Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-18
Mrs. Triton.

The Beecher-T ilton scandal i
stirred up again. This time it is b,
a confession of Mrs. Tilton. It is no
the first time she confessed, but 70
four years she has been denying he,
other confession. She said it was
forced. If it was forced then there is
q chance that the present one is forced.
And it is to be hoped that the scandal
is SO stale that no one will have a
taste for its renewal. The other seige
of the scandal cost the country mil
hon or two Of dollars. We do not
want to see another three or six
months of precious time wasted over
it. 1t is evidently begun, however,
with the intent to again indefinitely
absorb the minds of the people in it.
The ear marks of the beginning are
the same as the other. Then Tilton
told a few startling things broadly
limiting and declaring that there were
many other things to tell, but he
would rather not. He wouldn't unless
compelled. Now Mrs. Tilton simply
confesses. Her agent is asked ques-
tions and at first declines to answer.
He is mot at liberty to state circum-
stances" but Mrs. Triton has con-
fessed to four ladies "stating all the
circumstances of the various adulter-
ies," and has written letters telling all
about it but these are very private
and said agent is not authorized to
publish them. The trick is perfectly
transparent. The announcement that
there are such particulars is an adYer-
tisement that they are ready when.
ever the public shows craving for
them and publishers and telegraph
reporters offer a sufficient price for
them. Hence the question is simply
one of taste or safety, whether we
are to have showers and showers Of
this scandal. If the public appetite
has not been satiated with it, and
shows its hunger, it will get rations
large and small. The law of supply
and demand will as usual regulate it.
self When done the people will be
divided 10 their opinions about as
they were before, and no one bene-
flied with the stirring up of the stuff
1t Is coincident worth naming
that formerly when Tllton was -four
ishing and happy he was all "peace
and good wilp' to Beecher. When
his circumstances were low he OBJ.
tanned money directly or indirectly
from Beecher, and finally when he
could get no more help and because
utterly impoverished, he told his
worst. So Mrs. Tilton has counted
it an honor to be one of the Beecher
crowd. But she has been left unpro-
vided for. She has become poor and
forsaken. The Beecher crowd has
been called OF to help her. They
have not responded and now she tells
her worst-with more TO come if
wanted. Meanwhile edition has seen
Mrs. Tilton on several occasions" 1t
is 'surmised that the matter is fixed
up and they will live together again.
More probably she will remain for
saken, however much she may want
home with a man. That the lives
of talented men like Beecher and Til
ton capable of doing great good,
should be so narrowed and broken up
by such a silly thing as this little ly-
ing and very "christian" woman is
owing to a crookedness in Society
that ought to be mended by giving
any man ever connected or uncon-
nected with her, leave to let her alone
and marry some where else. She is
as irresponsible as Edison's phonos
graph. She talks whatever is talked
into her.