The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-07
JOHN A. LOGAN,
Military and Civic Career of the Candidate for
Vice-President.

MILITARY ana C1VlC career OF the candidate fOr
Vice-Presdent.
John A. Logan born in jackson county Ill.,,
February g. 1926 and is therefore in his ffty-ninth
year. After receiving common school education he
served in the Mexican war rising from the ranks be
lieutenant and quartermaster. He afterwards stud
led law and admitted TO practice in 1852 In
1853 after having served several terms in the State
Legislature, he was elected to Congress as Demo-
GRAFT. In 1860 he was reelected, and in 1861 met
with the Congress which called in extra session
by President Lincoln. Resigning his seat in the
House, he entered the service as a private and as
private in a Michigan regiment, fought in the first
battle of Bull Run. He after returned home
and raised the Thirty first Illinois regiment which he
commanded at the battle of Belmont He
severely wounded in the attack on Fort Donelson.
He was made brgadier-general in March, 1862 and
as such commanded the forces at jackson, Tenn. In
November of that year he commissioned
major-general, and commanded the Third Division
Seventeenth corps, in the vicksburg and Atlanta
campaigns. He commanded with distinction the
Army of the Tennessee after the fall of Mcpherson
and until relieved by General Howard and engaged in
the battles of Resaca Kenesaw Atlanta and Benton.
vile, N. @. He was one of the most successful of
the civilian generals of the war, and enjoys the dis
ncton of having risen from the ranks his merits
At the close of the war, in 1868, he was appointed
minister to Mexico, but declined. From 1867
to 1871, he served as Republican member
of Congress. In 1871 he elected United
States senator, position he has since occupied
with that distinction characteristic of the man His
life is remarkable illustration of the possibilities
open to American citizens Like Lincoln his progress
has been steadily upward until the nation through
its greatest political party invites him to the second
place of honor and distinctions for which he is so
eminently qualified
HIS ANCESTRY AND EARLY POLITICS
His father, who, was born in Ireland Dr.John Lo-
gan, who among the earlier settlers in Southern m
nos The General is said to derive most of his native
ability, he does has striking personal appearance,
from his mother, who is described having beena
superior person She was Elizabeth jenkins, of Ten
Logan first heard of out of the ordinary
tine of rural life when at the age of twenty he enlisted
the First Illinois regiment and started for the Mex
lean war. He came out of it lieutenant and adiu-
tant and might if the had lasted longer, have be-
come colonel for the military genius which was
afterward so strkingly apparent was even then
strongly developed in him At that time, as is well
from section where it impossible to be anything
else and live in peace Southern Illinois in those
days just antAbolition in sentiment any slave.
holding section. The bred Scott decison.waS there
regarded inspired writing-almost much
the tablets on Mount Sinai. Logan was then a warm
advocate of Stephen A. Douglas and an adherent of
his fortunes. He then, now, a friend,
devoted champion and hard hitter and these quail
ties soon brought him to the notice of Douglas, who
at once took great interest in him. and finally in
1858 after several terms in the Legislature got him
a nomination and election to Congress. Logan was
thirty three old when he took his seat from the
Southern Illinois district.
HOW HE DISPOSED OF CHALLENGE.
Another instance of Logans adherence to the rules
of common sense, and his dissemination to follow
either prejudice precedent when principles of COM
mon sense available furnished by his celehra-
ted treatment of the Low challenge to fights duel W.
W. Low member of the House from Alabama,
erred in speech the old Islander that Logan the
beginning of the war in doubt to whether to Of
fer his sword to Mr.. Lincoln Mr.. Davis. Logan,
who was then in the Senate hotly resented the mpu
tatien which being repeated by Mr.. Low outside the
House led to passionate controversy, in which Lo
gan called Low a liar Of course this meant fight
from Alabama standpoint, and Low next day sent
friend with challenge Logan received the friend.
read his paper and them fgurativey speaking kicked
him out of the According to the code the
friend should that treatment have challenged Lo
gan himself but look at the deep, dark eye swarthy
visage and huge black mustache deferred him. He did
not challenge Logan, nor did Mr.. Low make any
further demonstration Suppose, said friend,
that according to the code he proclaims you
ard 'Then replied Logan; with blood in his eye.
Il will tweak his id nose" That was the first and
only time anybody attempted to fool around General
Logan with challenge to the field of honor"
General Iiogan's personal appearance is too well
known to need than reference His long,
straight black hair, mOnStrouS muStache, his dark
skim his vigorous stride. and his stalwart frame
all familiar to the country. Artists and caricaturstS
have famliarized his features almost much they
have Butlers. Time has dealt very lightly with his
sable locks though the big musache shows stIeaks of
white and the ever-ready eyeglasses show that the
eagle eye is dimrning But his frame is erect his
features strong and his voice rings out with all its old
strength and melowness.
A CLEAN, BRAVE MAN
Though twenty years in Congress- unlike many Of
his contemporaries General Logan is comparatively
poor His hands are clean of jobbery-even his
mics have never charged thing upon him. For some
years he has resided in Chicago, where he
Portable homestead Calumet avenue. Even this he
rents now believed because he does feel able
to keep up two establishments When in Washington
he boards in the plainest manner and lives wholly
within his salary as a senator. But he is not RICH
nor has even competence Should he retire from
public life he would have to TO practcing law for
living. General Logan married, at the beginning Of
his career. Miss Mary Cunningham, daughter of Ma
Tor Cunningham of jackson county. She is brilliant
woman an active Christian worker, and sagacious
and Loving counselor. General Logan owes much of
his success in life the support and gentle in
Auence of his cherished wife They have two chill
dren one daughter married TO Major W. f. Tucker,
a paymaster in the army, and the other son, Man.
ming Logan lad of nineteen, who is cadet at West
Point, A little grandson. John Logan Tucker @tat
seven may be seen, rather heard in the corridors
of the Grand Pacific at almost any hour morning
noon night when he Is in town, and in restless
ergy and logged persistence he bids fair one day to
rival his illustrous progenitor.
A PEN SKETCH.
More than anyone in Congress- certainly, and prob
ably in the broad land Logan resembles North
American Indian. His form is erect, his complexion
swalthy and his hair long and jet black. His eyes
dark and piercing, not furtive, but searching. He
stands fully six feet in height. OF late years