Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-07-19
Democratic Nominees.
GROVER CLEVELAND,
OF NEW YORK,
FOR PRESIDENT.
THOMAS A.. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
JOHN A. LOGAN.

Dental campaign. Were he at the head
Of the Republican ticket, it would be
indispensable to consider his personal
character first of all; for in case OF his
election he would stand out before the
world as individually a representative Of
the American people. So that, while,
necessarily, particular Importance is at
tached to the private character OF MIR.
Blaine, the candidate with him for the
Vice Presidency may be dismissed, for
the present, after looking into his char
acteristics as representative of the DISPOSE
ton and purposes of the Republican
party.
MIR. Logan, while pluming himself on
the things accomplished by the War OF
Secession, the chief Of which was the
abolition of slavery, in 1859, as is proved
by his own public ~utterances, cheerfuily
joined with those rabid people in Illinois
to make the Fugitive Slave law effective.
He said he was glad to do the dirty
work" Of the nti-abolitionists; and he
was also the originator Of the famous
Black laws of Illinois which provided
that any negro or mulatto coming into
that State from the South should be sold
at public auction to the highest bidder.
At the opening of the Wa he was a
secessionist of the rabidest kind, but
thereupon he shed his coat at once, and,
as any other mere adventurer would, he
joined the Union army to fight against
the very men who took up arms to con-
tend for what he had most vociferously
advocated as their inalienable right.
That he fought well, there seems to be
no question. Thusands besides him did
the same. A bulldog will fight his own
brother to the death. But if the country
were looking for a fighter to make a Vice
President of they would not need Black
Jack above all others.
Yet it is strictly on account Of his
record as a fighter, that Gen. Logan is
named for that place-on account of his
record in a war in which he took a bull
dog part squarely against Ills repeatedly
declared convictions Of right.
This is only one of the many proofs of
Republican neutrality-suspicious. pol
icy, which ignores consistency, if need
be, for the sake Of availability or expedi-
ency. In Gen. Logan it accepts a candi-
date for the second Office in the gift of
the American people because, perhaps,
his bloody shirt record will balance Mr..
Blaine's sending a substitute to do his
battling for the country. They put for
ward Gen. Logan to ~whoop-up war is.
sues, when, at heart, he is as Objectionable
to Republicans as eve any Southern So
called slave driver ever was.
And these ideas are not ours. They
were originated and have been repeated
time and again by radically Republican
newspapers.
The Republican party, in framing their
ticket, did SO deliberately with the vair
expectation of hoodwinking a large class
Of Democratic voters. 1t thought Blaine
and Logan would catch the Irish vote
1t was foolish enough to calculate tina
these two men, on account of certain acts
Of theirs done for political effect, and fol
their own benefit out of the sensation
would blind theIrish voter of the country
as to which party is their real friends
The Republican party, its speakers, it
newspapers and all its other organs, hav'
never let the opportunity slip to slur tn
Democratic party on account Of it
"Irish Element" When election tim
comes around, however, they deliberatel,
insult the Irish by appealing to them TO
their votes-as though the Irish have no
the intelligence to see through thi
mask of hypocrisy, or the memory t,
recall the endless indignities that the,
have to endure in every shape from thei
pretended Republican friends after ever,
election and up to the eve of the next.
But as to Mr.. Logan, the followin
from the San Francisco Argonaut, whicI
expresses exactly the estimation OF th
Republican party for the Irish, will b
read with especial interest. row, becaus
it was not intended for the present oc
.casion. MIR. Pixley said in the Argo
naut Of October %, 1888:
We are sorry that the Hon. John A
Logan, Senator from Illinois, has mad,
such a conspicuous idiot of himself as h,
has done by making a speech to a mob o
l~and-league Irish in Chicago, d~enouncin.
the English Government and its premier
MI. Gladstone. This unbecominp atti
tude OF q United States Senator indicate.
that he is q ~demagogue. If Mr.. Logar
thinks to commend himself or the Re
publican party to the consideration OF in
telligent men by toadying to the Irish h,
will find himself mistaken. The Repub
lican party will favor no such uprising
Mr.. Logan is a fool. He does not know
that the success of this Irish rebellion
means the destruction OF civilized govern