Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-04-29
TIE Brooklyn Idiots.


For long time we have been
looking for a sensible sit of talk on
the Beecher-Tilton business. Last
week we found it in a communica-
ton from Farmer Reynolds" to the
Grand Rapids Eagle. As the Hosier
says: "There is heap of sense in
it, Here it is:
If the jury on the scandal trial dis
agree in anything else, they ought to
be unanimous in a verdict that all
the leading characters in this great
"foul play" are pack of downright
fools Beecher is a fool for taking
fancy to the little, weazen-iaced,
hollow chested Elizabeth, in the
first place How any healthy, well
balanced masculine could become
enamored with such a charmless
creature Chat is, if the reporters
don't lie, and the photographs are
all rightO is an inscrutable mystery.
Then, Beecher's letters show him TO
be an idiot. Any ordinary school
boy that should write such mass of
insanity and twaddle, would either
be expelled as hopeless, or made to
stand on the floor with a split stick
on his nose
Tilton is fool, and worse than q
fool. All his spooney, soul-stricken
illusions to Elizabeth show it. No
body but fool-and great fool at
that-would voluntarily advertise
his wife as a courtesan and himself a
cackold. 1t is only the more con,
temptable to be done in self-defense
or self-protection. A higher order OF
gallantry than that can be obtained
in the domestic relations of the brute.
Who ever heard of even a dog turn
ing against his female mate The
lion and the wild boar will interpOse
their bodies and defy death in the
protection of the brute mother and
her young Tilton is a fool because
he has put this nasty matter in the
papers and in the courts. Any man
who will figure up with the alleged
seducer of his wife, as to the doubt
full parentage Of her child, is an
| abomlnable fool. And he is an alb
iect puppy besides. lnstea of
hero he must be an irredeemable ass
AN unmitigated, pusillsnimous jack
ass, if one may be pardoned for the
use of such inoffensive terms.
Elizabeth is fool. If guilty she
was fool to own it. She las fool
to let Beecher fool with her, any
how. Tlton's idea that she don't
know when she is insulted, makes
her a most insipid fool. Why, any
third-rate servant girl in fourth,
class hotel knows better than that.
This idea that full grown female
don't know when she is seduced, and
| is so innocent as to mistake sexual
intercourse for religious sacrament,
is childish and contemplate There
isn't a ten,year old girl in the Uni
ted States (unless she is fooD that
can be fooled like that Besides,
Mrs. TiIton's letters show her to be
a downright gusher and idiot.
Mrs. Beecher is a fool for not
scaIping Henry Ward innocent or
guilty, he ought to be scalped His
| letters show enough for that. Be-
sides, Mrs. Tilton showed more than
was found in her letters.
OF course Frank Moulton is fool.
If he hadn't been one, he never
would have acted as news carrier in
this dirty matter. He wouldn't have
lied for either or both of the parties.
He would have promptly kicked
Beecher and sent Tilton to a lunatic
asylum.
Bessie Turner is fool She is q
fool to suppose that anybody will
believe that Tilton could have taken
her from her own bed and carried
her to his without waking her up
and shc a gushing, ful-tlown girl
bosh
| And the counsel on both sides are
fools. They are fools to drag out
the testimony as they have. They
are fools in not getting all the mon
ey in the case, and telling their eli
ents (and at least two-thirds of the
witnesses) to take arsenic or to go
to-Euorpe.
Than the Brooklyn trial there new
err was a dirtier job conceived of. 1t
is disgrace to the nation. 1t is
q shame to religion. 1t is disgrace
and ruin to the contestants. 1t is
legal and moral lunacy There is
not an atom of good in il. 1t was
conceived in idiocy and rottennese,
and will probably end in sorrow and
death. And the publication of the
trial in the newspapers ought to be
discontinued. AT least, these ara
our sentiments.
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