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An immense Republican mass meet
ing was held in Chicago Saturday
night last at which Senator Logan
and Long John Wentworth spoke.
The following are Senator Logan's
financial views:
! favor the resumption of specie
payments 30 soon as it can be consist
emily done without detriment to the
Government or the business interests
Of the country and, in my judgment,
the best and safest road to specie pay
ments in this country is over the silver
bridge, and not through the golden
gate. Loud applause.] Silver as
well as gold, is the recognized money
OF our constitution, and also nearly
every other civilized nation of the
earth. Silver is one of our great
productions, and to keep it demone-
tized is, think, very short-sighted
policy. Germany and this country
to-day are suffering greatly from the
effects produced by its demonetiza-
tion. am in favor of reviving the
silver dollar and making it legal
tender, as it has ever been in this
country since 1892 up to 1878. hope
/ may here be pardoned for saying
that, of all the theories on finance
that does seem to me to have no sound
basis, is the new one started that re-
quircs the Government to hand you
out bond, bearing interest, for you
to lock up and keep, receiving inter-
est from the Government when you
have no money, the Government hav-
ing no use for it at the same time. In
other words, the Government, merely
for the pleasure of it, will take your
money, and lock it up and mark it, so
that none of Twced's thieves shall
steal it from you, and then when you
want 1t the Government pays you for
having kept it safely, although de-
irving NO benefit from it. Do you
suppose any business man would pay
you interest on your money and take
all the risks, when he had no use for
1t make himself savings bank for
yonr benefit, without any profit or
benefit to himself? think no good
business man would do that.
In this one paragraph is compressed
clear statement of the true none
tary policy, and conclusive rcfuta-
ton of the two erroneous extremes
of the day, the one which would con-
fine money to gold, and the one which
undcrlies the Cooper Cary movement.
The argument adduccd against the
pet folly of the inflationists is espec-
tally cogent.
General Logan showed from the
records of the House of Representa-
tives that the practical meaning of
civil service reform to the Democra-
cy is, to turn out Union soldiers and
put rebel soldiers in their places, adj
ing:
If they succeed, your departments
will again be in the hands of and
controlled by traitors as they were
before and at the commencement of
the rebellion. The Southern rebels
will control. They controlled the
Democracy before the war; they con-
troll it now, and elect Democratic
President and you will see the scenes
enacted last Winter in this direction
repeated on more stupendous scale.
The publication brought into Con-
gress by the ascendency of this re-
turning dissatisfied element is clearly
shown in the record they have made
in the last eight months. One of
their appointees as clerk had to be
dismissed for entering into contracts
to put bills through the House. The
ex-rebel officer doorkeeper was dis
missed for general idiocy and bad
conduct laughter], different clerks
dismissed for various offenses, and
generally, it was the rottenest, most
vindictive, and imbecilc House of
Representatives that ever met In
Washington. The approaches to it
were guarded by illiterate Confeder-
ates, and to enter you had to run the
rebel pickcts. When once inside a
loyal man would be reminded of the
left wing of Lees and Johnston's
rebel army in camp on spree.
We have only room for one more
extract. 1t relates to Tildcn:
He is the man who has advised and
set in motion many of the tricks by
which the farmers and others have
lost their little shares of stock sub
scribed to railroad companies. His
associations have been for many years
those of the Wall street gamblers and
the Tammany ring. He was the
bosom friend and associate of Mr..
William nj. Tweed; but when he
fnrpnA TvyaoI ho1 hn
being one of the friends that knew
all the Sins and outs" of the Tam
many ring, he "squealed.' i believe
that is what they call it now laugh
teri and turned on his old friend.
Since Mr.. Tilden became Governor.
Tweed has made his escape. On the
26th day of October, 1860, Mr.. Tilden
wrote an open letter to the Hon. Will
liam Tweed, which communication,
in all its parts, breathed the spirit of
secession, and seemed to be preparing
the way for his Southern friends to
60 into rebellion; that he has ever
changed his opinion on this subject
have not yet been informed.
Long John, among other things,
said:
He knew both the candidates for
President well, and he could assure
every one that there was nothing
either in the ability or integrity or in
the public or private life of General
Hayes, that did not deserve the most
enthusiastic support of every citizen
who was not opposed to him in poll
tics. As to Mr.. Tilden, he should at
~ 20, box L.,x x>x Sl,,,
the support of those agreeing with
him in politics If they were friends
of railroad competition and cheap
freights. He looked upon Mr.. Til
den as having furnished for the last
ten years all the brain power of that
organization which the agricultural
classes had SO ardently been opposed
to. 1t would be a sad commentary
upon the struggles of Western farmers
If their most violent enemy should be
elected Chief Magistrate of this ma
tiOn. This was the substance Of MIR.
WentwOrth's remarks, and, in short
time, he intends celebrating them,
either at Mccormick Hall or some
other public place.
THE Chicago Times is a guerrilla
sort of democratic sheet, which
prior to Tilden's nomination, gave
daily, reasons of an unanswerable
character, why Tilden should neither
be nominated or elected.
Directly after his nomination, how
ever, that paper gave evidence of