The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-03-28

Jacksonian doctrine that the OIL
fees belong to the party in power.
For some years the House enact
ed annually the comedy of strik-
ing out in the Committee of the
Whole, where no record was taken
of the votes of members, the APP
preparation for the Civil Service
Commission, and then voting for
the appropriation when the bill
was reported to the House and the
ayes and nays put each member on
record. General Grosvenor has
always had the courage of consist
ency and has never failed to prhc.
tice his own preaching.
Probably no member of the
House has succeeded in placing
more constituents in public Office.
He is Jealous place seeker, and
large estimates, probably exag-
gerated, have been made of the
amount of money drawn in annual
salaries by officials whose appoint
ments he had secured. In the APP
portionment of Ohio patronage in
the house he has always obtained
most liberal share, compared
with other Ohio members. 1t
would not be quite fair to say,
however, that the distribution has
been made on the basis explained
by the iack-tar who stated that
prize money in the naval service is
awarded by dropping it through a
ladder, and what sticks to the
rounds is given to the enlisted
men, while the officers receive
what is not SO caught.
1t is not likely that General
Grosvenor could ever be elected
Speaker of the house, possessing
the characteristic he does, how
ever long his service, even were he
many years younger than he is.
He is admired and respected by
his colleagues, but feared rather
than loved by many. While
warm hearted and generous, and
ready to do anything for the sake
of friend, his exterior often gives
the impression to those unacquaint-
ed with him that he is somewhat
cold and unsympathetic, with an
austere and at times arbitrary
tendency by nature. No member,
perhaps, is held in higher estima-
tion, and yet without dependence
upon those magnetic qualities
which draw and hold men 80 that
they follow under any and all cir
cumstances.
His relations with his own Con
gressional district haye often gem
Grated keen antagonisms. His op-
ponents have always been aggres
sive; but where he has not won by
placating opposition, he has usu-
ally done 80 by subjugatlng it for
chilly. He is past master of the
art of political manipulation, and
his shrewdness and acumen have
many a time stood him in good
stead. Always with loyal and de-
voted adherents, bitter antagonists
have not been wanting, and, as is
usually the case with those prom
inent in public life, he has often
had more trouble at home than at
any other place in his district. In
his nominating conventions he has
sometimes had diYided home
county back of him, and sometimes
he has won without the support of
his own county. AS the time for
nomination approached, opposi-
tion would arise, sometimes in sew
eral counties, and time after time
combinations have been attempted
against him, only to be destroyed
by the winning over to Grosvenol
the support of one or more of the
opposition leaders, Largely as q
result of these processes often re-
peated, 80 many men in his dis
trict have received appointment Il
lucrative offices. If his final de
feat for denomination was by
methods somewhat out of the or
dinary, it is also said that extra
ordinary methods are not unusua
in that district.
There was hiatus in Genera
Grosvenor's congressional caree
after he had served three terms
and the explanation of this laps
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