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honest, decent, truthful members, but
I think they would be willing 10 bear
some hardship in a cause so economical
and meritorious. If The Record showed
what actually is said and done in con-
gress, it would be all right, but it does
not.
Now as to General Grosvenor's unde-
livered pack Of falsehoods, which he
surreptitiously smuggled into The Rec
ord IL days after congress adjourned.
In his speech before the Ohio state
convention he said of the Democratic
members Of congress. "But when the
money has been asked for the suffering
soldiers Of the Union nine out Of every
ten Of them have voted mo- on every
appropriation BILL"
I say deliberately that that statement
is as malicious a lie as has been uttered
by human tongue since the devil first
invented the art Of lying. There Is no
fact anywhere in the universe to sustain
ii, and Grosyenor knew it was absolute
ly false when he made it. The roll calls
of the house will prove it to be a lie
and will prove that the Democrats voted
for every appropriation bill necessary
or said to be necessary to carry on the
| war.
As additional evidence I hereby quote
an editorial from the Washington Post.
I wish to state that The Post is an in
dependent paper, ably edited. If it has
any bias, it is toward the Mckinley
gang in general and toward Grosvenor
in particular. I am not disappearing
the facts when I say that The Post is
decidedly fond of Grosvenor and exploits
him wherever it can find or make an
opportunity. It comes very near being
his personal organ. Time and time
again Bailey and others have larruped
| Grosvenor, f1ayed him, hung his tough
hide up on the fence to dry and other
wise despitefully used him, but after
every such encounter The Post would
| announce in great, black headlines, "a
| Ringing Speech by General Grosvenor,"
or ga Great Speech" or "a Notable
| Speech" I have not kept tab IN The
Post, but my guess is that it has applied
to Grosvenor every applausive or COM
4 ptAAA3CIsaAy "a II hAtOStkNO AL
the American language.
General G~rosvenor's had Break.
But, with all its affection fer Gros-
venor, The Post has some self respect,
and when his venom led him to tell
that whopper at Columbus v The
Post s stomach revolted, and it took him
to task as follows:
cit seems to us that General Gros-
venor might have generated enthusiasm
in the somewhat perfunctory Republic
an convention at Columbus, O., last
Tuesday without actually going out
side the record in order to denounce the
Democratic members Of the house. We
realize, of course, that there is a GER
tain amount 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 prophesy with con.
fdence. But surely General Gros-
venor, with his oratorical resources,
his fire and dash, his inexhaustible fund
Of inspiration and his engaging person
atty, could easily have thrown a little
spirit into the occasion and at the same
Il tllu0 IclEdluSu 1IOm huJoSb CkltkC1oAx
and condemnation of the house Demo-
Gratis.
"Clearly what General Grosvenor said
in this connection will not bear the test
of even the most casual examination.
Here is an extract from his speech to
which we wish to call attention:
"'And if you will notice the passage
of the $50, 600, 600 war emergency bill
in congress it marks the last echo of
patriotism of nine out of every ten Of
those gentlemen. They were willing to
gain some sort of popularity before the
people of the country by shouting about
the suffering reconcentrados Of Cuba
But when the money has been asked for
for the suffering soldiers of the Union
nine out of ten of them have voted mo-
on every appropriation bill. They were
willing to demand that the president
should send his army and his ships to
lombard Havana, but when they have
been asked to raise the money to carry
on the war all but six Of them in the
house and all but eight Of them in the
senate voted "no" upon every PROPOSE.
tion.'
A Preposterous Statement.
sit is difficult to form a rational con-
lecture as to General Grosvenor's pur-
pose in making this perfectly unwar-
ranted and preposterous statement. No
doubt its utterance moved the conven-
ton out of its spiritless detection for a
moment, but surely the gallant general
is too shrewd a man to have imagined
that any useful party end was to be
served by such transparent romance.
He must have known that explanations
would follow, that his arraignment Of
the Democrats in the house would not
live an hour in the respect and conf
dence 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 on the war, to
feed and equip the suffering soldiers,
or to do anything else for the honor and
glory of the Union. That there were
some conflicts of strategy in the prelim-
mary stages of various war measures
certain unnecessary and inopportune
displays of leadership and parliamen-
tary tactics-we do not deny. But Gen.
eral Grosvenor is thoroughly aware that
upon every decisive vote the Democrats
showed themselves to be quite as patri-
otto as the Republicans and more than
willing to subordinate party advantage
or party rivalry to the common cause.
eve can account for General Gros.
venor's remarkable utterance only upon
the theory that he was carried away by
q determination to enthuse the Colum-
bus convention at all hazards, and GER
tainly there were difficulties in the way
calculated to call forth his fullest pow
ers. It is uncomfortable that he could
have intended to misrepresent his fell
low congressman"
| MzuAG