The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-04
THE INDIANA LEADERSHIP.
Already There Are Evidences of the Struggle
for the Hendricks Successorship.


for the Hendricks Successorship.
@. r. Murray's Indianapolis Special.
For the leadership of the Indiana Democracy
several active competitors began quietly to lay
the wires and marshal their friends and support
ers almost as soon as they knew of Mr.. Hen
drickss death. 1t would seem that Senator
voorhees, has been especially active, for one of
his Democratic opponents yesterday declared:
voorhees, feels that he has clear field now,
and tremendous weight of responsibility to
bear. Why, hear that he is actually beginning
to grow roundshouldered under the burden; but
he need not worry; Hendricks shoes are too
big for him.
Another Indiana Democrat, who is neither
modest nor tardv in asserting his claims to
leadership, is Governor Isaac p tray Of him
prominent Democrat of this city to-day said:
"Gray is a renegade, who ought never
TO be trusted by our party, but he is slick cti
zen and will need heap of watching He has
been at work for nearly two years in the coun-
ties, and he means to capture the United States
senatorshp by the same tactics that he found so
successful when he a candidate for the
nomination for Governor"
OF course, the friends of ex-senator Med onald
now hope and expect to see him step to the front
and occupy the place to which they have always
believed him entitled Mr.. Mcdonald personally
does not seem inclined to enter into any scram
BILE at present. He is a man of sympathetic
| nature and most kindly impulses, and he was
greatly shocked by the sudden death of his
marks at the meeting of the Indiana bar yester-
day, over which Judge Gresham presided, were
appreclatlve and appropriate. and certainly leave
Mr.. Hendricks friends no ground for complaint.
An observant Republican said to-day: II
doubt If Hendricks successor will be soon
found In the Democratic party of Indiana. The
truth is that in that party lie filled place analo
gous to that which Morton occupied in the Re-
publican party in this State"
Another Republican says Times have
changed, certainly, and men with them, in the
last twenty years. You are on your way to at
tend the funeral services of Mr.. Hendricks in
church for which he abandoned his old faith
early In the war because TIE preacher too
loyal The church you will enter was built up
by the aid of men who sympathized with the
cessonlsts, and not with the Union cause; and
yet you will find at the entrance, charged with
the duty of admitting and assigning invited
guests, Major Calkips, sound Republican, who
was fighting the enemy in front while Hendricks
in the rear sympathizing with them and
fighting about the unconstltutionalty of acts
passed to reduce the rebels to submission, and
preserve the fruits of the war Hendricks lived
long enough to realize, if not to regret, the mis-
take he made in the beginning of the war; but
do not know If he ever thanked Lawyer Gordon,
of this town, for rescuing him from dangerous
predicament when he had the temerity to az
tempt to address an audience of indignant Union
soldiers, who knew all about his utterances at
home while they were in the field. / remember
another incident, which shows where Mr.. Hen
drickss sympathes rested. You may remember
that in late years, on several occasions, he spoke
OF the friendly personal relations between Presl-
dent Lincoln ard himself. WE'LL am informed
that, when the news of Mr.. Lincoln's assassina-
ton came, Mr.. Hendricks was boarding at ho-
tel in this city, and that the only windows in
that hotel which displayed no sign of the almost
univeral mourning were those occupied by the
late Vice president and his family"