The evening times., 1899-07-03
Grosrenor,s Latest.

Mr.. Charles H. Grosvenor, the Repub-
lican machines lightning calculator, has
enliyened these dog days of politics with
one of the most piquant interviews with
which he has ever favored an always
eager public.
To one Of The Times young men
General Grosvenor sustained the Admin
istration, eulogized Senator Hanna, said
Foraker would be reelected Senator if he
would only be good and not stir up row
in the Republican party in Ohio, declared
that John Sherman would have struck
bottom long ago in Ohio politics if it had
not been for the resourcesful leadership
OF Senator Hanna" sneered at the anti
eXpansionists, ridiculed Aguinaldo, apo,o-
gized for Colonel Dick and denominated
him an instrument" and predicted GER
tain victory for the Republican candidate
FOR Governor in Ohio this year. We do
not know whether to admire most the
physical or the mental feat of Grosyenor.
The lightning calculator's mind ran over
This wide range of subjects before the in
reviewers poised pencil scarcely had
time to reach the paper whereon to record
the oracular and peppery utterances that
were discharged from the capacious
Grosvenorian magazine with a single
charge Of breath.
We are grateful to Mr.. Grosvenor for the
whole interview, but particularly are we
grateful to him for the revelation con-
cerning Mr.. John Sherman. That part of
the interview has revealed Mark Hanna's
past, as well as Mr.. Sherman's. We did
not know until Mr.. Grosyenor told us that
John Sherman would have struck bottom
long ago in Ohio politics if it had not
been for the resourceful leadership of Sen
ator Hanna" So Mr.. Sherman, for all
these years of conspicuous public life, has
been prevented from striking bottom in
Ohio politics by Mark Hanna, has he?
We had thought all along that until some
thing over four years ago. when he began
to exploit Mr. Mckinley, then the Gov
ernor of Ohio, through the South for his
health, Hanna was a stern, plodding IRON
master at Cleveland, counting his profits
when the tariff wall was built higher and
pocketing his losses from previous stand
ards OF gain when some OF the top stones
were tumbled off the wall by Demo-
cratic assaults, with alternating feelings
of gratitude and regret that he lived in a
country where such things could happen.
We did not know that during this period
OF his life Hanna was keeping the Repub-
lican party Of Ohio out of the muck and
mire of defeat, with John Sherman cling
ing as a dead weight TO the top of the
heap.
But since Mr.. Grosvenor has made these
interesting revelations of history, we must
accept them as gospel truth. They show
what permanent debt, with aecu-
mulating interest, the Republican party,
not alone in Ohio. but also throughout the
nation, is under to Hanna No wonder, in
the light of these revelations, Judge Nash
is awaiting Hanna's return from Europe
before actively inaugurating his campaign
for Governor, when the Republicans of
Ohio. will move out in the open, meet the
enemy, and defeat him al the polls"
From this declaration of Mr.. Grosvenor
We are to infer that until the mighty
Hanna gets back the Republicans of Ohio
will hide out in the bushes A mighty
man is Hanna, and Grosvenor is his
prophet,