The Hickman courier., 1871-08-05
HENDRICKS.
Tne AmQsana Ex-senator ON the
Foliticai situation.
Indianapolis correspondence Of the New
York Herald.

uos most cordlal reception.
"The Herald" said Mr.. Hendricks,
has always been very fair toward me,
and | am glad to-meet one of its rep
resentatiyes.n
situation here ?''
"Weiis really, 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 mad time to read the newspapers
thoroughly, l am ashamed to say /
scarcely know what is going on"
You have heard of Vallandigham
death r.
Yes, that was very sad, indeed, Val
landigham was a man of great courage
and discrimination
"Wh A do you think OF his new de-
part q q 9tes3sntsons q
81 haven't thought much about them
yet-I haven't had time. ] think,
though, they will be very generally ac-
cepted by the Democracy. We have
had no occasion in this State to discuss
politics this year, as we do not have an
election this FALL
at the Presidential election, [ sup
poser"
Eyes. We must make the fight upon
living issaes. 1t is folly to be always
going back to dead issues. We must
take things as we find them. l think
the great mass of the Democratic party
realize this fact"
Il presume you are still candidate
for the Presidency? at least your friends
SO regard you"
"Welit is just this way. If the Demo
cratic Convention should see proper to be
80 partial as to nominate me, | will stand,
whether defeated or elected. But l
don't know what the feeling may be in
the convention. l shall make no great
effort to get it. | don't intend that my
friends shall resort to any underhand
means to secure it for me. They shall
not, with my consent at least. In some
respects the Presidency is not desirable
now. 1t is almost impossible, l pre-
sumo, for man to be four years in the
White House without making great
many enemies and rendering himself un-
popular This arises from the great iu-
crease of the patronage during the war
aud growing out of it. 1t must really
be great burden aud source of annoy
ance to the President"
Il notice, sir, that some of the South
ern Democrats don't subscribe to the new
departure resolutions.
''That will come right in time. 1t is
hardly to be expected that a new move
ment like this should meet with univer-
sal approval all at once Mr. Vallandig
ham, presume, expected opposition, and
had he lived he would have been pre-
pared to encounter it. Our friends will
see the wisdom of this movement by and
by--is time, l hope, fer the Presidential
campaign."
"Whai 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 Re
publieans."
Il kaOw; that has been the ground
work of nearly all the speeches of the
Republicans In and out of Congress.
OF course they don't believe themselves
that if the Democrats came into power
there would be any upsettiDg Of things,
any disregard for the constitution or the
laws, but they try to frighten the people
with the picture. | think that four
years of a Democratic administration
would restore harmony between the diff
ferent sections of the country, increase
our prosperity and place the republic
in a position she never occupied be-
fore"
"Do YOU think the Republican party
has had its day?"
Well yes; l don't see what it has to
keep it going. There are no longer any
war issues. and that has been its stock in
trade from the beginning. Suppose the
Democrats accept all the results of the
war, and promise reduction Of taxes, a
more economical administration of the
Government and the restoration of har
mony between the two sections, can the
Republicans do more2"
"This new departure business may be
the nucleus of new party
"Yes, it may; and it is just possible
that the progressive men of all parties
will io,n in it. Men don't usually stick
to sinking ship. As soon as it be-
comes apparent to the leaders of the Re
publican party that there is no future for
that organization, they will leave it to its
fate ?i
"What about Grant p
"Do you mean about his renomina-
tion ?''
Yes
s'I don't see that the Republicans have
anvbodf else. [ suppose they will be
forced q take him again, on the ground
of availability, as they were the first
time, but be won't be as good candi-
date as he was in 1868. They didn t
know any thing about him then, and they
took him on trial. He has disappointed
good many of them since. He is about
as weak man as they can run"
''But they will run him
"Yes, as have said, they will be com
PEELED to do it. They have no other
candidate they consider available, but
that don't strengthen him any before the
people"
"What will the Civil Service and Rev
enue Reform men of the Republican
party do ?"
81 don't know But l should think
they would hardly support Grant for a
second term after the experience they
have had with him"
Mr.. Hendricks informed me that he
proposed making another tour to the
Pacific coast this summer, but that he
did not intend to make any speeches or
to write letters.
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