Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20
BEAVERS BOLD BOLT.
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dllSy I1eUTN IhOEuOChy VI
lev township: Albert Lyon, of Ohio town
ship; r. L. Ewing, of Racoon township. A
motion was made to make this vote unan-
imous, and in the viva voce vote that was
taken there were only few calls OF mo,
making the expression practically unan-
imous.
A SPEEDY ADJOURNMENT.
Chairman Marshall announced that he
would appoint the committee contemplated
in the resolutions early next week, and
make tha names public through the news
papers. The committee then Immediately
adjourned.
After the adjournment asked DR.. Nc
Connell: "What do the resolutions mean
where they provide for the appointment OF
a committee to confer with similar commit
tees from other counties in the district with
a view of nominating candidate for Con-
gress9''
They mean precisely what they say" re-
piled the Doctor. "We do not recognize
Major Mcdowell as the nominee, and we
will now go ahead and arrange for the nomi-
nation of another candidate"
"But if Mercer county refuses to with
draw Mcdowell, and if Lawrence county
refuses to withdraw its allegiance to Nc
Dowell, will you 90 ahead without them?'
eyes, sir; we will nominate another can
didate without them. We can't afford to
ratifY any nomination that was only made
with the assistance OF fraud. If we can't
indorse him now, we can't indorse him
later"
TWO CANDIDATES POSSIBLE.
"Then, you mean to say that ii Major Nc
Dowell does not withdraw, there will be
two Republican candidates for Congress be-
fore tie people next fall ?''
"That would be the result of the matter,
but of course Mcdowell will have to with
draw or he will not be recognized as the
regular candidate. Butler county's Repub-
lican Committee is indignant, too, and at
their meeting next week, will probably join
US in this movement
"Who will Beaver county favor as a
nominee ?'
81 do not know"
"WIn it be Congressman Townsend
again?''
81 would rather not answer any questions
along this line. 1t will come up later.
Just now we must probe this corruption to
the bottom. The committee was bound to
take the action it did to-day. The newspa-
pers have made it SO hot for us by saying
that we would drop the matter, and stirred
County Committee could not possibly ignore
the trouble without further scandal"
MR.. MILLER TALKS.
= asked ex-Congressman Miller, as he was
leaving for Mercer, how Major Mcdowell
and his Mercer county supporters would
feel about the acton of Beaver county. Mr..
Miller replied: II came to Beaver as Re
publican of the Twenty-fifth Congressional
district and for the purpose of noting the
action of the Republican County Committee
OF Beaver. 1 am also friend of Major
Mcdowell, the district nominee. Iexpressed
a desire to two of the members of the
committee here to make statement of the
position OF the Mercer county Republicans
on the Congressional question to the COM
mittee, but 1 presume nv request was moi
brought officially to the attention of the
Chairman or the committee. At all events,
l was not heard.
THE MCDOWELL POSITION.
"What 1 desired to say" continued Mr..
Miller, twas this: If the charges of bribery
were brought home to Major Mcdowell
directly or indirectly, or remotely, that be
would step down. L have positive assur-
ances that Major Mcdowell neither directly
nor indirectly, by himself or any other per-
son, paid any consideration, or promised
any consideration, for his nomina-
tion. 1 am further positively as
sured that he did not know
that anything, or any consideration either,
was to be paid, or was paid, to secure his
nomination, and that the first intimation he
had of any such was the publication made
in the papers since the nomination.
"Both Major Mcdowell and the Mercer
county Republicans desire the fullest inves.
tigation, and if such investigation results
in placing any fault or blame upon him, he
will step down. What we complain OF is
that Major Mcdowell should suffer fol
any other persons fault.
NOT GOOD POLITICS.
81 do not think the action of the Beaver
committee is good politics. They prejudged
the nominee without a hearing, and con-
demned him without an Investigation.
What L would have advised, and did ad-
wise with two or three Beaver friends. was
to simply appoint committee of investiga-
ton.
''If the other counties take similar action
and give Mercer county Republicans no
opportunity to be heard, nv personal belief
is that Mercer county will support Nc
Dowell. Our people are a unit for him.
Every Republican paper in the
county is supporting him heartily.
We believe Mcdowell is innocent
of any corrupt practices in this matter,
and, believing this, our people will support
him and give him the largest vote ever
given to Republican in Mercer county.
OF course we are anxious to harmonic all
differences, and shall
MAKE EVERY EFFORT
to do so, but ii we fail to accomplish this.
and no charges are successfully brought
home to Mcdowell, then we will stand by
him, if not another county in the district
does"
Mr.. Miller is much offended because he
was not admitted to the committee meeting.
He says he feels sure that if he had been
permitted to make the authorized statement
to the committee that if anything could be
proven to show even the remotest knowledge
on the part of Mcdowell that money was
used in the convention he (McDowell)
would withdraw. If he could have told the
committee this before the resolutions were
offered, he felt sure they would never have
adopted the first resolution, which repudiates
Mcdowell.
''The other resolutions are all right" con-
cluded Miller. 'It's proper to have an in
vestigation, and no person would aid one
quicker than Major Mcdowell
THE ACTION NECESSARY,
"Well, he ought to have said so sooner"