St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-22

hospitalitles of the Logan helicOn have far
exceeded those dispensed at the Blaine
Olympus. All Washington is vivid with
the remembrances of the good cheer dis
pensed this year by Mrs. Logan, while Mrs.
Blaine, far removed from the capital, has
been housed all winter in an Arctic atmOs-
phere both in and out of doors. The
faces OF the general and Mrs. Logan have
been
wREATHED IN SMILES,
and receptions, visits and handskakings
have been the order of the day at their
helicon. At the Blaine Olympus they have
wrapped themselves in blankets, shivered
over the fireplaces and with minds eve
strained several degrees southwark gazed
remOrsefully into the White house where
Americas capital gathers its beauty and its
ehiyalry to pay deyoirs to President Cleve-
land. Floating back in imagin-
alton come the strains of the
Marine band, trumpeting HAL to The
chief" and the perfume of flowers, the
aroma of evergreens and ferns, the brilliant
gas jets, and the almOst-endleSs procession
OF brave and distinguished men and lovely
and accomplished women are mirrored into
the mansion at Augusta, painful reminders
OF what might have BEEN" Then the
''Plumed Knight" probably proceeds to
drown his sorrows in
CUP OF HARD CIDER.
and repeats to himself certain obscure lines
commemorative of the peculiar faculty of
certain insect which, despite the absence of
wings, gets there all the same" He will
get there" and revei some day is the VOW
registered in the heavenly ehancery of the
Blaine edltice. Mrs. Logan, however, CON-
prehendS her powers and utiliZes them to
the best advantage. What wife may do
to make or mar her husband is fifty illus
trated in the comparison between Mrs.
Logan and Mrs. Blaine. 1t is
universally admitted at Washington that
the characteristics of the two wives must
exercise somewhat reflex influence upon
the political fortunes of their husbands.
The magnetism" is with Mr.. Blaine on
the one hand and with Mrs. Logan on the
other. Mr.. Blaine may faScinate men, but
Mrs. Logan charms both men and women
and she is practically irresistible. 1t is as
serted that Mr.. Blaine is apprehensive of
the
INFLUENCE OF MRS. LOGAN
more than that of her husband, but. in the
platitude of egOtism, he fancies he can un-
dermine or sweep away her achievements
whenever it becomes necessary to repeat
the tasks of Hercules in that direction.
The latest venture of Mrs. Logan into the
enemy's camp, and which occasions
comment at Washington, is her
aggressive fOray upon the Cali
tonia preserves, which have always
been regarded as the special and particular
property of Mr.. Blaine. Mrs. Logan earn
eStly desires to capture the Pacific coast
delegations to the Republican national con-
vention, and to that end it is alleged has
brought her guns TO bear upon the Stanford
mansion. Senator Stanford's influence is no
small affair. considering his wealth and
commanding position in Republican politics
in the Pacific states. and if he can be
weaned away from the Blaine blandish-
mentS and take service on behalf of Gen.
Logan's candidacy for the presidential nom
inatiOn, it will prove terrible backset to
Mr.. Blaine and seriously weaken him else
where. 1t remains to see whether or not
Stanford will capitulate and waive any am
bition he may possibly entertain on his own
behalf or for Mr.. Blaine, in favor of Gen.
Logan.