The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-27


been judged by their merits, and not by senti-
ment tinged by selfish motives or animated by
individual ambitions.
A sTIcKLER FOR ANTE BELLUM PRINCIPLES :
Chicago News.
| Throughout his career be stuck closely to the
ante bellum principles In which he was schoolec.
| These led him dangerously near the line of dis
| loyalty during those dark days when he who
was not for the Union, right or wrong was
| rightly regarded rebel. There can be no
doubt that his attitude at that time has made
him the object of suspicion to loyal Unionists
ever since Mr.. Hendricks himself always
warmly denied any unfaithfulness to the Union.
and now that he is dead we can afford to believe
that he did not let party construction of the
| Constitution obscure his sense of fealty to the
great central idea of national union.
AN IDEAL MAN AT HOME.
National Republican.
Mr.. Hendricks was a model of domesticity
His home life was always bright and pure the
relations between him and the partner of his
| joys and sorrows were not those of affection
only, but of respect friendship and hearty CO.
operation in mutual interests and pleasures. All
who were admitted to social intercourse with the
Hendricks household carried thence a sweet and
lasting impression for they saw a close approx
imation to the ideal husband and WIFE, No man,
however high his achievements In politics or
statecraft. leave a lesson more needed or
more useful than that of absolute fidelity to
home.
NOT A PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT.
New York Times.
Mr.. Hendricks was type of the sincere and
earnest partisan Democrat. of upright personal
character and considerable abilities whose sym
| pathies were too narrow and his views too re-
strlcted to permit him the place in political his
| tory to which he asplred. He was not progeS-
| sive Democrat, and it well known that he
had little liking for the principles represented by
| the head of the ticket on which be was elected
| but his partisanship never took him to point
| where his probity was in doubt his entire
| fidelity to conscience questioned.
He COMMANDED RESPECT.
| Detroit Free Press.
| OF him it can truthfully be said that he has
| not been without honor in his own country
| Where he was best known he was best beloved
dis public life was equally free from ostentation
| He commanded the respect of his opponents
| even while they combated most stoutly his
| teachings From no quarter will there be high
| er tribute to his distinguished public services
| and mis- high character than from the men who
| have met him oftenest in political conflict.
| THOROUGHLY A WESTERN MAN.
Boston Advertiser.
| Mr.. Hendricks was thoroughly a Western
man. He believed in the West as controlling
section of the Nation, and never much courted
Eastern opinion favor. He was always a
Democrat and always an Indiana Democrat
which implies peculiarly stolid unprogressive
and Bourbonist quality of partsauship. He was
! a type of vanishing school of statesmen, and
relic of a vanishing era of the Republic.
COMPLETELY MERGED IN HIS PARTY.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
No public man was more completely identified
In every fiber of his nature with the party TO
which he belonged than Thomas A Hendricks
His private life was honorable and conscien-
tous, and it is only fair to assume that this
mergence of himself in his party was due to the
conviction that his party was right in all its
fundamental purposes, if not absolutely pc rfect
In detail of action.
ATTACHED TO HIS FRIENDS.
| Des Moines Ua.) Register.
! Mr.. Hendricks attached his friends to him very
| strongly, and this was proof in itself both of
| personal strength and personal worth. In the
| sorrow that his friends feel over his untimely
| death, with all its shocking force all good citi-
| zen may join in the degree of deploring the loss
of so distinguished an American citizen, and the
death of one so high in authority.
A FOREMOST MAN.
Baltimore Herald
Mr. Hendricks lacked alike the broad mind and
liberal spirit of the Massachusetts, giant and the
| genius of leadership which made Old Hickory
| paramount in the councils of his party Yet,
| take him all in all. Mr. Hendricks by reason of
| his talents and the prominence which public DO
| sition gave him, may well be regarded as one of
! the foremost men IN his day.
FREE FROM PERSONAL CORRUPTION
Minneapolis Tribune.
AS a statesman of ideas and breadth Mr. Hen
bricks did not occupy high place, and did not
fulfill the promise of his early career. But his
long public record is free from the faint OF per-
sonal corruption and as man, in public and in
private, he has deserved respect and has earned
the tribute that will be paid his memory to-day
in thousands OF churches.
BETTER DEMOCRAT THAN CLEVELAND. ,
Philadelphia Press.
For the fifth time the country has lost its Vice
president by death. On the majority of Ques~
hah 1lyaly IN he 1pay
during the coming session Mr. Hendricks much
better reflected the views of the great body of
Democrats than the President does or can dc
He believed in the spoils system and wished to
perpetuate 1t.
'spoIIsr DEMOCRAT
| Baltimore American.
The politics of Mr. Hendricks was the worst
| thing about him. He was Democrat who be-
| ieyeG thoroughly in the spoils system, and who
worshipped the Moloch of party above all other
| considerations. His hostility to civilservce re-
| form was open and vigorous, but, fortunately
| for the country, it was unavailing
| LEADER OF MEN.
| Boston Post.
| Always and everywhere he was leader among
men, legislator, as an executive, as law
yer, as a private Christian gentleman He
| ranked with Allen G. Thurman, Horatio Sey-
| mour, Samuel j. Tilden, and Joseph E. Melon
| ald-giants, all them, and men of conviction.
NARROWLY PARTISAN.
| Detroit Tribune.
| He lacked the elements of progress necessar!
to the genuine statesman, and, TO his political
| views, it must be said that he was narrow, ieaf
| cusly and bitterly partisan, and wholly unable
to keep pace with the progress of the times.
ONE OF GODS NoBLEMEN.
Boston Globe.
Thomas A. Hendricks was one of Gods noble
men. Take him all in all, shall not see his
like again He was man of the people. by the
people, for the people He believed in and loved
his country and its institutions.