The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-01
Garfeld's Cabinet He is a Republican in pol
itics in whom there is no guile.
HENDRICKS

itics in whom there is no guile.
HENDRICKS.
Mr. Hendricks ought not to be elected to the
Office of Vlce-president Of the United States,
because his position on public questions in the
past gives no promise Of hope in the future and
because, among other reasons, early in 1861, he
said:
IF the war being prosecuted should have the effect
Of abohshing market in the South by destroying
the peculiar system Of labor in that section then
would advise the Northwest to look out for itself
In addressing meetings after that time, in
which the call denounced Mr. Lincoln as
ftyrant,p and an 'simbecile," and the war for
the suppression of the rebellion as a failure,
all of which must have been known to Mr..
Hendricks, and for which he had no word Of
condemnation
Again, in 1868. he denounced Mr. Lincoln for
waging an Abolition war, and IS said to have
used this language:
IF Congress would take bundle Of switches
and switch them all out of the White
House, it would be well for the peoples
but until that is done, it viii not be welll
You may hear the prayers in churches, your
may 60 out to battle for Them but our country is not
to be restored as it until Aboltonism is buried
never to be resurected.
Speaking of the raising of colored regiments
Mr.. Hendricks is reported to have said, 'The
crown of injustice has been completed; they
have passed bill in the House Of Representa-
tiyes to arm an army of negroes. Ev-
cry man who voted for that bill; and the Presi-
dent when he shall have signed it, will offer
direct insult to every white man and woman in
the United States; an insult that every proud
man mill resent" Again, he is reported to have
said in a speech delivered in this State, if any
body came into their neghborhood to arrest
deserters to ''attend to that gentleman at once.p
He is reported to have further said, speaking of
the war; i am willing to compromise at any
time; am ready to say to the people of the
South, come in again and we will secure to you
your constitutional rights, and, if you desire, adj
ditional guarantees In the same speech speak
ing of Mr.. Lincoln, he is said to have used this
language: Mr.. Lincoln says 10 the people you
are not loyal, am loyal he says you men of
the workshops and farms, will putyou in dun
geons if you don't keep still when shake my
head" All these words and more were spoken
by Mr. Hendricks at time when the country
was engaged in an awful civil war, where hun
dreds were being killed daily, and thousands of
dollars of the peoples money was being spent to
put down the rebellion One word sentence
from him in favor of the vigorous support of
that war would have saved hundreds of lives and
thousands of dollars. Yet he did not speak it;
but on the contrary gave his voice and his in
huence in the opposite direction.
Later on, when he was called on in official life
to secure the results of the war by constitutional
amendments, he bitterly opposed all of them.
He yielded his support to Mr.. Greeley in the
campaign Of 1872. His position upon the re-
sumption Of specie payments and the restoration
of the Union to coin basis, was questionable
and insecure With the question he resorted
to what Mr. Tilden calls futile dalhance,n
and underwent the painful modification of see
ing the country resume specie payments without
his aid and against his protest He stumped the
State of Ohio for Governor Allen upon q plat
form of reputation. He was one of the three
senators who voted for proposition that no col
ored man should vote unless he was worth $780,
he is opposed to civilService reform and has
ever sat upon the fence until every public ques-
ton has swept past him, before announcing his
own opinion thereon Fer these, and many rea-
sons Mr.. Hendricks ought not to be, in my iudg-
ment, elected Vice-president of the United
States Mr. Hendricks private life is unexcep-
honable, and, personally, he is perfect gentle
man. 1t is to his public atterances and public
history that object, and he has given, of late
years, no sign of repentance for the political sins
which he has committed
LOGAN.
Gen. John A. Logan, of Illinois, should be
elected Vice-president because he loved his coun-
try better than he did his party. He severed his
connection with party alliances and buckied on his
sword for the defense of the Union, in 1861. He
is one of the few men in the country who sue
ceeded in military life in spite of West Point
He is one of the few soldiers who in the field
never surrendered to the enemy, nor was van
pushed in fight. His legons were successful
from the beginning to the end, and when he re-
turned to his home he refused high military
nOnorS, ana entered MS counJryS service IN the
lower house of Congress, where he served until
elected to the Senate.
His whole career as a soldier and as a states
man since the war began has been without fault
or blemish. He is statesman and a soldier
who can be trusted on all important questions,
and whose thought and mind traveli in the right
direction. 1t is true that some of our independ-
ent friends in the East refuse to vote for Gen
eral Logan on the ground that his t'verbs do not
agree with his nouns in number and person.
that he murders the Kings English, and is UNI
grammatical in his speech. 1t occurs to me that
General Logan has ever beer able to make him
self understood in the use of language aud that
if he was deprived Of an early education in his
younger days, such as was received by our
Boston and New York friends he is the more to
be admired for the success he has attained with
out the aid Of the education they possess.
The mission of the Republican party cannot
be ended till better party is formed to take its
place. This is not expected nor will it be
brought about by the Democratic party. That
party cannot be remodeled and rehabilitated in
robes of political purity while it is dominated by
the leaders who have managed it for the last
twenty years But the Republican party has
ever kept its face squarely turned towards the
people, has responded to their demands, and has
given evidence of keeping abreast of the times
in which we live. TO that party then, the
people of this country must look for reforms
which they demand, and the execution of their
will in the great departments Of the government.
How st. John Became a TeetotaIer.
Plainfeld Progress.
AZ.