Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-09
THE BEECHER-TILTON AFFAIR AND
THE NEWSPAPERS.

THE BEECHER-TILTON AFFAIR AND
THE NEWSPAPERS
EDITOR HERALD:-There are two
newspapers published in the city of
/, New York that were not aided in
their circulation by the Titon Beech
| er trial; that affair furnished most of
the papers an exciting pabulum that
found as greedy public as the news
Of battles and victories did during the
war. But the Independent ,(Bowen's
paper,) and the Christian Union,
(Beecher's paper aae rapidly losing
their popularity and subscribers, in
consequence of the disclosure made
by that trial.
The public has come to the
conclusion that Bowen is not less
than a scoundrel, a conscious hy-
pocrte-a fellow who cares nothing
about either Tilton or Beecher's NOR
atty or immortality, or his own, or
other peoples religion, if he can only
make money. Pretending to know
the whole mystery of Beecher's sim
gular career and conduct, though
squarely charged by Beecher's ooun-
sci with conspiracy to build up his
own paper by destroying the charac-
ter of his rivals, Beecher and Tilton;
though openly defied to tell and do
his worst, when he appeared on be-
half of Tilton on the stand, it appears
he knew nothing important about the
matter and actually strengthened
Beecher's position, which was that
his great grief was occasioned by his
(Beecher's) having augustly SANDER
ed Tilton to Bowen, and caused the
latter to dismiss him (Tilton.) Bow
en- testified to Beecher's injurious
statements, but says they were not
the cause of his dismissal of Tilton.
Bowen who had impressed the public
with the idea of the immensely of his
knowledge on this subject--ever cast
ing knowing winks when addressed
upon the matter, never denying when
accused of full knowledge of Beech.
er's guilt, exclaiming perjury, PERU
ry' when he read the testimony of
Tilton and Beecher; everybody sup
posed when he came upon the stand
that the whole mystery would be
brought to light, yet there he appears
a mere pettitogger, offering to the
court very small mouse, and dead
one at that, for the mountain that he
pretended to be in his keeping. And
though defied before and since, and
arraigned by the entire American
press as q hypocrite, a william who
used the impunity of silence as the in.
strument of positive and more effec-
tive SANDER, yet convicted of duplici-
ty, he has not since dared to open his
mouth. SO no wonder the Independent
is following the Golden Age. The deceit
of Bowen is as fatal as the conceit OF
Tilton
And the Christian Union cannot
long survive its former rivals. It's ed
itor though he may be innocent, has
kissed and gushed too much. He has
originated greater number of volup-
tuous, amative catchwords and phra-
ses than Anacreon, Byron, Moore and
Dumas combined. Who ever analys-
ed kisses SO scientifically before?
There is the "holy," the "inspired,'
the "ministerial," tho "ccstatic," the
"oriental," the "paroxysmal." And
Mr. Mouton is "a bank of spring
| flowers. Surely there is nothing like
this in the love-melting notes of pas
toral poetry, and even his DuIcina did
not cause Don Quixote to "enthuse"
so madly. The feelings of emotion OF
the present age are not pitched on
this high, amorous key, so it rejects
the Christian Union and prefers to
read about grasshoppers, plaques,
broken banks, suicides, Sankey and
Moody, DC. JUNIUs.
Lancaster, Wis, Sept. 7, 1878.