Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1884 — LOGAN SLOGAN. [ARTICLE]

LOGAN SLOGAN.

When some ot Mr. Logan’s friends were urging him for the first place on the Republican ticket, the Chicago News, a Republican paper, on the 11th day of May said.: ‘‘But Logan did not confine ‘his, hatred to the North to “mere words, as the following “from an affidavit sworn to.be“fore John Q. Harmon, Clerk “of the Circuit Court of Alex-' “ander County, Illinois, September 30,1868, will show: “I, John G. Wneatley, aresident of the city, county and “State aforesaid, do solemnly “swear that on the 28th day of “May, 1861,1 went to Williamton County to join Captain • “J. B. Cunningham’s company * “(G) of the Fifteenth Regiment •“Tennessee Volunteers; that ‘Major General John A. Lo“gan, now a candidate for < on-“gress-at-large, and who then “represented this (the Thir“teenth) Congressional District, was the chief person “who raised said company, and “persuaded me to j )in the “same; that said Logan accom“panied us (about seventy in “number) in the night part of “the wiiy from Williamson “‘County to Paducah, the place “‘designated for us to cross the “‘Chio River. We ciossedat “Paducah, according to John “‘A. Logan’s instructions, to '“ewle Union troops, whicn he '‘stated were stationed at Cai4‘rx * * * My son.R. L. “Wheatly, Thompson Coder, “Harry Hayes, William Tink“er, Jackson Brown, Jackson “Law, George Law, Joshua “Law, Fleming Ghent, Martin “Williams, anc others, all ex“•ept the first, now residing, ‘or were when I first heard “from them, in Marion, wfL

‘liamson county, Illinois, were “members of said company, “and will attest the truth of “this statement. “It is a fact that up to July “8, 1861, although repeatedly “urged to abandon his treasonable attitude, Logan never “by voice or act gave in his “adherence to the Union. On “that date the Chicago Trib“une received the following in “its despatch from Washmg“ton: “ ‘John Logan falls in, quits “ ‘his dirty work, and even “ ‘wants a regiment.’ ”

There is a curious muddle in Virginia over the Republican electoral ticket. Both the Mahone convention and the Straighout convention chose full electoral tickets when they chose delegates to Chicago. The Mahone delegates went there asArthurmen,but as soon as Blaine was nominated they came out unanimously for him. This left the Straightouts, who went there as Blaine men, in an unpleasant position, and their feelings have been much harassed since by the enthusiasm with which the Mahone contingent has been welcomed in the Blaine ranks. They claim that their electoral ticket is the only genuine Republican one, and Mahone makes the same claim for his. He has much the larger folio wing, and as proof that his is the only “regular” Blaine party, his organ, the Richmond Whig, makes the fol’owing statement: “One of the firmest friends of Mr. Blaine, who is also one of the most brilliant, jourr alists of the country, as the friend of Mr. Blaine visited Mahone in person, and informed him that Mr. Blainehad authorized him to say that Mr. Arthur could not have been a better friend to Gen. Mahone than he (Blaine) would be.” This is very hard on the Straightouts, who were c rganized expressly to give Blaine a following in Virginia.