St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-11
MRS. LoGAN's ADROITNEss.
Emory Il, StOITs Deserts arthur and VIII
Name Logan ia the Chicago Contention.
ChicanO Letter

Name Logan i11 the Chicago Contention.
Chicago Letter.
Emory A. Storrs, who ranks as the Demos
themes of the Illinois bar, is in favor of
Logan for President, and his Chicago &C
quaintances are wondering why. He form
erly made considerable ado about the i'll
treatment he received from the senior Sena-
tor of his state, and was particularly preju-
diced by Logan's attitude when he tried to
be attorney general under Garfield. A dele
cation of his friends went down to Mentor
to press his claims for that appointment, and
he had the endorsement of COnkling, Dorsey
and other Stalwarts, but Garfield told them
that Logan must concur, and much to the
chagrin of Mr.. Storrs, he wouldn't Logan's
reason was that he had already asked the ap-
pointment of Robert Lincoln to the cabinet,
and couldn't expect to fill all the depart
ments with his friends. But Storrs thought
his political services and the aid he had CIV
en- to Logan in sundry campaigns ought to
give him preference over Lincoln, who had
never done anything for the party or the
Senator. Mr.. Storrs considered himself
very ill-used man.
He went to Washington not long ago as
the agent of the cattle dealers of the Chicago
stock yards to lobby against the Pleuro-pneu-
monia bill, and when he left he was shouting
for Arthur. He was absent nearly week,
and then returned, shouting
for Logan. He gave as the excuse
for his sudden change of preference that as
long as Logan was candidate for the presi-
dency, he ought to have the delegation from
his own state, and he, for one, was willing
to help him get it. But since Mrs. Logan has
been in Chicago looking after the Generals
boom, better reason has been given for
Mr.. Storr's change of heart.
1t said that when he arrived at Washing
ton he visited Logan to secure his opposi-
ton to Warner Miller's COW bill, and was at
once reproached for advocating the nomina-
ton of a New York man against the candi-
date from his own state. Mrs. Logan told
him they had supposed of course that he
would support her husband, and wanted him
to be a delegate to the national convention
from the state at large, so that he might pre-
sent the generals name in one of his thrill
ing speeches. They had been depending
upon him, as the most eloquent man in Hi
nois, to perform this heroic duty, and were
very sorry that his preference for Arthur
men, she said, who could be called upon,
and perhaps Leonard SWEET would be willing
to make the speech.
If there is man in all the world of whom
Storrs is more jealous than of Lenoard SWEET
the people of Chicago do not know him. He
is Storr's only rival at the Chicago bar, and
the only man in Illinois who can compete
with him in oratory. The vision OF Leonard
SWEET upon the platform of the republican
convention, with an audience of ten thousand
people, and the opportunity that Ingersoll
had at Cincinnati and that Garfield had at
Chicago, was more than aman of Emery
Storr's oratorical ambition could endure. Not
that he hated Logan less, but that he loved
the opportunity to make speech more, did
he agree to join the Logan boom, and his re-
sonant voice and epigrammatic phrases will
be heard in the convention hall.