Year: 1879

ever the public man the target of those whose
personal interest he crosses or whose political
views he manfully antagonizes. In my own
case, have expected and received hard blows
from those whose personal and political inter-
ests rendered it necessary to drown the voice
and paralyze the efforts of an earnest man, who
was striving for the good of the people as op-
posed to the few. I have not been surprise to
receive misrepresentation and abuse during
| my public career.


Thus spake John A. Logan, who was Sc
lected by the legislature of the State of Hi
nols to disgrace them for the next six years
in the Senate of the United States He had
spoken for half an hour az only Logan
knows how to speak-apologetically of his
faults, deprecatingly of criticisms upon his
public career and his private character, eulo-
gistically of the party to which he nominally
adheres, and the disreputable gang of pur-
chased and purchasable soalawags to whom
be owed his election.


A more disgraceful and disgracing act was
never committed by the legislature of any
State than was perpetrated by the legisla.
ture of Illinois in eleoting John A. Logan to
the United States Senate. A man gross in
his nature as barbarian. with simply edu-
cation enough to pass through company of
Intelligent men without making fool of
himself; noisy, blatantpartisan, ready to do
all the dirty work that might be required
of him and to feel proud in it's performance,
while men of decenoy would feel the deepest
humiliation in being asked to stoop 50 far;
| q int fHo
the word, mistaking words for elo1uence,
no1se for oratory, cunning for shrewdness,
partisanship i'll its lowest degree for patriot
ism-such a man has been elected to repre-
sent the great State of Illinois in the highest
branch of the national Legislature. He is a
salary grabber who persisted in keeping the
money out of which he had cheated the gov
ernment: while in the Senate he was the will
ling tool ofevery subsidy and job that came
before Congress, degrading himself to the
level of lobby agent whenever the oppor
tunity afforded itself; was ever an obsequious
slave to the party lash, and retired from pub
lie place unhonored and unregretted. If
the people of Illiaois are pleased with such a





people of Minnesota have no reason to COM
plain except SO far as they feel the humilia-
ton that will be common to the people of
the whole United States in the selection OF
SO notorious political trickster and mounte-
bank to aposition that ought to be both hon
| orable and honored.


The dominant party is, perhaps, not to
blame for the selection Of notoriously bad
| men to fill their places of trust. The fact is
that large majority of the men who, by
their ability, learning and patriotism gave a
name to the party in history have long since
deserted it entirely or have retired from &C.
tive participation in its management, and
the party, once grand and invulnerable, has
now fallen into the hands of a lot of petty
pettifoggers and tricksters whose only ambi-
ton IS to achieve an opportunity to plunder
the treasury Especially is this the case in
Illinois, where there was won't to be men of
integrity and capacity at the helm Of the
ship of state. All these seem to have DESERT
ed or to have died, for we look in vain for
those men of commanding influence who
gave birth and impetus to the Republican
party. Those who are now in the fore are
not men who can command the public conf
dence either for their moral worth or their
intellectual capacity. Logan's election to
the Senate from that State is national dis
grace that every reputable citizen will feel
keenly. His military record is no compen-
sation for his corruption and debauchery in
civil life, nor can his military services enti-
tie him to political preferment after he
has disgraced his constituents for so long.