The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-11-28
Death of vioe-President Hendricks.

The rather sudden death of Vice President
Thomas A. Hendricks was telegraphed to all
parts of the country on Wednesday evening
last. He died at his home in Indianapolis, of
paralysis of the heart, about clock, p. M,
of that day. He was sixty-six years old on
the 7th of September last. He is the fifth
Vice President who has died in office, but the
circumstances of his demise render his case
one of peculiar sadness. Stricken down, with
scarcely moments notice, in the fullness OF
life. in the midst of the cares of office, and
in the very zenith of usefulness, his loss is
keenly felt, not by his sorrowing family and
immediate neighbors merely, but by the people
of the whol@eountry. When the bright guar
dams of aAsRstry die, the people mourn their
bereavement.
Mr.. Hendricks course has been a success
full and a brilliant one. He was twice elected
to the House of Representatives, and served
a full term of six years in the U. S. Senate.
President Polk appointed him Commissioner
of the General Land Office. In 1872 he was
chosen Governor of Indiana, and in 1876 he
was elected Vice President on the ticket with
Mr.. Tilden, but wickedly defrauded OF the
office, and again elected to the same office on
the ticket with Mr.. Cleveland in 1884. On
Tuesday evening he attended reception,
putting ON a dress suit lighter than the one
he is accustomed to wear, which caused him
probably to take cold, and sent the disease,
lii L. LoJ foIt Como cvn,ptouaS the dav
previous, to the very citadel of life. President
Cleveland received the news shortly after the
sad event, and at once summoned the Cabinet
together, when it was decided to attend the
funeral. The President also issued procla-
nation announcing the death, and ordering
that the national flag be displayed at half-mast
on all the public buildings, and that the Ex-
eeu,ive mansion and all the departments be
draped in mourning for the period of thirty
days; that the usual military and naval honors
be rendered, and that on all the legations and
consulates in foreign countries the national
flag be displayed at halfmast
Mr. Hendricks has been conspicuous as a
public man for upwards of thirty-fve years.
He was IL Democrat of the Jeffersonian and
Jacksonian school, uncompromising in his
devotion TO thu teBets of his political faith,
and faithful to the last These qualities en-
deared him to his party, and made his career
one of consistency and honor. Socially he
was the centre of a large circle of admiring
friends, active in works of charity and benev-
olenee. and devoted to his profession of the
law, through which mainly he amassed a mod
crate fortune.
Mr. Hendricks was greatly endeared to the
people of this section, who remember his visit
here, some years ago, with pleasure, and re-
call the satisfaction they felt in listening to his
eloquent and able address on that occasion.
In no part of the country, save in his own i'm
mediate home, will his sudden death be more
sincerely lamented than here.
In social life he was afable, cordial, gener-
GUS and unaffected. His sympathies were
given to every deserving cause, and never
withheld from the young man ambitious Of
usefulness and honor. Happy in his home,
beloved by his fellow citizens, his career was
a grand success, although from the political
wrongs he endured it was not complete, yet
his life was an honorable one, and his death
peaceful and serene. He rests from his labors,
and the affectionate. esteem of the whole coun-
try will follow him te his last resting place.