Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27

ton bad the right to choose all the
delegates or the boilers had that
right. But these Judges" ain.
capable of doing an act of injustice"
decided on receiving part from each
delegation sent. nothing could be
palmer than that one part was
bogus and therefore their admis.
sion was Injustice. Raum says fur.
ther:
IL the party is to be menaced by defeat
whenever the minority finds itself unable to
dictate the candidate, the sooner the party
goes into voluntary bankruptcy and winds
up its business the better il win be for its
members and the country. Whenever the
minority becomes SO exceedingly wise and
50 exceedingly good that they prefer the sue.
cess OF their opponents unless they are per-
mitted to dictate the nominations of their
own party, the sooner they become perma-
nently Incorporated with their opponents
the better 1t will be for the country.
These remarks should have been
intended for the minority that bolt
ed at Chicago, but Raum meant
them to apply to the minor
lty In the rump convention he was
then addressing and TO those out
side whom he was preparing to bull.
doze into a minority. He talked
about q class of politicians who
throw their principles aside when.
ever they cannot dictate nomina>
tions. 1t is the foundation principle
OF republication, and democracy,
too, that the majority shall rule.
kaum, holding u high Office in
Republican administration, and John
A. Logan, a U. S. Senator, claiming
to be Republicans, swear their prin-
ciples SO loosely about them" that
they easily threw them aside to i'm.
pose upon that convention men not
elected and "dictate a nomination.
the great majority of the Republi.
cans of Illinois do not want. When
Raum was through John A. Logan
became the head bulldozer. Logan
has belonged to the Republican par
ty ever since it became the party in
power. He never did before. He
did all be could to defeat Lincoln.
When the war broke out it was un-
certain whether he would join the
rebel or the union army. He has
always been charged with organic.
ing a rebel company. That charge
we never believed, but it seems GER
tain that good commission secured
his services in the union army. 1t
is always the weakness of good
causes that when they are won
their emoluments and power fall
principally into the hands of con-
verts. Men who were always right
and who are right by nature say.
"Here, you were against US, yet you
came in and helped US; now we
want to pay you" Thus John A.
Logan, who was not Republican,
was given the best Office Illinois Re-
publlcans had at their disposal. He
was given dictatorial Office. The
appointments for that State were in
his hands. He secured the appoint
ments of men like himself; men
who go to the party for its spoiIs,
not It's principles. The result was
great army of Chicago whiskey
thieves and other villains in different
parts of that State, and as long as
Logan was in office the party weak
ened, and weakened until q Demo-
crat took Senator's seat from Illi-
nois. Then when Logan was out of
power and the mischief he did was
not carried on banners and waved
10 our faces, the party picked him
up again. 1t became strong enough,
and through its machinery put him
again in Office. Now he is in, we
shall find the party again weaken
ing. He is man by nature bull
dozor, slave driver whose actions
are the dictate of might, not right.
He began his work in the Conven>
ton by resolution to pledge the
contesting delegations to accept and
abide the decision of his rump Con.
vention. They were to throw away
their appeal to q higher tribunal
and, unless they did SO, no matter
if their people sent them there un-
animously, that rump would not
even give them hearing and
would receive those who asked
for their places, though sent by no.
body. That rump adopted this I'm.
republican, bull-dozing resolution.
Next, Logan secured the passage of
a resolution to appoint committee
of 10 Grant men to select the AZ
Grant men for that convention to
send to the National Convention.
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Ten of the Illinois Congressional dis
tricts chose Washburne and Blaine
delegates. Their people elected them
for that purpose. Grants own dis
trict was one of them. But this bull
doing resolution resolved that they
were nobodies and had no rights that
bulldozers would respect. A man
not O Grant man, however good a
Republican he was had no more
power there than if he were South
Carolina Democrat. 1t was not a
Republican Convention it was
Grant Convention. Every Republican
delegate who remained there after
that dismissed his self-respect. He
was acting for set of ruffians who