St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-26

state, and Mr.. Hendricks house was one of
the principal centers of the educated and
Christian remnant in the central part
of Indiana. He was the father and founder
of the Presbyterian church in Indianapolis,
of the good Scotch type, and in that faith the
boy, Thomas, was reared and nurtured. The
lad attended the village school until at sufi-
cient age to enter the college at South
Hanover, near Madison, graduating from
which he began the study of law. The final
period Of his study was passed in the Office of
his uncle, Judge Thompson of Chambersburg,
Pa, and he was then
ADMITTED TO THE RAR
at Shelbyville. His success was not at all
rapid but his habits of close attention to
and study Of his cases, his correct habits,
and his pleasant manners all conSpired to
make him a favOrite, and in the end he
gained high place in his profession, and
lucrative one. After five years practice in
1S48, young Hendricks was elected to the leg
islature, when not 28 years of age.
He was not particularly well pleased
with that service and declined
e-election in 1850. In the meantime con-
stitutional convention had been called, and,
though so young, the votes of the senatorial
Der, he being one among the
younger members of that body.
with Schuyler Colfax and William S.
Holman. Mr.. Hendricks took prominent
part in the deliberations of that convention,
and so added to his reputation that
at the election in August, 1851, he
was elected to seat in congress. By
the terms of the new state constitution
an election was held the next year, in 1852, and
again he was elected from a new district.
During his second term in congress the
repeal of the Missouri compromise came
and Mr.. Hendricks voted for it under
the plea of popular sovereignty, vote which
so outraged his constituency that despite his
best efforts to explain his action, he was de-
feated for reelection. In 1855 he was ap-
pointed
LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
by President Pierce, which position he held
until 1859, when he resigned and returned
to the practice Of his profession in
Shelbyville. But he was not allowed
to remain quiet. His party was
preparing for the contest of 1860,
and Mr.. Hendricks was nominated by the
Democratic convention as candidate for
governor. The Democratic party was split
into the Douglas and Breckenridge factions,
Jesse D. Bright, the leader of the
latter, evidently feeling the loss of
his grip on the party, while the
Republicans were in the flush OF hopeful
Fl&0r. Iuc rSSulC WAS tu0 tr1uHipuout ti6C-
ton of Lane and Morton, which sent Mr..
Hendricks back to his law books. He re-
moved to Indianapolis and opened an Office, tax
ing at once leading place al the bar, forming
a partnership with Oscar B. Hand, after
ward the attorney general of the state. The
| legislature Of 1862 was Democratic and Jesse
d. Bright, having been expelled from his seat in
| the United States senate, David S. Furpie was
elected to fill out the eighteen days of the I'M
| expired term, while Mr.. Hendricks was
unanimously chosen for the full term Of six
| years. He took his seat in the national
senate on the 4th Of March, 1854, and served
until 1859, four years as the colleague Of
Senator Lane, and for two years with Sen
ator Morton. While yet senator in congress
his party again nominated him for governor,
| the Republicans nominating Conrad Baker.
After an exciting campaign, Baker was
elected by about 800 majority, and Senator
Hendricks again
WENT TO HIS LAW OFFICE.
In 1872 the state was again rent with po-
litical contest. The liberal movement that
year on the part Of dissatisfied Republicans
gave the Democracy an apparent op-
portunity for success, and again the state
convention nominated MIR. Hendricks for gov
ernor. His Republican opponent was Gen.
Thomas NJ. Brown. There was good deal of
temperance sentiment in the state,
to which Mr.. Hendricks made himself accept
able. The purpose of the temperance folks
was to secure a local option law, and this Mr..
Hendricks allowed himself to be understood
he would approve. which he afterward did in
the shape of what is known as the Baxter law.
As the result of another remarkably close
election Mr.. Hendricks was chosen governor
by plurality Of 1.200 votes, while all the
other officers of the state, except the
superintendent of public instruction, were
Republicans. That Mr.. Hendricks election
was caused by the influence here spoken of was
f,Dy fnn hot fr,f ,nx-f
month Grant carried Indiana by 5000 ma
iority. 1t has been said, by no less distin-
guished authority than Gov Hendricks him
SELF that any man competent to be notary
public could be governor of Indiana
and there was not much to test the executive
abilities Of Gov. Hendricks during his term
of Office. He made an urbane, careful. satis-
factory governor, and retired from his
position with the respect of all parties
in the state. The circumstances of
the nomination of Gov. Hendricks on the
ticket with Gov. Tilden by the st. Louis con-
vention are fresh in the public mind. He
was candidate for the presidency, as he also
was in 1868 at the New York
TAMMANY HALL CONVENTION,
but there he was antagonized by part of his
own state delegation. The opposition from
his own delegation defeated him. In 1876 a
strong and vigorous opposition to Mr.. Hen
bricks was organized in his own state and made
of Mr. Tilden and his own nomination for Sec
ond place was great humiliation to Mr.. Hen
dricks and a sore disappointment after the
election in November, Mr.. Hendricks made no
secret of his disagreement with Mr.. Tilden's
course. He wrote a letter, the purport of
which was that he was opposed to electoral
commissions, and that if he were Gov. Tilden
he should take the oath Of Office and demand
it of President Grant, leaving the supreme
court to adjudicate the dispute. Of course
the Inauguration of Hayes and Wheeler set
proceeded quietly with his law business. Mr..
Hendricks was again candidate
for the presidential nomination in
Cincinnati in 1880, and this time had the ardent
and enthusiastic support OF the entire
state delegation, but the nomination was i'm
possible. Mr.. Hendricks was strongly urged
for the presidential nomination at Chicago
in 1884 by that portion of the Democratic
party who sought to make battle upon the
issue of the fraud Of 1876, in spite of the
fact that Mr.. Tiden had sought the shades of
privacy, and though his friends failed in
this respect as regards the presidency, the
same feeling found earnest expression when
the convention set about the nomination for
vice president. When Mr.. Hendricks
name was brought before the convention
delegates and spectators became wild with
enthusiasm, and his selection wss assured,
even before the call of states began. His
course since the election has been dignifed,
as became the Office he held.
Injured in a Train Wreck.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., Nov. 25.-A broken
rail on the Chester & Lenoir narrow-guage
road threw all the cars of the passenger
FRO; II, off tho fronly and down an omhank-