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Show LOGAN POLITICS. The "Nation" Calls the. "Journal' Down uod Demands that it Proilnee thn I'roots So Mui h Talked About. The Logan Xatiim of the BMk contains the following: "After making an emphatic de-tnaud de-tnaud for the publication of the alleged evl deuces of church inlluunce the Juunuil harks water as follows : " 'We sea the Salion calls for the proofs of cbureli authority. Bettei riot ret too aiudotll as they ate avsitatile. We will give it lone enough to ask Kr.Goorsf If. flibba 1 he wonul like to liae tiieni publisfied: aware Willing, lie is a principal in the inatrer and perhaps bis re-piitiliean re-piitiliean t'rien -is b oi be.t consult vMS "We don't want three minutes to ask Mr. George F. Gihbs anything. If he has done what he had no warrant in doing, he did it without solicitation from the republicans of Loom and without their knowledge. "The work was all done days before Mr. Gihbs got here. "It Is the republicans of Logau who have hceu falsely aecused. "It is on the lips of every democrat of the city and is the burden of every democratic demo-cratic paper of the territory that the late election was won through the use of chureh Influence, and that they have some forty atlidavils which beur uncontrovertible evl-dence evl-dence of the fact. This has been heralded abroad as the cause of the democratic defeat de-feat in Logan. "It can and will be proven that this is false, and dono solely to cover the overwhelming over-whelming rctieat of a Whipped and routed purty. "It ts Hutted, substantially, that a revo! ution from a majority of ninety three to a defeat of seventy-seven was effected w itliin two days of the election by church inftuein e. For, after it thorough canvass the patty claimed the eily juet before election by tflb votes, hut they lost it by seveittv-seven, and the cause they n Vf charge to tho use of chureh influence. We doutit if Mr. lilhbj spoke to a dozen democrats during his short vis t and have no idea that he gained any votes if he did. "Hence tho impossible though hold and des erate accusation is placed at the door of the republican of Logan. "Ihcrefure the republicans of this city brand the charge as utterly falsa, pernicious ami harmful, "And allege that the campaign was fought out on party ja-uus, both local ami national and not by church inilucnce, and that the victory was one of republican principles. "Therefore it demands for the second lime a public and spucitic statement of the charge that it may know of w hat it is nr. cused. And denounces the secret and tuvs-terlous tuvs-terlous aecmation with which the public have been entertained and the church authorities au-thorities annoyed, as false and misleading and done for politic effect and at the sac riflre of the church. "It demand the right of an open trial before the public and the privilege of offer-ing offer-ing evidence ill its own behalf if needed. "The democratic organ gracefully as BUmes the virtue of a reluctance to publish the affidavits, yet for political capital is cull. hlng enough to parade the (act iiiat it ha such proof, makiuir, we have no doubt, the case appear a hundred fold worse than it is. "We prefer and demand the proof." |