Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-08
Tuesday, July g. 1884. NOMINATIONS.
 FOR PRESIDENT. JAMES G. BLAINE, of Maine.
 FOR WOE PRESIDENT. JOHN A. LOGAN, of Illinois.
LOGAN NOT A LAND GRABBER.

LOGAN NOT A LAND GRABBER.
 Several days ago Mr. McAdoo made speech
 in the house in which he intimated that Sem
 ator Logan, the Republican nominee for Vice
 President, had Indian blood in his veins and
 had tried to rob the Znni Indians of New
 Mexico of thousands of acres of land The
 reply which Senator Logan has made to MT.
 McAdoo's speech clearly shows the absurd in-
 justice and malice of MT. McAdoes attack
 In the course of his speech McAdoo insinu-
 ated that Senator Logan had stolen "hun-
 dreds of thousands of acres'' sfrom the un-
 fortunate savage, who was unable to protect
 himself, until an honest Secretary of the h.
 terior went there with the surveyor and took
 back the land for the Zunis2"
 The great 'tgrab'' of which Senator Logan was accused resolves itself, on examination
 into three homestead or desert act claims located by two army officers and one citizen on public lands, open to such entry," and
 with this location he had nothing to do. Captain Lswton, Major Tucker and Mir.
 Stout located claims at Neutria Springs and lands adjacent in New Mexico; not, however, until after aseertaining from the General Land Office that the land was subject to location, being outside of the Indian reserva- tion, some five miles from the Indian line and some twenty-five or thirty miles from the town of Zuni. In proof that he had noth- ing to do with the location Senator Logan produced and read number of letters. Capt
 Lawton wrote: ''There is not, nor has there been, any company or organization for the purpose of buying or owning land, raising stock or starting 8 ranch on the Nutria, in which you or any other person is or was in- terested. My entry of land on the Nutria was made in good faith for myself, and no other person has any interest in my loca- tion.'' Colonel James Stevenson, of the Geological Ssrvey, wrote to Senator Logan ''Having my attention called to statements in the Congressional Record of recent date, indirectly charging you with fraudu- lently attempting to deprive the Zuni Indians, of New Mexico, of their lands, beg to say that I am familiar with the facts and circumstances, from a thorough in- vestigation of the subject made at the request of the Honorable Secretary of the Interior, and take pleasure in stating that the allega tioAs thus made are grossly unjust to you as well as to Major Tucker and his associates, and wholly without foundation" The Sec rotary of the Interior wrote: "Thers is net the slightest evidence that any wrong was intended or done by the parties to the entries above referred to, or any law violated The land was public land at the time these en- tries were made, and ss such was open to en. try by the public. The gentlemen who made them were qualified to enter such lands and | had perfect right to do so, and they neither violated law nor the rights of any parties whatever in so doing. asked the Executive order extending this reservation without un- l derstanding all the facts at the time. It gives me pleasure to make this statement in l view of the allegations to the contrary which l have been made'
 Major Tucker happens to be Senator To- gan's son-in-law, and when the major was assailed by newspaper correspondent as try ing to rob tho Zunis of their only available l springs, General Logan came forward in his 1 defense This was some time ago. In his reply to McAdoo he said: Major Tucker is my son-in-law. He is 8 gentleman, and man who would not wrong anyone. pre- sume the wrong in me is that Major Tucker is part of my family: and although he is in- nocent of any wrong in the premises, base less excuse was made to sssail me through him. If their object was to draw me into his defence. they have succeeded, and when anyone thinks I have not manhood enough to defend openly my relative or friend when wrongfully assaiIed, he mistakes me-"
 Thus is one ridiculous charge disposed of. Senator Logan did not 'Grab" or assist in grabbing hundreds of thousands of acres" which belonged to the Zuni Indians. We suppose, however, that other charges, equal ly baseless, may be made against him by des- perate Democrats. He will be fortunate if he is not accused of having in his youth used
 his grandmothers coffin for sled