The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-15
And He Will Appear Before the Convention of
His Party as Thoroughbred, in
Opposition to Cleveland.
Difficulty of Finding Southern Men of
Proper Character to Fill the Offices.
Department and Bureau News-The Postoffice
Defcit-Struggle for Minister Fosters
Place-PersOnal and General News.
EARLY IN THE FIELD.
The Vice-President in Active Training fl
the Nomination in 1888.

The vice-President in Active Training for
the Nomination in 1888.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July IA good deal has been
said here within week about the object of Vice
president Hendricks's visits and proposed visits
to different parts of the country. It all goes to
the definite conclusion that he is laying the ropes
very deftly, as he imagines, for the presidential
nomination in 1883. A gentleman who has fire.
quently conversed with Mr. Hendricks here, and
who had two or three lengthy interviews with
him before leaving, last week, said to your CORE
spondent this afternoons
'Mr. Hendricks feels little bit surer, just
now, that he is the exact presidential quantity
his party is looking for than ever before He
said to me one day, somewhat dejectedly This
thing of record and acquaintanceship forms a
strong and weak connection in the possibilities
of public men. 1t is necessary that man should
have something of record, but more necessary
that he should be known-that is, he must have
personal friends in all parts of the country We
were talking Of Presidents, and he continued
The trouble with Indiana men has always been
that their personal friends were too much
bunched'"
''Do you think Mr. Hendricks had himself in
view?" asked.
"Oh certainly" replied the gentleman, "and
he meant that he intended to broaden his circle
of personal friends"
''Will he be an out-and out candidate next
timer
HE will, without any doubt unless some dis
aster befalls him. He has no sympathy with the
present administration; no more than if the
President was a straight Republican. And what
is more, he hopes the party will become disgusted
with the administration and that it will be
failure. Then he will come in. He argues to
himself that Mr.. Cleveland will be an unsatis-
factory executive, on account of failure to
bring about more radical moves; that he will
displease the younger element and the progress
sive portion of the party, which controls things
at the nominating conventions, and that he will
himself be taken up as the modern and
thoroughbred representative. If you have
observed his utterances closely, they have been
at very great variance with the work of the
President, and yet, at the same time, he indorses
the administration. His idea in doing that is
quite obvious he wants the people to understand
that, while he is good Democrat and loyal, he
would do differently were he President Contin-
TALLY he is DINING it in the ears of those who
want him to get them positions, that if he had
the power he would give them all places but
that the fraud civil service is in the way. That
tickles them, you see. and puts him before them
in the light of a thoroughbred. Civil service,
you know, is intensely unpopular with the
masses, and he is ever posing his lances to give
it stab"
About the center of lettering politicians it
is open talk that the Vice president is de-
voting all his spare time to placing himself
favorably before the country. and that he doesn't
scruple to sacrifice the interests of the admins
tration to further his personal ends.