Show BIi1iNE i1D I06AN The agony is over Blaiae and Logan have been harnessed by the I Republicans for the Presidential l f race with Tilden end Hendrieks to be nominated by the Democrats next month The centest in Chicago Chi-cago was short and sharp It was s 1 I dashing fight and therefore like the man who was victorious THE HERALD HER-ALD admits that it has been disappointed disap-pointed by the nomination though agreeably so It did not believe I that Blaine could secure the prize basing its looIIef in the conduct and result of the previous two Republican Republi-can conventions in both of which I the spkimedknight entered as the most prominent candidate can-didate only to be defeated because his great strength Four years ago in Chicago on the first ballot the Maine statesman received 284 votes and for the thirtythree succeeding ballots plastically held them but never increasing except on two occasions when he scored I 285 On the thirtyfifth ballot he fell off to 257 and on the thirty sixth and final ballot when Garfield was nominated Blaine received only42 votes The history of the previous convention was somewhat similar and it wa thought this one would result in much the same way The 334f votes which were east for him on the first ballot in the convention 820 delegates I were about equal to the 284 thrown in the former convention of 755Del 1 i agates but four years ago while he I followed the rule cf losing strength f onFrlday he gained from the start r and so fast that by the time the third ballot was taken it became i J t apparent that he was to be the nominee The three votes were as i follows 834Kr349 and 375 It was the break of the Illinois delegates from Logan which nominated Blaine though fcfce latter sains during the second and third ft 2lots were from the other Candida > r We believe the Den ca 1 > ta everywhere will rejoice over ne I nomination of Mr Blaine F Popular Popu-lar as he with < the masses of I Republicans he is feared by the wise men of the party and is dreaded by the rich ones His policy as outlined out-lined during his brief administration t administra-tion of the office of Secretary of Stateia alarming tothe conservative I cautious element as it implies trouble trou-ble abroad if not at koine besides it is opposed to the traditional policy of the Republic as declared in the I Republican platform itself in regard I to avoiding interference with the affairs of other countries i I America has etood loof from foreign 11 complications and has thus been II j enabled with consistency to say to I othershands off The creed has 1 been Mind your own business as H we mind oura It is the fear that i Blaine will undertake to reveres this f and involve the nation in dis f t putes if not actual war which gives i i I rise to the feelingcntertained by the better elements of the community 1 This being the condition things the Democrats will rejoice ia the 1 firm belief that Mr Blaine will be I P an easy man to beat I John A Logan doesaot strengthen the ticket He is a radical and a I conservative would be more acceptable r accept-able He is too much like his life f leader to be heartily accepted by a 1 I considerable proportion of thu Ee I publican party THE HERALD as a political pro 1 phet is not infallible but it will venture the prediction that the Democratic i I H Dem-ocratic majority at the polls next I H November will be something appalling f Ii ap-palling to the Republicans and flu the Democratic majority in the electoral college will be even greater l than party managers have hitherto i dared dream or Following are sketches of the 1 lives and labors of the Republican 1Tj nominees for President and Vice President JAKES QILLESPJE BLUtfE James G Bfeine of Maine is one of 1 ibo most remarkable politicians this I = i > 0 1 country has ever known He is a native JI of Pennsylvania and was born in Wasn i ngtc n county on January 311880being tbrefure over 54 years of age He received re-ceived R common schoo education as a basis but graduated tit Washington college col-lege in the same State Shortly tfter his graduation he selected journalism BB Us profession and went to Maine in which state he has resided ever since He edited the Portland Advertistr and the Eennebc Journal ably and luccessfully and while still a very young man was elected to the Legislature where be served from 1859 to 1862 being for the last two years Speaker of the House He wi then elected to the National House of Representatives wkere he served from 1864 to 1876 being twice elected to the epaakership succeeding Mr Col fax Daring the years that Blaine WB Speaker he was probably the most popular man in the Republican party As a Speaker never hd asuperior and his control over the House is described as being simply wonderful An eloquent talker and a 1 thorough parliamentarian familiar with almost every precedent from the birth of Congress to the very hour in which he spoke he wasnever at loss to answer the most difficult question ques-tion to solve the hardest problem or to disentangle the knottiest network of procedure into which the House might have drifted The Democracy coming into control of the House he once more took his position I on tile floor During these years his n me had been prominent aa among those of the probable Republican candidates I candi-dates of the presidency In 1876he haying hay-ing meantime been appointed to fill the vacancy in the Senate caused by the elevation ele-vation of Lot M Morrill to the Secre taryship of the Treasuryhe was nominated nomi-nated in the Cincinnati convention by Robert G Ingereoll in a speech which is still rememberpd as being the most eloquent elo-quent ever heard in a national convention conven-tion Roscoe Conkling was a candidate in the same convention but the choice fell upon Rutherford B Hayes Mr Blaine was eoted to the Senate at the expiration expira-tion of Mr Merrills term and served through the four years following In 1880 he was again a candidate he being considered con-sidered the strongest opponent of General Gen-eral Grant but once more the choice fell upon a man James A Gnrfield whose name had only been casually mentioned for the place It was understood that Garfield had been nominated by Blames friends at Blames suggestion when he feared that he could nOl possibly secure the nomination and in return for this Garfield made him Secretary of State Blaine resigned his seat in the Senate to take this elevated position While Secretary Secre-tary of State he inaugurated what is known as Sis vigorous foreign policy and endeavored to pacify the South American republics hoping thereby that our intervention would lead to the build ing up profitable commercial relations with these countries Before his policy had had time to make itself felt Garfield was stricken down and for the brief in terval between thoff residents death and the changes which followed in President Arthurs cabinet Blame remained almost al-most entirely inactive Since thea he has devoted himself to private business and to literary work His book has occupied oc-cupied the greater part of his time llr Blaine has announced frequently that he was not a candidate for the presi dency and that ho would not this time move a finger to secure tho nomination Whether he has held firmly to that posi tion is ULknown but his friends during the past year have been more active than ever Blaine is a stric partisan and in the heated debates of the reconstruction period he was one of the most violent of radicals B He has never grown lukewarm luke-warm in his republicanism arcnougn He suffered great disappointments at the hands of his party fiq is a man who is so positive in his political views and in liis social views as well that it is paid of him II Al these who are not his devoted de-voted friends are his biUerost nemios JOHN ALEXANDER LCGAH Gem John A Logan of Illinois was born in Jackson County that State on February 9th 1826 He received the common school education of a country boy in those days when the common schools Illinois were very poor rchcols indeed While on the subject of education educa-tion it might be as well to say here that Logan although a man of extraordinary intelligence and remarkable originality and force of character is not by any means a wellrea or wellinformed man in the broad meaning of these torma His knowledge of matters outside of the limited range of his own vision from I I boyhood up is not such as to inspire admiration ad-miration or pride among his friends He handles the English language with a reckless disregard for the rules of grammar gram-mar and his sentences are sometimes constructed in a manner which leaves iiis listeners in the most blissful ignor anco as to his meaning But he has de livered Eome of the most powerful speeches ever heard in the Senate and his bad grammar has been entirely lost sight of beneath the thunder and weight of his arguments He speaks extesnpor aneously and yet his speech on the Filz Jofaga Porter bill lasting three days went into the history of the v ar and embraced not only the American rebel 1 I ft uuu uut 110 quoitxi irom memory the precedents which had been established upon the battle fields of the old world I with a clearness and eloquence which carried car-ried everything before him He has I made several speeches in the Senate in answer to such men es Garden Hill Lamar t La-mar and Butler which have been universally uni-versally read and admired On subjects I which be is familiar Logan talks with a dynamic force and but few men have ever been able to embarass him even for one moment in the course of his speech He deserves credit too for remaining silent when questions with which he is unacquainted are before the Senate for discussion Logan served in the Mexican war as adjutant of the First Illinois Infantry he studied law afterward with his uncie A M Jenkins and at tho Louisiana University and was admitted to tbe bar in 1852 He soon obtained a large prac tice and became a political favorite He was elected prosecuting attorney of the Third Judicial District of Illinois as a Democrat in 1852 and served until 1866 was elected to Congress from Illinois in 1859 as a Douglas Democrat serving until 1861 when he resigned to enter the army He was commissioned colonel of the Thirty first Illinois volun teers distinguishing himself at Belmont Fort Donaldcon Pitteburg Landing Vicksburg Chattanooga and as commander com-mander of the Army of the Tennessee He was made bri2Bdie general in 1863 He declined in 1865 the ministry to Mex ico tendered to him by President Johnson John-son represented Illinois in Congress for two termp 1867 to 1871 when he was elected to the Senate He was defeated for the Senate in 1877 but was elected again in 1879 his present term expiring in 1885 It is said of him that he was the beat general qfnaer in the army as be was certainly one of the bravest During the campaign ot 1880 he was an ardent Grant man and not until th a time did he ever put forward any claims for the Presidency and was never thought of in connection with tho Vice Presidency the acceptance of which office will surprise his friends though few regarded him as at all formidable asa as-a candidate for the first office in the nation na-tion |