The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-17
YOUNG LOGAN HOT
Castigates John J. McCOOk FO
an Alleged Story
Which He is Accused of Circu-
lating About Logan.
JOHN A. LOGAN, JR.
Said to Have Made a Spectacle
of Himself
At the Coronation of the Gear
at Moscow.
JOHN A. LOGAN, JR.

Youngstown, May 17.-John A Lo-
gan, Jr-, has demanded a retraction from
General Alexander Med. McCook and
J. J AcCoOk, who recently was men
toned for cabinet honors. In fact
the fiery son of BLACK jack will have
an apology or something else.
Several weeks ago a story was sent
out from Washington to the effect that
Mr.. Logan, when he attended the COR
onatiOn of the car, wore a regular
captains uniform, to which he was not
entitled Mr. Logan hunted up the
correspondents and they gave as their
authority General McCOOk. This is
what Captain Logan says:
Before 1 went to Russia was COM
mlsSioned captain on the staff of
Governor Bushnell. and as such 1 had
the right to wear the uniform of a cap
tain. When one attends court he must
wear court dress or a uniform to
which he may be entitled. Now. I did
not care 10 wear the knee breeches
court dress, So going to General Alex
the United States government at the
coronation ceremonies, I presented to
him my credentials as a captain and
my record as a militia officer in the
state of Ohio, and asked if there could
be any objections to my wearing the
uniform He replied in the negative
and I wore it, as I was entitled to.
on the other hand the brother of
Cook of New York, and who accOmpa-
MED the general to Russia, did wear
uniform to which he was not entitled.
It was the uniform of the colonel of
the Sixth United States cavalry. Now
John J. AIcCOOk was nothing more than
a lieutenant in the late war and re-
signed his commission just before the
battle of Charlottesville, retiring with
the brevet of captain.
I learned that, in order to cover him
self, and in an attempt to throw odium
upon me, the story as circulated came
from them. and L have branded it as
cowardly, false and malicious. The
cores ondents who sent the story out
from Washington are very sorry that
they did so, and both of them told me
that had they known the real facts of
the matter and had they known me
personally they would not have used
the story at all. 1t had no foundation
in fact"
It is understood that if his demand
for an apology is not forthcoming, Cap
tain Logan will unfold a story that
viii cause an upheaval in army and
political circles at Washington.
Washington, May John A Lo-
gan, Jr., is after John J. McCook of
New York for gossiping about his au-
dacity in wearing the uniform of a
colonel at the coronation of the czar
and says that McCOOk wore a colonel s
uniform himself, when he was never
anything more than a lieutenant of
volunteers during the war. Logan says
that he wore the uniform of captain
on the staff of the governor of Ohio,
which he was entitled to do, having
received an appointment especially for
that purpose. However. he does not
make any explanation of the rest of
the story that Colonel McCOok told,
which was that his breast was covered
with badges and medals that belonged
to his father, which he had no right
to wear The Russians thought that
they We're decorations that had been
conferred by his sovereign, when they
consisted of nothing but Grand Army,
Loyal Legion, Army Corps and similar
badges, which General Logan wore dur
ing his lifetime. John A. Logan, Jr.,
has appeared in Washington several
times in the same uniform and wearing
the same decorations. He paraded
around in them on inauguration day,
and that was what prompted Colonel
McCOok to tell of his experience in
Russia Colonel McCoOk is the New
York lawyer who declined the interior
portfolio in the present cabinet be-
cause he wanted to be attorney general
and could not get that place.
New York, May 17--COlOneI John J.
McCoOk refuses to be drawn into the
controversy which John A. Logan, Jr.,
has provoked, because he believes that
Colonel McCook ana his brother. Gen
eral Alexander Med McCOOk, put into
circulation a story that he was not en-
titled to wear the uniform of a regular
captain at the coronation of the ear.
Colonel McCook, when seen at his
home this morning. said smilingiy:
You may say for me that I will not
enter any controversy with Mr. Logan.
His father was an army cOmrade of
mine and a very dear fellow, and will
say nothing that might reflect on his
SON" Mr.. Logan asked, he said, that
all mouths be closed" as to the uni
form episode, and he would keep his
promise.
It is said that it was Captain Scriven,
military attache of the United States
legation at Rome, who raised objec-
lions to Mt Logan's military right to
the captains uniform. Captain Scri-
ven is now in Greece. General McCoOk
is in Washington.