The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-06-21
LOGAN'S

1~0&4AS AA3SM
Now that Mr.. Logan has accepted
the tail end Of the Blaine kite ant
thus challenges criticism, he becomes
an object at which the pen If tn
satirist, the etchings of the carl
caturist, the shafts of the humorist
and the tongue of the political ad
versary are directed. What he hal
said and what he has done whether
for good or for evil, during hi
whole political life, will be paradei
by friend or foe before the world.
His weakness, his foibles will be hello
up to the ridicule of the people
These are the penalties which am
bilious men pay for aspiring to great
ness A cold, uncbarltable world il
always ready to impose them.
But am )ng all the wicked things
that have been said about Logan
there is not one which cut deeper
nor left more lasting seal than the
following which appeared in the
New York Tribune under date of
January Is, 1875. The Tribune is
supposed to be very friendly to Mr.
Logan at present but its article of
that date upon "The Black Warrior
Assaulting the English Language in
the Senate" will stand as its esti-
mate of the man. Hear the Tribune:
Pranced there in upon the arena of
the great debate, like a trick mule in
u circus, or a spawned nightmare
upon the track of beautiful dream
Logan, of Illinois. There was a
vision of mustaches, eyebrows and
hair piled on each other in arches; a
large bradishing of arms, a pose and
stridulous war-whoop; and much as
though a picture of the Deertield
massacre had stepped out from the
pages of our early history. Logan
took the American Senate by its
large, capacious ear And then he
went for his mother tongue. He
smote it right and left, hip and
thigh. and slowed no mercy. Swing
ing the great broad-axe of his logic
high in air, he turned it ere it fell,
and with the hammer side struck
the language of sixty millions of
fairly in the face and mashed
it beyond recognition. Under his
stroke the floor of the American Sen
ate was %spattered with the remnants
of a once proud vocabulary, and
messengers, d~oorkeepers. and pages
were covered from head to foot with
the spray. In the fearful two hours
followed the first roar of his
grafton all the parts of speech were
and put to flight. There were
orphaned ~adjectives and widowed
nouns; bachelor verbs driven to
and polygamous verbs left
conjunctions discovered,
scattered, adverbs dis
1eveled and distorted, and syntax
lung into wild disorder. 1t was a
great day for Logan.
He set his teeth into the language
IS the untamed tiger of the juDgles
axes between his mouth and paw the
wearing apparel of the wayfarer, and
he ripping of it was heard through
ut all the forest depths. 1t reverbe-
ated to the other end of the Capitol
nd sluggish Representatives lifted
p their eyes and listened to the roar
With terrified awe. Some started for
be scene, but on being told the cause
f the disturbance in the brief COM
aunication, "Logan's up" turned
ack with full assurance that they
ould hear from that end Of the Cap
;ol all that was worth hearing. So
trough two hours Logan swung his
eautiful arms I'VE the heads OF the
enate like the booms of a Govern
lent derrick. while his chin churned
le language like a pile-driver in a
eavy sea. and the baf1ed reporters
lade wild plunges with their pencils
} gather up his organizations for the
All! Logan is a great mana
When he throws his in
llect into a question, whether it is .
finance or self-government, or of
licking to the ship, something has I
to come. And you may always s
low where to find him-to wit,
here he has always been, drawing =
" from the Government in some
He lacks only fifteen or