Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — GROSVENOR IS DEFEATED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GROSVENOR IS DEFEATED.

Veteran ConKre«»m?n and Party Leader Falla of Renomtnatlon, The political world received a shock when the Republican contention of the Eleventh Congressional District of Ohio refused to renominate General Charles H. Grosvenor, known by his long tenure of office as the “Sage of Athens - ' and “Old Statistics.” General Grosvenor, who is now serving his tenth term in Congress, is one of the floor leaders of the House of Representatives, and while politicians all over the county’

knew the veteran had a contest on Iris hands it was believed he would be returned. As the district is normally Republican by 10,000 the nomination is considered equivalent to election. General Grosvenor belongs to the old school of politicians. He was born in 1833-*and came out of the Rebellion a brevet brigadier general of volunteers. He practiced law, but polities has been his profession for twenty years, anti he soon made a wide reputation as one of the most forceful speakers in the list of Republican, spellbinders. During the two McKinley campaigns General Grosvenor made a hit by predicting Republican success, naming the States the party would carry and guessing the respective pluralities. These feats' won him the nickname “Old Statistics.” In Congress he is Payed the “Sage of Athens,” as his home is at Athens, O. General Grosvenor watrufectecDto Congress first in 1884 and has •erved continuously since then, with the exception of the Fifty-second Congress, being defeated in 1892 when the Democrats swept the country and elected Grover Cleveland. His long series made him a power at Washington and with Speaker Cannon, Payne of New York, Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Hepburn of lowa he is considered one of the wheel horses of the Republican organization. GenefalGrosvenor was a delegate at large to the national conventions of 1896 and 1900. He is chairman of the Comfhittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Mr. Douglas, who beat General Grosvenor, is a lawyer, 53 years old, and a good orator. He has dominated the pub itics of Ross County for years. Mr. Douglas was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio in 1899, but was defeated. In 1896 he was a presidential elector on the McKinley ticket. Mr. Douglas is a graduate of Kenyon College, class of 1872, and of the Harvard Law School.

GENERAL GROSVENOR.