Show GENERAL JOHN A LOGAN The death of General John A Logan t come more as a shock to the nation than as something to turn the nation to grief and mourning Until Christ rues day no one outside his family end c1e friend knew of his illness The first zntimati that the country genera gen-era had that be was not in the r euovinent of his accustomed good heath was on Sunday morning when i the Aijaafetea Prefs telegfamwas pull = I iihe givIngtBe nets of his alarming condition This announcement being followed a few hours later by information informa-tion of his death the news of the decease de-cease fairly shocked the nalion i General Logan has long bren among the most conspicuous characters In the tI µ Republic for twentyfive years his t name has been before the public and I for the post fifteen years it has been one of the most familiar in the land It 1 44 was the war which brought him into prominence It is true he served as a quartermaster in V i the war with Mexico was a member of the Illinois Legislature three or four sessions and had been in s two Congresses but not until the breaking out of the civil war and his enlistment t m 1r listment in the Union army had he attracted at-tracted attention Because he was z l known to be a pronounced Democrat 1 h and was understood to be more or less I l in sympathy with the South his acceptance 1 ac 14 it the Federal army turned eyes in his direction L 1 di-rection His course was a surprise and a good many jpeople have not yet en i E 1 tireljr recovered from their astonishment astonish-ment But whatever may have been i peoples ideas in regard to Logans mo b tires in entering the army nobodyhas r since had any occasion to doubt his patriotism or be suspicious of his actions ac-tions We must judge men by their acts and applying this standard tot to-t Logan we find him true as steel to the r Union cause He was among the bravest 1 brav-est of the soldiers and there was no t c i more earnest fearless or more determined 1 deter-mined man in the army Long before be-fore the war closed whatever of I doubt had been experienced at the t beginning in regard to his sincerity r had oeeii dispelled and Logan surrendered t II J surren-dered his commission the idol of his i t toldiers and enjoying the confidence of i i his countrymen This was the beginning t begin-ning of a career remarkable for its steady upward tendency The man 1j advanced in popular favor from the lu i 1 moment he buckled on his sword until death struck him on Sunday Retiring a II from the army he declined some important im-portant appointments among them I that of Minister to Mexico and in 1SOG l i E was elected to the Fortieth Congress t F 3 1 and two years later was returned to the 4 Fortyfirst Congress His ability and ii I honesty were recognized from the first t as was his vigorous partisanship all 1 three of these pronounced character i istics aided by a personal aggressiveness aggressive-ness such as is rarely encountered com 1 c bining to keep him at the front Before It I I Be-fore completing his term as Representative i Repre-sentative he was elected to the Senate r t succeeding Dick Yates in ISTland with the exception of a brief period continuing y con-tinuing a member of that body until his i death Logan showed what can be done by I I energy and push He was not great I i intellectually nor was he statesman in the broad and better sense of the term t but he possessed ambition and wai i t I 1 blessed by that qualification to win success suc-cess known as push No opposition IC f was so formidable as to alarm him no J obstacle so great as to deter him no f prize so valuable as to prevent him from g jiving for it He had the will I 1 i the energy and the posh to 1 crowd himself forward and ahead I i of abler and better men modesty and a regard for the proprieties in politics I j stood no chance in a contest with him I He knew that victory could not be won I t without an effort and he had the courage I t cour-age in some instances it was akin to f I i tr impudence to try Honesty was also a i characteristic with the man He was I f liable to get off wrong as the story t I I I goes but he was ever honest and sin s i ere and this commanded respect I y where confidence in him as a leader L I could not be felt There are not a few I people who believe now as they did two i years ago that if Logan had headed 14 the Republican national ticket he instead I j 4 in-stead of Cleveland would have been in i 5 angnrated President of the Republic I We cannot agree with the many d t opinions expressed in our telegraphic 1 columns this morning to the effect I that General Logan was a strong man = I 1 and that his death will produce Kt an irreparable Joss to the nation He I i J AM a strong C wan personally but only personally He was not strong as a in state iitan and was not influential the IvjrWattve councils ot the nation If one wil take the pains to examine bis record he will find that Logan was often at gerheada with the able member of his party and was always so when those members manifested the slightest inclination to weakness in the most stalwart feature Republicanism Where Logan will mourned most will be among the ranks of the exsoldiers by whom he was idolized as a brave soldier and determined fighter There are hundreds of Republicans In Illinois who will serve the State in the Senate quite = acceptably Le LHS done John A Logan was born in Jackson I I County Illinois on February Oth 1S3C I lie receives colles education served in the Mexican war practiced law served four terms in the Legislature was county prosecuting attorney P esideatial elector was a Representative Repre-sentative in four Congresses Major General of volunteers in the Union army and was three times elected to the United States Senate He leaves a wife and z son and daughter |