The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-04
HENDRICKS AT coNNERsv1LLE.
The Democratic Candidate Talks to the Fay
ette County Democracy.
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The Democratic Candidate Talks to the Fay
ette County Democracy.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CoNNERsvILLE, Ind, Sept. 3.--Ex Governor
Hendricks addressed an audience Of about 1000
persons at the fair grounds to-day The meet
ing was presided over by Charles Murray, mayor
of Connersville. Mr.. Hendricks was cordially
greeted. He delivered substantially the same
speech that he made at Indianapolis on Satur-
day night. and closed as follows:
You know have been several times candi-s
date. [Cries of And elected once. u Yes, once or
twice. have been before the people of Indiana
more frequently than desired When was
elected Governor, did not want to be candi-
date When was nominated for Vice e-presdent
before did not want to be a can
didate, but it is not necessary to
talk about that now. is it2 Cries of mol /
did not expect to be a candidate this time lCries
of But we wanted you. / tell you now Iwant
your votes the worst in the world Laughter and
applause, and cries of You will get them. y That
is what want
Some people have said candidate for Vice
president ought not to go about making speeches.
We'll, | speak to my equals-to the men who
have to decide the question and want them to
say, when they elect me this fall, that the act
which excluded me from the Office to
which was elected before was an
infamous outrage. The Republicans believe it
now Applause and cries of I'VE know it. n ;
have not found one for long time that was
not perfectly satisfied on that subject, and they
are becoming rapidly satisfied OF another fact and
that is, that it is going to be repeated this fall
They tell you that in New York the Irish peo-
pie are going against the Democrats, and that
the laboring party is not going for Mr.. Cleve-
land, and all that. 1t is not worth while to dis
turb your minds about that The Irishman is a
natural Democrat lGreatapplause and laughter.]
am not speaking Of that in fun, but
am speaking Of it in earnest. He
desire for better government in his own country
When he comes here his syrnpathies are for pop.
ular government honestly and economically ad
ministered. And there has never been a time
when the rights of foreigners had to be vim
dlcated IN this country, that the Democratic
party did not stand by their rights. The Irish
man and the Democrat stand together
When was defeated in my own district, at
Shelbyyilie, it was because | would not DO
Know-nothing. If had been willing to have
been a Know-nothing, and curry Know nothing
votes would have dors we'll enough;
but l would not I would have felt
could not stand it. Applause and laughter.l
1t was impossible Now, my fellow-citzens. il
is not necessary for me to appeal to you any
further You have known me moro or less for a
good many years. If am worthy Of the high
Office the party has nominated me for then Il ap
peal to you for your support
Now, received great honor in the convention
that nominated me. such as very few men re-
ccive. 1t was an honor which 1 felt was OK
tended to the people Of my own State and when
they placed me in nomination It happened to DO
at tiino when did not know
exactly what was going on IN the