The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-12
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS.
IN THE HANDS OF THE INTER
VIEWER


GATH HAS A CHANCE AT HIM-A PARALLEL
. BETWEEN MORTON AND. AoRRTssEY-HEC.
| bricks ON MORTON.
Gath writes TO the Cincinnati Commercial,
l saw at the race course TO-DAY SANFORD z
Church and Tbos. \. Hendricks sitting TO.
getber, looking at the horse race. while the
Harvey colt, said to be President Grants
property, came IN second best. Hendricks
mas very placid, moral expression CT coun-
| tenance in repose. When he laughs the fine
moral composure disappears. aud he looks
little coarser and more familiar. He
has white skin, and, 1 think freckles in
II, with reddish hair soft TO the eve and no
beard. His eyes are reflective and admins.
tratve; his nose is rather strong. vet ex
presslve of more sense than spirit. He has
good mouth and somewhat mobile lower
face. Altogether he looks the prudent and
respectable citizen, with the brutal and ag-
gresslve TGrts OF leadership in abeyance. /
can We'll understand how Morton grows in
censed TO see this mild and equal Hendricks
keep abreast of him in the governorship and
the senate, with half the pains, and now
lead him for a presidential nomination.
Tne organ ott'other side up at Indianapolis
says Hendricks is sneak VeTy
well; that's the only alternative IN politics
of being bully. To rough, crowding
nature any man who goes through lie
smoothly is sneak. That was the kind of
man Madison was TO some OF his rivals:
Douglas and Seward thought Lincoln had a
little OF that gait. The organ also intimates
that L did not report Morrissey correctly.
lai"ays thought there was some jealousy in
that quarter of Morrissey-two retired prize
fighters, You know. Meeting
Gov. Hendricks last night, at the Grand
Union Hotel, introduced myself, and was
INVITED TO HIS ROOM,
where we had pleasant tete-a tete, until
his friend and business acquaintance, Hen
derson, came in. Hendricks spoke with
mingled courtesy and freedom, being rather
the negative spirit OF the talk. He spoke
of Thurman and the Ohio campaign, and
SAID he thought, from recent advices, that
Allen would be elected. He said, indeed,
that 1t was hardly to be doubted, il
what he had heard within a
week was true. | told Mr. Hen
bricks that il Allen was elected, alter the
back-set the platform gave Allen at the start,
the renown would be Thurman's, and would
help him for the presidential race. because
he (FhurmaD), had given the coalition of
rags and the veteran a chance. Hendricks
seemed to hear this with interest. and said
that Thurman was q man of fine surprise
and bad been roughly handled by some of
the party organs in Ohio In the course of
remarks he said that public men in a state
encountered a new difficulty in our
times: the precipitation Of their party's
presses to make the issues and the candi-
date. He said be had not seen Blaine since
he came to Saratoga, though both have been
here several days. He bad seen Governor
Tilden- however, a few hours before con-
versed. and j knew be was with Judge
Church IN tns morning. | asked. G0vernUr
Hendricks if ne regarded democratic sue
cess as probable in 1876: He said- Il do
The party has picked up wonderfully all
over the country. We bave
GAINED ABOUT 10000 VOTES
every election in Indiana since 1867, when
Morton got 10000 majority They nse1
against rs the fgment of the Sons OF LIB
ertY and other appliances 20 excite the puo
lie. do not dH1ot Gbat there was a Sons OF
Liberty organization. but manN Insn Joined !
iG to- protection. and not TO aid = revolution
sry organisation. In 1866 they tell TO 10 900
majority They used troops rs reDes'erS
shRmefully both in 1867 and 1866. IN 1865
was els cJed Governor. but they counted me
out. A telegram WIS sent over he slate tD re-
plenish tia frauds of indianapolis: Can't
you do something In 1872 we made Ter
rifle campaigu, and the wht le voting popu
lsilon OF Indiana was brought out, scant o
only eleven hundred snd - votes. 1 was
elected bS eleven hundred and Il. We |
felt that Greeley was gone, and exerted our
selves to save the state ana our orgsniza |
Last year we had IF cen thousaud. major
ity. so in ten years we have wiped !
out twenty Thousand majority and
put fifteen ktboussnd Democratic una
jority in its place. This looks like
growth" ! inquired OF the governor about |
his personal relations with Morton, and the |
recent squabbie OF the organs. He said: /
Senator laOrton and myself have generally |
personal relations. Some Zines |
it becomes disagreeable; but he has no
stomach for personal contest, nor have /
any taste fer it. He will, however, do
AN UNDERHAND THING,
If he thinks he can not pe found oat. An |
open exchange Of compliments hs is very
averse I'd, on the stump or In the party
presses" Here he related the recent ex-
charge of cries between the rival papers OF
indianapolis about us fellows. 1 want Il un-
1erstood that all such conversations as the |
present are related from ray memory, and |
sm qnite Indifferent who they suite, or
what they provoke. II John Morrisev
strains point in favor of his selI-im port
ance and misstates position, j put it |
down. The talk with Morrissey the Com
mercial contained was read bv BIN iully,
ana in no point disputed, and he sent for me
5n interview him for the New York Herald
3 iUerwsra, on his troubles with Tsmmany
Hall. BE told tee representative of the
Eagle, who came up a week aft err
ward, that the interview in the Herald was |
almost verbatim his speech ant spirit.
KnOwi8g so much, that extra urai van
dalite Published an editorial, saying it WAS
interview of me. / derive |
these facts from an owner of the Brook
lyn Eagle, Mr.. Van Anders. He heard Nor
rissey tell the reporter OF the paper that
every point reported was his own. So the
Brooklyn Eagle mad better get under the tall |
tower OF The bridge and scratch the insects
OF teogiversation from its rather suspected
anatomy. Mr.. Hendricks said that the /
former editor of the Indisaapolie Journal Il !
conceive here lean and hungry being) had /
written letter 70 the New York Times,
COMPARING HENDRICKS WITH MORTON
as fit for the presidency. The letter pro-
voked the Sentinel to stack Morton, Hen
tricks himself having no knowledge of the
matter, and, think, not being present
To this the journal Us there such an organ p