Litchfield enquirer., 1868-03-19
The sentiners Defence of MI. Logan,


 aeaVorlng to secure the election of its party nom lhee In the 16th Senatorial District by nisrepre. senting the real issue in dispute as we'll as the sI seMtnents or MT. Logan. The bridge matter is o nttie importance just now compared with the questlon of the election of United States Senator yet this Is whatt the Enquirer most studouslv con. Geals. We would like to know on what authority the huquirer informs its readers that Mir. Logan will to'o aS ahst the Interests of its constituents in case oI ms election! Does it's editor not believe et he Will represent the sentiments of majority oL the voters of his District? In view of the fact that two Republican Senators from this county gave their influence against the railroad interest lasC year. we fail to the force of his argument agalnst the election of Democrat this year. Sentinel.
 Such Is the SentineFs reply to our last weeks article. It accuses us of misrepre- senting-1st, MT. Logans position; 2.1, the Importance of the issue.
 The editor of the Sentinel is very carefn, not to deny that Mr. Logan is partisan of the Bridge-he dare not do that-but he insinuates doubts and calls for proof, The course of Mir. Logan has made, tbat easy: Last year, shortly after the Bridge question began to be agitated, that gentle man made his appearance in the lobpies of the Legislature as an advocate of that measure. He was evidently employed to influence Democratic members, particu lar. ly from thiszcounty, to vote for the Bridge. and If the Sentinel desires, we will give him the names of Democratic members Mir. Logan thus tried to influence. The feel ing among the Democrats of Mr. Logan s vicinity was strong against the Bridge; his course was denounced; he was repeatedly warned that he was seriously endangering his chances for q re-nomination. Never theless, he persisted in lis course and con- tinued his lobbying at Hartford For proof of these facts we can refer the .Senti- nel to we'll known Democrats of the 18th Senatorial District. We arc further in formed that Mr. Logan not long since, publicly declared that one Of his principle reasons for desiring to represent the 18th District in the next Legislature, was that he migM heLp put haouqA Me IlGeldletora Bridge!
 Regarding the importance of the Bridge question to the people of the 16th District we are willing to adopt the statement made by the Sentinel itself, in it's issue of June 14, 1S67:-
 'Litchfed County is particularly interested in getting line of railroad through it from east to west; and ought to oppose any measure tending to defeat that object I've be1iece Ntat tue construction of e hlddeocn J,idge aciN pyece,t is continuQtio, or ot teost inlefaite!y postpone d."
 This IS no small matter MT. Logan s ambition has placed his political friends in this dilemma: They must elect on the 1st Monday of April, between the chance of sending James Dixon to the U. S. Sen ate, on the one hand, and the chance of doubling the value of their real estate, on the other! If they are, indeed, willing to sacrafce one half the value of their farms for Mir. Logan and MT. Dixon, very vel, - aN aCe desire is Hat Mey shouM understood M. price Mey ere paying!
 The Sentinel, most unwisely, refers to tn, course of the present Senators of the 18th and 16th Districts. Has either of these gentlemen been renominated, or has eithe been selfish enough to peril the interest of his party by seeking a renomination Yet the Bridge question came before then in the line of their duty-whoreas Mr To gan went ont of his way to meet 1t; an, now he has forced himself, a Bridge Lob byist, on a constituency overwhalmingl opposed to that measure, and most deepl, interested in it's defeat
 The charge that we arc endeavoring t make political quest ton of this great mat ter, hardly deserves reply. This not question we have raised against Mr. Logan but it is 2 question he has raised against us and against the people of his District. Gu own views were fully expressed, last year and again, this spring, before any nomina tions had been made by either party
 Bss~ The Democratic Senatorial Conyer tion of this District passed what can wit propriety be termed strong" resolution
 They begin thus:
 WHEREAS, tho people of these United States al
 now for the first time called to witness an a tempt to impeach and remove the President (
 tho United States
 ResolUed, that the Democrats of the 18th Sen,
 torial District hereby present the Congress of tE
 United States for Impeachment before the hig
 court of the people and arraign them for trial o
 the 1st Monday of April next.
 We are little at a loss regarding the sig of the proposed court! If Mir. Horatio Be1 ton, who, we see, represented the entir town of Morris at the Convention, ha
 been on the Committee on Resolutions, W
 should have known that the entire popult tion of the United States was intended But as we look over the modest names 0
 the actual Committee, VIC doubt whethe they would like to cover quite so muc , ground. They probably propose to tr Congress, indirectly, in this District, an
 let the issue in Andrews vs. Baldwin settl
 the question. We are satisfied with tn F Court.
 I'M ! ,,L.