The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1906-02-21

ton IN q nlgn SGaIe OF anu
presented such a pathetic picture of
virtue outraged and dethroned that it
is reasonable to suppose that his as
sociates in the House were moved to
tears, especially those who had petit
toned his constituents to elect him
again.
On his return to Washington he
brought the sad tidings that virtue no
longer commands respect or stands
the ghost of a show in Ohio. His
friends no doubt felt the depressing
sag of a hopeless sorrow as they
heard his plaintiye swan-sOng and
knew it to be the dirge of his political
career. "Tlie will of the people has
been thrOttled.' he mOaned in holy
anger. nowhere in the entire cOun-
try has there been fur nished such an
example of bOssism and graft" he
continued. his eyes clouding with the
mists of emotion, a spectacle that pro-
duced a chorus of sympathetic means
! from those gathered around him.
"The district has fallen under the
domination of political highbinders,
and there will be a turning over of a
normally heavy republican vote to
the democrats" This horrible rev-
citation evoked another volley of
grOans in which. however, his demo-
cratic friends and sympathizers did
not participate. 1t occurred to them.
perhaps, that it was not exactly their
time to moan.
touching story that the Hon. Charles
Henry GrOsvenor has brought to
Washington from the eleventh Ohio
district. His defeat. in the republican
congressional convention is certain
and he admits it bravely, but with
sobs. So well have the political
highbinders'' gone about the work of
putting the rollers under the hOary
virtue represented in his person that,
using his own language, 1.-THE cards
are stacked against him SO securely
that he was not permitted even to ''cut
the pack" Therefore it is evident
that the jig is up with Charles Henry
and the grafters have got him down
with his head in the grit, which shows
that they must be an exceedingly
smooth lot, indeed. to beat such an
astute old chap at his own game. The
fact that the political passing of the
aged Charles Henry is billed in Ohio
to occur this week, is saddening many
hearts. The thought of losing him
makes even the New York Sun mourn
in the following fashion:
''If he is to be beaten in the conven-
ton he should throw himself upon
the people, If they don't know a good
thing when they see it he can 60 back
to the old rooftree and write memoirs.
He can make books; and he is a good
hand at selling them.
"We shall miss him if he is not in
the next Congress. He is a committee
of rules unto himself. He is full of
sap and humOr. He can revOlve and
swing and everse himself with the ut
most Of ease, this daring old boy on
the flying trapeze. His knowledge of
his business as q legislator is great.
His mental elasticity is wonderful.
He is a good actor. He understands
the psychology of the house. We
could have better spared a 6uller
man."
We must not overlook the fact that
in the going of Charles Henry GrOs-
n the professional negroes of the
country will lose one of their greatest
and most mouthy ''stars" in Congress.
During his twenty years of service in
the House no man on the republican
side has talked more f~iercely in adj
vOcacy OF the rights" of the negroes
and done less for them than he. For
years he has been q recognized Moses
of the Ohio type who has led the chill
dren of Ham to the polls and left them
there to sing the glory and the praise
of the Grand Old Party while ne dali
lied with the coin of the protected
manufacturers and other representa-
tives of mammon and unrighteousness.
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