Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — A Picturesque View of Logan. [ARTICLE]

A Picturesque View of Logan.

It appears that the District of Columbia will send two Logan delegates to the Republican Convention. This is another demonstration of the wrongheaded politics which prevails at the seat of government. Logan’s candidacy is absurd, provided the Republicans propose to succeed. In the eastern belt of States, New York included,he would want an affidavit after election to know that he had been running. Outside of Logan’s masterly conflicts with Lindley Murray,the Hlinois Senator is one of the few surviving Republican politicians who rest t ieir chief prospects of success upon the “machine.” All his giant intellectual force is devoted to attacking Fitz-John Porter, one of the most gallant and faithful officers of the Union army, and devising schemes to obtain the soldier vote at the cost to the National Treasury of tens of millions of dollars. Logan can do one thing. So sure as he is a candidate for the Presidency the members of Porter’s old corps, still alive, with all their friends, will fight him to the bitter end. And many of these are influential citizens in several States. What sort of a platform could be built upon which to place Logan ? Any civil-service reform plank in it would excite universal merriment. How does he stand on tariff reductions, and what should the platform say to represent him on that subject V We do know, as before mentioned, how savag. ly Logan persecutes Porter, and how liberal he is with the public money for pension agents. These would be two taking planks for the purpose of increasing the number of Democratic ballots. Somebody should whisper in the ear of Logan that the people have sufficient regard for State rights to tolerate him as a Senator from Illinois, but when he aspires to be the head o the Nation, with a great N, liis really diminutive qualities as a public man make his presumption so ridiculous that it is hard to believe he is not playing upon his friends, or his friends playing upon him. —Boston Transcript. The Chicago Journal says: “The more free trade wo have for all sorts of grain the worse it is for the American farmer.” That is to Bay, the fewer customers a man has and the smaller the demand for his products the mor6 he gets for them. Why, then, all this fuss about the European prohibition of American pork ? The American farmer is not the fool this Chioago paper proclaims him.— Detroit Free Press. Bloody shirt manufactories are now running on full time. * They will soon be able to fill orders by the wholesale. —Omaha Herald.