The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-06
LOGAN'S RECEPTION IN BOSTON.
Senator HOar Waves Something Very Like
the Bloody Shirt in His Honor.


Senator Hoar Waves Something Very Like
the Bloody Shirt in His Honor.
Report in Boston Herald.
am honored in being invited to help honor
the guest of this evening. If he had come to
Massachusetts at the beginning of career in
early youth, with a commission Of the State OF
Illinois, and told that he represented the State
OF Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses 5. Grant, il
would claim enough for the good will of the Re
pubicans of Massachusetts. He comes here as
veteran in civil life, foremost in the political
battles upon which for the last thirty years the
fate of the Nation of good government, of
| American honor and American liberty have been
| dependent His form is ever in the front rank;
| his voice is ever certain. But it is not that we
| think of now. There is higher title, and there
| will be higher title until the youngest head in
| this audience has grown gray and laid Itself
| down in death, and we believe it the highest
title on the face of the earth, of true honor and
or true rank, and that is that he was the fore
most volunteer soldier in the great war of the
| rebellion. Massachusetts has been hos
pitably inclined lately. The second
man in official rank has been
welcomed with accustomed grace and hosptali-
| ty. We are glad in paying respects to Mr..
| hendricks, to pay respect to the government
which, for the time being, he represents. l do
| not think we mean to carry our cOmpaiSance
quite SO far as he thought was going to be done:
| to put Massachusetts by the side of Indiana.
| When he meant not the Indiana of Oliver p
| Morton, but the Indiana of the Knights of the
| Golden Circle. The scholarship of MasSachu-
| sets has this last week welcomed an illustrous
| scholar poet, a wit and essayist, VINO has
| been representing this country abroad. We
| all OF US proud of Mr.. Lowell, and we would not
| take single laurel from the chaplet he
worthily wears; but, as said before, the sturdy
| heart Of Massachusetts, of her people on her
| farms and in her workshops and her soldiers,
| and her aged men, and her youth, goes out
| to no one else as to the stout hearted sol
der IN whose approaching footsteps she
recognizes one that sounds like her own. Old
| Puritan Massachusetts,, who faced the savage
and wild beasts 230 years ago. and laid the foun-
dation of her little commonwealth, and the
foundation Of this great commonwealth of Co.,
000, OOO, has no laurel like that which she would
put on the brow of the soldier who himself was
wounded three times, and was struck by bullets
| dozen more, to save the life Of this country.
| Philosophers and morasts tell US that the vic
| tories of peace are greater than those of war
and that is true of mere vulgar military glory.
| That Is true Of a war of conquerers to indulge
| mems greed, or for acquiring foreign territory
| or for acquiring glory. But it is not true when
man, whoever he Is, gives up life, health hope,
| friendship, home, companionship of wife and
| children to die for one of the most precious
| things of life to u.s. the continued life of our
country Of that love, honor and glory the
guest of to night, stands the representative of
| every common volunteer soldier of the country
| In this room, three or four days ago, Thomas A.
! Hendricks, representing the Democratic party
was kind enough to say that John A. Logan had
| helped save the country.
l will not undertake to discuss at any particu-
| length the political situation. The President
| has been in Office less than four months and
there IS always clamOr in mems minds in regard
| to beginning. Men who have opposed the ad-
mnistration were hopeful that things would not
| be as bad as they feared, aud the men who are
guilty of it, or responsible for it, are trying to
| find some good reason to prove that they did not
make a mistake, but have not heard claim
| from the most Jealous supporter of Mr.. Ceve-
| land, except it was based on his having, to some
| extent, carried out an old Republican octrine
| the fact that, after all. he had left a con-
| siderable number OF Republicans in Office. Did
| you take the only thing in which this admins
tration has shown its temper or its character in
its appointments to public Office during the last
| four months? Take foreign representa-
| ton Now, L suppose that we have not
much to require in the way of diplomatic
services; it is certainly not the diplomacy of the
| United States which Mr.. Lowell has been repre-
! senting in England. While several very worthy
men have gone abroad | wish could find one of
whose career l know anything, who. if there
| should come up IN an English German, or
French or Turkish diplomatic circle any discus
sion of the glories of the history of our country
| if anyb body should undertake to compliment this
country on having put down gigantic rebellion,
or having struck the letters from four million
slaves and for having preserved the national
honor when Satan whispered in our hearts to re-
pudiate the great burden of the national debt
would not feel as if he wanted to crawl under
the table. Why, there is our excellent friend,
Mr.. Cox-now | like brother Cox, and have
knowledge of his wit-but he is like Mickey
Free, who said:
Il have not genius for work,
That gift of the Bradys
But would make a most Elegant Turk
For / m fond of tobacco and ladies'"
Mr.. Pendleton retired into private life for
his advocacy of the civiservice reform bill by
the civil service Democracy of the State of Ohio,
and now Mr.. Cleveland has undertaken to make
it up to him by sending him abroad to the great
court of Germany. Mr.. Pendeton and Mr.. Cox
ilbustered for two days and nights to prevent the
passage of the thirteenth amendment, providing
for the adjustment of slavery in the United
States. They have turned out poor Meade, Of
Mississippi, whose fault it was that he did a
year ago last fall those acts of murder and vio-
lence which were warning to the Republican
party in other doubtful States in the South
what was to be their fate if they attempted to
make canvass in the next Presidential election
President Cleveland was bound, in my judg
ment, either to keep Meade, by whom his party
gained its success, or to step out of the Presi-
Dental chair himself In conclusion Mr..
Hoar said, it is not question of majority or of
minority, it is question of Gods truth, and if
T}0a1 bo crodt no Tar