The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-27

1t Puts Politics Fighting Basis - It's
Effect 1888.


Effect ON 1888.
Gath's New York Special
John Logans election puts belligerency into the
political atmosphere. 1t gives the Republican
party confidence in its physical external ale-
ments, and presents the first appearance of a
of intrepid nature since the last. presi-
Dental campaign. Logan never turned up dock
leaves to see if he could not discover friend
concealed there and doing something naughty
He got on a horse and went to the front of his
friends line of battle and pointed across to the
other line and said "Stir them up, boys He
buried all his prejudices, which no witch burner
has ever done. Logan, for much OF his life
believed. if not in slavery in the slave holders
equity. He believed that compact made be-
tween friendly States was TO be preferred to
any cranks .highar law" The trouble about
the higher law is that Seward may have It
as well as Guiteau The lower law is quite high
enough for the average man to be obedient to IT,
General Logan again energies from apparent
discontinue to be one of the Presidential guam
titles of 1888 1t is quite probable that in three
years we shall all be tired of being holier than
the next man. Then the public mind will run
to an extreme it will ask that the natural man
be presented to it when aware of where he is
rooted
The long contest at Springfield has shown
Logan to have clearer head than ever, more
magnanimity than he was ever suspected of, the
lasting qualities which make great prince or
magistrate, the epuipoise which he has been
learning from great experience all his life, and
not merely smart In the slang or the moral
PHILOSOPHERS Nothing of that puppyism is in
the plain soldier Of the progeny of Abraham
Lincoln. When Stephen A. Douglas went
to President Lincoln after the fir
ing on Fort Sumter and told HIM
that he meant to sustain him and
his government, Mr. Lincoln said: douglas,
had right to expect this of you. 60 out to Iii.
nois and use your influence for the country with
the Democratic party. Go and see Logan. /
expect the same from him." 1t was not long
before John A. Logan was the foremost volun-
teer officer in the whole country. He had taken
up his musket in the Mexican war and marched
among the privates; although ne was in politics
as early as 1849 he did not come to the bar till
nine years before the Rebellion. He was a presi-
Dental eleetor for Buchanan, and he resigned
as Democrat from Congress to enter the army
colonel against disunion. He rose TO the
command of an army Immediately after the
war he appeared in Congress from Illinois, and
his adhesion to the Repu blican party
ephemeral movement. because when Andrew
johnson stood across the path of reconstruction
Logan became one of the managers OF his trial.
John A. Logan was the political pupil of
Stephen A. Douglas; later on he was follower
of Thaddeus Stevens. He is an imperous man,
with both will and humors he must now be fully
sixty years of age; his age is not given in any
of the Congressional directories can fnd.
Logan came out of this conflict strong be-
cause nearly three months of the new admins
tration have been seen; the formulation OF the
politics of the immediate future required some
such crisis a. that at Springfield 70 show the
tenacity and strength Of the Republicans. The