The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-22

slhsleu out over other Senator'S, and
nave suspicion cast upon me? Ii was
done Just as many things have been
aohe since then. 1t seems to be thought
I 1 now Is the time to kill of the
epublicans. God knows that I am too
snan person for them to com.
mence shooting. at first. Why
should 1 be killed of? am
not In the way of anybody. l am not 8
candidate IN Ohio for any Office, and |
90 not want 70 be candidate for any
ONCE. Why is it that they persistently
attack, one day Logan, next day Eyarts
and next day, after killing of these two
men, they say now it is time for our
nero Il seems, sir, that this is part of
the play, for the purpose of destroying,
II possible, Republicans in the Senate
chamber, instead of ousting the Sen
ator from Ohio. Well. that i al right.
l am ready 70 be destroyed. l am no
help to anybody. 1t will not hurt any
oody 70 Kill me cff-nOt the slightest. I
have been killed Off half a dozen times
and they may Kill me again. 1t will
not hurt me and If il be pleasure to
other people, let them have their fun. ("
l am not candidate in Ohio for any
ohce, and l do not want 10 be a candi-
daie for any Office. Referring TO the
attacks made upon him bv the CONNER
eidt Gazette, Logan said the Cincinnati
Gazette is a very influential paper, a
very powerful paper; nobody disputes
that. 1t is owned and edited and has
been for long time by a man named
Halstead. In the days of Abraham
Lincoln, Halstead thought that Lin
coins head ought to be chucked
against wall AMI his brains knocked
out, or something like that. That was
n n.,ff 80 I L,
Halstead thought that Grant was a
drunken old loafer who ought to be
kicked out OF society. That was
complimentary TO Grant. 1 came
to the Senate here almost
accidently, and the first thing l knew
VIXEN l got here picked up the Gin
cinnati Commercial one day and found
five columns of the paper charging my
friend from Ohio, who presides so
honorably and fairly over this body.
with all sorts of things. The next
thing that 1 found in the Cincinnati
Commercial was that James G. Blaine
was a scoundrel and thief and villain
VINO should be executed at the nearest
lamp post. l did not believe it about
Blaine, / did not believe il about Sher-
man, did not believe ii about Grant,
ana / do not believe il about Lincoln.
did not think that l was a
big enough fellow ever to be
attacked by the Cincinnati Commercial
and / never dreamed of such a thing
But the other day l picked up the
| paper. and to my utter establishment l
found my name mentioned in it in a
complimentary way in connection with
the names of the two other Senators
who are greater men than myself.
Logan here quoted from the Cincinnati
Commercial Gdzette an article against
himself and Senators EYarts and Teller.
and speaking of Evarts as a representa-
tive Of coal oil in the Senate, and that
as TO Teller he wasn't worth talking
about in the Presidential boom. The
article continued that two distinguished
| Republican United States Senators can
now be tenderly laid away to eternal
rest. THAT" said Logan, addressing
Evarts means yourself and the Sen
ator from OhiO-Sherman." (Laughter.)
1T cannot allude to anybody else.
There is nobody else that is spoken of
in that artic who is an aspirant for an
office of that kind (Laughter.) His col
leagues on the Presidential ticket had
been the subject of that papers fulmina-
/ tons every morning as though Blaine
had been a criminal and had been con
vlcted OF every crime in the
decalogue. How wa it now? Now
eulogy was the order of the
day in that paper. He was
| glad of it. He was glad that they had
come TO the conclusion that they were
wrong, and were row willing to do
/ justice to Blaine. But it only proved
that il the three Republican Senators
had submitted TO dictation they would
have received the eulogies of this gentle
man Murat Halstead, of Cincinnati.
In conclusion Logan said he had been
acruated in this matter by impulse,
not by being sggrieved; nor by
attacks, but by a calm, deliber-
ate examination of the testimony and
of the law in the case. He had done his
duty and would stand by il for his
action was right and just'and proper.
! Applause on the floor and in the gall
lery). Teller. he said, wss not on trial;
ne had no defense to make neither to
the people OF Ohio nor any other State.
The committee had kept steadily and
truthfully in the line of precedents.
There was not a single ruling of that
body that would justify the position
taken BY the minority.
Teller was proceeding to analyze the
testimony in the case, but gave way TO
a motion to adjourn, holding the floor
to conclude his remarks tomorrow.