St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-20
The Campbell Divorce Case as Seen From
This Side of the At
lantic
History Of Domestic Disagreement Which
Has More Money Than Morals
In 1t.
How the Pink of Newspaper Perfec
ttion Was Caught With Filthy
Letter.
something About Madame Fursch-
Madi's Quarrel With Messrs.
Thomas and Hook.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.


the whole of the known world, causes
nearly as much excitement in New York as
in London. We are 80 English, you
know" The great Atlantic is between us
and the British islands. but in society
affairs and interest in contemporaneOus
politics, New York seems to be almost as
close TO London as to st. Paul. The
American interest in the Campbell case has
been stimulated by the announcement that
Lady Campbell is the daughter of the no.
tOrious. and not altogether unsalacious,
Mrs. Victoria Woodruff, who was a pioneer
in this country in forbidden social phlloso.
ply. Mrs. Woodhulrs sister. Tennie c..
Coaffiin, used to keen kind of clairvoyant
or spiritualiSt establishment in Cincinnati,
which had rather pretentious and inviting
front, but innocent people passing that way
didn't know what was going ON in the back
Office.
Well, it is a mistake. Lady Campbell is
not daughter of Mrs. Woodruff. She is
the daughter of man named Blood-but
not the Col. Blood who used to be Mrs
WOodhulrs guide, philosopher and
friend" if nothing more. If there is not a
knk in the writer's memory. Blood. the
in Ireland, He is man of large means.
though without the title or station of the
family into which his daughter married.
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Nine-tenths of the American people do
not understand the divorce case from the
beginning. They only jumped into the
newspaper accounts when the reports of
the trial became racv, and have not taken
Ioo Ia f@r h,0I n yiJ nd
take up the thread of the story. Lord
Colin Campbell is the son of the Duke of
Argyle. direct descendent and successor
of the famous Duke of Argyle who erected
the scratching posts i'll Scotland.
the door-jam to scratch your
back, somebody Invariably remarks: God
bless the Duke of Argyle" The present
duke is man of exemplary character and
dignity, but he is poor; and his son. Lord
Colin Campbell. is as poor as his father in
purse. and is not rich in morals. At the
time OF his marriage Lord Colin tried to in
duce Blood 10 make legal settlement on
him. but failed. Blood settled what he had
to give-which was large fortune-On his
daughter, and her husband has not been able,
up to this time, to get the money from her.
money outright. and will not be obliged to
pay her alimony. So the divorce case is a
question OF money, rather than morals.
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Lady Campbell is not. to say the least.
prudent. but the impression that she is
much better than her husband in every
respect is rapidly gaining ground. Much
has been made of her association with the
Duke of Marlborough. Nothing calculated to
maintain divorce has been proven in this
connection, but the testimony must impair
the lady's reputation. The Duke
Of Marlborough is one of the
worst men in England. Some Americans
vino lived a long time in England,
and who made patient study of the Eng
lish aristocracy, tell me that the Duke OF
Marlborough is even worse than the news
papers say he is. Indeed, the papers can
not tell the story and go through the mails.
He is utterly depraved. He practically
lives in the London houses of ill-fame when
he is not in more disreputable resorts in
Paris. His lewdneSs goes below the point
that may be even limited at. For woman
to recognize him on the streets or in other
public places is to place her character in
Jeopardy. For a woman to return his
family to respond in pubic to the leer of
the lowest strumpet that stalks the streets.
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All New York has been agog over the
publication in the Tribune OF one of the
filthiest letters that has been brought out in
the Campbell trial. 1t was bad enough for
all the papers to tell such things as how
DR.. Hicks testified that he had made an ex-
animation of Lady Campbell and ascer-
tanned that she bad never been mother;
but this was purity and pollteness them
selves in comparison with the dreadful pub
LEGATION in the Tribune. The letter was
filthy; it was almost obscene 1t may have
been important to introduce it in the trial.
but it is marvel that it should have ever
found itself in print anywhere. 1t must
have disguised the sharks and cuttle-fsh in
the brief time it took to flash it under the
sea.
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The explanation is made that the offensive
letter got into the Tribune without the
knowledge OF Whitelaw Reid the editor;
that he didn't know of it going in, ETC.. and
would certainly have arrested it had it
come under his eagle eye. Certainly.
Nobody supposes that Mr.. Reid stays up
all night to revise proofs. He might get
out better paper if he did. But how did
his trained editors let the vile stuff pass?
But so it goes. SThe papers protesting the
highest places of morality give the public
the worst Doses The Cincinnati Enquirer
long had the name of being the most sensa-
tonal and salacious paper in the West, but
its neghbor. the. Commercial Gazette,
double discounts" it in offcOlor publica-
e do re
New York papers that prevents them from
giving the news. and the Tribune is the
stickler for the code. The New
York papers will not permit the reporters
to call crime against virtue more than an
assault. They will not allow even the
phrase criminal assault" So when you
read that a man over OH the Jersey flats
assaulted a woman, you do not know
whether he intended to rob her of her
money or her virtue.
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Speaking of the editor of the Tribune.
He is now the master of the most extensive
residence in New York, and has the finest
building. His situation is very
unlike it was when he ran country heb
dOmadal at Xenia. o. His full name is
Jacob Whitelaw Reid. but he long ago
dropped the first name for picturesque pur
poses. The bigoted partisanship OF his pa
per otfends Democrats, and under circum-
stances of this kind you can still hear him
referred to occasionally as Jake Reid.
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Nearly everybody seems to sympathize
with Madame Fursch- Madi in her row with
Theodore Thomas and Stage Manager
Hook 1t is generally believed that she
knew more about the opera under rehearsal
at the time of the difficulty than all the
rest of the American opera establishment
together. Hooks quarrel with her was
erevous, and it is great pity she was not