The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-16
LOGAN AND LINCOLN.
An Impartial Observers Estimate of Their
Strength in Illinois.


Springfield (Ill) Letter in New York Times.
Senator John A. Logan will have at least three
fourths of the Republican delegates from this
State. His friends say that he will have them
all. His opponents say that the delegates from
three of the Chicago districts are absolutely
beyond his reach, and that if President Arthur
should give his supporters a little encourage
meht Logan would lose seven of the twenty
districts of the State. The anti-Logan leaders
represent not only themselves, but also the pro
tests of thousands of Republicans, against boss
rule and the elevation of patronage king They
represent the majority of business men, especial
ly in Chicago, who say that Logan has supported
every eXtravagant scheme that has been proposed
since he has been in Congress 1t is notorious
that with the exception of the Chicago collector
ship, every federal Office has been filled in ac-
cordance with Logans recommendation He is
unpopular i'll Chicago, and popularity elsewhere
in the State depends upon his power as dis
penser of patronage upon his advocacy OF
schemes for charging the pension-rol and in
creasing pension expenditures and upon his
prominence a soldier. One of the leaders in
the opposition asserts that the Republican ma
jority in Illinois has fallen off because boss rule
has become so dstasteful to young men, and
predicts that Logan will finally be upset by an in
dependent movement like that which gave
Pennsylvania to the Democrats.
L am disposed to give considerable weight to
the predictions of a prominent Republican who
is neither Logans advocate nor his opponent.
The thinking men who are for Logan, he says.
have their eyes on Ohio and New York They
say that if we do not win in Ohio in October
may as well give up the fight. Having won in
Ohio, must also win in New York in NOvem-
Der. We must have both States. If Ohio says
Logan cantcarry that State, or if New York says
he can't win in that State they will not push
their candidate. and they will not fail to ask if
Ohio or New York has asman who can do what
Logan cannot do within their boundaries If
these States bring forward man and prove that
he is the right man, the Logan men will vote for
him If they have no man who can surely carry
those States, the Logan men will stick to their
candidate, saying that the soldier element may
pull him through in Ohio and New York, and
that if it cannot they may as well go down fly
ing a soldiers flag.
The son of Abraham Lincoln is without honor
in his own country at least among politicians
Neither the Logan men nor the antiLogan men
pay any attention to him. He is cipher in all
their calculations. His standing is one of the
few political matters upon which they agree.
They say that he has no political experience.
having held no Office in this State except that of
town supervisor in Chicago. One anti-Logan
man describes him as the representative of
silk restocking element and as a club-man
whom only a few persons know. Another says
he is absolutely without political strength or
standing. A prominent Logan says that he
couldn't carry ward in Chicago, and that he
offends Illinois men in Washington by snubbing
them. A prominent neutral Republican says he
is timid, and can't make a stump-speech; that
he is fair Office lawyer, but can't address
jury. Yet he likes him. The people of the
State, he says, prefer to let him grow by him
self for few years. HE doesn't care for Office
said this gentleman, land | think if he should
yield to his inclnations he would retire from
the Cabinet to private life