Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-28
A POLITICAL MYSTERY.
SPECULATION ON THE REASON FOR
BRIBERY IN BEAVER COUNTY.

Washington as summer Resort-A New
tentntious Congressman-A Poet who
Couldn't be Monk-CapitnI Gossip.
iFRoM sTAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, July Give have forever
done away with the old slander in regard
to the distinctive and excessive heat of WASH
ington. 1t must be relegated to the hades
where lie the awful stories of Washington ma
iaria. buried so deep that they are only resur-
rected as fossils of prehistoric period, as
much matter of legend as the tale of Guy of
warwick and the Dun Cow We had our little
'spelr' OF hot weather, as all parts of the
country had, though we were not even then as
not as others north. east and west of us; but
Tor the last ten days. just when it should have
Deen roasting, we have been having it too cool
1or comfort, and Congress seems to have de-
termined to prolong its stay month or SO
more than it had intended, because there Is no
other summer resort so desirable as this. And
what is even better than the low temperature
is the almost perfect purity Of the air, sweet In
itself, laden, moreover, with the perfume OF
the flowers that are every where, and the
foliage of the half million of trees that make
the city exceptional from all other cities OF the
world in this If in nothing else. There; 1eel
satisfied now; l have given Washington another
puff.
The Beaver County Doodle Cases.
BECAUSE Representative Townsend has made
q host of friends here by his unobtrusive
manners and his courteous bearing. and be-
cause he is neighbor and friend of Senator
Quay, who is SO great figure in the politics of
the country the scandal that has sprung out OF
the Estate of Beaver" is something of cause
celebre, and attracts almost as deep interest
here as in Pittsburg. 1 dislike exceedingly to
disagree in anything from my old friend ALEX"
Mcdowell, but it seems to me as plain as any
thing In this world that he has made great
mistake. Even a man tainted with dishonesty
admlres honesty in another, and If the inno-
cent Major Mcdowell had, upon the first blush
of the confession of the Beaver boodlers, with
drawn from the field with the declaration that
he could not accept nomination, which came
to him by bribery, though his skirts were clear
OF 1t, nothing would have prevented bis nomi-
nation almost by acclamatioD. By accepting
the results OF grave crime, by declaring nlm-
self not only willing but determined to be the
beneficiary of thar crime he came as nearly as
an innocent man could to placing himself in
the same category with the criminals.
10 my mindit does not make the least diter-
ence whether the Major is guilty of a hand In
the bribery or not. His nomination was the
result Of the purchase of delegates, and cannot
honestly be accepted. The very fact that he
is upheld in such course argues lack OF a
nice sense of honesty in his supporters that is
little less than astounding. No truly honest
man could support nomination gained BY
such means, no matter how innocent the nomi-
nee of any participation in the corrupt Pur-
chase. do not claim to be more honest Than
most men, but If such nominee were my own
father, my brother, or. dearer than either, my
best friend, my alter Ego, would take the
stump" against him and do my utmost for his
defeat regardless of his membershipin my own
party.