Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1898 — GROSVENOR'S CONFESSES. [ARTICLE]

GROSVENOR'S CONFESSES.

Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio is supposed to be so ulos i to the president that when be speaks, .hough the voice is that of r.osveuor, the sentis ment is aucentea as thal of McKinley. In view of Grosvenor’s pres ■ ent relations with McKinley, a letter wri ten by the congressman on April 23 and just brought to light b the New York World possesses peculiar significance. This letter was addressed t > an Ohio grocer. In his communication Grosvenor said: - “The president has been rush* ed by political agitatim into war, when, in the judgment of very many men, diplomacy would have settled the whole matter.” There is no occasion for surprise in the statement made by he Ohio congressman in his letter, but it is rather surprising that he should have admitted the facts therein stated. That McKinley was opposed to war is a fact. That he was forced to assume a warlike attitude is well known, but that his next friend should place the president in such a contemptible lignt is astounding. Grosvenor,having shown the president to i e weak and yielding, proceeds to do a little whining on his own ac ount. He says: “It s a low estimate io say that the war will cost too thousa id million dollars, ar d what we are t get out jf it 1 am unable to state, except to appease the clamor of the people to whom I have refer* red.” if the congressman from Ohio gives a correct view o the administration’s attitude, is not the conduct of the war in Cuban waters fully explained? Dewey won a victory because he was not within ivach of the paralyzing touch of the a** ministration. But if McKinley dislikes war so deeply, mid if Grosvenor has such a relizing sense ot the expense of t e war. why does not the administration take active measure? to smash Spain and end the war.