People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-10-13
ENTHUSIASM COMES HIGH.
But They Must Have 1t, Even at the Sacrifice
of Their Honor.
The Republican Organ at the National Capital
Calls the Gang Down.


be yet within the memory of all reading people, Republican
papers seem to be determined the face of Justice in the face
of honesty and in the face of common deceRcy convict the
Democrats and Popuss of being recrean to patriotic duty
support of the Cuban
The Washington Post is the one large and influential Re
publican newspaper of the national capital 1t called down
the first effort of this character and censured Congressman
GrosYenor for trying awaken Republican enthusiasm at the
expense of the truth GrOsvenor spoke at the Ohio State
venton making the sort of charges being
made by Chester Long and other Republican speakers
few days after the speech the Post printed the following edo
rial Where uses the word Democrat it refers of course
Populists as wel-al the opposition:
GENERAL GRosvENoRs BAD BREAK.
at seems to us that General Grosvenor might have
generated enthusiasm in the somewhat perfunctory Repub
can convention at Columbus Ohio last Tuesday without
actually going outside the record in order denounce the
Democratic members of the house We realize of course
that there is certain of tameness in every party
gathering whose work has been cut out for it in advance
and as to the nature of whose proceedings and declarations
the merest tyrO can pophey with confidence But sure
w. General GrOsvenor with his Oraorical resources his
fire and DASH his nexhausble fund of inspiration and his
engaging personality could easily have thrown little
spirit into the occasion and at the time reraned from
"Cearly what General Grosveno said in this connec-
ton will not bear the test of the casual exam
inatOn.
ut is difficult to form rational conjecture as to Gen
era GrosvenOrs purpose making this perfectly unwar
ranted and prepOserOus statement No doubt It's utter
ance moved the convention out of its sprtess detection
for moment but surely the gallant general is too shrewd
man to have imagined that any useful party end to be
served by such transparent He must have known
that explanations would follow that his gnmen of the
Democrats in the house would not live hour in the re-
spect and confidence Of any intelligent human being He
knew at the moment Just as he had known before and
knows now that the house Democrats have not voted
against appropriations to carry the war; to feed and
equip the suffering soldier to do anything else for the
honor and glory of the Union That there con-
Aicts of strategy the preliminary stages of various
meaures-certany unnecessary and nOpportune displays
of leadership and parliamentary tactcswe do not deny
But General GrosvenOr is thoroughly that upon
cry decisive vote the Democrats showed themselves to be
quite as patriotic as the Republicans and than will
ing to subordinate party advantage party rivalry to the
common cause
1--WE can account for General GrOsvenors remarkable
utteance only upon the theory that he carried away
by determination to enhuse the Columbus convention at
all hazards and certainly there difficulties in the way
calculated to call forth his fullest powers 1t is incOn
cevabe that he could have intended misrepresent his
fellowcongreSSmen"