The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-25
HENDRICKS AND TAMMANY.
Political Gossip Effecting Indiana's Senior
FavOrite SOn-Is He Tammany's
FavOrite?
Gath's Special from Buffalo.


was speaking to prominent man in Tam
many Hall last Sunday about gossip in that or
ganization on the presidential candidate. Tam
many Hall is not apt to express much opinion on
such questions till it has had orders to do so. My
informant replied, to my surprise: 81 think
Governor Hendricks is the favorite in the Tam
many organization"
SAID 1: "How do you reason that QUIT"
"Merely from what 1 hear there. hear him
spoken of as man who has always been a
sound Democrat and an able man, who has been
In many posltions of trust ana has never come
short. He has been United States senator, Gov
ernOr OF Indiana, and mas held important bureaus
under the federal government, and never heard
OF his lacking in public quality anywhere He
was good enough TO put on the ticket with Til
den in 1875, and carried Indiana VIGOROUSLY,
which we lost for the want of him In the next
presidential year. Lastly" said my Tammany
friend, che comes from the West and that is all
important to We believe in Tammany Hall
that with New York candidate shall have
these old factions revived again, whereas
Western candidate will labor for harmony in the
New York Democracy"
Said |: HAS not Mcdonald been considered
in the rammany circlesi
"Yes; but he is an afterJhOught, while we have
regarded Hendricks as the standard candidate in
Indiana-the typical Democrat. We do not sym
pathlZe with the attempts to supplant him as the
Indiana leader. He has been called to the front
a good many times there to save his party, and,
having used him for these subordinate purposes
and taken hmm away from his fiOurishing law
practice, we do not think 1t magnanimous or
smart to elect Mr.. Mcdonald. Mcdonald Will
cheerfully support Hendricks, while / think
Hendricks would have a right to take otfense if
compelled to support Mcdonald"
The person to whom | speaking holds
very strong place in Tammany Hail. is well
quainted with men and events, and know was
| giving me the best information he had
Continued my Tammany frIeno' Hendricks
would have been supported, rlnR, by Tamma-
ny Hall If they had got into the convention.
| Since that time it has been ulestiOn il the
Tammany circles whether Hendricks was to be
thrown overheard Tor McDOnayd some other
person My understanding is that the leaders
| OF Tammany Hall who came in contact with
Mr.. Hendricks last summer at Saratoga were
drawn in sympathy with him again. They heard
his case, and found nothing in it to condemn In
the year 1876 ne was candldate for PRESIDENT,
and the choice of Indiana Tilden and his f-'atiis
went to st. Louis and bought up the convention,
and, having beaten Hendricks, they put INN on
the rear to save Indiana and the Western States
Hendricks left to Mr.. Tilden the securing of the
results of the victory, and Tilden threw them
away by cowardlce and irresolutlon."
''Who says that2" asked
Everybody acquainted with the facts. ASK
Governor Dorshelmer, who was a member of
Tilden's household, and who told him that unless
he tooR a positive step and said aloud that he
| meant to be inaugurated his chances were gone
Tiden replied: TO do SO would knock stocks
and securities in every direction"
Said L: care you sure that Dorsheimer will
bear testimony to that factP
mo, but he mas said 1t, just the same. To re-
sumo, however, with Mr.. Hendricks" continued
my Informant, she naturally objected to being
put up for Vice-Presldeut behind a vacllating
tmid man like Tilden any more, who would
throw away the victory. Hendricks claim
ed that Indiana ought now to put him
forward as the Presidential candidate
But Mcdonald, English and others
were intriguing to lay Mr. Hendricks aside.
There were two movements started in Indiana
to defeat Hendricks in 1880. The first the
| least candid of the two, and 1t was that of Nc
Donald He undertook to run in when 1t was
apparent that Hendricks, through the ambition
of other men Ia Indiana, would not get the nom
nation. English had set pecuniary movement
on foot to get the nomination. He put money
into newspapers and worked up a Southern
boom, and the consequence was that with En-
glish on the ticket, Indiana was lost by decisive
majority, The people out there would not stand
the affrOnt that had been put on Governor Hen
bricks"
"But," said I, to my Tammany informant,
"what is the meaning of this trimming by Hen
bricks toward T1lden again, If he has no faith in
Tilden's eouragel"
Hendricks" resumed my sachsm friend, "has
been taught by the logic of events, Seeing
that the name of Tilden has been used to kill
him off aud promote McDonald's fortunes. Hen
bricks has merely resumed his place behind Til
den saying to the rest of the country: IF you
want to nominate Mr. Tllden will take the sec
ond place, and if you want to nominate me, here
I am He is willing to lay his chances before
the convention. You see how dtXterous have
been the tactics of his opponents at home. In
the first place, they helped TO defeat him in
1880 for President. Now they say If Mr. Hen
bricks to have been nominated again, it
ought TO have been in $780, and not eight years
after the wrong that has been done Elm. Hen
bricks and his friends know that those men
| were bound to beat Tilden and Hendricks three
years ago, and they would like to beat Hen
bricks next year He has perfect right to
come out and say to his friends in New York
and elsewhere: Put yourselves in my place!
Here l have been used for series of conven-
tons, and each tne beaten by some trick or
conspiracy. In 1868 received, almost without
organization, very large vote for President;
in 1872 1 had to give way TO the Greeley move
ment; in 1876 my supporters were bought up,
and 1 was put up at the tail of the ticket. Now,
my friends In Indiana, who have supported me
for years, have right to demand that L shall
take care of my own fortune which includes
theirs l am not repeating the words of Gov
ernor Hendricks" said my acquaintance, "but
my understanding of what his feelings
Tammany Hall is not a political institution
where men lay their honest party grievances and
get no sympathy. We have how the men
who carry the city of New York and save the
State have been beaten out of their honest
deserts by political mOuntebanks and ingrates
We have been compelled, in order TO save
Tammany Hall from destruction, TO turn and
fight men calling themselves Democrats, who
would not let alone. So we that Hen
driekss appeal is not without injuries and
reason"
'What do you think about Holman?"
ave think nothing about him. He's q man of
straw-a nobody"