The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1884-08-13
NO37.

partnership with Oscar b. Hord,
afterward the Attorney. General ot
the State.
The Legislature OF 1865 was
Democratic, and Jesse ID. Bright
having been expelled from his seat
IN the United State Senate, David >.
! Turpie was elected TO fill out IS DAYS
OF the uneXpired term, while Mr..
| hendricks was unanimously chosen
| for the full term of six years. He
| took his seat in the National Senate
on the 9Th of March, 1863, and
served until IS69-iour years as the
colleague OF Senator Lane and for
two yeats with Senator Morton.
With Mr.. Hendrick's Senatorial SER
vices and record the country is ia
mllIar. He became III great meas
ure the leader of the small Demo-
| cratic minority in that body. While
yet Senator in Congress his party
again nominated hlm for governor,
the Republicans nominating Con-
rad Baker. After an exciting cam
paign Baker was elected by about
500 majority, and Senator Hendricks
|
firm was one of two or three leading
ones in the city, md Mr.. Hendricks
added to a comfortable competence
he had acquired bv his shrewdness
and providence.
In 1872 the State was again rent
with political contest. The Lib
eral movement of that year on the
part of dissatisfied Republicans gave
the Democracy an apparent oppor-
tunty tor success, and again the
State Convention nominated Mr..
Hendricks for Governor. His Re-
publican opponent was Gen. Thos.
NJ. Browne. AS the result of an
other remarkably close election, Mr..
Hendricks was chosen Governor by
plurality Of I,2oO votes, while all
the other officers Of the State, eX-
cept the Superintendent of Public
, Instruction, were Republicans. In
| | the next month Grant carried Indi-
ana by 0,ooo majority. He made
an urbane, careful, satisfactory Gov
crnor, and retired from the position
with the respect OF all parties H. the
State.
, CAREER SINCE THE GREAT FRAiD-
. The circumstances of the nom'nS-
! ton of Gov. Hendricks on the ticket
with Gov. TIldcn by the st. Louis
, Convention are fresh in the public
: mind. He was a candidate for the
: Presidency, as he also was in 1908 AT
/ the New York Tammany Hall Con
g vention, but there he was antagoE .
$ ized by part OF his own state dele
n CATION. OF couse, the Inauguration
n of HAYES and Wheeler settled the
n future for Mr.. Hendricks, and he
!. proceeded quietly with his law bus
o mess. Gov. Baker having become
!. a member of the firm, which was
:, Baker. Hord s. Hendricks.
q Mr.. Hendricks was again a candi-
y date tor the Presidential nomination
as in Cincinnati, in 1886, and this time
4 had the ardent and enthusiastic sup
8 port OF his entire State delegation.
l. But his nomination was Impossible
e. The result was the nomination oi
n Hancock and, with the idea OF pla
:. eating Indiana, William III. English
n Mr.. Hendricks made many Speecbe
and took an active part in the cam
r. paign, but in spite of this activity tn
ce State was lost by the aid OF Dorsey
ar ssoap." After the election of Gar
of field, Mr.. Hendricks was interview
n ed. and in answer to the question
an whether he was out of politics an
mt swered that he should never be OF
he of politics until he was in his grave
n The Democratic party had been TO
ks kind to HIM to permit HIM to deafe
an his ears to It's voice whenever 1t d'
ed manded his services.
ed The personal mention OF OoN
Id ! Hendricks NAV be summed up IN
re- few words. He was married ne
ice Cincinnati on the 25th of Septemoe
rS45, to Miss Eliza G.. Morgan,
rs. whom he had one son, born IN Io4
am but who lived TO be only three yea
tor of age. THIS was the only chii
dr. and its death greatly affected q
MI father. He was nurtured IN q
ion Presbyteris faith, and was me'
m ber OF that communion until the
<. eanization OF St. PauPs EpiscoT
OF Church in indianapolis in the yt
,ars 1862. He became a member OF y
un- PARISH and was elected Senior wa
,bel en-. He has never belonged to
.rtv ope secret society, the OddteIIov
and being a charter member Of
ID. Wellsville Lodge. but for a ~
evil time has ceased to actively paTti
iD'' pate in ITS work. After the elect
;ans in 1876 Mr.. Hendricks made an
rnr. tens1ve tour OF Europe, meeting W