The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-12-22
SLYlJOHN A LOGAN.

!. as the Natlcr STOOD on me meeting az IN
! committee the only republican caEdidat
, Tor the presidential nomination Of any com
manding prominence was Ch,ser A. Ar
thur. by his control OF The appointment
! he could command the support Of ever
southern delegate, and entering the con,
, ven,ion with The "SOhd South AT hi
1 heels, it would he strange indeed II h,
, couldn't Get enough northern votes in al.
uition 10 secure his nomination. The rev
, elaiion filed the entire congregation q
lIalfBrecds and Fcatherheads with dis
r may. To half Of them Arthur's nomlna
ton had never been thought cf as even re
mo,ely possible, and now that it seemed
inevitable, the thought was actually nor
riiying. To be nominated by the solid
south, from which he will probably moi
!, get single electoral vote, over the vote OF
a nearly odd north, that must give HIM all
| the electoral votes be viii ge', was humil.
ia,lng and shameful. What could-wLa,
must be done to defeat this netariOu>
scheme was the first Guestj on to which the
northern members o. the committee ad.
dressed themselves. Could Blame beat
Arthur: OF course not, for there was
Conkling and the whole stalwart force to
fight him. How about Grant. But Gen
Grant positively declined TO be talked OF
in that connection. This was just what
John A. Logan had been looking for, and
now was his opportunity. The man you
are looking Tor, behold Here | am - is
about the way he bounded in among the
jperpleyed committee men. You say Grant
won't do for Blaine will oppose him, but
Grant being Appealed 10 says he has not
the slightest objection to and viii cheer
fully support me l.Qsan. Blaine wont
do, but being appealed to says he is entire,
! ly satisfied with and will cheeriully sup
port me- Logan" And Conkling being
approached in ihe same way gives similar
satisfactory assurances.
! There Is no doubt but through such and
like representations Logan completely cap
ured the committee and all i,s srhcooren,
action was IN aid Of his aspirations The
holding of the convention at Chicago was
Iconsplcuously in his interest," the peculiar
arrangement of the delegates by states and
| in districts was made at his dlCtatlon and
To promote his success. and the committee
even went so far az TO insert IN its call for
the National Convention a cover, endorse
men, of Logan's grand whisky tax ctuca-
tional scheme by declaring il one Ct the
prime objects OF the great republican par
" to secure free popular education 10 ,he
masses" through national Instrumental.
ties, that is, by the distribution Of the
whisky tax among the stdtes for An cduca
Itioual fund.
The committee tell IN lave with ibr
scheme from ~arIcty Of consldcratiors
u is opposed by Arthur, lha' was one rca
son; it falls in sufficiently with Blaine
scheme Of distribution of the whisky tax
anu Ilth IL chimes IN neatly With the
whole republican policy oil high protective
tariff, high taxation, and yet getting rid Of
The surplus revenue without paving dobl :;
and then il aisposeS Of the surplus revenue
for u great moral purpose"
Thus The powc,fnl projections, int,rrs,
the whole tribe Of favored and cndalel c,r.
.iahs,s are M once hrou,ht q, IN. srnn,r,
Ioi Logan who is in fact. the frs, and npIv
man who has shown then. a poss,b,v non
ular aud allurinr way to maintain the
Inrcsep, war tariff If onv ono sunp,s..
,ha, General Logan has no, made n hi,
with his p,an the Generals friends think
little of that persons iudrmen, He an
pears on The stage as The hiph fax rcpubli
can candidate, and !, is undrp,,blc ,ho,
TINS i the man the mopyccrs v,,,