The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-06-25
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Soldiers and Sailors Serenade
| Gen. Logan at Wash
ington.
Democratic Missouri Editors
Preferences for Pres.
ident.
An Express Robbery and
Murder in Mexico.
Labor Leaders and Green
hackers Want a Butler
Mass Meeting.
Lightning Ignites a Tank Of
Pennsylvania Oil.

WASHINGTON, June 2l.-The ex-
soldiers aud sailors, residents in
Washington, serenaded General
Logan this evening. They assembled
at city bali and forming in platoons
of twelve, headed by the Marine
band, marched to the Generals resi-.
dence on Twelfth street, where q
crowd of two or three thousand citi-
zens had already assembled. The
procession was literally supplied
with banners, rockets, roman candles
and noise making devices. The ban
ner of the Army of the Tennessee
was displayed from the upper win
dow of General Logan's house. Gen
eral Logan's appearance was greeted
with storm of applause, and when
the cheering subsited he was intro
auced in brief speech by General
Green r. Raum. General Logan
hen addressed the assemblage as
6cws:
Comrades and Fellow CitizeDs:-
The warm expressions of confidence
and congratulations which you offer
through your chairman fills me with
deep sense of gratitude and beg to
tender my sincere thanks to each and
all of my participating friends for
this demonstration of kindness and
esteem. Your visit at this time, gen.
tlemen. is interesting to me in a
double aspect, as citizens of our COM
mon country rendering tribute to me
: as public man. I ...--s 20. ''A'n
genuine pleasure and grateful ac-
Eknowledgemen'. Coming, hswevtr,
. as you do, in character representa-
#tiyps of soldiers and sailors OF our
country, your visit possesses feature
insenslbly leading to q train OF tne
most interesting reflections of life.
Time. Your assemblage is composed
pf men who gave up the pursuits OF
peace, relinquished comforts at home,
vered ties of friendship, and yielded
Dthe gentle and loving society OF
Sher. mother, sister, brother, and in
ynv instances wife and little ones,
brave the dangers of field and
rested wave to run the guantlet OF
ickpess in climates different from
bur own and possibly, or even proba-
bly. to Weld up life itself in the SER
Sice of YOUR country. Twenty~three
ears ago, gentlemen, when dread
Sar raised its wrinkled front through
Dut the land many were standing with
kpe foot on the portal OF MANHOOD,
Sa ser for a conflict with the world
which promised to bring YOU honor,
kiches friends and life. Having de-
klared in favor OF preserving the
Union, you were compelled to resort
the last dread measure-the ar
bitrpment of war. We did so under
he call of the Republican party.
Many of us had been educated by GU !
ahrrs ia the Democratic school OF
Whites, and many of us were acting
Athat party at the time the issue
dMwar was presented to US. Fol
yas the Democratic party had
Yielded the destinies of our govern
npnt aud had served its purpose
: Under the narrowed views OF an ideal
= spublic which then existed but the
hstrix of time had developed new
hld of progress, which saw the
ght of day under the name OF the
! Republcan party. Its birth an.
ounced conception of higher and
roader principle of buman govern
bent that had been entertained by
ur furefathers, but few OF US, per-
20 APPS none of us, look in full dlmen'
ons to the coming fact of that early
ay. 1t broke upon US gradually
Ike the light of the morning sun al
rises.