The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-12

invf stleSiion pc ever suffered ln Die land
once, As i1s commissioner for five ysars. was
on 1nstt.r Of six hundred dollars for EN-
ploying legislative clerk 10 do some exscn-
tive copying. Hendricks related that he
w-S corn IN Ohio, OF mixed Holland-D,,tch
snc Scotch-Irish ancestry, on both aides
antique Pennsylvania. He was taken 10
lndlana when year and q halt old. in, sS30.
Z! his uncle was governor of ;he state, then
three years only III the Union He WAS
elected to Congress for his leadership in s.,p-
portlnga state banking as against mn.
mlscuous banking system, and beaten w
the know nothings after two terms. Puhli.
lie mas written no wrinkle on Hendricts'
azure brow. He takes tronble and great
ness like May morning.
THE GOVERNOR AT SARATOGA.
CAREFUL srUDY-HE KNOWS EXACTLY
WHAT HE - ABOUT.
Inc Evening Telegram, evening edition of
the New York Herald says editoriaIlv. ::
The governor of Indiana has come East. To
a proposition that he shoslo speak in Ohio
he made such a rebound a. landed him i'm
Saratoga. By curious coincidence, Boss
Kelly, wash Mclean, Samuel J. Tiden. and
John L. Hoffman, "reminiscences, are also
there. The governor has been interroeated
oy the reporters, but bis answers have been
framed viii discretion OF statement and
avoidance which have shown Eastern in
quisieors that Western politicians have dis
covered fine substitute tor silence-com-
monpsaces. 1t Is just a. well to give Thomas
A. HeadrickS careful study He msy not
be the coming man, but be is not number
ing himself among the "gOing men," Two
thirds OF the statesmen in this country have
put themselves ''st outs" with either the in
h4tionists or the hard money men. Cover
nor Allen and MIR. Pendleton have got the
IN mt fanr.
capital may have TO get down on it's
marrow bones in this latitude Yea: for the
present, however, il is cock of the walk, and
u carefully avoids such sgitators as Allen.
FeDcleton, Carey and Ewing. ON the con-
trarV, the Southern and Western people
who want some money and co not much
care what Kind it is, do not take 90 Tiiden,
Parker, Bedle, CASTOR and Church, who
have made haste TO declare their "hard
money or no money" position. The repub-
iican Politicians have been equally success
ful IN the fiscal matter in es trenging one
fact on IN their financially split organiza-
ton. In any contingency which supposes
that
THE MONEY QUESTION
will enter into politics next year these
statesmen who, as politicians, have been
successful in estrangiDg one-haG Of their
followers are 'going men" or "gOners."
has Thomas A. Hendricks done ANYTHING
OF that ki0d? Observe how carefully be has
arranged his career during these troubIous
times. Did be rush" 10 he Shining and swal-
lowing of Mr.. Greeley TO the stultffca,ion
OF his own record? to that comedy oferrOrs
the liberal democratic fiasco?y Not o. all.
he held back SO long that his adhesion was
doubted and then solicited. When he
came down" be was able to be one accept
leg results, for the issue of which others
were responsible. He went iuto she liberal
campaign without precipitancy, azi he sur
vived ID with dignity Then, instead of
making again for the Senate, where respon-
>loillty would have 10 b assumed
every day, he let Morton take that
office, and slipped into the easy and prom
inent position of executive ut INDIANA.
a good ONCE for presence and gravity"
aud one in which be did not have to risk or
nurse bis record In this trust be has SO
borne himself that the state has been swung
into democratic line, and the governor has
got the credit for it. He pushed Mr. Nc
Donald forward to the Senate when the next
vacancy beiel, and he retained lis chair OF
ease Ia she state house, making fsW speeches
aud no mistakes. at this time
OHIO BEcEoSs IsIIs,
but his health requires the springs, and be is
quietly taking the measure OF Eastern men
and things, giving every man his ear and
few Dis tongue. Thomas a Hendricks is
very wise man, or at least 2 very sbrewd
one. de has no vices, and yet is not puri-
tan. He is learned, yet not,masty or pedan-
tic. de make the most judicial
spsecn, in It's seeming. aud the most
partisan in its effects OF any man in the.
WtsS. He does not fellowship with,
ring, yet he does not adveFtise his virtue
by sntagoniZing them as Governor Tildens
does. He is the pink of ppopriety, yet ms
Is cordial, unaffected man. He is en-.
tirsiy self pr ssessed, yet be can simulate al
The eoyness of freshman or all the thundsTs
OF tTagedian. He never gets on the wrong
Side OF vital issues, yet he never WASHES
himself on petty ones. He is no Bourbon,
yet be does not Offend these who are. he
is no advanced thinker" yet he VIII
be found claimed 10y those who are.
There is not flaw in his record. ANY
speech OF his would agree with any ether,
and ne has succeeded in indentifying him
se,i with large part of our earnest history
IN the past fifteen years, and has made
reputation for safety and power "a rare
unionl unlike, II not superior, to that Of any
other public man. He win bear observation
In Saratoga, for be knows exactly what he is
about and nobody else fully does.