The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-01
a DEEPnY-INJURED MAN.
Ar woodland Airs His Grievances, but Fails
TO Call Hoadly.

III
Mr. James H, Woodland 'Jayhawker' was
in the city yesterday, and was interviewed
concerning Governor Fosters betrayal OF his
confidence in making public the story that
Mr.. Hoadlys nomination cost that gentle
man $50 ooO Following are extracts from
the interview:
Rep.-I see Foster has betrayed your con-
fdence again?
Jay-Yes, he has, and has done me great
wrong. When he saw that had let out a
mart of that letter to an Illinois reporter,
who had betrayed my confidence, he might
have known that 1 desired the whole matter
10 be private. Foster continues to wrong
me.
Rep.-Hcw did you come to talk to Foster,
any how?
Jay.-Well, he is an old friend We have
been through several campaings together,
and | wanted him to sympathize with
Hoadly.
Rep.-Sympathize with him?
Jay-Yes, svmpathize with him, and be
comfort to him, instruct him. | know no
man more competent to help Hoadly under
the circumstances than Charlie Foster and
my feeling for Hoadly was so strong that |
concluded to confide in Charlie, and 1 should
not have believed that he would betray me.
Rep.-Did you not talk to others?
Jay.-Certainly l did. 1 must have told
Lne RLOle InlDb 10 niJy OF Sixty peOple, anu
Foster is the only man of them all who broke
the seal of secrecy.
Rep.-Did you tell the whole sixty conf
dentially?
Jay-Of course. put it all to them in
that way The truth is, l was much agi-
tated.
Rep.-What agitated your
Jay.-Well, thought my friend Hoadly
was being robbed. looked upon him as a
deeply ill-treated man. There were fellows
running to him and telling him Mclean was
launching out money and buying this one
and that one when Mclean was not doing
anything of the kind; but they got money
from Hoadly every time. His hard earnings
were running from him like the blood from
stuck pig. I was sorry to see it,
Rep.-And you thought Foster might help
him?
Jay.-Yes OF all the men [ know [
thought Charley Foster should most deeply
and truly sympathize with Hoadly. knew
that Foster knew how to carry on cam
paign He spends money and makes it
count. He could and should tell Hoadly
how to do the right thing-how to put his
money where it would do the most good. [
do not like to see good man like Hoadly
robbed.
Rep.-How did Foster seem to take the
story that you related to him?
Jay.-Well, he sat in a solemn way, and l
though he was ympathizing with Hoadly and
of sorrow than that on Fosters face. He
was sitting with his back to the window, but
If | am not mistaken / could see the tears
slowly coursing down his cast-iron counte-
nance. L was much moved myself. We were
mourning for the money Hoadly was throw
ing away.
Reptile campaign is very perpIexing
one, is it not from your standpoint?
Jay.-Very. l sympathize with Pendleton,
too. All my Democratic friends need SYM
pathy. Hoadly is the bull-Johnny the bear
and Pendleton the lamb, ehl
Rep.-But you did not confide your SYM
pathetic sorrows about Pendleton and his sad
and secret affairs to the soft bosom of Charles
Foster, did you?
Jay.-No; the sorrows of Pendleton are not
as the sorrows of Foster. The heart knoweth
its own sorrow, says the Psalmist And
when 1 saw Fosters tears over Hoadly's
wrongs 1 paused and it is a rift of happiness
in gloomy sky that did, for Foster would
have slammed the whole thing at that Wash
ington interviewer of his I wish Foster
would stay away from Washington. He in
terviews too much. [ know it, now that
he hes broken the sacred seal of
my more than childlike confidence 1 shall
select other repositories of the Democratic
secrets personally conided to me in the
course of my professional 1abors. Young
man, let US terminate this conversation. You
look like good young man-but | begin to
mistrust my fellow-men. Notwithstanding
your apparently guileless youth, you, too,
might betray me. 1t was cruel in Foster to
inhict these pangs upon me, Through the
fangs OF his interviewer, whom he las lying
in wal at Washington. am like the lovely
woman who stoops to folly, and finds too
late that men betray. But they shall not be-
tray me any more Glory hallelujah! II II
Rep.-And you will leave town without
meeting Hoadly?
Jay,-Yes, my young friend, if 1 can 1
shall go early. l fear that owing to the be-
trayal of trust by Foster, Hoadly, who told
the same story to nearly as many Democrats
as l to Republicans, might misunderstood
me, and that would be painful, and l am sem
sitive.