The herald., 1896-07-05
THREE CHARACTERS
IN POLITICS

No. this is not Dom Paul Kruger. 1t
| Is Mr.. Grosvenor of Ohio Mr.. Grosvenor
is public man, as one may see by the
| lavish fashion in which he Is upholstered
about the second story. Yes, Mr. Gros-
venor is public man: probably the most
public man of which there is any his
| tory. Mr.. Grosvenor tries to keep him.
self within the reach of all. and, bar pc
RODS of unusual imitation, when think
ing of what he has done for Mckinley,
he succeeds in doing so. The other even
ing Mr.. Hanna jollied Mr. Grosvenor
rudely. Mr.. Hanna Is uncouth and has
none of the finer graces. He overheard
Mr.. Grosvenor reluctantly confessing
! that Mckinley would never have been
heard of if it hadn't been for him (Gros-
venor), when Hanna broke into the con-
versation
Your part, Grosvenor," said the brut-
al Mr.. Hanna, your part in the success
of Mckinley reminds me of the share
took as boy back in Columbiana coun-
ty in my fathers haying."
"And what, pray, was that share?"
said Mr.. Grosvenor. who expected those
compliments from Mr.. Hanna which his
work and service warranted. What
was the share you took in your fathers
haying, Mr.. Hanna, which reminds you
of my service in this Mckinley cam
paign?"
lOQS Out W Tic iiCio, oaii Ahi +.
Hanna ION the empty wagon and rode
back on the load. Beyond that and hav-
ing lots to say, my service did not go.
Then Mr.. Hanna laughed low and mock
ingly.
Mr.. Grosvenor is great friend to
newspaper men, and they wouldn't know
what to do without him. Every night.
fearful they may be short of items
wherewith to deck their columns, Mr..
Grosvenor visits all of his young pro-
teges of the press and gives them an
interview already written, with himself.
This is a great boon and endears him to
the gallery of correspondents at Wash
ington.
When Mckinley is in Mr.. Grosvenor
is to be the White House Royal GaZey-
DO, an office of moment and honor. The
Royal Gazeybo, beside clubbing about
generally, takes charge of the White
House Christmas tree as Kris Kringle,
a role for which Mr.. Grosvenor is fitted
by nature, and for which he will not have
to make up. Mr.. Grosvenor is said to
look like Senator Stewart, and Stewart
gets very much enraged when it is Spok-
Ell of.
Mr.. Grosvenor looks forward to be
some day governor of Ohio. He believes
that if Hanna and Foraker and Sher-
man and Foster. and Mckinley woulu
die the way to success would lie open
many argue that in addition to all these
funerals the state of Ohio would have
to be completely off its guard Mr.. Gros-
venor fought through the war and was
severely wounded by a mule, whose
scope, or radius rather. he, for moment
overlooked.
This is the Hon. Griff Prather, one of
the leading members of the catfish aris-
tocracy of the Missouri bottoms Mr.
Prather, besides being national COM
mitteeman, is a Democrat of much
energy and fury. Mr.. Prather is pecu-
liar in this. he does not have face; he
has visage. Mr.. Prather's visage is the
hue of an over-ripe violin. Many strang-
ers. as they see Mr.. Prather for the first
time, take him to be a retired pirate.
This does Mr.. Prather wrong. He is
not pirate; he is simply an earnest
politician, who is on to his job. Mr..
Prather has been studying up on the sill
Yer question. He will be heard from the
stumps this autumn, and says he's or
ganzed to make the whole question of
finance look like 10 cents worth of lard
in a paper bag. The other day when I
met Mr.. Prather he was dilating on a
banquet given in his honor the night be-
fore.