The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-14
BLAINE AND LOGAN.

The recent speech of John A. Logan,
Republican candidate for the Vice
Presidency, at Toledo, Ohio, while in
itself very able effort and an exhaus-
tive plea in favor of eparty which the
gentleman represents, is neyertheless one
that places him in very unfavorable
light when history is brought to bear
upon it. He arraigns the Democratic
party on series ofindictments, promin-
ent among which are its alleged alliance
with Great Britain to the disadvantage
of our laboring class; its sympathy with
those who fought against the Union
cause durin5 the rebellion; its friend
ship for shareholders and its refusal to
do anything looking to the abolition of
slavery, etc. tj
Mr., Logan has many of the elements
of a statesman and might be one if he
were not an unprincipled and unre-
strained demagogue, trickster and ira
der. He lacks that rare quality
in the pubIicist which makes
him a respected and useful
Scitizen-fidelity, guarded by consis.
tency. That portion of his speech
which assails the suppositious but
unreal desire on the part of the Demo-
cracy to establish free trade to the
detriment of our more humble citizens
and build up English interests, is politi-
cal pettifogging of the deepest dye; for
| the party assaulted has not declared for
free trade and does not want it, and
that class of our citizens who
hold the balance of power
in its ranks are conspicuously and no.
toriously the enemies of our mother
government and every thing pertaining
to it; and the orators only design was
to capture their votes byemeans of his
oral trickery. The fact that more Dem
ocrats than Republicans entered the
army to suppress the rebellion, and by
their valor and hardihood assisted in if
they did not secure the freedom
OF the blacks, blows another OF
the speakers allegations into thin
air; and the charge that the Demo
cracy sympathized withHand encouraged
the rebellion should never, for decency's
sake, be made by such man as Logan.
When the war clouds hung thickly and
darby over the land, and the nations
breath was held in awe awaiting the
flash of the first stroke of lightning and
the reverberating groan of the first
thunderbolt, where was this doughty
statesman Fighting the furies already
arrayed and about to hurl their
darts of destruction Seeking
toHallay the growing passions which
threatened at an early time to burst
into, a storm and ehguH theIcountry?
Oh, no. Vastly otherwise. He was
making secession speeches in Southern
Illinois, and doing all he could to enlist
men for the Confederate cause; the ten
der of colonelcy in the Union ranks
put qpietus upon his disloyal proclivi-
ties, and since that time nothing has
been too vile or sIanderous for him to
say OF. those with whom he was formerly
ready and willing. to associate in the
cause of establishing two governments
on American soil.
Logan's vote on the fugitive slave bill
in the Illinois legislature, by which he
favored the right ofaa slave-owner to
come upon free soil and retake his
human property, also stands out darkly |
against the record he IS now trying to |
create; and his course in the Fitz John
Porter case stamps him as a man want
ing in humanity, generosity and de-
cency.
= Blaine and Logan are q fine team.
Two more d;sreputable, unworthy and |
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