Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-05
IN INDIANA.
Another State Which Suffers From
Wealth of Great Men and a
Superebuudance Of
Talent.

WASHINGTON, December 30.-The
publication of the decidedly personal
interview of ex Governor Hendricks,
in which he fatty declines to be a
candidate for governor in 1884 to ad.
vance the interests of any person,
has somewhat retarded the Mcdonald
boom. Up to the appearance of Mr..
Heu bricks interview the Mcdonald
managers had been running things
with q high hand and an o%utstreached
arm. They had been setting up men
here and putting others down there at
their own sweet will, the sole
object being to magnify the import
ance of Mr.. Mcdonald, and to make
everything contribute to his nomina-
ton. Mr.. Hendricks is not the go-
NAL, unseltsh, self forgetting soul he
might be, and he does not look with
complsisance upon the casting of lots
at the foot of bis eick bed for the place
which for many years he had consid.
cred TO be his individual property
The Mcdonald managers shou d have
learned wisdom by their experience in
1880. MIR. Hendricks then had the
opportunity of his life, as well as did
Mr.. Mcdonald, but it passed both of
them, unimproved. Senile gangrene
Of the foot Is not regarded as condu
GIVE toIthat unselfsh state of mind in
which a politician will do In 1884 any
more than he would have thought Of
doing four years before.
Gov. Foster said to Gen. Garfield
at Chicago that the shadow of the
presidency never rested over a man
but once in his life, and it will save
Mr.. Mcdonald q great and varied
heartache If he will learn that fact
now. At any rate. it will be later
than 1884 when Mr.. Hendricks will
stand over MIR. Mcdonald and place
the crown upon his brow. A CON
sultation of the files of history dating
back to the January convention Of
1868, when MIR. Hendricks came so
perilously near the nomination, and
to which body Mr.. Mcdonald was a
delegate from Indiana, may afford the
curious reader q reason for the lack of
devotion now shown by the retired to
the aspiring statesman.
Elk Governor Hendricks suggests
that either Judge Turple, Of this city
or Colonel Gray, of Randolph, would
make a good democratic candidate for
the governorship. This suggestion is
gall and NORWOOD 20 Mr.. Mcdonald,
since Colonel Gray was the gentleman
whn chnotaI hin, H,t .f rho nnpa
plimentary vote for the United
States senator at the termination Of
his senatorial career Judge Turple
is a man of great ability, but very
radically and severely democratic,
He was the short term senator TO sue
coed Jesse d. Bright, and is the idol
of the liquor league. Another cand,
idate for The governorship is the Hon.
William Mack, of Terre Hau,e, a law
yer of prominence, and a strong man.
Ho has served acceptably as speaker
of the lower house.
1t is pretty we'll understood that
Mr.. Holman is a candidate for United
States senator against Mr.. Voorhees,,
and that he is shaping matters to that
end. MI. Ho'man was the candidate
of the ant Mcdonald wing of the
party in 1873, and came within two or
three votes OF receiving the caucus
nomination. Should he make a dead
set against Mr.. Voorhees, he can prob.
ably defeat him, as the entire course
of the Wabash statesman has alien.
ated many of his party friends. Mr..
Holman would command almost a
solid following in the southern part of
the state, where the entire democratic
msjorities are.
On the Republican side of the house
the question of the next candidate for
governor Is receiving some attention.
Col. Dudley continues to be favorably
mentioned, as does Maj. w. III. Cal.
kins, who has been an announced can.
didate for some time. MIR. Calkins
would be a representative IL some
degree of the younger element of TIE
republican party of the state, an ele.
ment no longer to be overlooked. A
census of the young mems republican
clubs in the last campaign makes the
total membership about 10000, Of
which /. is estimated that 33 per cent
was of Democratic parentsge.