, 1877-01-28
THE SENATORSHR,

The ST. Louis Globe democrat, a radical he.
publican paper, and one which takes deep inter.
est in Illinois politics. is not pleased with the
part played by Gen. Logan in the Senatorial
struggle The Globe- Democrat supported him as
long as there Ta5 shadow OF hope Of his cleo
ton, and then demanded Of him and his friends
full and complete support Of anr sound Re
publican who might be nominated by the eau
Gus. Under the heading s'Sold Out" it says:
When Senator Logan announced himself as
candidate for election to the United States Sen
ate from the State Of Illinois, and when his support
er., in advance Of the caucus, began to assume
bullying dcmeanor towards those who doubted tho
possibility of Logans reelection, We warned them
that this WAS very bad year for that kind Of onsl
ness. OF course, after the Republican caucus had
candidate We held it to be the duty Of every good
Republican 10 Gustain him by every honest means,
and to stand By him until it should become evident
that his election was hopeless. This Was done;
the Republican Legislators, the Republican press,
and the Republican sentiment of 1llinois have lent
Their whole strength to Dir Logan. What Is the
hands Of Mir. Logan and his friends!
Simply eell-out, BETRAYAL to the enemy, .
has failed to rule. II 3lr Davis has any sense OF
gratitude in his ponderous body he will ascEibe his
election, not to mis- own merits. but the generous
and devoted manner in which the Logan adhcrrnts
sacrificed their party on the altar Of their c@ndl-
datc. Mr.. Davis had all the Democratic strength,
but all the Democratic strength a1cne was insuli-
cient to elect him; before him. another candidate
had climbed TO The slippery summit Of the Demo-
cratic support only to slide down inglorious1y, be,
him the needed help. Dayis came in and gained
their votes only after they had received very d.
1est tst Il aneT propossd 81 10 vote 1d dor
their strength and merely throw away their votes.
Mark the contrast between the generous and un-
ported Logan, and the dinsy treachery which
woye its web around the candidate who came for
ward as Logans successor. Logan entered the
contest with fair notice that the Independents
would not, under any circumstances, OF OH amy
terms, support Tim. BE gained the caucns Sote-
40 one viii quaErel with that Senator who
history to lobby for his election deserves at
least the acknowledgment OF complimentary
vote The caucus nomination generally carries |
with it claim to full days support Logan WAS
supported with the full strength of the party
through four days balotng, and through twenty.
eight ballots. Nas not that enough to prove that
he could not be e1ecteds |
He was forced off the track and Lawrence nom |
tnated in his place. Instead ei receiving the full
Republican strength. as Logun had done. and be- |
ing upheld BIZ it through t1cnty y-ninc ballots, IS
Logan had been upheld, received only SIS yotes On |
the first ballot. 81 on the second, 50 on the third,
1can strategy. How inscrutabc it is that after !
sEch Tactics the session should nave adjonrned at;
ter one :lorc ballot, and on reasSembtlng should |
have put Davis through on tire l1st BALLOT
The proof of deliberate dishonesty on the part
Of the friends OF Logan, ard Of their determlna-
ton % bet:ar the party rather than allow any other
Republican to be elected, is clear enough; !
but it does not need sceh proof to |
nuke them responsible for defeat which |
may cost Gear. They had the victory in their |
han1s and 1t does not 1nasisr whether they sacri-
feed il through deliberate malice CT through sheer
stupidity, TIC result and the blame must fall I'll
them equally. 4: the second ballot cast on Tues
Gut. the thrryre1 ballot the whole series, there
were so ballots cast for Logan and II for Wash
for Washbasnc "a clear majority OF MI votes casts
and in the tpo succeeding ballots the total vote for
Logsn and Washburnt was 10l, without counting |
TIE scattering Republican rote or enough to elect
Wednesday :4e yote stood, at tho thirty ninth ball.
lot 10 for Haincs and i. for Lawrence, or enough
to have elected Republican and ten votes to spare
1tis not worth while 10 waste words in charac- |
teriztnS such proeee-ings; The facts speak for
powerless to help the party may be potent to hurt
it. and that the thirdparty enemy without is less
to be feared than the rule -or-Tui1 enemy Within
Nj. Logan has served the Republican party in
Illinois just Mr.. Conkling has served the Repub-
it in Louisiana lie has illustrated for the ninety
ninth time the depressing truth that in politics the
only rule without an exception Is the rule OF in
gratitude, and that when q party has exhausted |
in beaping honoFa on .'favonte SON."
and staining by him for the sake Of the interests
he represents, the only reward it need expect is be-
trayal, surrender, and defeat. This has been
costly lesson to rs here in Missouri. ret there is
no Republican who tns not learned it. It will
there vas other way for them learn 1t except
by experience. The humiliating defeat they have |
experienced. when they held the victory in their
han hana1 ought not 70 BE- ioat On them yet will
to anything else than that rule-or- ruin policy
which was part OF the Losan programme, and |
which no man ought In free county, 10 be al
lowed to carry cut more than once.