The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07

but must further combine those elements of
strength that would tend to warrant his sue
cess before the people of the country at the
ballot box. Now we maintain that there is
no name mentioned in this connection that
will strike the masses of the people with
more power or favor than the name of our
own Distinguished fellow citizen of Indiana,
the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks. Mr.. H.
ranks much higher than does the ordinary
politician of our land. He has not only
great mental attainments which grandly
qualify him for the first place within the
gift of the people, but those requirements
have a good and solid foundation upon
which to rest in the nature of a pure moral
character that has had its training, not for a
week or year, but throughout his entire
life. Mr.. Hendricks has held many promi-
nent positions before the public and has &C.
quilted himself in a satisfactory manner in
all of them, and in no instance has even the
breath OF suspicion of wrong doing ever
followed him in the discharge of the duties
of the many offices which he has had the
honor of filling in our country. He Is
one OF the public characters of the
democratic party of to-day that we may
justly point to with pride and qualification.
There has beef nothing in his entire his
tory, when closely analysed, that will make
his friends hang their heads in shame or in
sorrow, bot on the contrary his whole pub
his friends may point to with great satisfac-
ton, and successfully challenge the closest
scrutiny by all. His mental endowments,
together with his great experience in public
positions, give him peculiar qualifications
for the presidential office.
We maintain that Mr.. Hendricks occupies
the right geographical location to receive
the nomination at the bands of the demo-
cratic party of the country. There is MOTH
ing in his place of residence that can DOS
sibly produce a prejudice in the minds of
the people against him. He is the right man
in the right place, and we undertake to say
that in the minds OF the voters OF this cOun-
try, he is to-day the most popular and well
known man of all Others who are mentioned
for that distinguished place. Why should
he not be? The people for years past
have been looking tor and expecting
his nomination for the presidency. For ten
years the democratic voters of the United
States have been looking for this deferred
event, and as often as our national demo-
cratic conventions have met and acted, Just
so often have they been disappointed III
that action, for their failure in not nomin-
ating the distinguished Indianian. In the
presidential contest in 1876 it was Indiana
and the name Of Hendricks that carried the
fortunes of the day. No political campaign
tested and as brayely fought as was the one
in 1876 in the state of Indiana. The
democracy were so thoroughly i'm
bued with the Importance and neces-
sity of victory, that they worked
both by day and by night. Although their
chieftain had again been set aside and de-
feated at st. Louis for the first place on the
ticket yet they were determined to fight the
battle for Mr. Tilden as vigorously as though
Mr. Hendricks occupied the head of the ma
tional ticket They did it, and the annals of
campaigning do not show parallel in polit-
ical warfare. 1t was Greek meeting Greek.
The camp fires of the democratic party
blazed from every hill top and from every
valley throughout that memorable struggle.
The party came up together 'lock-kneed and
shoulder" and carried successfully the state,
and thereby victory Injured to the organlza-
/ ton in the national contest.
For that wonderful battle, Tor that great
victory, the national democracy should not
do less in 1880 than compliment the state of
Indiana and her first statesman by placing
on the ticket for president the name Of
Thomas A. Hendricks.