The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-02-25

10 " bC NlCdASAt Wv SSHAAe'"N vs. '
Beecher Of all the charges made against
him is only question Of time. He does
not explain Mr.. Beecher's letters, how
ever. He writes 10 the Des Moines
Register as follows:
Or TIE CARS AT LARGE IN Iowa.
February 10, 1876.
BROTHER CLARKsoN:-I know II Is not
exactly in my line TO look serious, but
what is all this l read in the Register about
Bowen having made a statement damag-
ing Mr.. BeecherP Why, don'tyou know
that Bowen is, has been, and always will
be, the head devil in that whole Brooklyn
conspiracy? Don't you know that years
ago he made up his mind to kill Beecher,
but, being great coward, he sat under
Beecher's preaching like kissing Judas
and poked up Theodore-made the egotis-
teal fool jealous, got him to stab Beecher
and then sat down and gloated over his
devilish work?
What is the whole Bowen-B eecher.Til>
ton scandal, anyway?
Simply, in nutshell, this:
Years ago Bowen came from Wood
stock, Conn; got to be clerk for Arthur
Tappan; worked hard, was penurious and
grinding; got rich; married old Tappan's
rich and beautiful daughter, and went to
keeping house in Brooklyn. Mean, lank,
lean, and cadaverous, jealous OF his wife,
OF course she never cared for him. How
could woman love 4 snow-bank? How
could she waltz through this world hap
PLY 10 personifed chunk OF ice? She
didn't. She let old Bowen and his money
bags go to thunder, and found consolation
in church society, in outside charities,
and in religion.
Now Bowen, us n purely financial ven.
turc, started the Independent, selling its
columns year after year to Jay Cooke, or
anybody who would pay for them. No
great newspaper can succeed without
some big soul 10 lead it. So Bowen got
Beecher TO run the Independent. Beecher
soon ran it up to l0O,0O0-then took
Theodore, who was then quite u decent
fellow for an inflated, egotistical, long
haired sophomore-taught him how TO
run q paper, got Bowen TO pay the fool
$1,000 a year for Tiltonian wind; then
Uncle Henry, like a gentleman, stepped
down and out. He said goodbye TO Til.
ton and Bowen-said God bless you, and
went down the street and started the
Christian Union. =.
When Bowen found out what Beecher
was doing, how he was running new
newspaper, and began to see his own SUBJ
scribers going away from him, he set to
work to kill Beecher. Too much Of a
coward to do it himself, he set Tilton to
do the dirty work. He told Tilton that
Beecher was bad manifold him he had
seduced Adelaide Proctor in his house Ia
lie that Frank Moulton retailed second
handed and took back). Then he told
Theodore, the goose! that Beecher had
even had criminal relations with hisown
(Bowen's) wife, and followed it up bysay-
ing:
Theodore, believe Henry Ward
Beecher is even now seducing your wiieH
These wicked in.inuations Of the SER
pent Bowen so worked on the silly Theo-
dore that he began 10 believe them and
he was soon ready to 60 TO killing Beech
er, and Bowen, the Iago Of the whole
affair, stood by and urged him on-he,
the head devil who had told every one
the lie about Miss Proctor and accused
his own wife OF infidelity! These are
the charges Plymouth Church AXIS Bow
en- 10 su6stantiate now, and the coward
will soon come out and accuse his dead
wife Of adultery, and try TO prove the
illegitimacy of'his own children-all to
kill the man who runs rival newspaper.
In Bowen's eye wiie's honor and four
children's happiness is good exchange
for 10000 subscribers.
Soon Theodore began to train around
with the Woodhulls-began to getloose
in morals and shaky in theology. and
Bowen turned the galute of, thinking
that he had done enough 10 start the
Jealous Theodore In fight which would
not only kill Beecher, but Theodore too.
Well, Theodore fell from grace, got poor,
borrowed money from Frank Moulton,
got to be regular Jeremy Didler in
Brooklyn, and, to get his money back,
Frank MOulton tried 10 force Bcecher, by
blackmail, to reinstate the played.out
Theodore in the Independent For all
this time the snake, Bowen, sat under
Beecher's preaching, pretended friend.
ship, and told Beecher he loved him and
would do anything for him, and Beecher,
the great, generous, confding boy, be-
lieved him! Frank Moulton's connec.
ton with Beecher was purely financial
one-to make Beecher set Theodore up,
so that.he could get his money back which
he had lent to the Golden Age, and Bow
ems case is purely . financial one too; II
he can kill Beecher, the only rival the In
dependen, has will be out Of the way and
10000 subSeriberswill go over to Bowen.
II. C. Bowen is the father Of all the lies
father OF all the scandalous reports
about Beecher, Miss Proctor or Mrs.
Tilton that ever foated in the air Of
Brooklyn. He's'the snake in the grass,
the lying Warwick behind such silly one.
horse filters as Theodore and Frank
Moulton. And now forced 10 the wall
by the Plymouth Church, he will come
out, and the dog will own up what he has
sneakingly reported to four hundred peo-
pie in Brooklyn, that he is afraid that
his children are bastards, and that his
poor, pure, lovely, dead wife, who loved
Beecher as Ruth loved Boaz, was a.
we'll, I'll leave Bowen TO say 1t, while /
60 on mindingm my own business, talking
to the people and trying to make the
world happier.
When see man going around like
Bowen, causing misery in . dozen house
holds, I feel Ike becoming u dynamite
fiend to blow him up. Next to making
finn. I hold Il our duty to kill of the