Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-04

"LtviDR Issues; Grant the only Avail
able Candidate OF tho Radicals The
"Kew DepaErure Etc Ect.
~ IHDIANAPoLIs, July ID.
Senator Thos. A. Hendricks resides |
on Q highly cultivated, well laid out and |
beautifully situa6- q place of about eigh- |
teen acres, mile outside Of the city limits |
of Indianapolis Since his retireme Mt |
from ths United States Senate he has en- |
gagged assiduously in the practice of the |
w, and the story here is that the firm Of |
a hich he is the head, Hendricks. Hort & |
Hendricks, has the best and most extern |
slve practice in the State. The ex-senator
is the idol of the Democracy OF Indiana,
and the Eoundlessness OF their fsih in
him Is such that they think IL he ak
hold OF q case it is already won.v 8 TDm
Hendricks, as they familiarly and lovlnstJ
term him, can, in their estimation. d.
anything Mrs Hendricks, highly
com plisaed lady, seems 10 Rave en equs
claim upon the Democracy with her nus
band. lyon shouldsee Mrs. Hen drick
said al enthusiastic Itlehmsn to me, with
a strong emphasis upSn the Mrs. and then
he added with great ea:festness of man
ner, "She's the best man o the two. -
All the Democrats in this part Of tie O 'uI
~ alo in favor or Hendricks for Presl
dent. To be sure there may be few poll
'icians against him on personal grounds,
but I speak Of the masses of the party
The ex-senator himself seems to be giving
every attention to public affairs, especially
politics. Your correspondent, who called
upon him at his Office yesterday, met with
a most cordial reception.
"The Herald" said Mr.. Hendricks.
g has always been very fair toward me,
and am glad 10 meet one OF it's represen-
tatives."
"Mr. Hendricks, how is the political
situation here p
well. really, l don't know much about
it. During the last two or three months /
have been almost daily in court, and SO
engrossed with business that l haven't had
time to read the newspapers thoroughly. /
an ashamed TO say scarcely know what
is going on"
"You have heard OF vallandigham's
death %
Yes. that was very sad, indeed. Val,
landie am was man Of great courage and
determination.
what do you think of his departure
resolutions %
"Ihaven't thought much about them
yeti haven't had time. / think, though,
they will be very generally accepted by the
Democracy We have had 40 occasion in
this State to discuss politics this year, as
we do not have an election this Fall.
Il
| at the =, ,idential election, [ suppose 2
"Ye.. We must make the fight upon
living issues 1t is folly to be always go
ipg back to dead issues. We must take
things as we find them. I think the great
mass of the Democratic party realize this
fact ?"
81 presume you are still candidate for
the Presidency at least your friends SO
regard you"
w II = = L Ia
ocratic Convention should see proper 10 be
partial as to nominate me I will stand.
whether [ am defeated or elected. But 1
don't know what the feeling may be in the
Convention. shall make no great effort
to get it. I don't intend that my friends
shall resort to any underhand means to Sc
cure it for me. They shall not with my
consent at least. In some respects the
Presidency is not desirable now. It is al
most impossible I presume, for a m an to
be four years in the White House without
making great many enemies and render
ing himself unpopular. This arises from
the great increase of the patronage during
tue war and growing out of it. It must
rally be great burden and source of an
noyance to a President
Il notice, sir, that some of the South
ern Democrats don't subscribe to the new
departure resolutions"
1QdG VIII come TlSQG Llme. LII Is
hardly to be expected that new movement
like this should meet with universal APP
prevail all at once. Mr.. Vallandigham, I
presume, expected opposition, and had he
lived he would have been prepared to en-.
counter it. Our friends Will Zee he wis
dom or this movement by and by, In time.
hope, for the Presidential campaign"
what the Democracy wants to do is
to convince the people that they are not.
as party, revolutionary. You know
! this is charged upon them by the Repub-
! licans.''
Il know; that has been the groundwork
of nearly oil the speeches of the Republi-
cans in and ont of Congress. OF course
they don't believe themselves that if the
DEM crazy came into power there would
be any upsetting of things, any disregard
of the Constitution or the laws, but they
try to brighten the people with the picture.
think that four years of Democratic
Administration would restore harmony be
tween the different sections of the county,
increase or prosperity and place the
Republic in position she never occupied
before"
DO you think the Republican party has
had s day %
'Wel, yes; I don't see what it has to
keep it going, There are no longer any
war issues, and that has been it's stock in
ira ie from the beginning, Suppose the
Democrats accept all the results OF the war,
and promise reduction of taxes, a more
economical administration Of the Gov
eminent and the restoration of harmony
between the two sections, can the Repub-
licans do more ?"
This new departure movement may
be the nucleus of new party"
Yes, it may; and it is just possible
that the progressive men of all parties will
join ia it. Men don't usually stick to a
sinking ship. AS soon as it becomes ap-
parent to the leaders of the Republican
party Il. at there is no future for that or
ganiz alton they VIII leave it to its fate"
What about Grsnt 81 --
"Do you mean about his renomina-
ton %
Eyes"
Il don't sac that the Republicans have
any body else. I suppose they will be
forced to take him again, on the ground
of availability, as they we're the first time,
but he WON'T be as good a candidate as he
was in 1868. They didn't know anything
about him then. and they took him on
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