The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-07-29
Lo3AN DEFENDS The REPUBLICAN
PARTY AGAINST It's ENEMIES !

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On last Wednesday the Payne case was
called up in the Senate, and Gen. Logan
Notwithstanding the gush about Hoar
and Frye, succeeded in compelling these
Senators to admit that they knew moth
ing whatever about particular cases of
bribery, and there was nothing brought
out which would convict man before a
country Justice of the Peace Gen. Log
an took the floor and made a somewhat
| vigorous speech. The Commercial GaZ-
cite, although still brutally attacking
Logan, did not publish this speech! Log
an showed that Halstead has abused and
blackguarded nearly all the public men
who have attained greatness in the Ma
ton, through the Republican party; that
he howled for the knocking of Lincoln in
the head, the removal of Grant from the
Army, and that he characterized John
Sherman, BIain and Grant as scoudrels
that he attacked Garfield, and in fact
that his whole aim in life seems to have
been the breaking down of the great lead
ers of the Republican party. There is in
fact not a Copperhead editor in the State
1 WIN OCC1 l1OlO OilSCt Ill uClioIIItt-
tion of the Republican leaders than has
Murat Halstead When Blain was sun
struck in Washington, and supposed to
| be dying in the arms of heart-broken
wife, the brutality of the Commercial
| Gazette only increased in volume and
nastiness, and the insinuation was freely
| indulged in that this was little by-play
| for +ho of nrnofinr cyTroonothu
| When Grant was nominated for the sec
ond term, the Commercial Gazette-then
the Comm supported the Demo
| cratic ticket, and did it's level best to turn
| the country over to the Democracy it
| now affects to hate. This man, then,
comes with the record of having eXhaus-
ted himself in Safeguarding John Sher
man, Grant, Garfield, Blaine, and others,
and attacks Logan. After while he
will be enthusiastically bowling that
Logan is one of the grandest men in this
country.
In his comparisons, Gen. Logan places
the war record of Senator Payne beside
that of Halstead, and here is the picture:
While Halstead was bowling that Grant
was a drunken imbecile and Lincoln
fool, Henry B. Payne was giving freely
of his wealth to carry on the war, and
was a Union man, while his son was
leading a command of troops on the bat
tle-ield. We do not use this in defense
of Payne, for we despise his politics,
but as showing the record of the over
virtuous Republican" as compared with
the truly bad Democrat. AS we before
remarked, Logan's speech was not pub
lished, but the entire force of the paper
Boynton, Mussey, and Halstead took
whack at Safeguarding Logan.
In careful hands, there might have
been strong case worked up against
Payne, but as it is, personal hatred has
been permitted to usurp the place of COM
mon sense, and the Republicans of Ohio
must be made a laughing stock thereby.
We occasionally see dude, an imbecile
or an outright idiot, who will howl that
any man who don't fall in with this howl
against the great leaders of the Republi-
can forces can have no influence. do
we want that kind of influence-the kind
that obtains in Asylums for Lunatics
Vallandigham was arrested for far less
REASONABLE talk than Halstead had dur
ing the darkest days of the war. While
Logan, with the grand old Fifteenth
Corps was charging into the enemy's
lines, planting the flag of his country up
on the soil held by armed trait
ors, Halstead was writing letters telling
how to conduct the war by destroying
the great Generals. 1t was the same
plan. He would have the armies disor
ganized by removing the leaders now
he would have the Republican party des
troyed by killing off the men who have
fought its battles and made it a success.
We believe there is something grand
about the history of the Republican par
ty. We believe that men like Logan and
Blaine, and Garfield, and John Sherman,
who stood by the Government, fearlessly,
on the field of battle, or in the Halls of
Congress, during the time when loyalty
cost something, deserve the perpetual adj
miration and affection of the people of
this country, and especially of the Re
publican party. We do not believe that
the man who, during all those dark days
was engaged in Safeguarding and
threatening these same men, has any
right to claim anything at the hands OF
the Republican party. We hold that a
man can be Republican, without being
either an idiot or scoundrel, and merely
as an illustration we will say that occa-
sionally an over-Zealous dude will sol
emnly notify Republican who has
served in the party since its organization,
4Iox 10
the dude was yet unborn, OF was befou-
ling the lap of his nurse, that "he is not
true Republican" At the same time
that Republican has been where the dude
would not dare to go, in upholding the
Republican party.
Those engaged in this howl against
Logan are heartily ashamed of it, and we
are glad to note the fact 1t is certainly
a preposterous idea that the grand monu-
ment brave Logan carved out with his
sword, can be tarnished by the mud
thrown by men who, in the heat of bat |
tie, were on the other side. Halstead is
the enemy of Logan, just as he has been |
the enemy of every great man in the Re-
publican party. 1t will be useless to at |
tempt to turn the old soldiers against one |
of the grandest and braveSt commanders, |
the man who is perhaps the best friend !
of the soldier, that the country has pro-
duced. And the manner in which the
gallant Logan annihilates the treacher-
Gus Halstead, and the way the latter
squirms, and whines, and protests that
he loves Logan, is decidedly amusing to
the old boys. No enemy ever attacked
Logan on the field without feeling that
he had made mistake-and no man has
him in times of peace, without
having the same experience. Shall all
the glorious services of Logan be blotted
out by cheap advertisement for news
paper? Every old soldier in the land will
answer laundering "Now Logan is the