The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-24

a Poor Opinion of Mr.. Hendricks-Creel-
mans Opinion of the Pcstofiice Controvsy.

A Courier representative was introduced to
Frank e. Creelman, the defeated candidate for
che postmastership Of indianapolis, in the Lair
House rotunda. Mr.. Creelman was in the city
yesterday and this morning, on business con
nected with his wholesale grocery. He found
Mr. Creelman pleasant communicative sort of
an individual Of about thrty-fye years of age,
and not at all averse to talking about the late
unpleasantness
eve have been hearing great deal about you
OF late, Mr.. Creelman," the reporter remarked
BY way of a starter.
II expect that you have and" significantly,
s'the time viii come when / shall be heard from
again, IN way that may not be altogether
pleasant for some of the parties interested in the
light just ended / want you to understand l
hm in no wise disappointed in not getting the ap.
my business, which nets me 81. 300
per year. Ny only desire to OBJ
tain the appointment was to crafty
my friends, and for the honors / might obtain
5y a clean, business like administration of the
Office. It was at the earnest solicitation of Mr.
Bynum, Senator Mcdonald and others. that
entered the race, against my inclinations. i
had elected Bynum in county strongly Repub-
fean, cutting down q large Republican major
ity. OF course did it with money and hard
work and all that sort of thing and had been
appointed postmaster should have bent every
ea4ergy toward insuring the continued success OF
my party in the county. Mr.. Hendricks him.
self was at first disposed to favor ME, but, when
patronage business and | sent him back word
that If the appointment of a janitor would
secure his support would not make the ap-
p0intment he turned his batteries against me.
was determined that he should not use me to
secure sinecures for his barnacles, political
prostitutes, with whom he had been whoring
Tor forty years"
How do you account for hissupport of Aquil-
10 Jonesl Was it his lifelong friendship, and in
return for service rendered years ago when Jones
was pcwerp
'oThe most charitable construction we can put
on his actions is that the old man has gone into
his dotage; there can be no doubt that he is get
ting childish; how else can you account for the
Selection of Hughes East for his private secre-
faryY1
Here Mr.. Creelman interiected number of
forcible statements concerning the private secre-
tary which might destroy the beauty and SYM
metry of the type and hence are withheld from
the public
This is the man the Hon. Thomas A. Hen
bricks, Vice president of the United States,
takes into his confidence / have always been
opposed to Hendricks, first because he was
traitor to his country, and was q war Demo
erat Show me any decided stand Tom Hen
bricks has ever taken that was not antagonstic
to the principles and the spirit of our govern
ment. am opposed to him. in the second place,
because was and am a hard-money Democrat
along with Mcdonald, while Hendricks-well,
nobody knows where he stood, not even the
Viee-presdent
Third am opposed to him because he is
natural born, dyedin the wool, - - traitor,
not only to his country, but to his
purpose. He has betrayed McDon
AID whom / admire for his honesty and integ-
eity, and who is his opposite in every trait,
whenever the occasion presented itself, as he has
betrayed every friend ne ever had. He be-
trayed Mcdonald at Cincinnati, he betrayed him
at Chicago, and later he betrayed him at Wash
ington. Mcdonald said to me: You know.
Frank, it would cost me &c. 900 a year to accept
8 Cabinet position, and but to crafty my friends
and for the honor there was in it. should never
have consented to have my name mentioned in
that connection. but when one comes to the door
st is mighty hard to have it shut in ones face )
And Hendricks would have betrayed Aquilla
Jones as we'll, and actually did propose to do so.
With this end in view he called upon William
Henderson, of Indianapolis, unsolicited, and told
him to start petition, and he would sign it
himself and see that he got there but Henderson
wouldp't have it,
How did Mr. Hendricks prevail upon the
President to give him the appointment over BY
NUNS head2"
by getting down on his 49, old knees and
begging like dog for it. He cried like baby,
and told Cleveland if he refused him this request
1t would sign his (Hendrieks's) political death
warrant-destrcy him completely. He would
never dare go back home and face his people
with such humiliation. The President replied
] am deeply panied, Mr. Hendricks, that you
ing position. but cannot do otherwise than my
duty. If you can show me that the appointment
belongs to you and not to Mr.. Bynum. / will
gladly accommodate you. Ii you can show a
precedent Cor ibis extraordinary business / will
appoint Mr.. jones' This was said in the pres
ence of MI. Bynum, who was the only man who
had the to beard the old villain,
and as he tBynuml stated to the Presi-
dent before Hendricks face pull the
mask from the face of this old lying
hypoerite and expose him and his infamy. Hen
bricks agreed to abide by the precedent estab-
hshed, and, accompanied by Mr.. Bynum, went
to Postmaster general Villas Mr.. Villas called
the oldest and best-posted departmental clerk to
him, and placing the matter before him. told
him to investigate, and by 3 o'clock that day to
let him know if there was any case on record
where the Vice president had made application
for the appointment of a postmaster The clerk
made an examination and reported negatively,
and Mr.. Bynum imagined, of course that Mr..
Hendricks would honor his word. and withdrew
from the contest. but at o'clock the same
evening the Vice president of these United
States, sorgetfai of his pledge forgetful of the
honors heaped upon him, forgetful of his
manhood, filed his application and again called
upon the President and with tears and the
most lamentable display of pusillanimous puer-
ility again mportuned the President to save
him from destruction to save his hfe The
President proof against all other influence.
yielded through pity. and promised him the
appointment, made against his sense of Justice
and his will. Afterwards, when Mr. Bynum
called upon him for his decision Mr.. Cleveland
said: Mr.. Bynum. by every right you are
entitled to the appointment Your candidate is
well recommended, and there is no doubt as to
his fitness for the position, but can YOU Mr.
Bynum, afford to take the appointment over a
corpsei AS it Is, you are helped and Mr. Hen
bricks injured by disappointment have nader
How about that protest of the business men?'
queried tn scribe
"That was signed by three of my rivals in the
wholesale grocery business. and Mr.. Murphy.
who is Gray man, and anxious that the Gov.
ernor should be United States senator two wears
from now. am for Mcdonald, so you see that
we are dramatically opposed to each other and
that may account Cor the mouse in the meal
sack. As soon as it was known at indianapolis
that protest had been sent on, fifty-four firms,
including three banks and all the brewries, sent
demand for my appointment by telegraph.
Mind you. my petition was signed by 5000 rep