Show GROSVENOR MEN ARE TRAPPED Give Opposition Leader 2000 and He Uses Fact to Destroy Them DOWNFALL OF OLD GUARD NOMINEE IS A TARIFF REVISION 1ST AND WITH ROOSEVELT ROoSEVEL T Columbus 0 Feb managers ot of General Charles H Gr Grosvenor who was defeated for tor the nomination for tor congress In the Eleventh Ohio district wore were trapped according toa to a story Into offerIng and payIng a leader ot of the opposition 2000 for th the votes which he controlled This offer was used to destroy Grosvenor and to nominate in his place Albert Douglas The movement that was eJ expected to win for tor General Grosvenor was the capture of the leader of the Hocking county delegation John F White of Logan If he could be induced to de depart depart part from the combination with Ross and Athens counties s and cast his for tor fortunes tunes with Grosvenor th that t candidate could win Led Them I Into nto an Ambush That he led the lieutenants o 0 Gros Grosvenor venor enor to believe that he Intended to do doso doso so Is generally That this ap apparent apparent parent aCQuiescence in h hIs s shands hands nn an instrument to destroy Gros Grosvenor yenor venor Is also believed Leading them past the line Une of t safe retreat at the Hock Hocking log ing county men showed their true cot col colors ors and left the Grosvenor cohorts en enmeshed enmeshed meshed In the web theY had woven themselves Sunday before the convention In Parkersburg W V Va was held a con conference terence ference between Congressman Gros Grosvenor yenor venor and his leading supporters There they mapped out n alma Une of action On the following evening in the N Neil U House In Columbus a manifesto was Issued sIgned d by four members ot of the congressional committee forming a majority of that body In it was em embraced embraced braced a call caU for fot a meeting ot of that body the da day before the eon convention In the Chittenden hotel in the same city and the announcement ment that the purpose of the gathering was to rescind the call caU for the convention Were Going to Charge Fraud Accompanying It was the declaration that the Republican voters of the die dis district dietrict were dissatisfied with th arbi arbitrary arbitrary manner In which a number ot of the delegations had been selected and that It Wits gs proposed to submit the matter of the nomination to a general primary election In the several coun countie counties ties tie It was a daring move and man many thought that General Grosvenor had captured the works The corn met according to the call White of Hancock joining with the other four and Renick of Ross and Peters of Fair Fairfield Fairfield field both Douglas supporters remain remaining remaining ing away After a preliminary meeting in the morning the committe ad adjourned adjourned until the afternoon w when itS at last adjourned without t day At no notime notime time was a motion made to rescind the call for the convention or to submit the tho 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 Ce Columbus lumbus one a nonresident of that city and a former member of the legislature He was offered 1500 to throw his dot dol to Grosvenor and thus Insure hIs nomination Asking for time he withdrew from the conference which they had planned and advised with his frends It was resolved to take advantage tags tage of the opportunity which this offer presented pr Dickering for a higher price was as set on foot coupled with a dilatory request that no action acHon b be taken by the committee looking toward re rescinding rescinding the can 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 Hocking delegation should be That night White was not to be seen about the hotels where the delegations I made their headquarters and the story was as circulated that there was I doubt as to where ne stood In the con contest I test The Athens county men held a meeting and announced that they would present the thc name ot of E D Sayre of that county as theIr candidate Albert Doug Douglas Douglas las himself told Inquirers that he had no positive assurance from White This coupled with an a assumed air of gloom bloom on the part of the workers completely deceived the conspirators It Itac ac tull fully for tor th boasting utterances of the Grosvenor men that their candidate would bo be named on th the first ballot Th The morning ot of the convention the 2000 came from Columbus in the of the of th the general assembly and it was carried to Whites room That worthy refused to see other callers lying upon his bed dressed as though iU III Bills Were Crisp The rhe money was In or of had never been in active circulation before fore The congressional commIttee th then n m t and laid ald down the thelast thelast last weapon In Its arsenal by adopting the resolution to adjourn sine die With Within In a few tew minutes thereafter the corridors and ard rooms ot of the town hall hail became sur surcharged surcharged charged with that a great coup had been bean executed and that lat the Gros Gro Grosvenor Grovenor venor supporters hal been trapped When asked concerning the success ot of the care carefully tully fully hidden plan that was to result In the I ot of Grosvenor his followers some of them at that the dt deal l was sun stilt good John Lindsay of Meiss Meigs stalking down the corridor toward the tho convention stairs said It s stems em to tomo tome mo me WI as If some sOIne one had purchased a gold goldbrick goldbrick brick without drilling into It and using acid But five minutes before the gavel sounded for or the tho convention to assemble White of Hocking appeared at the town townhall hall ball Wit With hIm vas Albert Douglas and they rode together In the same sarno carriage to the door walking in together er through the crowd The sick man as well and the conspirators then know knew that the 2000 In bills had beer the means not of their plans but bilt of d defeating them The trap had been and Its jaws wore were tight and strong There was to use ot of struggling That would only make matters w With anger In their hearts and a forced smile upon On their lips the they WEnt through w what at was to them a dumb show of R a cont contest st They were Whipped when the tho congressional commit teO left its meeting room but they did not know It then More than that the they lost the only method whereby they could call a new convention They were out outgeneraled outgeneraled at every point and put to corn com complot plots plot rout Will Return the Money It Is said by close friends of Mr White that the money Is to be returned One Indignant delegate Insisted that It should b be thrown Into the Hocking river as a thing The marvelous phase of this remarkable co Is that to co many people could have known It and made madeno no outcry The night it was openly bruited that the tho H Hocking county 4 delegation had been purchased It is certain tain tam that the horde of postmasters who were in attendance the tho convention In General Interest knew that something had been boen done ot of the kind In the morning It was openly discussed by the delegates On the other hand the Douglas people had been posted and were absolutely of oC their position Probably abI ably because political matt matters s are aro on a alow alow low plane In the district the transaction was pleasantly referred to as a gold goldbrick goldbrick brick play and a smart political trick John F White to whom the or of orthe the conspiracy to succeed Is due has for many years been a promInent figure In count county district and state tato Politics He lives In Logan the seat of Hocking coun county county ty Men say that he is the best and shrewdest politician In the val valle le Icy In b bygone gone times he was a suppOrter of General Grosvenor but for the past few years has been openly fighting him Makes Stalwarts Gasp GaspIn In his speech a the he nomination Dauglas made the stalwarts or of his party part sit up and take notice and almost gasp for breath He declared that so far as the tarIff bill is concerned he Is not a stand standpatter patter but a revisionist It may ba he be said while a shiver ran down the backs of the old guard that some peculiar Interest of our own dIstrIct must be asked to concede something for forthe forthe the good of the whole country Douglas declared red in favor layor ot of railroad policY and took a swipe at G Gen General n eral Grosvenor He said saidI I that I was somewhat aston astonished astonished tile the other day by declaration the ot of the representative front district that there Is no popular demand for tor a a bill bUl re relating relating lating to railroad rates such as recently passed th the house and which I most sin sincerely sincerely trust the leaders from our state will support In some form fonn in the senate This part of his speeCh was received with trem tremendous applause and cries of Youre right and We want a rail railroad railroad road bill causing him to suspend until the confusion had ceased |