The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-03
From the Indianapolis Journal.
Candidate Hendricks OF Indiana.

Thomas A. Hendricks the Douglas can
didate for Governor, began to hold Office
about as soon as he was able to vote. He
served in the constitutional convention of
1850, left that to go to Congress, was kick
ed out of Congress by the people only to
land in the fat Commssionership of the
Public Lands, and left that only to take the
office of Governor of Indiana-if he can
get it.
While in Congress the Kansas bill was
introduced. In his private letters home he
denounced it bitterly. But he voted for it.
For this the people repudiated him, and
President Pierce paid him with an excellent
office.
While in that office Judge Birch, one of
the Douglas candidates for United States
Senator in Missouri against Senator Green,
charges, and offers to give him $4,000 if
he don't prove it in open court, that Hen
bricks cancelled the entries of a number of
settlers and citizens of Missouri at the Platts-
burg office, though made on the I'd of March,
1857, and ordered the Register to give the
lands to some Pennsylvania spectators,
who made their application on the 18th OF
March, 1857, five days after.
While in that Office he assessed his CLERKS
a certain per cent. of their salaries to pay
the debt incurred in Pennsylvania by the
Democratic Central Committee in distributing
forged naturalization papers, as is proved by
the testimony of Patrick Lafferty, J. l..
Cramer, and J. N. Lucas, in the Covode re-
port. The forged papers, Laferty, Demo-
cratic oficeholder, swears were more than
5000 in number, that he distributed 1000
or 5000 himself, and that the Democratic
majority in the Pennsylvania State election
| for 1856 was only 1900. Thus the State
was carried by forgery, and Mr.. Hendricks
helped to pay the expenses This is all
proved under oath, by DEMOCRATS.
While in that office he joined the "lndi-
ana Club" which was reorganized in 1853,
as Stephen G. Dodge of this State swears,
"under moral duress," to assist in the pas
sage of the Lecompton fraud, and that Club
passed resolutions fully and cordially in
dorsing that fraud.
While in Congress he denounced the
4" Homestead BILL" because it gave land to
poor settlers without price" as he expressed
it, but he voted steadily to give lands tc
railroad companies " without price"
While in Congress he advocated the rails
ing of the price of every other section o
the public lands 100 per cent, thus dOub-
ling instead of lesSening the burden on the
settlers shoulders. This was in periec
keeping with his denuncation of the Homo
stead BILL
He is now defending and indorsing tn,
present State administration which we hav,
shown has doubled the interest on the Stat
debt; squandered Sl,5OO,OOO worth 0
swamp lands, and cheated the children O
the State out of that amount of schoo
money; protected and rewarded defaulter
whose thefts are admitted to be over 500,
f 600, by a trick and a lie managed to ge
double salaries for their State officers, an,
at the same time give them ali the "steal
: ings' these salaries were intended to cove
: and compensate and which defeated al
the legislation of 1857 to keep in the Senat
Leroy Woods, who was at the same tim
holding another Office worth 5000 year