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Show j j SENATOR LOGAN'S PROTEGE. I: A Washington special published in yes terday's Tribune states that the confirmation confirma-tion of Mr. Dement as Surveyor-General for Utah was a great surprise all around.to ; . the friends as well as to the opponents of I j ; ; that" gentleman. It is also stated that I " ; the friends of Colonel Morrison are greatly I ; incensed over the matter, and have been . ' remonstrating with the Democratic Sen- J ators against the support of a man " who ! was General Logan's friend fa the Dcmo- cratic camp during the recent Senatorial fight in Illinois. " ! Evidently, Colonel Morrison's friends i , -; know what they are talking about, as did i ' Senator Plumb of Kansas when, on Thursday last, lie intimated that "Logan's "Lo-gan's obligation was from Dement acting as a spy in his behalf in the Senatorial . fight at Springfield' If it be objected that these are ex-parte statements only, I which the real facts in the rasa tmVrir. ' not bear out the Democrat will add , " thereto the admission of Mr. Dement I i j himself, who within the past week has ' admitted that he did work like a beaver I to secure the election of Mr. Logan to I the Senate. The man's own admission, I in this case at least, is certainly worth , something, since it is simply and 'only I corroborative of the statements made by 1 others who are doubtless well posted as J ' to the work which he performed in Mr. 1 Logan's behalf, and in return for which I the Senator from Illinois literally begged the votes of his brother Senators to secure his protege's confirmation. ..This is the kind of a Democrat Mr. i Dement is. No wonder Mr. Logan was ; anxious to cancel, at the earliest possible : moment, the obligations he owed to such a tool. For the sake of the Democratic party, if not on the broad ground of common com-mon decency, it is to be hoped that when the matter of reconsidering the vote of confirmation shall be reached, the Dem-; Dem-; ocratic Senators will follow the . lead of their party friends on the Public Lands Committee, and slap in a unanimous vote for the rejection of Mr. Dement's nomi-, nomi-, . nation. |