Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-23
General Logan In Civil Life.

The demonstration at Chicago yesterday
was in honor of the memory OF the most
famous volunteer soldier of the civil war.
He developed a genius for arms Almost
Immediately after eniisting. and he proved
so effective an organizer and a nghter
that at the close of the four years strug-
gle he held a firm place in The hearts Oh
the people among the most INDUSTRIOUS OF
the Union commanders. His fame as
soldier is secure.
But John A. Logan served the countr1'
well in civil well rs In military life.
And he showed much grit In one as in
the other. He had distinguished himself in
civil life before the war began. He was
one of those ardent and aggressive young
democrats who trained under the banners
Of Stephen A. Douglass, and all but wor-
shipped the Little Giant. Mr.. Logan. in
fact. was a protege of Mr.. Douglass: was
elected to Congress as Douglass man,
and coming from Illinois. was accepted in
the House as Mir. Douglass representative
there. His whole soul. of course was en-
listed in the effort to make Mr.. Douglass
President. and in the campaign of 1860 he
worked for his friend and leader with I'M
firing devotion. But Mr.. Lincoln was
elected, and the choice was soon presented
between standing for the Union or against
it.
MIR. Logan, like Mr.. Douglass, cast his
lot with the Union. The Douglass element
in the South gave it's support to secession
and in the North it was. in spots rather
lukewarm. But MIR. Logan was among the
northern friends of the Little Giant who
saw that Mr.. Lincoln although a republic
can and a lifelong foe of democracy. must
be sustained. The life of the nation was at
stake. and that consideration subordinate ed
for the time all questions of minor moment.
To help sustain the country was, in his
opinion. the one overshadowing duty of the
hour. So he went into the Union army.
and helped fight the war for the preserva-
tlon of the Union.
Mr.. Logan emerged from the war as
General Logan, and a figure of national
prominence and influence. Naturally he
returned to the field of politics. But not
a democrat. While in some of the
northern states the democratic party had
advocated the prosecution of the war for
the Union. and in Cor gress had voted sup
plies to the Union cause. yet, at the close
OF the war, party divisions ran, in the
main. so as to give the republicans their
strength in Union Strongholds and the
democrats their strength in former con-
Tolerate strongholds. General Logan.
Il erefore. became a republican. He con-
sidered that the best agency for preserving
the fruits of what had been saved and
Won by the war was the political agency
which had prosecuted the war to a sue
&c: sful termination. Ana as a republican,
ne kept the whole country always in mind,
Speaking and voting for those policies
which seemed to him to be conceived in
spirit of national development and indus
trial progress.
Is not this career which the gold demo-
Gratis Of this day lray study to advantage?
Trey have left their party to assist in pre-
serving the credit OF the country Can
they afford 10 return to it as long as that
credit is menaced? The logic of the situa-
ton Indicates that their proper place is
with the party which is the country's main
stay against imitation and financial ruin