People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — Political Freedom. [ARTICLE]

Political Freedom.

In the United States senate, March 4, 1881, in reply to the attack made by Senator Hill, of Georgia, on Senator Mahone, of Virginia, because Mahone had "left the Democratic party,” United States Senator John A. Logan said: “I was a Democrat once, tbo, and I had a right to ehapge my opinions, and I did change them. The man who will not change his opinions when he is honestly convinced that he was in error is a man who is not entitled to the reepect of men;” and then, turning to Senator Hill, he added: "If a man happens to differ with you, tyranny of political opinion in your section of the country is such that you undertake to lash him upon the world and try to expose him to the gaze of the public as a man unfaithful to his trust. We have no such tyranny of opinion in the country where I live; and it will be better for your section when such notions are 'driven to the shades and retired from the action of your people.” Yet, in the face of these brave words, a Kansas Republican legislature changed the name of St. John county to Logan, for the sole reason that ex-Gov-ernor St. John had “left the party.”— Agitator