Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1885 — The “Old Soldier” Business. [ARTICLE]

The “Old Soldier” Business.

Gen. Logan is worrying himself because some “old soldiers” are being turned out of official position. He need not let this annoy him. The administration will take care of “old soldiers.” There is a good deal of Republican humbuggery stalking around in the clothes of “old soldiers,” and masquerading in both the blue and the gray. The country repudiated John A. Logan last fall, and he pretended to be something of an “old soldier” himself, but the exact point of transit where John ceased being a “copperhead” or a “butternut” and evoluted into an “old scldier” has never been satisfactorily located. These Republican crocodile tears over the old soldier business are played out. If any Republican “old soldiers” lose their positions there will be an abundance of Democratic “old soldiers” put in their places. When Hayes was defeated for the Presidency the burden of his lamentations took the shape of a bogus mourning for the poor negro, yet when he was fraudulently but safely located in Mr. Tilden’s seat in the White House he deserted the poor negro’s supposed friends, as they were represented in several Southern States, although they had reached official position by the very same bogus means that he had reached the Presidency. Hayes, of course, was a humbug, and so is John A. Logan. As Hayes poured out bogus lamentations over the “poor negro,” Logan pours them out over the “old soldier.” What does he care for the “old soldier,” as such? If the soldier votes the Democratic ticket Logan does not care a baubee whether he secures an office or not. Did he rejoice when Gen. Black was appointed Commissioner of Pensions? Did anybody ever hear of his shedding tears over the defeat of Gen. Hancock because he was an old soldier ? Hancock contributed largely to the Gettysburg victory. What difference did this make to Logan or any other Republican? Hancock was a Democrat, and this cut him off from Republican patronage and sympathy. There are to-day ten or fifteen of Logan’s relatives holding Federal positions. Are any of them “old soldiers ?” Let Logan suggest a vacating of these positions, and then the “old soldiers” that he is crocodiling over might be placed in them. Logan is a towering, monumental, political fraud —a genuine type of the humbuggery of bourbon Republicanism.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

The administration has begun the removal of the offensive partisans that have been doing the political dirty work of Mahone in Virginia for the past five or six years. Mahone was a Confederate Brigadier General, and as the Republican organs declare that the only necessary qualification for office-holding under the present administration, it would seem a little singular that he has not been left in the enjoyment of his patronage.

John A. Logan is said to declare that he must be the head of the ticket next time, or nothing. But if there is any man in the country who, if placed at the tail of it, could not wag the Logan ticket, he must be a midget in intellectual'devolopment. •