At noon

and it was the largest demonstration since the war. the parade passed the City Hall, where children, on canopied platforms, waved banners and sang an old war-song, which the veterans took up as they passed on with uncovered heads. The tattered battle-flags were recognized by the veterans with shouts. The enthusiasm was never equalled here, and it is the greatest of all demonstrations ever witnessed in the Northwest.

There is no truth in the rumor that an accident occurred by which General Logan was hurt.

LOGAN'S RECEPTION ELSEWHERE HIS MORE THAN ROYAL PROGRESS THROUGH THE STATES-HIS EXHAUSTING CAMPAIGNLABORS-RESULTS OF THE ELECTION-HOW GRACEFULLY LOGAN ACCEPTED IT.

As it had been in Maine, in Ohio, and in Minnesota, so was it afterward in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and all the many Western States through which Logan travelled and spoke to countless masses of men and women drawn to meet him by the magic of his name and the lustre of his imperishable deeds on fields of battle and in the councilchambers of the Nation. His movements evoked the unprecedented interest of the people, and fired all the enthusiasm of their natures. Defying alike the heats of summer and the rains and chills of autumn, through all the long months until early November, Logan, the hero of the people and idol of the old soldiery, swept on, from State to State,-in an almost royal progress, reminding one of the triumphs. awarded, in the elder world, by Rome, to her conquering heroes, his pathway strewn with flowers and spanned by triumphant arches, escorted by plumed knights and marching cohorts with waving banners, while the air trembled with the sweet sound of jubilant music, and the hoarse thunders of artillery salutes, and the loud acclaim of exulting multitudes. The thousands of miles of railroad-journeying; the draughts upon his strength in meeting and addressing so many enormous audiences; the incessant demands upon his time and vitality

made by innumerable visitors and hand-shakings wherever he temporarily stayed; these, in addition to the conduct of an immense correspondence, and all the other perplexities, an noyances, anxieties, and industries of that ever-memorable campaign, must inevitably have broken down any constitution less powerful than that of Logan. But his energy was as boundless as his vitality seemed inexhaustible; and not until the very day of election did he permit himself to rest from his herculean labors. Then, reaching Chicago, he voted, and at his residence there, calmly awaited the result. What that result was; how, through no fault of Logan, the pivotal State of New York-and with it the election-was lost to the Republican column by a mere handful of votes; and how gracefully and good-humoredly Logan accepted it ;—is known of all men.

PART V.

LOGAN SINCE 1884.

LOGAN'S MEMORABLY GALLANT FIGHT FOR THE ILLINOIS SENATORSHIP-HOPELESS ODDS AGAINST HIM HE WINS HIS THIRD SENATORIAL TERM-HE ADDRESSES THE LEGISLATURE.

General Logan was so absorbed in the great Presidential contest of 1884, that he gave little or no attention to the fight for the control of the Legislature of Illinois. In fact, so entirely was his time taken up with the larger, National, field of action, that he had to leave to others the local legislative field. As a consequence, the Legislature was politically tied between the two great parties, and, but for the subsequent activity of the General and his friends in exposing the flagrant frauds, perpetrated by the Democratic managers in one of the election precincts of Chicago, and bringing the perpetrators to justice, the Illinois Legislature would have been Democratic by a majority of one on a joint ballot, and hence a Democrat would inevitably have been elected to succeed the General, at the expiration of his term, March 4, 1885. As it was, the outcome of the United States Senatorial contest in the Illinois Legislature—commencing January 4, 1885, and continuing for three and one-half months,—was in grave doubt. Logan was the caucus nominee of the Republicans; and Morrison of the Democrats until near the end of the struggle, when Lambert Tree became their candidate. The stubbornness of the fight-intensified by the circumstance that these contestants respectively represented the opposing doctrines of Protective Tariff, and Free Trade in a peculiar

degree, attracted to it the attention of the entire country. This general public interest was further intensified, as the balloting continued, by the patent fact that there were several Republicans and Democrats by no means strong enough in their allegiance to their respective parties to be absolutely depended upon; and who occasionally voted against their party candidates with an evident purpose of preventing an election. It was notoriously believed that money-influences as well as other leverages were at work against the General. The influence and power of the Democratic National Administration was used against him also, and toward the end President Cleveland himself was said to have sent an intimation that "anybody but Logan" should be chosen. Furthermore the situation, during the long fight, was additionally complicated by the death of three members of the Legislaturetwo Democrats and one Republican. One of these deceased Democrats was succeeded by another Democrat and the Republican by another Republican; and it was supposed that the other dead Democrat, whose district was Democratic by some 2,000 majority, would undoubtedly be succeeded, at the special election, by another Democrat. Until that election took place, a sort of truce prevailed, Morrison going off to Washington for more Administration aid, and Logan remaining watchful and alert at the Leland Hotel, Springfield. About this time, Daniel Shepard, and S. H. Jones of Springfield, both strong Republicans, suggested to the General the idea that the vacant representation of the Thirty-fourth Senatorial District, although so overwhelmingly Democratic, might be captured by a "still hunt." Henry Croske, of Rushville, appears also to have written the General on this subject, and claims to have suggested the plan. At all events General Logan dec ded that the Republicans of the district might in a quiet marner go to work and elect one of themselves. Outside the dis rict itself, only four persons knew what was being done-viz. General Logan, Daniel Shepard, S. H. Jones, and Jacob

Wheeler, and these kept their own counsel. Suffice it to say, that, in the face of many great difficulties, the plan succeeded; the Republican vote was polled in its full strength, while the usual Democratic vote, through over-security and consequent apathy, was comparatively small; and Weaver, the Republican candidate, was elected in place of the dead Democrat, by a majority of 336 votes over his Democratic opponent, Mr. Leeper. "The convulsion which followed this masterly stroke," says one of the Illinois journals, "the des perate efforts of the Democrats first to hold back the returns, and second to keep Weaver out of his seat until the Senatorship could be bought, their failure, and the triumphant election of General Logan, are still familiar to the public." The following newspaper despatch, tells at sufficient length the rest of this remarkable story:

CHICAGO, May 19th.-General Logan has been re-elected United. States Senator after a contest requiring all the staying powers which he is well known to possess. Even his enemies to-night confess that the victory was a splendid one and deserving, in view of his organizing it out of apparent defeat and in the face of open venality on the other side. The feeling was general that something decisive would accompany the balloting at Springfield to-day, and swarms of politicians of both parties from all over the State arrived there this morning. As the time for the joint session approached, every inch of space in the galleries was occupied by expectant men and women. When the Democrats realized this morning that all the Republicans were in town, they displayed evidence of a panic, and did their best to induce some Republicans not to vote. Ruger and Sittig were the uncertain quantities, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats knowing positively what they would do. Logan, Tree, Morrison, and "Josh " Allen, were on the floor when the joint session assembled. Ruger came into the House on the Republican side, and was nestled with Senator White and other Republicans who surrounded him. Every Senator and Representative was present-51 Senators, and 153 Representatives.

The call of the roll, for United States Senator, began amid an impressive silence. The Republicans began to vote right away. The Democrats did not respond on the first call. The final vote was as follows: John A. Logan, 103; L. Tree, 99; John C. Black, 2; J. Scofield, 2; William R. Morrison, 11; J. A. Hoxie, 1.