The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-03

ley delegates SO faSt that GroSvenOr
couldn' count 'eni. 1t 10 easy to realize
the truth Of the old adage concerning
the stage Of the game at which q certain
party enjoys himself with the best and
l0udest laugh. Having run his type
writer's and his adding machines till he
produced q majority Of 200 for Mckinley
over all other candidates, Grosvenor
spreads q smile on his benign face and
closes up the shop.
People who think Mark Hanna doesn't
know how to run q political campaign
should step behind the scenes a few
moments and see the wheels 60 round.
Mr. Hanna believes in having one man
to do one kind Of work. and no one else
Kinley campaign has had but one on
oial enouncer and tabulator. and Gr'os-
venor was the man. The official takers
were designated and duly appointed
just a. the Official tabulator was, and
General GrOsvenor was one OF these.
Mr.. Hanna. who Is q simple business
man, does no believe in too much talk
ing. He does not like to see takers
falling over one another. One OF the
happiest strokes Of his very successful
management was the idea Of having
one official mathematician and one or
two Official spokesmen, with everyone
else invited to keep quiet. As an Of
ficial talker General Grosvenor has been
as successful a. he was q tabulator.
He has known what to say and how to
say it. There were times when 1t
seemed to some Of McKinley's friends
that 0roevenOr was talking too much.
but now they take all that back. They
see how ably he has kept up his end
against the combined opposition and II
there were any occasion for 1t. II 1t were
III t4A to, mr.
Grosvenor to come out and metaphoric-
ally and rhetorically to wipe up the
earth with Platt and Clarkson, he
could do without raising his temperature
q thousandth of a degree. Now that he
has figured the other fellows to stand
still. perhaps It would be good idea
for him to start in and talk them into
silence, too.
LIKE SANTA CLAUS.
No better selection than that Of Gros-
venor for chief spokesman for the Nc.
Kinley campaign at the national capital
could have been made. General Gros-
venor Is a veteran politician and legis-
lator. He has few or no enemies in
Washington, and is looked upon by al
most everyone as a. man Of truth and
candor and fairness. His Santa Claus
beard and full. white hair. his clear,
steady eye, his general air of SINGER
ity ard well developed character. do
not belle the man. He has in ten years
Of congressional service won high repu-
tation as q debater. Though partisan
CT partisans. u radical OF radicals, he is
known as a man who gives and takes
as one who does no. believe all the
facts and all the argument pre on one
side. as one who loves truth and is
willing to concede something in order
to bring II cut. On the floor General
Grosvenor has all the year been free
talker. He Is more often interrupted,
perhaps. than any other man, because
1t ,s known of all men that he takes
interruptions calmly and good natured-
Iy, because he has a fund Of humor,
because 1t Is next to impossible to
anger or rattle him, and because a
colloquy with him Is sure to bring out
not only wit and sharp rally, but some
graceful compliment or concession to
his opponent. A man with a character
and reputation like these is eminently
fitted to be in charge Of the interests
at Washington OF q campaign which
had nothing to conceal. which sought
only that the truth should be known,
which had no war to make upon other
Renubl!cans and asked only fair play
and an open field.
General GIosvenor Is 63, though you
wouldn't think 1t to look at him. de-
spite his white hair and Santa Claus
beard. His eyes are so bright, his COM
pleXion so ruddy, his mental alertness
and love OF humOr SO boyish that those
who do not know the truth put him
down at about S. He Is a native of
Connecticut, and comes of family
which long distinguished itself in de-
fense OF the country. 1t is said all the
Grosvenors In America can be traced
back to one progenitor, so that II any
Grosvenor reads this article he may
with propriety address the great mathe-
matician as relation. The father Of
all the GrosvenOrs came from Chester,
England, when the New England COL
Onies were young and struggling. He
established a settlement at Windham.
Conn, but died before he could return
thither from Massachusetts,, and now
lies under an old fiat grave stone at
RoXbury, In Boston. The present Cen
eral GrOsvenOr's grandfather was grad
uated at Yale and went all through the
revolution, and was afterward dis
tinguished judge. With other officers
of the revolution he acquired land In
Ohio, near Marietta, and his son, Gener-
al Grosvenor's father, moved out there
in 1888. The mathematician was then
O mere child Of 4 or 6. His father took
him right back into the wilderness.
They lived in log house and spent
their energies clearing the land Of the
virgin forest. There was no other
house within two miles. There was no
schoolhouse within five miles. Gros-