The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-26

Give Opposition Leader $4,000 and
He Uses Fact to Destroy
Them.
DOWNFALL OF OLD GUARD
NOMINEE is A TARIFF REVISION
IsT AND WITH ROOSEVELT.

IsT AND WITH ROOSEVELT.
Columbus, O., Feb. 25.-The managers
| Of General Charles II. Grosvenor, who
was defeated for the nomination for
| congress in the Eleventh Ohio district
were trapped. according to a well-au-
| thenticated story, into offering and
paying a leader of the opposition $4,000
for the votes which he controlled. This
| offer was used to destroy Grosvenor,
and to nominate in his place Albert
Douglas.
! The movement that was expected to
win for General Grosvenor was. the
/ capture of the leader Of the Hooking
/ county delegation, John F. White OF
Logan. II he could be induced to de-
part from the combination with Ross
and Athens counties and cast his for
tunes with Grosvenor, that candidate
could win.
Led Them into an Ambush.
That he led the lieutenants Of Gros-
venor to believe that he intended TO do
! so is generally believed. That this ap-
/ parent acquiescence placed in his
/ hands an instrument to destroy Gros-
venor is also believed. Leading them
/ past the line of safe retreat the HOOK
/ ing county men showed their true col
ors and left the Grosvenor cohorts en-
meshed in the web they had woven
| themselves.
Sunday before the convention in
/ Parkersburg w. Va, was held con-
! ference between Congressman Gros-
venor and his leading supporters
/ There they mapped out line of action.
! On the following evening, in the Neil
/ CATr I1rfG q =
| issued signed by four members Of the
| congressional committee, forming
majority of that body. In II was en-
! braced a call for a meeting of that body
1 the day before the convention in the
| Chittenden hotel. in the same city, and
the announcement that the purpose OF
/ the gathering was to rescind the call
/ for the convention.
Were Going to Charge Fraud.
| Accompanying it was the declaration
/ that the Republican voters of the dis
/ trict were dissatisfied with the arbi-
/ trary manner in which a number OF the
| delegations had been selected, and
/ that it was proposed TO submit the
matter of the nomination to a general
primary election I'm the several coun-
/ ties. It was a daring move, and many
! thought that General Grosvenor had
captured the enemy's works. The COM
mfttee met according to the call. White
| of Hancock Joining with the other four,
and Renick Of Ross and Peters Of Fair
/ field, both Douglas supporters, remain
/ ing away. After a preliminary meeting
1 I'm the morning the committee ad-
] journed until the afternoon. when it at
4 last adjourned without day. At no
/ time was motion made to rescind the
call for the convention or to submit
the dispute to a vote of the people.
Offer Money to White.
What did happen was this: White.
who held the key to the situation, was
| approached by two politicians OF Co
! IIImbus. one a nonresident of that city
and a former member of the legislature
He was offered 81 500 to throw his del
/ egation to GrosvenOr and thus insure
| his nomination. Asking for time he
| withdrew from the conference, which
/ they had planned and advised with his
! friends It was resolved to take advan-
/ tage of the opportunity which this offer
presented. Dickering for higher
| price was set on foot coupled with a
dfTatorv request that no action be taken
by the committee looking toward re-
/ scinding the call for the convention.
! This plan succeeded admirably, as
the several adjournments of that
body showed it was at last agreed
that the price Of the Hooking
| That night White was not to be seen
about the hotels where the delegations
made their headquarters, and the story
/ was assiduously circulated that there was
/ doubt as to where ne stood in the con-
test The Athens county men held a
| meeting and announced that they would
present the name or n u Sayre OF that
| county, as their candidate Albert Doug
las himself told inQuirerS that he had no
positive assurance from White. This,
coupled with an assumed air of gloom on
tS1- Of fhn q -CrlZo r<
I completely deceived the conspirators- 1t
| accounts fully for thu boasting utterances
of the Grosvenor men that their candidate
would be named the first ballot The
morning Of the convention the 5000 came
from Columbus in the possession Of the
ex-member of the general assembly, and
il was carried TO Whites room That
worthy refused to see other callers, lying
upon his bed fully dressed as though i'll.
Bills Were Crisp.
The money was in 500 bills-twenty of
them-whch had never been in active
circulation before. The congressional
| committee then met and laid down the
last weapon IN its arsenal by adopting
the resolution to adjourn sine die. Witb9
| in a few minutes thereafter the corridors
and rooms of the town hall became sur
i charged with rumors that great coup
had been executed and that the eros
| venor supporters hal been trapped. When
/ asked concerning the success of the care
fully hidden plan that was to result in the
some of them at least-insisted that the
deal was still good. John Lindsay, of
Meigs stalking down the corridor toward
the convention stairs said: 1T seems to
me as If some one had purchased a gold
brick without drilling into it and using
acid
But five minutes before the gavei
sounded for the convention to assemble.
/ White, of Hooking, appeared at the town
hall. With him was Albert Douglas, and
they rode together in the same carriag e
l 70 = Hi n fnp Tob
the crowd. The sick man@was well and
the conspirators then knew that the g, 00C
in 500 bills had beer the means not of
assisting their plans but of defeating
them The trap had been sprung, and its
laws were tight and strong. There was
10 use Of struggling. That would only
make matters worse. With anger in their
hearts and a forced smile upon their lips
| thar- rrent through wiz was to them q