, 1880-06-06


The grand evacuation by the usurpers at
the Convention on Friday night was sight
long to be remembered. The decree Of ex-
pulslon had been foreshadowed by the vote
on the Alabama case, but Logan demanded
formal and separate vote on the case of each
Illinois district. The vote was therefore
called first on the case of Long John Went
worth and Short Stevey Douglas. AS they
stood up they literally presented the . long
and the short" Of Logan's miserable failure
to capture State Tie tall man and the
short man were both voted out ordered to
leave, to quit, and to evacuate, and they
evacuated, retiring hand In hand to the rear
part of the hall. As Long John, leading his
companion, moved In the procession, the
old man piteously bewailed the uncertainties
Of " wayering Grant IN am
Then the venerable pardoner-the sanity
Beycridge-was put upon the table for examl-
nation. His case was perhaps unprecedented
i'll the history Of politics. He was candl-
date in his own town Of Evanston for seat
in the County Convention, and was rejected.
When Logan ordered bolt from FarWell
Hall there was not a delegate from the Third
Congressional District that obeyed his de-
mand. lie was obliged to have some dele
gates, so ne picked up Beverfdge and some
others and made them delegates to the So
called Palmer House Convention, and subse-
ouently sent him as delegate to Springfield.
So utterly rotten, u1savory, fraudulent, and
scandalous, however, was the claim OF
Beverldge to seat in the State Convention,
that even the sto1nachs Of Logan and Raum
$o1 +hot fn admit Tpuz
eridge would be too much, so they ordered
that Bevcridge and tifty-tive Others should be
excluded from the State Convention. When
the delegates from the Third Congressional
District met to appoint delegates to the Chi
cago Convention there was not ''Grant
man" among them. The vote was unant~
nous against a third term. Logan, there
fore, in order to ind persons to send to Chi
cago from the Third District, had to fall
back on Bsveridge. Without vote from
any delegate in the Third District, Beveridge
was equal to the demand for man having
the brazen indccency to present himself as
delegate to represent the Third or any other
district against the unanimous vote Of the
district. The National Convention on Friday
night ordered him QUITO leave,-and he,
too, evacuated.
The like process was taken in the case Of
the Fourth District and Logan's "patent"
delegates were ordered to leave.
In the order Of expulsion Logan had up to
this time demanded separate vote, but
when the Fifth District, the "Galena Dis
trict,'' was reached, it was considered advisa~
ble not to have an aye and no vote on admit
ting anti-Grant delegates from Grants own
district. So vtua poce vote was taken, and,
to the tune OF ''Make room for your anti,'
the twelve remaining delegates appointed by
Logan silently folded their tents and stole
away, being greeted at the outer door with
open arms and fraternal tears by Wentworth
and Beyertdge.
On the outside OF the camp from which
they had been dru1nmel the wailing and
profanity was terrific. Whiting, and Long
John, and AlcNulty, and Dan Shepard, and
Gilpterce denounced the action Of the Con-
yention in "expelling three statesmen" F."
whose names were enrolled on the Esss Of
Congress, while Dick Rowett threatened
the vengeance of the State OF 21aconpln.
The asurpation was over. Logan's fat had
been dlsregarded; Illinois was not a bull
dozed unit; and Johns creatures could find
ITO sympathy in all the broad land. Illinois
was free.