The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-09-11
The BeItzhoover Letter.

The Press and Carlisle Herald of Friday
hast published the following letter, purport-
ing to have been written by Congressman
Beltzhoover to one OF his constituents:
House of Representatives.
WGsniNo7oN, D. c., april 23, 1880.
DEAR Sir Your favor was received. l |
would most cheerfully introduce and urge |
The passage of a bill such as you suggest, but |
with the present Democratic House pension |
bills do not have much favor Il has be- |
come almost impossible to get consideration
of such a bill at all, and when considered its |
chance Of passing the House is very remote, |
and the rebel general who is at the head of
the pension committee in the Senate is still
more averse to allowing any such bills to
pass It would not be at all probable, there
fore, that the bill will got through.
Very truly, f. E. BELTzHoovER.
On Saturday Mr.. Betzhoover first saw the
letter 10 print, and he promptly telegraphed
the Times as follows:
Carlisle September 4.
was from when home THE letter pur.
porting TO have been written b. me TO some
unnamed person, stating that pension bill
could not be passed because the rebels in the
House and Senate were opposed to pensions.
appeared in the Carlisle Herald and the
Philadelphia Press, aud did not see line
of I until this morning. 1t is an infamous
forgery. There was no occasion or necessi.
ty for such a letter and no reason why it
should have been written.
F.E. Beltzhoover.
One Of two things must be true in regard
TO the letter published over Mr.. Beltzhoov-
er's name. Either come person has COM
mitted a most stracious lorgery,o or Mr. Beltz-
hoover: has grossly libeled the recipient of
his letter, and the oflense, in either case, is
50 hagrant that the innocent party will not
be content to rest with the mere re assertion
Of the truth.
The name Of the person to whom it is al
legged Congressman Beltzhoover addressed
the letter is not given, and that is a strongly
suspicious circumstance. So far there is an
anonymous charge against Mr., Beltzhoover,
while the whole weight of Mr.. Beltzhoover's
good reputation is thrown into the bold de-
nial over his own signature, and there must
be not only responsible receiver of the let
ter now produced, but hsInust be well sus-
tanned in his cause to convict Mr.. Beltz-
hoover Of deliberate falsehood.
IFis common for partisans in the heat Of
political strife TO handy words and indulge
in ordinations and recriminations ever
such campaign inveationsj but there is on.
" one proper way to settle 50 grave an Of
tense as is clearly developed in this case
aud that is by Furnishing the guilty. in tn,
criminal courts The man who is capa6l,
Of forging such letter to affect Mr. Beltz
hOoyer's reelection To Congress, or to sery,
general party purposes, must be worse thar
thief and the law would promptly reliev,
him-of party labors by transferring him Il
the penitentiaryi aud if man in Mr.. Beltz
hooyers position is capable Of thus libelinl
the holder Of his genuine letter, no matte
in wha. sacred confidence it may have beei
communicated he should be IN the crimina
dock az a lbeler instead Of making can
yasa for Congress. His aecuser must no'
soIae ~ tho irontRith hisoriginal ls.Iei AL