The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-17
TILDEN AND HENDRICKS.
The Old Ticket of 1876 and the Cavalier
Treatment of 1t by the Party.
New York Times.

New York Times.
There is certain dignifed pathos in the
attitude assumed by both of the Democratic
national candidates of 1S76-Tilden and Hen
bricks There is in the Democratic party, we
regret to observe, an inclination to regard
these eminent men as obsolete,.if not actually
| moribund. To be sure, 1876 is now q long way
Off as we make history In this country To
discuss what happened in 1876 is something
like reviewing ancient history Since that
time we have invented Bookwalter, Cleve-
land, and other brand-new Democratic states
| men, Ancient history is all very well in its
way, but when it comes to rehabilitating the
characters of ancient history and budding
them upon the stage of the living present,
there is an instructive revolt against per-
Torrance so CHASTITY.
AT least this is the way in which many
Democrats talk. Mr.. Tilden insists that he
never felt better in his life, that.he is having
an Indian summer of human existence, and
that he is practically as young as he ever
was, Mr.. Hendricks has been so often reported
as dead and buried that it seems almost like
resurrection to read of his being present at
social party in Indianapolis and standing
squarely lon his feet" Mr. Hendricks's
vulnerable point is not like that of Achilles
in his heel. 1t is in his toe-presumably his
big toe 1t was tragically said of him, when he
took to his bed with an invalid toe, that he
would probably never get up again; yet he is
standing squarely on his feet and insisting
that he never felt so well in his life There
is no difficulty with his toe except that the
family had poultced it with charcoal and
fiax-seed which, Mr. Hendricks says, so de-
ceiyed the doctors that they said the toe was
mortified and must be amputated. 1t was
Mr.. Hendricks who was mortified.
This haste to shelve the worthless of 1876 is
rank ingratitude. 1t is, or ought to be- a
cardinal principle in politics that defeat en-.
dears candidate to his party To be sure,
both Tilden and Hendricks want to be the
Democratic candidate for President AS we
do not elect but one President In 1884, one
or the other of these rejuvenated and
sprightly gentlemen must get out of the way
of the other. Mr.. Tilden, having the right
of seniority, may cry: 'My turn next" and
Mr.. Hendricks may have an inning later
on in the political calendar. But, in
the name of humanity we must protest
against the popular disposition to entomb
Mr.. Tilden and to magnify the invalidity of
Mr.. Hendricks big toe. There is an old
proverb concerning the age of men and
women, the latter half of which is that "a
man is as young as he feels" The truth Of
this adage being admitted, Mr.. Tilden is in
the heyday of his youth, and Mr.. Hendricks
may possibly be too young and giddy for
the high office on which he has fixed his
glittering eye. When heartless Democrats
say that MIR. Tilden is dead but has not
tumbled down, and that Mr.. Hendricks lit
orally has one foot in the grave, they simply
advertise their dread of these two great men.
Tilden and Hendricks are perennial