The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-06-19
4 Picture Of lOsan.


SOm Years ago, when there was a
debate in the Senate on Finance,
General John A. Logan held the
floor tor several hours, and iIlustra-
ted the subject, which he declared he
had been mastering for a few days.
The New York Tribune, which
now vouches for Logan as a states
man of the Jeffersonian mould and
an orator of the Websterian build,
caught the war horse of the prai
ries in the act, and photographed
him as follows, as he rampaged the
Senate chamber, June Is, 1875.
The article had run at the time,
and is well worth reprinting:
Pranced in upon the arena of the
great debate. like trick mule in
circus, Or u spawned nightmare up
on the track Of beautiful dream
Logan, of Illinois. There was a
vision of moustaches, eyebrows, and
HAIR piled On each other in arches;
a large brandishing of arms, a pose
and stridulous war. whoop; and
much as though a picture of the
Deerfeld massacre had stepped out
from the pages cf our early history.
Logan took the American Senate by
its large capacious ear. And then
he went for his mother tongue.
He smote at right and left, hip
and thigh, and showed no mercy.
Swinging tho great bread axe of his
high logic in air, he turned it ere it
fell, and with the ham mer SIDE
struck the language of $4,000, 900
of people fairly in the face, and
mashed it beyond recognition. I'm
der his stroke the floor of the Am
lean Senate was spattered with the |
of a once proud vocabu-
larry, and messengers, doorkeepers.
and pages were covered from head
to foot with the spray. In the fear
ful two hours that followed the first
roar of bis Grafton, all the parts of
speech were rou ted and put to
light. There were orphaned ad-
ectives and widowed nouns, bach
'lor verbs driven to polygamy, and
'olygamous verbs left lonely; con-
discovered, propositions
catered, adverbs disheveled and
distorted, and syntax flung into
vild disorder. 1t was a great day
or Logan.
He set his teeth INTO the Ian
usge as the untamed tiger of the
lgles takes between his mouth and
aw the wearing apparel Of the way
arer, and the ripping of 1T through
'rest depths. 1t reverberated TO
be other end of the Capitol, and
ugglsh Representatives lifted up
,eir ears aud listened to the roar
'ith terrific awe. Some started t
II the scene, but upon being told
,e cause of the disturbance in the
'ief communication. "Logan's up" q
lrned back, with full assurance II
at they could hear from the other h
I'd Of the Capitol all that was worth h
caring. So through two hours h
sgan swung his beautiful arms :,
'er the heads of the Senate like u
Q booms of a government derrick, L
hile his chm churned the Ian "
lage like a pile driver In heavy h.
a, and the baffled reporters made y,
Id plunges with their pencils to -
ther up his regurgitations for the III
inter. D.
All! Logan is a great man; a til
ltesman. When he throws his is
elect into question whether 1t o.;
finance or elf-government, or of 8
cklng to the ship, something has
come. And you may always sa
ow where to find him-to wit. k1
ere he has always been, drawing 10
Y from the Government in some g,
'acity. He lacks only fifteen or O. 3"
enty things of being an orator. ID
has lungs. W.