Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-11-28


FUNDS FOR A MONUMENT.
The movement TO raise funds TO
erect magnificent monument TO Mr.
Hendricks is taking tangible shape. AT
various Notwithstanding held to-day
committees were appointed to cooperate
in arranging plan for taking subscrip-
tons, and already many generous dona-
tons have been voluntarily proiIer
ed by prominent gentlemen. The
Hendricks Club, an organization
Of one thousand young Democrats,
took the initial steps this morning. A
meeting Of the State.Bar Association
has been called for Monday, at which
Hon. Walter 6. Gresham, ex-Post-
master General. now Judge Of the
Federal Circuit Court, will preside,
and Hon. David Davis will deliver an
address.
OPPOSED TO THE PRESIDENT LEAv-
ING WASHINGTON.
INDiANAPoLIs. November 27.-In
connection with the announced inten-
ton Of the President to attend the
Hendricks obsequies Tuesday next, the
Journal Of tomorrow will say While
the citizens of Indianapolis and the
State Of Indiana would be both proud
and pleased to meet the President Of
the United States, for whom a plu-
Talitv of them cast their votes a
year ago, with such honor and re-
spect as the prophecies Of the sad event
Of the funeral Of the late Nice-P President
would permit, and while the friends
and neighbors Of Thomas A, Hendricks
! fully appreciate the honor that would be
done to his memory by the presence Of
the Chief Magistrate here on Tuesday
next, the Journal feels constrained to
say that it believes President Cleveland
should not leave the White House at
this juncture to make the journey. The
peTilS incident TO the necessarily
rapid movement Of special rail-
way train should not be hazarded by
the President whose life and active
services are now particularly valuable
| TO the people. There are too many
risks attending the trip as it will neceS-
sarily have to be made. As was re-
marked when the honored Vice-Presi-
dent was so suddenly taken away, it is
the unexpected that happens, and
against the unexpected, and we trust
and believe the improbable, IT is Mr..
Cleyeland's imperative duty to take
all proper precaution. The country has
gone through successfully many perils
during the last quarter Of century,
s6ut the line has on more than one 0cca-
sion been drawn to its highest tension.
There should not be a possibility Of
another strain if human prudence
can prevent it. Every honorable
citizen Of the country. regardless
Of party faith, prays for the life
and health Of the President, who
stands alone now as the embodiment Of
constitutional power and authority, and
from the moment he should leave the
capital until he reached it again in safe
ty the country would be in patriotic
unrest and anxiety. The Journal feels
free to make this suggestion as Re
publican newspaper. and as one publish
ed atthe home ofthe late Nice-President.
and as one against which the charge
cannot lie made that it would do or
say anything to interfere with the largest
possible measure Of honor to the mem
CRY Of the distinguished dead. But Mr..
Cleveland is not his own; he is not his
party's: he cannot follow merely the
dictates Of his personal or political
friendship. He is the nations head 4;
the only life between the Govern
ment and an nterregnum. In view
Of this We would not have him
take the risks incidental TO the rapid
transit that would mark his journey
from the national capital to IndanapO-
lis. Let all the Secretaries come who
can be spared from their official duties,
but the President should not leave
Washington
MOURNING N NEW YORK.
ALBANY. y. Y. November O.
Governor Hill has issued a proclama-
ton directing as a mark Of regard to
the distinguished dead the flags on the
Capitol and upon all public buildings to
he disDlaved at half-maSt until and in .