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

/ the present site OF the county seat.
j Shelbyvllle, as handsome and pro-
| ductive a locality as there is in the
| State OF Indiana. Here John Hen
| bricks built hlm Il substantial brick
| house, which is still standing, IN
/ which his family was reared, amid
the best influences that could be en-
! loved III those pioneer days. In
dranapolis had Just been laId out and
established as the future capital OF
the State, and MIR. Hendricks house
was one of the principal centres of
educated and Christian refinement IN
the central part of Indiana. He was
the father and founder OF the Pres
bvterian church in Indianapolis, OF
the good Scotch type, and III that
faith the boy Thomas was reared
and nurturcd.
EDUCATION AND POLITICAL TRAIN
ING.
The lad attended the village school
until Of sufficient age TO enter the
college at South Hanover, near
Madison, graduating from which he
began the study OF law with Judge
Major, the leading member OF the
bar OF Central Indiana, then and still
residing IN Shelbyville. The final
period of his study was passed IN
the office of his uncle, Judge Ihom-
son, of Chambersburg, Penn, and
he was then admitted to the bar at
Shelbyville. His success was not at
all rapid. but his habits OF close at
) tenton to and study of his cases, his
= correct habits, his pleasant manners,
all conspired to make Elm favorite
, and in the end he gained high
l place in his profession and lucra-
} tive one. He was an Impressive
= public speaker, having carly gwen
| himself much to the arts OF OratorY,
= and this fact at once directed toward
t him the choice of the people tor
= public life.
e After five years practice, IN 1919,
!, Young Hendricks was elected to the
: LEGISLATURE, when not IS years OF
d age. He was not parucularly well
/ pleased with that service, and de
!. clined a re election in 1850. In the
/, meantime a constitutional conven-
+, t,on had been called, and though SO
/ Young. the votes OF the Senatorial
(, district in which he lived elected him
s member. he being one among the
d Younger members of that body, VIII
: Schuyler Coltax and William ,
IS Holman. Mr.. Hendricks took
h nroninent part IN the deliberatlon:
or of that convention, as an examina
al ton OF the debates show, and SO al
ly ded to his reputation. that at tht
n election il August, 1851, he was
:, elected to seat in Congress iron
2. the central district of the State, thei
Ill stretching from Brown county o.
l. the south to Upton on the north
and from Marion on the east t
n Hendricks on the west. His oPpo
v nent was Col. Rush, of Hancock
is whom he defeated by nearly 400
s. votes. By the terms OF the neV
D. state constitution an election wa
It, held the next year, IN 1852, an
I'd .oa,n he was elected from new di'
th trlct, his opponent being Mr.. Brad
to lev. an able and brilliant Wing, ot
II tween whom and Mr.. Hendricks L
n that campaign there was loint oi'
It. cussion, the first OF that sort OF can
he paigning in Indiana. ~,
lrn On the 4th of March, 1855, Nj
he Hendricks returned to his law oth'
i'd at Sbelbyville, and in August of TIL
wear. while sitting on the porch
his home in the evening, a messe
ger stepped up and handed HIM
Official letter, autograph of Preside
IN Pierce, making him the tender OF Il
Office of Commissioner OF the Oel
erai Land Office. MIR. Hendric
m. was disposed to decline, but ups
consultation with his father accepts
- the duty and in September appear
II IN Washington. Mr.. Hendricks ne
the this office until 1859, when he
- stoned and returned to the pract
of his profession IN Shelbyville.
- TAXING HIS PLACE AMONG LEADEE
But he was not allowed to rema
ouiet. His party was preparing
ID the great contest OF 1900, ana
- Hendricks was unanimously nor
80; mated by the Democratic Convent
as candidate for Governor, his G
- ponent being the late Col Henry
I.ane who had tor his lieutenant
,'n -" ;ver P. Morton. who had tour ye
rh;- W previously made brilliant but
M successful campaign against Ash
e,n- P. Willard. The democratic p
ore- was split into the Douglas
ward BrecklhI,oee ~ - 1a..er
a. dently feeling the loss of his gr
flee on the pa Iof,,I ,,;e