The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-13
HENDRICKS AND MCDONALD.
New Facts Concerning the Struggle at Gin
cinnati Three Years Ago.

Clnnatl Inree GcArS ago.
Evansville Courier (Dem.)
1T looks as though Thomas a. Hendricks did
not intend that the next Democratic candidate
for President should come from Indlana.-New
York Sun.
The interview with Mr.. Hendricks that was
published in the Wabash Courier more than
a week ago must be accepted as the true ex-
preston of his feeling in regard to the next
presidential nomination. To the surprise,
not to say the indignation, of his friends, Mr.
Hendricks has avowed himself willing to ac-
cept an honor in 1884, which he temporized
with in 1876, and which he absolutely de-
clined in 1880. At the conventio nof the lat
ter year the Indiana delegation stood by Mr..
Hendricks, although it was clear that he had
no chance whatever for the nomination for
the presidency. With the excep-
tion of two or three delegates from
Iowa, a Republican State, he had not a
single vote in the convention outside of In
diana. Yet the hurrah for him was so strong
and so loud in the Indiana delegation that
the opportunity of nominating Mr. McDon-
aid was entirely disregarded 1t was treason
at Cincinnati to say a word in favor of Nc
Donald. 1t mattered not that the nomina-
ton for the presidency was presented to him
from hundreds of sources, and in the most
tempting forms. The Southern delegations
were unanimously in his favor, and it is not
stretching the truth of history to say that
had 1t not been for the sentimental allie
glance of the Indiana delegation to Mr..
Hendricks, Mr. Mcdonald would have
been nominated at that conven-
ton. On the night before Hancock
was nominated, when every possible chance
Tor hendricks was gone, a committee coI-
sisting of M. E. Ingalls,, B. C. Shaw, ex-treas-
urer of State, and another Democrat whose
name the Courier does not now remember
went from Cincinnati to Indianapolis on a
special train, Mr. ingalls, being the president
of the railroad, to lay the exact condition of
/ I,ff -
That committee informed him that his.
nomination was simply impossible but that
Mcdonald would be the choice of the con-
vention if he would but say the word. For
some unaccountable reason Mr.. Hendricks
declined to consent to the Withdrawal
OF his name, and the consequence
was that Hancock was nominated
because Mcdonald refused to be candidate
without the consent of Hendricks These
facts are well known to Indianians who
were present at the convention. 1t would
be idle now 10 suggest what might have been
the result of the presidential campaign of
1880 if Mcdonald had been the canddate,.
Indiana was then an October State, and ii is
fairly reasonable to claim that the Democrats
would have carried it i'll that month if Nc
Donald had been the presidential candidate
Although Mr.. Hendricks had been the
favorite of the party, it cannot be said, even
by his most enthusiastic friends that his
cess. Much as the party loved him.
it also loved Mcdonald, and the nomi-
nation of the latter for the presidency
would have inspired the Democracy of Indi-
ana to the same enthusiastic effort that would
have been witnessed had Hendricks been the
nominee. The Courier has always been the
steadfast friend of Governor Hendricks but
it is also the steadfast friend of Joe. McDon-
ald. The possibility of Hendricks's advance
ment has gone, and we regret the fact. But
his Willingness to see Mcdonald sacrificed
especially after the loyalty which the latter
has shown to him, indicates degree of ego
tism and selishness that is at once a surprise
and grief to his friends. As the Democracy
of Indiana followed the fortunes of
Hendricks at ST. Louis and Cincinnati,
they will rally to the standard of Mcdonald
at the next national convention. We have
respected the honor of the nomination for
the vice-presldency, which has been con-
ferred upon the State by the conventions
of 1876 and 1880. 1t would be folly now to
speculate as to what might have been the
result if an Indiana candidate for the presi-
dency had been chosen at either of these
conventions But Mr.. Hendricks may as well
understand first as last that the Indiana
Democracy will follow his flag no longer
The party has loved him, and loves him yet,
but he ought to see that the Democracy of
the country does not want him for its caudi-
date. If he cares anything for the respect of
the friends who have stood by him in years
past he will join with them now in advanc-
ing the cause Of the only man in Indiana
who has a chance before the next national
Democratic convention. That man is Joe
Mcdonald ......