The Evening critic., 1883-03-20


Speaking of the many sobriquets given
Senator Logan, of Illinois, one of Washing
toms most prominent Republicans to-day
said:
1T was Horace Greeley who applied to
him the euphonious title of Dirty Work
Logan Nobody knew of Logan's dema-
goguery better than Greeley, and no one
was less fearless in speaking of them, either.
Logan is one of the worst demagogues I've
ever known and he isn't shrewd enough
to cover up his demagoguery.
"But did you ever hear Of the trap Lo-
gan set for himself when he was a member
of the Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections in the Forty third Congress
You haven't? Well, I'll tell you, for it
shows Logan's stupidity as well as his
demogoguery. Morton was chairman of
the committee then. The Pinchbacll Nc
| Neil case was under investigation. Logan
was examining the witness Jacques, and
| was putting up puckerea mouth over the
| revelations becoming the demogogue that
| he is He asked Jacques if he knew any
thing about ballot-box stuiling prior to the
| case at ISSUE
"There was quietude in the committee
room. Logan looked Jacques hard in the
face, in his usual bulldozing way, and
| Jacques looked Logan plumb in the eyes.
| Finally he answered, with great composure
and with some astonishment at the ques
| tion
"'Why, yes, General Logan; don't you re-
| member that | stuffed the balIot-boXes for
| you in an election down at Egypt, in Illi-
nois 2
logan swelled up like toad and looked
as if he would burst, but Jacques had
sprung the trap on him, and he couldn't
| escape, for that was n revelation Logan
didn't enjoy just as heartily as did those
| who heard it,
In the peregrinating Of the Critic last
night he came across one of the sons of
| Ham in lonely alley, with wheel
| barrow, carefully loading kitchen ofial
| into a small barrel which was sitting in
| the barrow. The offal consisted of small
| bits of fat meat rancid ana dirty.
What on earth are you going to do with
that stuff?' queried the Critic. Make
soap?"
Lord bless your soul, no, boss is not
going to do any such thing. l is going to
take it down to the oleomargarine factory
| to make butter out OFF,
This settled it with the Critic. He eats
| no more butter.
Said an old resident to-day: There is
one Of the most interesting as well as re-
markable cases of longevity in Fairfax,
| County Va, now living"
who is it t?' asked the Critic.
Well, there lives in that county q
woman over one hundred years old, that
has not been a hali-mile from her present
residence in sixty years. She is as
bright intellectually now IS she was
at the age of twenty. She was never
married, having been disappointed in love
when only eighteen. She is related to the
best families of the Old Dominion, has
wined and dined with Washington, Ran
dolpb, Madison, Monroe, Jefferson and all
the big men Of Revolutionary fame in that
State, and she bids fair to live several
years longer"
The Attorney General has in accordance
with the eternal fitness of things, rendered
to the Civil-Service Commission quarters
in the City Hall (city Courthouse). This
is as it should be, there being but one
other Department of the Government that
needs the aid of tho Civil-Service Reform
Commission so badly as the Courthouse
ring, and that is the alleged Department
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