Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — Logan’s Lucky Relatives. [ARTICLE]

Logan’s Lucky Relatives.

Logan’s high-sounding phrases about civil-service reform are iHustrated by the number of relatives he has fixed in snug Government places. The Government records show the following list of Logans and Logans-in-law and Logan family dependents who are feeding at the public crib: Cornelius A. Logan, a cousin of John Alexander, Minister to Chili. W. F. Tucker, Jr., a son-in-law, Paymaster in the United States army. John A. Logan, Jr., son, cadet at West Point. John M. Cunningham, brother-in-law, Second Lieutenant Nineteenth Infantry. Samuel S. Errett, brother-in-law, Assistant Superintendent Yellowstone National Park. Cyrus Thomas, brother-in-law, ethnologist, Smithsonian Institute. Viola Thomas, niece, daughter of Cyrus, clerk, Smithsonian Institution. Susie Cunningham, sister-in-law, cleik in Treasury Department. Enoch Blanchard, nephew, clerk in the railway postal service. Mollie E. Jenkins, niece, clerk in the marine hospital service. James Cunningham, brother-in-law,Post-master at Birmingham, Ala. Samuel K. Cunningham, brother-in-law, inspector, Chicago Custom House. James V. Logan, brother, Postmaster, Murphysboro, 111. Eaward Hill, nephew, Deputy United States Marshal, Southern District of Illinois. Mary H. Brady, former servant, clerk in Treasury Department. Louis Norris, former servant, messenger in Interior Department, Washington. Daniel Shephad, Private Secretary, Assistant Postmaster at Chicago. Ereach Taylor, Private Secretary, clerk in the United States Senate. As a civil-service reformer Logan is a fraud.— Albany Argus.