St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-13
HENDRICKS AT HOME.
His Speech at a Ratification Meeting
in Indianapolis Last Night.

Ills Opeecn at q RatlncHCIOn MeeClnR
In Indianapolis Last Night.
INDIANAPOLIS, July IA largely attended
Democratic meeting to ratify the nomination OF
Cleveland add Hendricks was held here tonight.
Msssrs. Hendricks and Mcdonald wero escorted
to the place of speaking by the new political Ia
Dor Organization, known as 'sAutocrats." The
meeting was called to order by Austin II. Brown,
and VIM. H.. English was made chairman. Mr..
Hendricks was received with burst Of genuine
enthusiasm, which seemed to inspire him, and
he spoke with more than his usual fuency.
His remarks were as follows:
My fellow citizens, You are almost as mad as
they were in the convention at Chicago.
thought they would not stop up there at all, and
l thought there was no limit to the crowd OF
people there, but find there Is almost as large
here. ! am very much encouraged and delighted
to meet you on this occasion. You come to cele-
brate and to express your approval of tho nomi-
nation that was made at Chicago. ara glad
that you are cordial in this expression. This is
great year with us. Every fourth year we elect
the two great officers Of the government. This
year Ia our great year, and every man. whatever
his party associations may be, is called upon to
reconsider all questions upon which he is dis
posed to act, and having reconsidered to cast his
vote in favor Of what he believes to be right.
The Democracy of Indiana appointed me one of
| the delegates to the convention at Chicago.
spent nearly week In attendance in that city,
and now return to say few things to you
and only few things, in regard to that
convention. 1t was the largest convention
ever held in America. Never has such
an assemblage of people been seen before. 1t
was convention marked in its character for So
briefly, deiberation and purposes. 1t selected
two men to carry the banner, and leaving that
convention and going out before the people, the
question is, will you help carry the banner!
(Great cheering and cries of 'swe will do it, l
do not expect, have no right to. expect, that
will escape criticism, and it may be SANDER, of
the opposite party. have not in my life suffer
ed very much from that; but come before yon
Democrats, Conservatives, Independents, IL
men who wish to restore the government to the
position it occupied before these corrupt times,
and to all such mon l make my appeal for your
support for the high Office for which have been
nominated by the Democracy at Chicago. (Great
| cheers.)
Gov. Cleveland is the nominee for president, a
| man promoted to that high Office by the largest
majority ever deciding an election in that state.
He is man of established honesty Of character,
and if you will elect him to the presidency of the
United States you will not he ar OF ar routes
on the postal services OF the Country. Cheers |
| will tell you what we need. Democrats and
Republicans would alike agree upon that. We
| need to have the books in the government offices
opened for examination. Cheers and cries of
that is 1t. Do you think that men in this age
will never yield to temptation! Laughter. 1t
is only two weeks ago that one OF the secretaries
called before q senate committee to testify in
regard to the condition of his department
and in that department was bureau Of medi-
cine and surgery. In that department exam
nation was being had by q committee
from the senate, and 1t was ascertained by the
oath of the secretary who sits at the head OF the
department that the defalcation found during
last year, as far had been estimated, was 500,
0O0 and when asked about it said that he had re-
| ceived lette: year ago informing him of some
of these outrages, and short time since SOME
| body had come to him and told him that there
were frauds going on in the service, but mem
| bers of congress had recommended continuance
| of the head Of the bureau with such earnestness
| that he thought it must be all right and now II
turns out that the public is $4,000 out, and how
much more no man can tell. But what is the
| remedy? To have president that will appoint
| the head of bureau that will investigate the
| condition Of the books, and bring all guilty
parties to trial. Cheers, and cries OF THAT
hs,.vu ,,- My .nen fsll0 Sutv citizens this
for the purpose OF maintaining the United States
| government for the people Of the country, can
| commend to your condolences Gov. Cleveland,
of New York. Great cheering.
Not long since there were troubles in the local
| government Of the city of Buffalo and the con-
sentative people that city nominated Gov. Cleve-
| land u. candidate for mayor, not upon party
ticket b It upon citizens ticket, with the duty
assigned to him of correcting the evils that pre-
vailed In the government of the city OF Buffalo.
| He was elected and entered upon the duties OF
| his Office and made corrections In the manage
ment Of the affairs of that city clearly and so
well defined that the people of New York
n,l ,udn taty ~
Of the state, and that is the
way he comes before you now. Cries
Of sshurrah for SCleveland.' He who corrects
all the evils in abadly administered city, and who
goes from that service into the affairs of state
| government and makes corrections there. will
then step in national order and proceedings into
! the affairs Of another government and bring
about reforms there. TGreat cheering.
My fellow citizens, did not intend to speak
| this long to you. The convention at Chicago
did not realize all that we expected. For my
self had no expectations. In no respect, in no
sense, was l q candidate for any Office whatever.
| We did not realize all that we expected, but
believe that is the fate OF humanity almost every
where and under almost every circumstance, but
have we realized that that should encourage US
to make an effort for good government. Cries
of ''that is the beginning Not that want
| the Office to which / nominated for you
| know that did not desire that, but somebody
| must be vice president TO run on the ticket with
the candidate for president, and when the ticket
is presented to you, you are called upon to pass
| Judgment upon IL In respect to its merits
| throughout. TCheers and cries OF ''yes, we will
support it. That is the question. Will you
support it. Cheers and cries OF 1--WE will. y
And asking that question / want to ask you an
other Do you not, all OF you Democrats and
Republicans. believe that the affairs of the gov
eminent has been long enough In
the hands OF one set OF men?
(Cries of 1--WE do'') And do you not all believe
ought to DO change! I do not ask that all
shall be turned out, that is not the idea. II a
man has done his duty faithfully; il he has not
used the powers of his Office to disturb the rights
of the people IL he has simply confined himself
to the duties of his Office, am not elamoring for
his official blood But, nay fellow citizens, OF
the 12o, 900 men who now fill official positions in
the country we have no right to supposesfrom
all that has taken place that they are all honest
tChreers and anghter.) And the only way that
we can know is to make a change. month ago
everybody supposed all the employees in the bu-
rcau of medicine and surgery were honest and
now, at the very first examination II turns out
they are not. But what is the remedy Put
them out and put honest men In. fCheers and
cries of "that's it, We cannot do that il We
have the same president and heads of depart
ments and heads OF bureaus in. have every
faith tina; this ticke; will be elected think I
know something about Indiana. We viii proba-
bly, stand here together, won't we: rCres OF
'syou bet And this banner of liberty, OF right,
Of justice of fair government that has been put
in the hands of Cleveland aud Hendricks shall
be carried and placed in glorious triumph on
top of the national capitol in November next
Shall this be the peoples banner. You
have no interest except in good government,