The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-27
PEsT1FERoUs MIR. HENDRICKS.
Another of the Mugwump Journals Spank
the Man They Have Elected.
Chicago News, tDem.l

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Chicago News, (Dem,)
Ever since Thomas A. Hendricks sneaked
under the platform at the July convention to
give his friends in the Indiana delegation
chance to betray ex-senator Mcdonald and was
subsequently tackled onto the tail of the ticket.
he has been a source of weakness and reproach
to his party During the campaign one long
apology had to be made for his unpatriotc re-
cord during the war and the general shiftlessness
of his course since. Hundreds and thousands Of
republicans refused to vote the Democratic ticket
because it included voting for Hendricks. The
great fraud of 1876" reputation of which he
was supposed to represent, did not arouse the
Democrats, and if anything repealed anti Blaine
Republicans Only firm faith In the sterling
character of Cleveland's reform and civil-service
record was sufficient to overcome the natural
and Unsuitable distrust that Republicans felt for
Hendricks. In New York, New Jersey, and
Connecticut his name was element of weak
ness to his party. His supposed influence with
Tammany was imaginary, as the returns proved.
He was only favored by Butler in the Democratic
convention on the anything to beat Cleveland
policy, and when Butler was voted down and out
of the convention he through with Hem
bricks. 1t is true that Hendricks own State.
Indiana, went against Blaine, but it would prob
ably have gone the same way without him, and
with an increased plurality had Mcdonald been
on the ticket
Now that the election is over, Mr. Hendricks
is making himself unpleasautly and gratuitously
numerous. His speech at Brooklyn the other
nlgnt was In the very worst possible TASTE. rOE
the moment he seemed to imagine that he had
been elected President He could not seem to
say enough about the glory of the victorious ban
ner of Cleveland and Hendricks, with the en-
phasis on the little end. In fine glow OF
Hoosier eloquence he announced that he did not
believe in civil service dependent on school
masters examination, but las it was In the days
of Andrew jackson" There is just one trait Of
Old Hickory that the people of the United States
want Grover Cleveland to take into the White
House with him, and that is the power to say and
mean mo, by the Eternal" when such bourbons
as Hendricks come nosng aroung the public
crib. During the campaign just passed the New
York Tribune warned Republicans who were in
clined to vote for Cleveland that they should re-
member that if elected his would be ''only one
life between the presidency and Thomas A.
Hendricks. 1t was the public confidence that
that one life with its strength of will and honor
able purpose, would always stand between the
presidency and Hendricks that elected Grover
Cleveland. The Daily News sincerely hopes the
report is true that when Mr. Hendricks visited
Gov. Cleveland last Saturday he given to
understand that the President-elect was dis
pleased with his Brooklyn utterances and that
the cabinet would be constructed with view OF
satisfying the country and not Mr. Hendricks
The early return from Albany of the Indiana
Mark NEEDLE would warrant the belief that his
interview with Gov. Cleveland was dlsappoint-
ment When President Cleveland takes his
seat in Washington he should be careful to uss
Thomas A. Hendricks as a cushion.