The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-23
KELLOGG.

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his accustomed luck, has been
elected to Congress in the Third
Louisiana district. There are per-
baps few men in public life more
corrupt than Kellogg, and what is
astonishing about it is the fact that
Notwithstanding his political wick
edness is known to all, he still keeps
on the surface, dumbfounding his
friends and confounding his enc
mics. One would imagine that
Louisiana, above all states, would
despise the man for the trouble he
has brought upon her. We can
understand how ne could pack or
bride q legislature to send him TO
the Senate, but cannot comprehend
the feat of inducing a majority OF
the voters in a large district to
unite upon him as their Repre-
sentative in Congress. The
only good feature about his
election is the circumstance
that he defeated Ex-Congressman
Acklin, of unsavory reputation,
who brought such social disgrace
upon himself and those who elected
him, two or three years ago. When
kellogg took his seat in the United
States Senate. the editor of the
Omaha Herald spoke Of him in the
following terms, which is perhaps
as good picture of the man soci-
ally as could be written in so few
words. 1t does not speak of his in
famous career in Louisiana, the
particulars of which are familiar as
household words to the people of the
nation. Many of the early residents
of Utah will recall the time when
Kellogg was chief justice of Ne
braska:
The Senator from Louisiana, William
Pitt Kellogg, when he was chief justice
| of Nebraska, was as well known to US as
he was to many more who mingled in
our Nebraska life and affairs. All our
recolIections of him personally are
pleasant and agreeable. AS a judge we
knew little about his real abilities, but
We never regarded him as much Of q
lawyer, and as we recall what be then
was we should say he was wofully
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speaking, he was peculiarly kind
and pleasing. Perhaps no federal officer
/ ever came among US who SO uniformly
] impressed with a desire on his part to
please, for the sake of pleasing, those
with whom he came in contact. Person
ally, our relations with him we're of the
most friendly character, and we believe
| he held that relation with the most Of the
citizens Of Omaha, where he then resid-
ed. While we heard much Of gossip in
derogation of the character Of Pitt Kel-
! logg while he was in Nebraska, we will
do him the Justice to say that we never
saw anything in his conduct that would
be unbecoming q gentleman. He used to
crate harshly upon the ear, however,
when, In opening court, he would say to
pem bers Of the bar, HCome, boys"
"Well, boys" and ali that sort Of thing,
in the presence Of lawyers old enough to
be his grandfathers.
Pitt Kellogg 81 ways seemed to US, in
studying his character since those days,
to have been a quick minded, active and
energetic Illinois politician of about the
ninth grade, hsiling from state which
has produced those Of the first by platoons
snd brigades. But we never thought the
msn who now sits in the Senate as SEN
stor from Louisiana by fraud had either
the capacity or the disposition for the
wrongs and eruelties which he has prsc-
tised upon the people of Louisiana, whom
he helped to hold for SO many years
under the most mercileas and monstrous
tyranny Of which the history of modern
civilization gives any account. We
always thought Pitt Kellogg, until his
public character developed in his fourteen
years Of infamous conspiracy and domi
nation in Louisiana, kind-hearted man,
who was apparently animated by quick
sympathies and generous impulses.
Plenty Of people can now say they did
not so regard him when they knew him
in Nebraska, and some Of them truly did
not. But the great majority of our citis
zens who associated with Judge Kellogg,
as he was then known here, held him
in exactly this kind of estimation.