The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-07-15

uC Hcc6luS VI hO AAoOA' Va
Ohio" to express the indignation OF
the people at the course Of Senators
Logan, Teller and Evarts," was per-
haps the strangest affair of the kind
ever witnessed in Ohio. That men
who have been conducting Republi-
can newspapers for quarter OF CEN
tury, with full power and opportuni-
ty to speak their minds as freely and
vigorously as possible, should feel
called upon, in order to be effective, to
meet as public gathering and resolve,
thus and so, is certainly humiliating
picture of the power of the great
moral engine" Then the Indignation
seems to have cooled down very con-
siderably after the gathering, at Co.
lumbus, and the business OF the meet
ing was diverted from the course OF
hurting Indignation at the three Sen
ators, to that Of organizing a Repub-
lican Editorial Association Of Ohio.
And aside from this work, one cannot
see how the meeting was anything
save an amusing farce. The people
Of Ohio, thoroughly disgusted with
the corrupt practices of the Democrat
ic party, and notably Of the admins
tration under which Payne was sent
to the Senate, expressed, firmly, un-
mistakably, at the ballot-box, their in
dignation. To defeat party which
permits such methods to enter into its
work, is the most that the people can
do. There is no reasonable ground to
hope that a hearing of the Payne case
by the Senate, would result in the ex-
pulson of Senator Payne, and while
we might perhaps have voted for the
investigation had we been in Logan's
place, we are not in favor Of censur-
ing the brave old soldier and gallant
Republican leader, because he saw fit
to follow what he regarded as the line
of his duty. We do not want to be
placed in a position to be compelled
to take anything back. There has
been too much of this killing off of
great Republican leaders, and the
work is all conducted on the
same plan. Roscoe Conkling, the
ablest debater Of modern times, was
bounded out Of politics because he
was a Republican, and when, after he
ceased to appear in the political fight
as an intense Republican, it was found
that no man could take his place, the
curses were louder than ever. All
that was accomplished by the politi-
cal slaughter Of the New York states
man, was the loss of New York and
the turning Of the National Admins
tration over to the Democratic party.
The same plan of attack has been en-
ployed in other cases, and the same
influences, or rather agencies, now as
sail Logan, Evarts and Teller. There
may possibly be one or two politicians
in Ohio wild enough to hope that
there was a chance of their succeeding
Payne in the Senate, in case Of the
latter's expulsion. The action of some
of them points in that direction.
With all due regard for the great
men who are making war upon Logan,
we would call attention to the fact
that the man who assumes to be a
leader in the whole matter was a rant
ing, bowling Democrat during the
Greeley campaign, abused Blaine most
outrageously, and signified purpose
to oppose Grant, if nominated in 1880.
This is the 'Republicanism" that
wages war upon Logan. While Logan
was charging the enemy's artillery in
the South, this great leader was in the
North, bowling that Grant ought to
be put out Of the way. This, soldier
friends, is the character of the ''Re-
publicanism' which assumes to ex-
press the indignation Of the people Of
Ohio! As a body representing the
Republicans of Ohio, those who at
tended-and very good men they are,
too-have doubtless already enjoyed a
hearty laugh over it. Foraker's plu-
rality was the verdict Of the Republi-
cans of Ohio in the Payne case,
though we would have had it a little
more emphatic because little larger.
Let the assassins go on, killing off
men like EvarLs and Logan. and It