New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-05-01
INDIANA POLITICS.
pLOTTINGs FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

MIR. HENDRICKS AND OTHER DEMOCRATIC PATRIOTS
WHO ARE WILLING TO GLOOM UP"-PULLING
WIRES AND COUNTING UNMATCHED CHICKENS.
TFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNEI
INDIANAPoLIs, IND, April 26.-Mr. Hendricks
and his particular friends and adhereDts
in this State are the anxious seat. AS
long as Mr.. Hendricks the only Demo rat in
Indiana who was permitted to occupy a prominent
position before the country and was always pushed
forward as the representative of his party IN this
State he was happy, but alas! the scene has
changed. Mr.. Mcdonald was elected to the United
States Senate and soon became known as hard
money man. He has the courage to differ with his
party upon the financial question and said So Mr..
Hendricks had never mastered sufficient courage to
do such thing and suffered by the comparison.
Mr. Voorhees, next came into promin nee as the col
league of Senator Mcdonald when he assumed the
leadership of the extreme soft money and commune
wing of the Democratic party; between the two
Mr. Hendricks lost most of his following and
seemed to have sunk into political obscurity.
Previous to the st. Louis Convent on in 1876, no
Indiana Democrat of any standing would have
dared to express an opinion IN favor of any other
candidate for the Presidency than Mr.. Hendricks
but now while nearly all are willing that the next
Democratic State Convention shall place him before
the country as a candidate for the Presidency and
that the delegates 10 the National Convention
shall be instructed TO use all honorable means to
secure the same, they have not the remotest idea
that he will receive the nomination for the first
place on the ticket, and very respectable number
of leading Democrats do not hesita to say that
they do not believe Mr.. Hendricks would make an
available candidate at this time and that they are
for Mr. 1ilden. They have no idea that MIR. Hen
bricks could carry any one of the hard money States
in the North and they prefer to risk Mr.. Iilden.
80 hare hat Mr.
love Samuel j. TilJen, and i'll his private conversa-
tons with personal friends swears by all that is
sacred, that he will not under any circumstances,
accent the nomination for the Nico-Presdency, that
he is under no earthly obligations to Tilden" and
will see him and his friends IN the lower regions be-
fore he will be used second time a stepladder
for another TO reach prize TO which he is himself
entitled that he does not desire the Office OF
Vice-Presldent--as that official has no patronage,
and the place has not proved a stepping-stone to
the Presidency-and that be does not desire to be
mere fgure-head at a salary not equal TO one-half
his income as attorney. 10 Is wel-ku0Wn mere
that Mr.. Hendricks has within the past two years
sustained some pretty heavy lossej in bank and
mining stocks, and. being part culaIly fond of
money, he does not desire to accept any position
where the balance will be on the wrong side of tie
ledger at the end of the year. He would much pre-
fer TO take his chances for Cabinet position or
frsclass Mission in the event of the success of his
partv His friends here belioye he will not recant.
but Mr. Hendrckst past political history docs not
give any evidence OF firmness. lie twice accepted
fhe Democratic nomination for Governor Of this
state after declaring most positively and nneqnvO-
cally that under no circumstances would he DO so.
and agaiu eat humble PIE in accepting the nom
ination for the Vice-Presidency under Tlden, when
he swore that nothing could induce him so TO hui
initiate himself, and after swearing for three days
that he would not, did accept. He has always fol-
lowed the lead and beck of his party and is utterly
devoid of independence of party; Should he adhere
TO ms present intention he Will greatly surprise
those who have known him best for twenty years.
Senator Mcdonald still stands as political god
father to Mr. Hendricks but IL is shrewdy sus-
nected that he is convinced thai Mr.: Hendricks can
not receive the nomination for the FIST place upon
the ticket, and that he will take him at his word
and work up his own nomination for the second
nlace. Senator Mcdonald is. in any event, deter
mined not TO be left out in the cold, ana nc has
caused notice to be served upon all concerned that
he has pregmpted the right 10 the first vacancy on
the Supreme bench that occurs after the election
and Inauguration of Democratic President when
ever that event may occur The Senator under
stands that Mr.. VIM. ii. English, a leading cap
itaist of this city, for the past twenty years the
most prominent banker in Indiana, and before the
war Democratic Congressman from ooutnerh Ia