Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-07-29
HOT sHoT FROM LOGAN.
He Pays His Respects to Beast Hal
stead.

Wednesday last, speaking upon the
Payne investigation fiasco, among 9TH
er things, paid his respects to beast Hal
stead as follows:
There Is q newspaper in the country
Il am a friend of newspapers and they
are friends of mine, from what / read,
known as the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette. Some friends whisper to me,
Logan you had better let the CONNER
cidL- Gazette alone" but am going to
read from it as evidence against myself.
The Cincinnati Con1n1ercidL- Gdzette is
very influential paper-a very power
full paper-nobody disputes that. It is
owned and edited land has been for a
long time) by a man named Halstead.
He Is gentleman of wealth and infiH-
ence, and it is easy for him to trample
on creature like me, because have
no aspirations in the world beyond
what am, and inasmuch as the State
of Illinois does not always ask my
friend Halsted what she shall do about
her Senators, and as l am not desiring
to be Senator from Ohio, ] propose
that my friend Halsted shall have all
the power and influence and shall ex-
ercise it against me In Ohio. will try
to take care of myself at home. Hal
stead, as l said, is man Of wealth and
influence. In the days of Abraham Lin
coin Halstead said that Lincoln's head
ought to be chucked against q wall and
his brains knocked out or something
like that. That was complimentary to
Lincoln. In 1868 Halstead thought
that Grant was drunken old loafer
and ought to be kicked out of society.
That was complimentary to Grant. AZ
ter Grant was elected President, Hal
stead thought that he was dirty, cor
rupt old scoundrel, who was not to
be trusted by the people ofthe country;
so in 1872 Halstead supported Greeley
for the presidency against Grant be-
cause Grant was not q man to be
trusted. I came to the Senate here al
most accidentally; and the first thing
| knew when l got here | picked up .
Cincinnati Commercial one day and
found five columns of that paper charg-
ing my friend from Ohio, who presides
so honorably and fairly over this body,
with all sorts of things. The article was
written from Washington City and pub
lished with great headlines to show
that our friend Senator was dishonOr-
able, corrupt man, who ought not to be
trusted anywhere on account Of some
kind of devilment he had with the
quartermaster during the war.
The next thing that found in the
Cincinnati Commercial was that James
G. Blaine was scoundrel, a thief and
william who should be executed at the
nearest lamp-post. did not believe il
about Blaine; I did not believe it about
Sherman; l did not believe it about
Lincoln. Edid not think that 1 was q
big enough fellow ever to be attacked
by the Cincinnati C0n1nsercidl- Gazette
but the other day to my utter astonish'
ment, found my name mentioned III
it in the complimentary way, in connec
ton with the names of two other Sena'
tors who are greater men than am
Halstead is the man who got up thi!
case by first publishing all these Dona
van charges and he says, speaking in {
very kind manner of the Senator from
New York, the Senator from Colorado
and myself, "that all the arts of cor
cupt schemers and all the blandish
ments of millions have been brought tt
bear upon U.S."
Mr.. Logan here quoted from tn
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette an ar
ticle against himself and Senator
Evarts and Teller, and speaking of MI
Evarts as a representative of the Goa
oil in the Senate, and as to Teller, h
was not worth talking about.
'"The presidential boom," the articl
continued, 'of two distinguished Re
publican United States Senators cal
now be tenderly laid away to eterna
rest" That, said Mr.. Logan address
ing Mr.. Evarts,) means yourself an,
the Senator from Ohio, Mr.. Sherman
[Laughter.] 1t cannot allude to an,
body else, as there is nobody else tina
is spoken of in that article who is al
aspirant for an office of that kind
I[Laughter.
| After referring to other editorials ant
to the story that Senator Cameron ha
said $780, apiece would be paid 70
six Senators to vote to prevent tn
Payne investigation, he said he woul
now read, in order to show how mucl
he was in favor with certain people i
Ohio, or rather with certain politician
there, letter which he had receives
from the Lieutenant Governor of tn
State. He read letter dated June 2t
in which the writer stated the assertion
was not too broad that his (Logan's
vote would be disapproved by ever
Republican in Ohio who was not pul
chased or the hired defender of coal oil
and also by large majority of tn
Democratic party of the State. TIL
writer was free to say that matter
which had come to his knowledge ha
led him to believe that that the coal o.
gang believed they had money suff
cient to protect them under all circun
stances, and that no one was too hig
or exalted not to have his price. That
, said Logan, is pretty broad insinntio
against us, gentlemen, coming from tn
Lieutenant governor of Ohio. He (Lo
gan) had no criticism to make upon th
letter, except that he was sorry that
man holding so high a position shoul
make use of such language against
man who was nearly as good as himsel
1t might strike some people as strang
that he should read these newspaper
paragraphs aud letters, but he did it fc
the purpose of showing the malignit
| against certain Republican Senator,
and to show the character Of the attac
y that was made by Republicans upo
Republicans for their destruction. Me
who would resort to such vile attack
, were the men who did not desire tn
success of the party, but rather desire
destruction ofcertain men who woul
not bow to their beck and call. HI
would not repeat the words that wer
said to him as to what would be done
he bowed to the demand made of hir
: and violated his conscience. Ifhe ha