Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-13
VICE pREsTDEyr HENDRroKs.
He Knocks the Nonsense Out OF
NeNarnI Runorn.

as- oeNorHh hmmOrhs
A Chicago correspondent telegraphs to
the New York Herald an interview with
Vice President Hendricks, whom the re.
porter caught en- route to the Grant
funeral. Mr.. Hendricks expressed satis.
faction at the outcome of the Aquills
Jones investigation, and commended the
good Judgment of his private secretary
in authorizing denial of rumor that
he, Mr.. Hendricks, is in training for the
next Presidential contest. t...
81 am satisfied said he, with the re-
suit of the late election, and consider il 8
justification of our claims of the election
Of the Tilden and Hendricks ticket az
well as triumph of Democratic princi
Piles and of the right over wrong. Will
this l am content, and desire to live
quietly and in peace" To the question
how the acts OF the administration have
affected the country, he replied:
''I should say favorably, decidedly
None of our material interests have
suffered, as was predicted by organs Of
the opposite party prior to the late election
Some cutlery is being raised about Roach
but il is mere craftsmanship"
''Do you think there are any growing
influences that will have tendency t
divide the Democracy prior to 1853
Civil Service reform for instance-or will
the party 30 into the next convention har
monious and practically in accord OF
public questions"
'To that l would say that the people
desired n change and voted for it. They
have experienced none of the evils pre-
dicted by Republican prophets, and
Democratic principles have gained new
adherents and the Democratic cause
thousands of new followers. The admin.
istration is complimented from many un.
expected sources, and yet complaints are
heard from some quarters. Political
changes come like unordained fate at
times, seemingly without cause, but the
underlying cause always exists and is
ultimately developed. I do not think
Civil Service reform will sever the Demo-
cratic party. 1t docs not contain the
elements of such division, and the
principle of Civil Service Reform is fully
as safe in Democratic hands Ms il would
be in Republican hands, as the acts of the
present administration now show
do you think Civil Service reform, so
called, has become firmly enough
engrafted upon our politics TO be called
an established fact ?"
Mr.. Hendricks hesitnted for moment,
then replied with some emphasis ~ do
not. Nothing can be called nm established
fact about which there is still argument,
discussion and division of opinion"
at has been intimated, Mr.. Hendricks,
i'll various newspapers that there is not
that cordially and sameness of purpose
between President Cleveland and your
self that would naturally be expected to
characterize the first Democratic admins
tration in 25 years ?"
"Well, rs to that, it is the invention
principally of disaffected representatives
of factions ON the one hand and the sus-
picions and conjectures and oftentimes
hbels or partisan organs of the opposi.
ton. People who can intelligently Judge
of the difference of our positions will
place no credence in such statements.
Our relations when we meet are decidedly
cordial. l have not seen the President
now in four months, but have no doubt
when | do meet him it will be upon terms
of the most cordial Democratic fellow.
ship" .-5...S