Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The President has appointed John Bigelow Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, and Franz Sigel to be Pension Agent at New York. An Associated Pjress dispatch from Washington says: Gen. Logan is .quoted as saying that he is credited with much greater animosity toward the administration than he really entertains. He said, with a great deal of emphasis, that his enemies are trying to put him in this foolish position. “I have no light with the administration,” said he. “I mn not taking charge of all the cases which are to be fought. I said distinctly in a speech which I made in New York during the campaign that I should consider the nominations of Mr. Cleveland „in exactly the same spirit as if they were nominations from the hands of a Republican President, I shall vote for the confirmation of all men against whose private character no charges are brought. Where charges are brought I believe that the men involved should have a hearing and bo allowed to answer the charges. I shall oppose only the confirmation of men that I would oppose if nominated under a Republican administration. This is the whole of my position. People that represent me as going around trying to pick a quarrel with the administration for the purpose of making political capital are simply liars and mischief-makers. ”