to the
policy OF silence. The difficulty between Tiiton and
Beecner not the only one that Tllt0n ana his
friend Moulton desired 10 bury at that time.
Tilton was covered ALI over with ioui scandals,
which demanded suppression
TIE TURNER SCANDAL.
There was the hideous story which Bessie Turner
had communicated to Mr. Beecher, Mrs. Morse and
others OF the manner in which Triton had lifted
/ her rom her bed at night and carried her TO his
own, and how, upon another occasion. ne had
again attempted tie virtue OF this poor cnid, who
had been adopted and cared Tor oy MS large
hearted ana benevolent vile. And, more than all,
there was need to keep from public knowledge the
TACT that MS wife mad separated from him. and had
J
ddeties and the many cruetles had suffered
at his hands. II Theodore Triton was to be resur-
rected nom the sepulcnre OF lniamy ana again SET
upon mis- feet all these scandals must De sup
pressed and Kept rom the knowledge or the
/ world. You VIII see, gentlemen, that TINS was
ing every CHARACTERISTIC which, l1lton tells US,
guided him in the selection OF mis- friend. To &C
compllsh the part It was necessary to possess
loyalty to his employer, genus for admlnistra-
ton, and great courage OF thought and action"
All these, Tllton says, Moulton possessed IN an
eminent degree
YHE SKILL OF MoULToN
was strikingy shown In his choice Of means to
obtain Endorsements or character ior his friend
from the two men whom he had the most reason
TO fear. Mr. Beecher he controlled by gaining his
against Tllton we're false Mr.. Bowen he con.
troned by arguments OF a different character But
Mrs. TiltOnis complaint OF the treatment TO which
she was subjected must also be suppressed. To
this end she was made to feel that she was the
her household lie for which she longed. In the
( letter OF February every argument that could
move her brought TO bear upon ner, ana at
! last Mr. Moulton succeeded in obtaining from her
/ peuge That she would never remember herself
Kept. gentlemen, until by his open and shameless
attack upon Mr. Beecher the plaintiff drove her
lortn oespairing fugitive. flying as Tor ner lie
A sLAcKMAL NEWSPAPER PROJECT.
Having shown you. gentlemen, how the defend
ant was induced 70 enter into this pollcy OF 81.
lence and now he mas pursued IL for years IN good
! faltn, now come 10 snow you now this plaintiff
and MS friend treacherousiy and continuously vlo-
lated You have seen how the failure Of tue po-
/ lltical campaign IN 1872 and the Immediate death
I OF MIR. Greeley followed by the substantial fall
ure of the Golden Age, blasted the future
hopes of Mr.. Tilton IN that direction and compelled
him 10 look for avenues OF success. Up 10 this
time gentlemen, tue policy which l nave no doubt
moved Moulton and rilton was mainly the restor-
alton OF Mr. 1lton in this new newspaper enter
prise which he bad entered, 10 the attempted es-
! tablisnment OF the Golden Age. But this had
failed. The money when he mad received rom
Bowen in April. iS72 was nearly expended. In
deed, believe IN December. all the money had
been substantially drawn from Woodruff Robin
-
MIR. snearman-The last money was drawn De-
cember 81
the last money drawn by Hilton on December
%; the $1,000 were exhausted, he had no means
they should look around ana lind some new ave.
nue. Tor the benefit OF Mr.. Tilton. And, gentlemen.
called your attention to a newspaper scheme that
was started or talked OF In December, 1872. He
represents 1t tnat it was the suggestion or some
one 10 Mr.. Beecher that now was the great tune
Tor newspaper enterprise In New YORK, and he
was the man to mead IL. The three out OF the i've
editors controlling the great daily papers OF New
York mad recently died. Raymond, the youngest,
and the man perhaps having the best conception
OF the true sphere OF Journalism OF any man who
has been upon the American press, was the first
10 depart. Bennett, the ablest newspaper pub
Usher and editor combined that we have ever seen
] in TINS country, had also gone. And now came
Mr.. Greeley, oy lar the strongest writer that ever
| wrote upon the American press; he, too, bad oled
IN the early days December. There renamed then
/ only Dana, oil the SUM- and Marble, OF the World,
/ left among the men OF established regulations
upon the press OF New YORK city, These scheming
gentlemen, looking out to provide an avenue Tor
Mr.. Tnton, suggested that TINS was the OCCASION
for the starting OF a newspaper in this city OF
New YORK that now there was no great and over.
shadowIng name upon the press IN the city OF
New YORK. There was a vacancy, and Mr..
Beecher was the man to ill mat vacancy, and 1t
would be wise ana judicious, under the clrcums.
tances, lor him and Mr.. hilton to unite in that
enterprise thank the counsel for plaintiff for
4 calling your attention to this scheme, gentlemen,
30 I Will not be charged with having forced
IL TO your attention mere. We shall show you that
the friends OF Theodore Tllton approached the
ia IInp ard In nQno n1I az
with this proposition: "Let us buy the New YORK
! Express Us was for sale let US turn It into
morning paper; let Henry Ward Beecher assume
| the editorship OF IL and
RETIRE FROM PLYMOUTH CHURCH,
and let Theodore 11lton go abroad Tor three or
/ four years and be the head oil the foreign bureau
OF that paper, and by that time the Woodruff
J scandal viii have died away and have been Tor.
cotton, and he can come BACK and take
an of