Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-15

OTHER REPUBLICAN LEADERS HAD ASSISTED
IN THE DEFEAT OF HIS PARTy-HE DOES NOT
THINK THE DEFEAT MUCH OF A DISASTER
A STAR reporter called on Representative
Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio at his rooms at
l2l0 q street, which he will occupy during the
coming session with his wife and daughters.
He was busily occupied in the preparation of
some papers for the departments, but re-
sponded promptly to questions concerning the
election in Ohio.
The STAR reporter asked him if he had seen
the statement in dispatches from Columbus to
the effect that he and other Ohio republican
Congressman had aided in the defeat of
Foraker.
He said he had seen the charges and had
been greatly surprised to read them.
The story as telegraphed from Columbus"
he said, was necessarily infamousiy false. in
gross and in detail. OF the Is republican Ohio
congressman each and every one of them, SO
Tar as know, without sparing themselves for
any rest or recreation, devoted their whole
time for weeks prior to the election to the sup
port OF Gov. Foraker and the whole ticket, and
no man knows it better than Foraker. Speak
Ing Tor myself, spent six full weeks in con-
slant. unremitting labor for the ticket. l spoke
In four counties of my district, going from
township to township in mud and rain by rail-
road and by carriage. Ipaid nearly all my own
expenses, and contributed largely to the cam
palgn fund, more largely than ever did be-
fore in any state election. l had con-
stantly in my employment a capable
stenosrapher, and, during the latter days
OF the campaign, two stenographers. l wrote
hfteen hundred personal letters to as many
personal friends and active republicans in my
district, pointing ont to them the danger which
thought menaced the republican ticket. and
anN moi IN lot 10,
run behind. furnished at my own expense a
large quantity of documents and distributed
them from my own Office as wisely and rs Judi
ciously as l could. l counseled with the local
committees and aided them in every possible
way to make asuccessful campaign. There is
not man living who will testify that l ever
suggested opposition to Foraker, or that ever
tailed to urge him to active and energetic
work. My appointments were made largely by
the state executive committee and responded
as fully as was able. Invent outside of my dis
trict at their invitation to Cleremont, Hamil-
ton. Nlnton, Clinton. Greene and other conn
ties. spoke six times from the same stand
and at the same time with Gov. Foraker. / left
nothing undOne that my knowledge of politics
suggested would be useful and beneficial to
the party. l do not think that l did
more or worked harder than did most of
my colleagues of the House-surely not more
continuous labor than did Judge Thompson.
As a result L point to the fact that my con-
gresslonal district gave Gov. Foraker about
400 majority against a little over 1900 two
years ago, or falling off of some 400 in the
district Gov Foraker was elected two years
ago by about 23 600; he is defeated this year by
about ii .OOO or change of over LOO to the
congressional district. But to come to Gov.
Foraker personally. He ran but As behind his
ticket In Athens county. and point with some
satisfaction to the fact that he ran one ahead
OF his ticket in the precinct in which 1 live
the north precinct OF Athens township.
IN MR.. GRosvENoRs DISTRICT.
Last year received 400 majority in Nor
gan county and this year Gov Foraker re-
ceived 465 upon a reduced vote. Last year
Gen. Harrison was defeated 2, 1903 in the county
of Monroe. was defeated 2,25O and this year
Gov. Foraker was beaten 2,2ii. Last year Gen.
Harrison received about 2S0 majority in WASH
ington county. This year Gov. Foraker runs
only a trihe behind his ticket-perhaps 100
in the city of Marietta, and he carries the
county by 80. Gov. Foraker is behind his
ticket In Meigs county less than 70. L have not
the exact figures. These counties are in
my district. This will show, and claim that
my district ran Foraker closer up to his ticket
than any other congressional district in the
state from which l have heard, and, as you
see, had the falling off been no greater in other
districts, or no greater on the average than
mine, Foraker would have been elected by l2.-
500 votes. / offer these figures to put an eter-
nal brand of Misrepresentation and Islander
upon the miserable story telegraphed from
Columbus.
WHAT LEADING REPUBLICANS DID.
81 want to say another thing" said Mr.. Gros-
venor. $50 far as my observation went all the
leading men of the republican party in the
southern part OF the state were actively and
energetically supporting Foraker. What their
private feelings were Is Il question cannot
answer, nor is 1t any ones business, but that
hot h..ar Inn ut
no man will deny. All the republican news
papers were devoting whole columns weekly to
his support. Every other consideration was
lost sight of. The legislative ticket was aban-
doned for ten days before the election upon
the premature assumption that it was safely
out of the woods. and appeal to the honest
men OF Ohio if am not truthful when say
that never In the history of Ohio politics did
the leading, active men OF the republi-
can party work so hard and so faith
fully for any other man, living or dead. Gov
Foraker ran behind in great majority of
the precincts of the state. l have not seen the ,
returns i'll full, but inasmuch aS the state ticket
Is elected by majorlties ranging from forty-odd
up to four or five thousand. it is safe to say
that he is not less than fourteen to fifteen thou
sand behind the average of the state ticket Its
coming was not heralded and its origin is not
known today. The wit of man could not have
prevented it. A combination of circumstances
brought it about. 1t Is idle for me to attempt
TO analyZe tAOse circumstances. The heaviest
losses were i'll Cincinnati, the home of the gov
ernor, in Columbus, his temporary residence
and i'll Dayton, Toledo and other cities In
Judge Thompson's district there were not losses
to the governor outside of Portsmouth, where
the election law was deemed unnecessary and op-
pressive by some, as am told by Judge Thomp-
sou himself, and in the county of Jackson and
especially in the township of Milton, the home
of the governors father-in-Iaw. Jackson
county sustained a loss of nearly 60O more
than the loss of my district as compared with
two years ago. Highland county. the birth
place of the governor, also went heavily back
electing substantially the whole democratic
ticket. These are facts, but doubtless most of
them can be easily accounted for, but when it
Is attempted to blacken the honor of other
men it is not to be expected that we will re-
main silent and not point out to the public
these facts have not the exact figures of the
wards in Cincinnati, but my opinion is that it
will be discovered when an analysis is possible
that the hills around the city upon which
dwell the staid, sober, business men, and who
are largely republican, contributed a very large
relative per cent to the enormous disaster in
Hamilton county.
THE SUNDAY CLOSING.
"One word about the Sunday closing matter
think the letter which Gov Foraker wrote to
Mosby and which he (Mosby) iLdiscreetly pub
lished cost the governor good many votes in
Hamilton county and few elsewhere. but il
was manly, brave utterance, and the republi-
can editors of the state published it in black
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