The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-09-01
MARY S. LOGAN.
A Most Hearty Nomination Coming from
Many Quarters.

A Most Hearty Nomination Coming from
Many Quarters.
For National President Woman's Relief Corps
Mary 8. Logan. This Is nomination coming from
many quarters. It comes with the words OF zeal
and enthusiasm that mark spontaneous upris-
ing. 1t comes with the assurance that Washington
is the place and 10th annual Convention the time
for placing the wife of Gen. John A. Logan at the
head of the splendid Grand Army auxiliary which
he helped to found. One of our National reformers
very properly cages the wives of men by the esti-
mate which their husbands hold of womankind.
From this standpoint alone Mary s. Logan s a
queen among women Was not Gen. John A.
Logan among the very first to come out and speak
for the Relief Corps, when the rank and file Of the
Grand Army were holding back to see whether the
women would make a success of SO great an I'M
dertaking? From Washington, D. c., to WASH
ington on the Pacific SLOPE from Portland, Me-, to
Portland, Ore, he stood with the women every
platform, to voice his faith in womanknd.
Was not Gen. Logan the first to stand in the halls
OF Congress and plead for the rights Of the Army
Nurses; the very prophet and pioneer Of all that
has been emphasized for women along the lines
of patriotism and its rewards? The Woman's
Relief Corps never made a request of him but 1t
was answered promptly, generously. with over
flowing heart.
Here is the estimate of woman loved and hon
a woman's voice In his ear and Q woman's tears in
his heart, gave TO the Nation Memorial Day-Me-
mortal Day which annually brings Its tens Of
thousands of women into closer, kindier touch
with the men who saved the Nation.
Long before the Relief Corps though Of
Mary s. Logan was relief corps in herself at
Washin gton and of the thousands who came to
her for her womsnly intercessons with the powers
in control. none went away without the uplifting
word of sympathy the assurance OF practical aid
so near the heart of Of the grandest heroes of
the war. In the crucial test when her husband
threw aside civil promotion to serve his country,
che was with him to encourage and inspire; she
was with him at the front; cared for him when
home, wounded from the battlefield; she enriched
her boundiess sympathie. by visitatons to the
homesick boys, pining in the sitting tents and tho
close wards of the hospital.
After the war came onerous public duties
actions Of social life and OF philanthropies many,
the care of her suffering soldier husband-for he
was sufferer, more than auy one knew for many
years-and yet when the Relief Corps organ.
lied she was among the first 10 lend encourage
ment and support and the use of her taismanio
name In 1884 she became q member of Lincoln
Corps, Chicago. and has since 1885 been active,
useful member of the National Pension Com mittee,
W.R.C., through whose persistent efforts the bill
TO pension Army Nurses is at last a law.
:, The fact that Mrs Logan is one OF the Lady
Managers OF the Worlds Columbian Exposition,
appointed from the District of Columbia, makes
her selection National President peculiarly
fitting at this time. Space has been secured at the
Worlds Fair for the Womans Relief Corps. and
with Mrs. Logan in charge the Order would take
on new distinction among the notable bodies Of
women to be represented there.
We are confidently assured that II the National
Presidency is rendered Mrs. Logan she will accept
the high duty, and with her great executive abil-
ity, unexampled popularity among the Union
veterans, well as the loyal women the country
over the Relief Corps will 60 forward TO new
planes Of usefulness.
Had the old soldiers their way Mrs. Logan would
be elected by exclamation. and all the signs Of the
times show that she 10 equally beloved by her as
socaies of the WR.C.
When Senator ConkIing made that magnificent
nominating speech for Gen. Grant at Chicago,
and some question was raised 10 the State that
brought him forward, he said:
you ask me where he halls from.
My sole reply shall be.
From AppomRttox Courthouse
And its famous apple tree"
And 80. II Mrs. Logan. resident at the National
Capital but member of Lincoln Relief Corps
Chicago. and thinking Of Illinois as still her home,
We can but say:
Lyou ask what State she halls from,
Ny sole reply shall be,
Shes the wife Of John A. Logan,
And the pride Of the W.R.C.