The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-02
NEW BREATH FOR THE SCANDAL.

The apparently interminable length of
the Tilton-Bcecher trial, some weeks ago,
gave rise to capital satire, in which the
court was represented as assembling on
bright, pleasant morning, some quarter of
a century hence, the judge, jury AID coun-
sci coming in, old and decrepid but with as
much of intellectual force as ever. One of
some cause, to which Beech objects, for
the reason that there should be an end of
the trial some time. Whereupon, Tracy
addresses the court and urges, in favor of
the motion, that men, even the counsel and
jury may grow old and pass away, but
'thank God, this scandal can never die.
The weeks that haye passed since the
satire was written, has seen the great trial
gradually, but surely, approaching an end,
but the scandal is not to be permitted to
die. There was possibility, remote per-
baps that the particular scan. mag. now
under consideration, might, after the close
of the trial, die by degrees and finally perish
of inanition caused by general disgust, but
it was not to be allowed that Brooklyn
should be without her scandal, or that the
verdict of a court and jury, in any one
case, should cleanse the city of the
churches or clear the skirts of Henry Ward
Beecher.
TO again breathe the breath of life into a
dying stencil, the Bowen family comes to
the front. 1t is represented by young
scion of the old stock, himself bearing the
ancestral name, who intimates that Beech
er is naughty man, a very naughty man
indeed, and that Plymouth church is "mean
and contemplate" and has treated "father
"most abominably and without one particle
"of Justice or reason He could borrow
five thousand dollars, and mortgage his
house to secure its payment, for Tlton's
benefit, but he wouldn't pay father
Why, he went around Brooklyn and in
formed the pious people thereof that
"father" owed him, when in fact he owed
''father" thirteen hundred dollars and we
have got the documents to prove it. But
"father" got his money in the end. Then
again, Plymouth church took upa collec-
ton during the war for sanitary purposes, "
and Beecher sent over to fathers" store
and bought goods at less than cost prom
ising to pay on presentation of bill. But
the bill was presented, and Beecher direct
would allow the same in settlement of his
account with the independent, but latter
much trouble the money was paid to
"iather." And then again, Beecher gen.
orally managed to get his pay from the IN
dependent before it was due and was con.
tinually ovcrdrawing his account, but
"father" always managed to get even.
Such are the substance Of the direct
charges, but they ore merely prelude tc
others made by Inuendo or implication
And in these latter we have, if true, an ex
PLANTATION of the origin of the whole scan
dial, of the neglect to call the paterna
Bowen as witness, and of the gingerly
manner in which he was treated while or
the stand. We are told that sit wa:
90 enough for Beccher to know that my
% father was acquainted with facts damag
ing to his moral character as a minister
of the gospel" and he became Gathers
enemy, and his blossom friends turned
their "guns on my father and have beer
firing at him continually" ever since
but If Bcecher or the church want "war,
why "father.' is ready for it sat the tap Of
the drum" One Henry, the layman, hal
been helping ''shut down the hatchwayi
and bury the sinking scandal forever
" out of sight" while the other Henry, thu
ministerial one, has been playing thu
traitor and hiring men to defame father.
One of these men was so 'notoriously
wicked and immoral every way" thai
/" father" was obliged TO discharge him
most unceremoniously, from the Inde