Show GROSVENOR STANDS PAT HAS NOTHING TO TAKE BACK REGARDING QUIGG Ohio Congressman Has thc Original Draft of Republican Platform to Back His Statements c Washington June 25Tile Post to moi row will print an authoritative statement from Representative Oros vennr of Ohio In reply to the statement by Mr Quigg the Nw York member of the resolutions committee of thc national na-tional Republican convention denying certain allegations of Mr Grosvenor of mutilation of the Republican pint form by Mr Qulgg Tht Governors stule mrnl Is ns follows 1 have rend Mr Qulggs slalomont J r hold in my hand the original document docu-ment ishlelt vas handed over to him with certain Intfi llnnatlons of no vay I material Importance but whl h rf qulrcd lime redrafliner of one entire pngi and a part of another Othi > ivlse It was the platform agreed upon by thn commit toe and the subcommittee and no man connected wIth the transaction will put his name to any statement contradicting mine It Is In my ponses Klon having beqn handed lo mo by Senator Sen-ator Foraker after lie recovered It from Mr Quigg the day following tho action ac-tion of I he cotuentlon on the platform It contains interlineations in the band u rll Ing ot Snntor Foraker and oth iH K contains the extract from the message of the President of the United States proclaiming the policy of thr Republican pai ty In the matter of the government In thc Island It contains a plnnk distinctly proclaiming the policy pol-icy of the Republican party in the matter mat-ter of legislation In reference to our I Island Isl-and posse3lons In the i ords I gave In my letter to the New York Journal It I t contains a dIrect approval of tho policy of legislation In favor of tho merchant marine of thc country all of which Is omitted from Mr Qulggs platform plat-form I had tills document whon I made thc statement to the New York Journal Jour-nal and I had the poslthc evidence of the truth of every statement I mad and examine the documentary ci Idoncc lo which I have referred which will ciinvlnco any man of Ihe truth of my statement I have the statement ot Senator Fairbanks which doen not say anything any-thing It is not a question of ii hether lie approved of the change of the platform plat-form or not it is a question of ti hether or not tIme revision which Mi Quigg calls Ito icrltincr of the platform bv him changed tile whole character of the document I refer to one single statement state-ment of Mr Quigg and that was that the platform ias considered lo be too long The platform as handed over to Mr Quigg contained 2000 words the platform adopted as written by l Mr Quigg contains 2213 words t shall have nothing more to say about this matter The document Is In my possession at this date and will be ietalnd by me until I can return It according to my promise to Senator Foraker The Republican party will not be seriously affected by l the matter for the reason that vc have tin two great speeches dellvcrd in th convention conven-tion and will have thc letter of the President accepting the nomination Mr Qulggs statement In regard to myself are not the slightest Importance Import-ance to me and the controersy ends right here and now |