The times., 1898-04-27
PARTIsANs NOT PATRIOTS.
Shameful Exhibition in the House
of RcnrescmtntiNes

OF representatives.
In the House of Represents tives vester-
day spectacle was presented that must
mantle the check of American patriot
ism with shame and bow the head of
American craftsmanship in humiliation.
With the country involved in war. with
the political party in power appealing to
the people to sustain it with money.
means and blood, the Republican major
ity of the House made a brutal exhibi-
ton of its power.
With a majority already so large as to
be almost unweiidly and without any
temptation whatever on the score of ne
cessity, but animated simply, it would
seem. by a spirit of sectional hostility,
the Republicans forced Il contested cleo
tion case from Virginia to the front as
II with the purpose of emphasizing the
recent declaration of Gen. Grosvenor
that sit was a Republican war and would
be fought under the Republican banner"
1t was an open secret that the case
which divided the House yesterday in
volVed violent partisan politics, and the
decision was a foregone conclusion. The
most vindictive phase of partisanship
was injected into it by the chairman of
the committee that made the report,
himself a Virginian, former Democrat,
and ambitious of revenge against his
past political associates.
When il was proposed to take up this
case. Mr.. Bailey, in the name of the
Democrats, suggested that in view of the
danger confronting the country, partisan
politics be subordinated to public consid-
erations. His appeal was rejected by the
Republicans and the political fight was
forced
If ever the appeal "save me from my,
friends were justified in the mouth of
anybody. it should go up in a petition
from the President of the United States
to save him from that effusive. efferves-
cent. everlasting and indiscreet friend,
GroSVenor of Ohio.
Gen. Grosvenor has the unhappy faculty
of making more trouble for his friends
than he ever does for himself.
He is fond of talking and never misses
an opportunity to address the House.
If there is a deba-e in progress. Gen.
GrosvenOr is ever willing to divide time
with the man who can give it to him for
nothing.
In the debate of yesterday Gen. Gros-
venor was as usual, unfortunate He
set out to mildly lecture the people of
Virginia for not quietly accepting and
submitting to negro rule. He warmed
up with his subject and his partisan inn
pulses carried him over the border of
! friendly admonition.
He was followed by Representative
Jones of Virginia, who. figuratively
speaking, lifted the epidermis from the
Ohio friend of the President and left the
Athens statesman to shiver in his bones,
Gen. Grosvenor had contrasted Virginia
with Ohio, to the utter disadvantage and
disgrace of the former. He argued that
there must be election frauds in Vir-
ginia because so many contests came up
from that State. In his whole experience
he declared, there had never been but a
/ single contest from the great and good
State of Ohio.
In reply, Mr.. Jones proceeded to show
that the numerous contests from Virginia
only arose when the Republicans con-
trolled the House. and that the impelling
influence was the belief that a Republican
majority would seat defeated candida .es
He then took up the subject of the politi-
cal morality and virtue of Ohio and held
Mark Hanna up as an eXemplar of that
party.
Gen. Grosvenor had the hardihood to
stand before the House and deny that
a committee of the Ohio State Senate had
submitted a report impeathing the in
tegrity of Hanna's election. Subsequently
he sought to sustain himself by reading
| from the Republican organ of Cincinnati
The Republicans rallied to the partisan
appeal of Gen. Grosvenor and Mr.. Walker
of Virginia and voted that DR.. F. A. Wise
| the contestant, was entitled TO his seat
in place of Mr.. Young, the Democrat.