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Show SENATOR LOGAN'S ASPIRATIONS. The conviction is fast settling down on the press of the East that Senator Logan is hard at work arranging to secure the Republican nomination for the Presidency Presi-dency when the national convention shall next assemble. The Washington correspondent of the New York Hun sends to the journal he represents the following interesting communication with regard to Sable John's aims and intents : Washtnqton, March 2o. When the advocates ad-vocates of Logan's proposed increase of the army are requested to justify that policy, they do not pretend that any public necessity neces-sity exists for adding five thousand men to the present force. The country is at peace. No complication threatens our intercourse with foreign powers. The Indian troubles on the frontier are reduced to a minimum. General Logan became highly excited on Tuesday, when he supposed a suggestion had been made that the new force, if granted, was to be used as a means of intimidating intimi-dating the people. The Senator from Illinois would cast away a thousand army bills rather than have the dear people believe be-lieve he was anything else than their devoted friend. He poses as their peculiar champion, but he begins to see that he made a mistake in proposing an increase of the army, by which a threat is held in one hand and a bill for new taxes in the other. It is very evident that the Residential bee is buzzing in the General's bonnet more furiously furi-ously than ever. He has carried war into the Edmunds camp by the resolution to open I the doors of the Senate on nominations to office; and he has indirectly attacked Blaine as the instigator of a defection on his Army bill. Our Own Evarts may fall under his tomahawk any day. He has already irreverently irrever-ently described him as "the little cuss who wants to be President." John Sherman, too, is not safe from Logan's wrath. In fact, all the Republican aspirants for the White House may well stand in dread of an explosion from the Senator in his present state of mind. Prudence is not one of his peculiar virtues. He cannot be patient and wait for fortune to smile. He insists on being the preferred candidate before the convention meets. His zeal to make a spoon too quickly may spoil a horn. |