Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-28
REPUBLICAN OUTRAGE.

Although Congress is very much alb
sorbed in considering war measures the
majority Of the Republicans in the House
find time TO let the world know that the
Virginia Democrats have no rights they
feel bound to respect. Yesterday Mr.
Young DemocraO. who in the last con-
gressional election was elected to the
House from the Norfolk District. was
unseated. and DR.. r. A. Wise Republi-
cam was seated in his stead.
In the debate preceding the vote there
was the usual Republican twaddle about
Virginia election outrages. Mr.. eros
yenor. of Ohio, the bosom friend OF
President Mckinley and Mark Hanna,
was especially violent i'm denouncing the
Virginia Democrats, and declared that
the Virginia election methods were will
Jul. malicious, and outrageous violations
OF law.
Could there be more unblushing eff
frontery than such language from a con-
gressman from the State of Mark Han
ma? 1t is notorious fact that the cleo
ton methods practiced by Hanna and
his agents in Virginia during the last
presidential and congressional cleo
ton were the most INSCRIPTIONS
and shameless ever known in the
state. Never before had there been
such a disgraceful attempt TO dcbauch
the electorate. What with Hanna's bar
rel and Hanna's ingenious method of in
timidating employees, there had never
been more wilful malicious, and outra-
geous violations Of law than character
lied the whole history of the Republican
campaign I'm Virginia.
II Is also a notorious fact, as Con-
erossman Jones. of Virginia, declared
that the junior Senator from Ohio, Mark
Hanna, is under cloud on the charge
that he obtained his seat in the Senate
by bribery and corruption. The story OF
Hanna's election to the United States
Senate IL one OF the most humiliating
records Of outrage upon decency that
sully the annals of American politics.
MIR. Grosvcnor. when pressed into a
corner by Mr.. De Almond, of Missouri.
retorted that he was not a school-boy.
II Mr.. Grosvenor is not up ON the Ohio
senatorial scandal he needs TO be a
school-boy. He needs 10 go TO school
and learn what every school-boy above
the grade Of the primary classes knows.
lie neeos, further, 10 join the infant
class IN a Sunday school and absorb
little lesson based on Luke, chapter vi,
verses Al. AZ
"And why boholdest thou the mote that
Is in thy brothers eye, but perceivest not
The beam that IS in thine own eyer"
Either how canst thou say TO thy
brother: Brother. let me pull out the
mote that Ii I'm thine eye. when thou
myself beholdest not the beam that is in
thine own eye? Thou hypocrite cast out
first the beam out of thine own eve and
then shalt thou see clearly To pull out
the mote that is in thy brothers eye"
Mr.. Grosyenor talked glibly of com
paratiye sinners, yet his remarks would
seem to indicate that in addressing him
self to the task Of finding a mote in the
eye OF Democratic Virginia. ne lost sight
entirely OF the beam In the eye OF Repub-
hean Ohio; or could II be that i'm his
innocence he mistook the latter for the
former?
4 bnt there are none 60 blind as those
VINO do not wish TO see. by that token
we suspect that Mr.. Grosvenor is not as
innocent as he would have 1t appear.
an analysis OF his speech shows that