Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-09-19
eureka Dailp 5futiuel.
SATURDAY.. SEPTEMBER 10. 1886.
L.OGAN's LAST SUCCESS.

As one of the initiatory steps in the
Presidential boom of John A. Logan, it
is announced that one of that gentle
mans trusted political friends has now
in preparation a history of the late cele-
brated contest for United States Sena.
torship in the Illinois Legislature, in
which the peculiar tactics adopted by
the Republicans to elect a Represents.
tive at the special election in the Thirty.
fourth District, and thereby break the
deadlock that had SO long existed, will
be fully explained. The causes which
brought about the unexpected Demo-
cratic defeat were these:
Never was a political secret better
kept than the Republican plan for steal
ing a march on the Democrats. The
latter were not allowed to see a Repub.
lican ticket, and in fact did not know
that such a ticket was in existence un.
til near the close of the election, when
it was too late. Only three or four
trusty Republicans in a township were
let into the secret on the day or night
before the election, and they were eau
toned how to distribute the tickets,
and no doubtful Republican, nor one who
could not keep his mouth shut, was to be
given o ticket at all. The impression
was general in both parties that the
Democratic candidate would have no
opposition, hence hundreds upon hun
dreds of voters did not 20 to the polls.
In some Democratic precincts it was not
deemed necessary to open the polls at all.
At this election for Representative the
Republicans apparently felt no concern,
attended to their usual avocations, and
did not 60 about the polls in most cases
till an hour or two before closing time,
and then they rushed in from every d.
rection and won the day. 1t was a
splendid job on their part, and when the
Democrats recovered from their surprise
and the mists cleared away they were
obliged to laugh over their ludicrous de.
feat.
The following extract from al address
by Gen. ]. NJ. Ruggles, Chairman of the
Republican County Committee of Mason
county. issued a few days after the cleo.
tion of Weaver, is an interesting addi-
ton to the history of this novel cleo
ton: "Our candidate was selected by
the Senatorial Committee, and the tick
cts were printed and distributed the day
before the election, and those who were
fortunate enough to get one went and
voted just as the law authorized them
to do-if it was a little late in the even.
ing. We claim no patent on the still
hunt mode of conducting a
Thirty years ago the Democrats played
it on us in a way we despised, in San.
canon county, then in this Senatorial
district. Mr.. Lincoln was at the time
U ulculUcE VI tHS lAOuoC v AoSChiosy )
and was agreed upon as a candidate for
United States Senator. Not wishing to
vote for himself, he concluded to resign,
and by electing a man in his place
gain a vote. The night before the cleo
tion the Democrats brought out a scrub
candidate from the country, rode all over
the county, ralIying the Democrats and
electing their man in the face of a
thousand majority against them. Mr..
Lincoln lost his seat in the House and
failed to be elected Senator. After
waiting thirty long years we concluded
it was time to pay back the Democrats
in their own coin, which we have done
in the election Of Capt. Weaver; and if
it would result in the seating of Gen.
Logan in the Senate, we shall consider
ourselves amply avenged.
So Logan was elected, but Morrison,
personally, was much less grieved at
that result than he would have been at
the success of some of his Democratic
.--1-A.