Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-07-17
LOGAN'S MILITARY BOOM.

Under .he head OF Black Jacks In
vasion OF Kansas" the New York Sun oil
the 18th has the following:
When the Hon. John Alexander Logan
perceived that Ohio had no use for him. ana
never would have any more use Tor nm as
candidate for the Presidency he turned with
a chastened but still hopeful heart to Kansas.
In that happy home of grasshoppers and
prohibition there might be some call, he
thought, for his somewhat shopworn stock
of Republicanism. In bleeding Kansas there
might be chance to trot out his old charger
of treason-trampling eloquence once more,
and to impress anew upon the Kansas mem
bers of the Grand Army of the Republic that |
he is soldiers friend, and that all others. |
even Extravaganza Blair, are counterfeits. |
So Logan Dhu went to Kansas
But his journey hasn't been triumphal
progress. The important journals in Mis-
souri, were invited to send reporters along
with him and spread the boom, but they
have not been enthusiastic over the invita-
ton. The Grand Army, which he seems to
regard as sort of political appanage of his
has not boiled over for Joy at his coming.
The Kansas Republicans have kept their
composure i'll spite of Black jacks fire and
frenzy. Perhaps the weather has been so
hot that the presence of Logan was felt as
an additional afliiction. Perhaps the Hon.
John James Ingalls, is regarded in Kansas
| as there is some reason to suppose he is else
where, as n bigger man than old Logan.
| Certainly Brother Blaine ia good enough for
the Kansas Republicans, and they do not
care to encourage Logan in his delusi on. At
| any rate, they seem not to have encouraged
him.
1t is said, however, that Old Moustachios,
undismayed by the bad business to which
he has beon playing in Kansas, intends to
make tour to the Pacific coast after the
adjournment of Congress- And yet Brother
Blaine has the Pacific States rather more
solidly, if anything, than he has his adopted
Maine. 1t may be magnificent for General
Logan to attack these strongholds of the
Plumed knight, but it is not war.
That Logan should visit the Pacific
Coast and take part in the Grand Army
Encampment to be held there is all very
well, and thousands of the men who
fought with him will be glad to receive
him and trot him around as one OF the
men who held high commands in the
army during the War OF the Rebellion,
but no more. There are number OF
gentlemen billed to appear at that en-
campment who were higher than Logan
in military sense, and who would scorn
to turn the occasion into semi-political
canvass, as he has done in Kansas. 1t
is the leading precept OF the Grand Army
of the Republic, that no man shall men
ton political or religious matters in its
councils, and no man has evel
dared to bid in any shape fol
its support in political warfare
until this Don Quixote OF the politica
arena sought to antagonize the order by
/, his attempt to gain its support for his
personal elevation. This trip through
t Kansas can be called nothing else than {
, bid for the vote OF soldiers, and its effect
, can be called nothing els than ilaI
failure, as it should be. TIL old spiri' o
: "hooroosh' that stirred in the breasts o
s the boys for some years Immediately fol
3 lowing the war has changed into sensible
f judgment in the now mature-aged mel
4 who compose the order, and they are ia
s from jumping at anything OF the blood,
= shirt order, rs bull does at rag. |
il Logan carefully studied the soldier vot
q in the last Presidential election, he mus
o know that by far the greatest portion OF
q was thrown against himself and he ough
@ to know that his subsequent record on tn
n Fitz-John Porter case has driven man,
q 10 oppose him who used to swear by him
II and they will make that fact patent t
o him, ii he succeeds in obtaining the mex
n Republican nomination. Ii we grant 10
/. the sake Of argument, I'VE do not in fact
d that Logan believed in the alleged error
# OF Porter, his vow OF fraternity TO brothe
q soldiers should have made him listen t
V the thousands OF appeals sent 10 him i
a Porter's behalf, but he committed tn
b objectionable error OF supposing that h
Is had corner on all the military righteou
" Indignation business, and he acted a,
Of cordingly, thereby estranging the Orde
d from him, rs an Order, and winning th
Il personal enmity OF three-iourths OF tn
70 men who belong TO it, His trip throug
IF Kansas was but forerunner of wha
"a awaits him in California, ii he follows h
RS tactics oi trying TO make political capiti
4 from a fraternal meeting OF soldiers of Ii
Al war.