The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-08-15
rnE "TR,sUSE. ON LeGAN.

Something win have To bo done TO |
punish men who keep files Of othor
fellows newspapers, or no presidential
candidate will be safe from being stab
bed in tho back, as 1t were, by his own
friends. We have, for instance, the
New York Tribune, Of January 10th,
1875, telling chunks Of solid truths
about candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency, for which it has now become It's
solemn duty to apologize. Perhaps the
Tribune will get out Of tho scrape by
claiming that for the past nine years
Mr.. Logan has boon under the careful
training Of his wife and has become a
changed man under the influence Of
curtain lectures for this protracted per-
iod. But explanations are awkard In
such cases. Here Is the portraiture by
the Tribune Of its own candidate:
"Pranced thereon upon the arena Of
the great debate like trick mule in
circus, or a spawned nightmare upon
the track Of beautiful dream-Logan,
Of Illinois. There was vision Of mus.
taches, eyebrows and hair piled on each
other in arches largo brandishiug oi
arms, pose and stridulous war whoop,
and much as though q picture Of the
Deerfeld massacre had stepped out from
the pages oil our early history. Logan
took the American Senate by ita large,
cal lacious ear. And then he went for
his mother tongue. He smote II right
and left, hip and thigh, and showed no
mercy. Swinging tho great broad-ax
Of his logic high in air, he turned it ere
il fell and with the hammer side struck
tho language of $4,000, 900 people fair
| iy in the face, and nasnei il beyond
recognition. Under his stroke the floor
Of the American Senate was spattercd
with the remnants Of once proud vo-
cabulary, and messengers, door-keepers
and pages were covered from head to
icot with tho spray. In tho fearful
two hsurs which followed tho frst roar
Of his oration, all the parts Of speech
were routed and put to fight. There
were orphaned ndjectives and widowed
nouns bachelor verbs driven 10 poly =
glmy and polygamous verbs left lone
ly ; conjunctions discovered, proportions
scattered, adverbs disheveled and dis
tortod, and syntax flung into Wild dis
order. II was a great day for Logan.
He set his teeth into the language as
tho untAmed tiger of the junglss takes
between his mouth and paw the wear
ing apparel Of the wayfarer, and the
ripping Of it was heard through all the
forest depths. IL rsverbrated to the
uttermost end Of tho grea. capitol, and
the sluggish representatives lifted up
their ears and listened to the roar with
terrified awe. Some started for the
scene but upon being told the cause
Of the disturbance in tho brief commun-
ication, IL ogan's up," turned back with
full assurance that they could hear
from that end OF the capitol all that
was worth hearing. SO through two
long hours Logan swung bis arms over
the heads Of the Senate like the booms
Of government derrick, while his chin
churned the language like pile driver
in heavy sea, and the bafiled reporters
made wild plunges with their pencils
to gather up his regurgitations for the
printer. All ! Logan is great man
a statesman. When he throws his in :
tellect into question, whether it is oI
finance or Self-government, or sticking
to the ship, something has got to come
And you may always know where tc
find him-namely, where he has always
been, drawing pay from the government
in some capacity. He lacks only 6f-
teen or twenty things of being an ora
tor. He has lungs.