Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — SENATOR LOGAN AT BALTIMORE. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR LOGAN AT BALTIMORE.

A Banquet Tendered the General by the Maryland Invincibles. [Baltimore special.] General John A. Logan was tendered a banquet at the Eutaw House by the Logan Invincibles of Maryland. About 125 people participated in the banquet. After the removal of the cloth General Logan 'was welcomed by William Marine, the Republican candidate for Clerk of the Court of Appeals. General Logan responded by returning thanks to the Logan Invincibles,- and paid a high compliment to the sociability, hospitality, energy, wealth, intelligence and growth of Baltimore. Of national affairs he said: This government is a republic in name, and will be until the people shall be educated up to a point where every citizen shall have a voice in the affairs of the nation without let or hindrance. He declared it the duty of every honest man, of whatever party, to speak and vote against all who tolerate fraud or violence to deprive an American citizen of his ballot and voting for his choice. The education of the illiterate was the great remedy to relieve the country from the disgrace now resting upon it because of the brutality exercised against the rights of American citizens in mahy parts of the Union. The Republican party attempted to enact appropriate measures for the education of these unable to educate themselves, but had been defeated by the votes of those who tried to destroy the Government and now dominate the Southern States—the party of State rights, free trade, secession, and relentless persecution. He asked if the present administration will use its influence in trying to remedy this evil or quietly encourage it, in order to control the solid South so that with their Northern allies the country can be kept within Democratic control. He spoke of the cry of the “bloody shirt,” and said it was all by Democrats, who made the cry upon every criticism of those who tried to destroy the Union. Speaking of the campaign in Virginia, he said he learned from the newspapers the Democratic candidate for Governor uses the saddle and bridle used by Robert E. Lee, and from the shouts one would suppose the saddle was the candidate and not the man who rides on it. If he should be elected, doubtless it will be by the influence of that saddle and bridle. ' A treason-stained saddle appears to be the lead' ig card. Remarks were also made by the Hons. S. B. Elkins, John L. Thomas, and others. It is amusing to note the comments of Democratic newspapers upon the return of the New York mugwumps to the Republican camp. The supreme contempt -which the Bourbons' have shown for their nondescript allies from the first is still maintained, and the departure appears to be hailed with real satisfaction. For this unhandsome and humiliating treatment the mugwumps have no one to blame but themselves. They are but suffering the consequences of such an unpardonable blunder as to suppose that the party with which they affiliated could ever sympathize with their fanciful ideas or respect their principles. To have joined iorces with a colony of monkeys would have been as reasonable as to form an alliance with Demoorats in the hope that party selfishness would be subordinated to the public good. A more humiliating spectacle than that now presented by the snubbed and ridiculed Eastern mugwumps was never afforded in the history of pol tics. They have eaten* of the husks; they have returned like ragged prodigals; but the fatted calf still frolics in its paddock, and no one thinks of slaying it— Exchange.

A first-class humbug might meet with some success, but a transparent sham excites the contempt of both parties. The people are not to be duped by a false pretense that is exposed in its true character every day. Democrats themselves are nauseated with the programme’of hypocritical pretensions. They want to* take the offices in a bold and open fashion, without requiring every appointee to continue- mj|ir>g and feeling like a sneak. The Offensive partisanship humbug has itself become offensive to the intelligence of the people, and a large majority of both parties would be glad to have the shibboleth put on the retired list.— Chicago Tribune.