Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-06-09
AS ANTICIPATED.

As was to be expected-as We predicted
as only can he looked for from ill-tem-
pered vulgar and brutal partisans, assaults
upon the personal character of the Rcpub-
can candidates already indicate the course
OF the Democratic press. The hope that a
national campaign might be conducted
upon the plane of principle must be post
poned, We are not, apparently, to discuss
policies, but to wrestle with low-browed
opponents whose conceptions of debate rise
no higher than the level of witlcss SANDER
and villainous yillification.
Thus the San Francisco Erapsiac, pipes
the key for the press of its ilk in this State,
by asSailing Mr.. Blaine in articles that
bristle all over with calumnious assertions,
embossed with such choice language as is
employed by literary garbage gathercrs;
as, for instance, fraud, corruption"
"venahty," demagoey' knavery,"
" dishonesty" etc. As a matter of course
the stereotyped lines of the Examiner must
be trotted out and the printers have had al
ready fat takes" in picking up" the ready
set lines aboutrepresentatiyeS of munopolies
and corporations against the people As
to Logan the charge is made by The same
sheet that at the beginning Of the war " he
tried to raise a regiment for the service of
the Confederacy, and only desisted and
joined the other side when his wife, who
is the smarteSt woman in America, warned
him that the North was the strongest and
must win in the end Since the war he
has displayed the usual bitterness ola rene
gade" A bald-faced lie is not dangerous,
and this has not in it the shadow of
truth. While it BELTS the Examiner
which was rebel in birth, instinct and prac-
tee, and had the breath Of life once very
nearly chOked out OF it by a mob because
of its hatred 10 the Union, it may be well
to brand the flsehood once for all
on its forefront with its infamy
Logan father was an intelligent Irishman,
who came to Illinois III 1923, where his
son was born In 1916 that son took up
arms for his country and fought calamity
in the Mexican war. Originally 4 Demo
crat in his youth he cast his fortunes with
the Douglass wing in 1853. and was sent to
Congress. When Lincoln was elected,
Logan declared he would shoulder his
muSket to have him inauguratcd and when
rebel shot was first fired at the national
flag he resigned from Congress, in July.
1861, to shoulder 4 muslet as a private,
and marched to the battle of Bull Run.
and AT its close declared he would serve in
any capacity TO defend the old flag In
September of that year he was at the head
of an Illinois regiment of Union soldiers.
and fought through the war He led his
regiment at Fort Henry and at Fort Done-
son where he was wounded Was with
Grant at PittSburg landing was made a
Major-Gencral, led the Union soldiers at
the entry of VickSburg, and became the
military Governor of that city His gal
lantry and indomitable courage were man
ifest at Fort Gibson, Champions Hill,
Peach Tree creek, Ezra Chapel, ReSaca.
Kenesaw, Atlanta and Dcntonvillc. He was
with Sherman on the flaming march to
the sea. and entered Washington COM
mander of an army, and with the close of
the war re-entered Congress as a Republi-
can. defeating his Democratic opponent by
$1,000 votes This is the man the San
Francisco Examiner has the indecency to
charge with having sought to be one of its
traitOrous gang. A cause is weak, indeed
that must needs resort to such assaults.