New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-09
ILLINOIS POLITICS.
THE DEMAGoGUEs OF BOTH SIDES.


field in the world for oracle out of business might
be found at this moment in the Prairie State. If
any one gifted with the power of telling how the
next elections going to result would set up shop
in Springfield he might buy handsome Sangamon
County farm, stocked with Alexanders best cattle,
with the proceeds of one fair days prophecying.
We have in this city an unusually large number of
patriots who are conscieDtOusly opposed to making
mistakes in horse races or elections, and all such
would pay literally for tip which should
show them who is to be next Governor and
who is to succeed Gen. Logan as Senator. Among
the Democrats find general feeling of confidence
that the Republicans wasting their time in
quaireling over the nominations The opposition is
fully determined to carry the State next time and
to select from its own ranks the successors to Gov.
Beveridgc and Senator Logan. But these gentlemen
are equally sangine that the people love them too
WELT let them willingly step ont of Office and they
hold that control of the party organization is all
that Is needed to give them victory Their desires
are few and simple. They only want to be let alone.
Beverdgc would fain stay Governor Logan finds
the echoes Of the Senate Chamber particularly
favorable to his style of oratory and the society of
the bearers of the carpetbag at that end of the
Capitol is good enough for him. The Governor and
he arc thought to have formed alliance offensive
and defensive, designed to keep things they are
But it is by certain that they will he
able to control the organization to that end. Lo-
gans first success attained by diligent manpu-
lation of the Grand Army Of the Republic" and
by direct personal solicitation of candidates for the
Legislature. During the campaign which preceded
his election he never went near county where the
majority was clearly Democratic. But when a Re-
publican reasonably sure of carry ing the day
the fine voice of the dark-browcd Egyptian was GER
tain to be heard on the stump and in the Posts of
the Grand Army, and it not likely that he would
leave the county without swearing eternal friend
ship with the embryo lawgiver, whose calling
and election he had done so much to insure.
When the Legislature came together nearly every
body was personally pledged to Logan, and Oglcsby
who blandly waiting to swallow them as they
arrived at the State House, compelled to put off
his aspirations till the next turn, when he repeated
Logans game with the same result. The times,
however, are not suspicious for repetition of this
clever strategy Within the last few years the
Grand Army has lost most of its prestige; the lodge
of the Granger has offered superior attractions TO
those who like to make fools of themselves in CON-
pany and besides, the monastic masculinity of the
Veteran organization could stand chance with
the opportunities for spooning afforded by the cpl
Gene Grange. Now Logan Is none too wise for the
Changers His notions of money, adopted, as he
says after Il fortnight Of investigation, after
ignorant enough to carry away a whole
Olympus of Pomonas and Ceres and other
hay-secd dyniics But he is not one OF them, after
all and they feel a certain shyncss about letting him
in and fighting for him. Among the more mtcl!i-
gent members of the party he has gained nothing
during his term Of service and has lost good deal.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of ardent yOnng Re-
publicans, who looked up to him ten years ago as
one of the redeemcrs of Israel have grown ten years
older since then and have learned the of their
own eyes and Judgment i'll regard to public men.
They have seen that men like Logan and Oglesby
are mostly wind capable of roaring continuously by
the hour without thought or information or logic,
intent only upon their own petty interests and as
destitute of any regard for the public welfare as
they are of comprehension of the means by which it
is to he attained Many Of the young fellows by
whose influence Logan and Oglesby got their places
have ontgrown both Of them, and will not work for
them again.
This makes ii uncertain whether with all their
activity and experience Beyeridge and Logan
effect their denomination by the Administration
PARTY. There is plenty Of other asprants, but none
so prominent as Shelby NJ. CullOm, who wants to be
Governor or Senator, if it be the will of Providence
and the caucus. Cullom is good sort of man for
politician. He made a good Speaker of the House of
Representatives i'll Illinois, served with credit as
member of Congress from this district was active
and energetic in getting bones" for his constituents,
and was always a clearly and decent fellow; not
what Arthur Gilman would call primy .htce states
man. but a man in honor and straightforward integ-
rty far in advance of the whole ruck of warriors and
Graurers | do not mean that he is too good for
this world. lie is politician, and therefore, know
| ing perfectly we'll what sordid aud unfit Presi-
dent Gen. Grant was, he rose in convention in Phia-
delpha thrust his tongue in his cheek, ana nOEli-
mated him for reelection. | hope he would not do
it again. for he is not unteachabe. lie Is the right
sort of man for this State just now, because he is
souud on all questions of finance and public honesty,
onaliy rarer among us at present than we could
wish. The faint of thicyish theories and practice
has struck deeper in this great commonwealth than
could have been imagined a few years ago. The
shameless population in Macoupln and Dewitt
Counties is regarded by many Illinosans who ought
10 know better as a venial oiense and have heard
il coolly predicted within the last 81 hours that
Pike County will rcpudiate her Sny-Carty bonds.
regret 10 say that there is very little choice be-
tween the two parties in this State, in regard to
these most important questions of finance and public
obligations In Iowa the line is clearly drawn Gov.
Kirk wood is running upon a sound specie platform,
| and the heterogeneous opposition is counting the
| defeat it deserves under the banner of rags. In
| Ohio, too, the opposition has driven away the
Liberals and all the intelligent floating vote by the
same reckless utteranccs of folly and fraud Here,
the leaders of both organizations are so completely
demoralized and cowed by the rascally rural dema-
oogues that il will be mere accident If the one
which comes first into convention does not commit
the same deplorable blunder into which the
Ohio Democrats have fallen. fOu VIII ma
plenty of individuals on both SIDES VINO
denonnce this madness. like Cullom among
lao