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Show " WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER. V ., Special 'Correspondence of Free Press. ' Washington, D. C, Feb. 28. The great Grosvenor, of Ohio, X, the mouthpiece of the McKinley administrations, the member of the committee on rules in Congress, through whose hands go all the , legislation passed by that body, and who has been the Republican oracle, ora-cle, the statistician and political prophet and seer, and as Champ " . Clark calls him the "stud bug of ; ... arithmetic," has come to grief. The ;; ; Republican idol is shattered, and v " x its earth star fled. The immacu-" immacu-" , late and white-souled Grosvenor has fallen from his altitudinous perch, and he popped like a painted bladder. " He has been caught pulling trust , " magnates' legs in the most approved and latest fashion. Grosvenor.com-piled Grosvenor.com-piled a book called "The book of the Presidents" and he entered into in-to an arrangement with a book agent to sell them, and in doing so Grosvenor wrote letters to all the big trust folk importuning them to buy his book and telling them to make out checks payable only to his order. Of course he got retnrns. He has been for years serving the trusts and why should not they reciprocate? re-ciprocate? A New York newspaper newspa-per exposed the whole game and published a facsimile letter from Grosvenor to one of the big trust magnates of the country, also facsimile fac-simile checks, one from J.Pierpont Morgan for $1,000, and one from Secretary of the Treasury Shaw for 100. The book really was worth about a dollar and a half, but these checks were in the nature of a present to the statesman from Ohio - in recognition of his invaluable services to the party of trusts and combinations, one from the biggest duck n the trust puddle and one from the man who loans money to the trusts' banks without interest, thus defying the law of the land. There was some talk in the press of the East before the last stroke, and Grosvenor rushed into print and denied the whole thing and said he had never written a letter to any one asking them to subscribe to his book, and that he had placed the whole thing in the hands of an agent who was to pay him a royalty roy-alty on his sales. It was then that the newspaper came out with the facsimile letter and checks, and it squelched Grosvenor and silenced his batteries. He has not opened his head since. He has nothing to say. He has been caught with the goods on him. Chas. A. Edwards. |