The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-17
THE OLD TICKET.
The Feeling In Regard TO Il Among In.
diana Democrats.

INDIANAPOLIS, July l6.-A day or two
ago the brethren were thrown into confu'
sion by the assertion from Mr.. Hendricks
u, Omaha, that Mr.. Voorhees, had no au'
thcrity to say that he (Hendrickr) was moi
ready to accept nomination in 1884. Mr.
Voorhees, Immediately, and meekly, pub
lished that he did not make the statement
on authority, but that in personal inter
views Mr.. Hendricks had repeated that he
was candidate for no Office. This is Mr..
Hendricks position, well known and well
understood; but there has been q persistent
effort to misrepresent him in the interests
OF those who think their advancement de-
pends upon his humiliation. 1t has been
insisted that he would be candidate for
Governor, that he would bea candidate for
Senator, and, indeed, for almost everything,
when the truth is, he is simply resting upon
bis strength and reputation, willing TO
stand with Mr., Tilden again, as he did in
1876, II his party thinks best. Following
this Omaha repetition Of the now cele.
brated Turpin interview comes the elabor-
ate statement Of the position OF Mr.. Tilden
given In the Saratoga special; and as con.
sequence OF the two things tho Democratic
situation here 10 badly mixed.
There is no Disgusting the fact that the
old ticket has many friends and muck
strength in Indiana. The Wabash Courier,
tue paper in which the Hendricks .Turpin
interview was published, says: Admitting,
for the sake Of argument, that Mr.. Tilden
and Mr.. Hendricks are feeble, which Is a
lie, and that public curiosity during the
campaign would demand daily health
bulletins, the denomination would prove
the most vitalizing principle that could be
brought to American politics. The election
OF no other Democrat except Tilden, not
even Mr.. Hendricks himself, would wipe
out the fraud OF 1876, and until that il done,
American history will never be symmetri.
cal. The friends Of Mr.. Tilden at the CIn-
cinnati Convention were not politicians,
and there is no evidence extant that
an Indiana Senator or Congressman
worked to secure the nomination OF
Mr.. Hendricks. The strength was
with the people. Captain Myers, then a
Congressman, now Secretary Of State, said
to General Russ while the convention was
on, joe Mcdonald can receive the nomina.
ton for President Perhaps he can,
answered Russ but the people don't want
Joe AfcDonald; and, Sir he continued,
with the spirit OF prophecy full upon him,
If you ever expect anything in Indiana
you must not disclose your disloyalty to
Hendricks The idea OF any rival candi.
dates devotion to the political interests OF
Indiana's favorite is absurd. However full
OF greed he might have been, though he
might have eclipsed Garfield at Chicago,
he could awaken no possible encourage.
ment from the delegation Of this State.
The fact is impossible to conceal that Mr..
Mcdonald was esteemed as inconsequen.
tial by the Indiana delegation, as he was
by the Indiana General Assembly, which
gave Isaac Gray the nomination for United
S ate Senator"
Auditor OF State Rice, the Secretary OF
the Democratic State Central Committee, is
authority for the statement that fOrty.six
Democratic papers in Iadiana are for the
old ticket, and It Is well.known that in the
northern part Of the State particularly Mr..
Mcdonald Is very weak by reason Of being
the attorney for the drive-well patentees,
whose extortion has embittered the people
of that entire section. The Saratoga state
ment OF Mr.. Tilden's position, and Mr..
Hendricks curt screed from Omaha have
re-awakened interest in the old ticket, and
1t Ia very easy to be seen that the Indiana
Democracy would require little coaching
to be solid for Tilden and Hendricks.
Jewett, Of Clarke county,
Chairman Of the Ways and Means Com.
mittee in the last House, says the river
county Democrats are for tile old ticket.