The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-10

The Uprising Following Hendricks's March
Through Georgia-Hungry Democrats

The Uprising Following Hendricks March
Through Georgia-Hungry Democrats
Atlanta Special to st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The arrival Of Vice president Thomas A.
Hendricks in this city this morning, has given
such a force to Finnegan's famous question that
it can be read in the face of the people. Early
In the campaign which resulted in the election
of Cleveland and Hendricks, a dozen ambitious
young attorneys of Atlanta met in a little room
and resolved that in the event of Democratic
success Atlanta would be a central point from
which Cleveland could select good timber to hk
into the various Offices which he would have to
NIL. This resulted in the establishment of the
Young Mems Democratic Club, which, while
claiming to be a club of general membership, 10
formed lmost exclusively of y~earlings at the
bar.
1t was with beating hearts, therefore, that
these Young men heard that the second man On
the ticket was to make an incursion into the
South; but 1T was with pain that they learned
that it was Mr.. Hendricks purpose to switch of
at Chattanooga, and make his advance upon
New Orleans by way of Birmingham. It was
too good a chance to get in a word near the
throne to be missed, and the idea of letting the
young attorneys-the fiedgling colonies of Bir-
m-ingham-have the first scoop at Hendricks
ear was too ridiculous to be permitted. For q
day or TWO money enough was used on the West
ern Union wires to declare an extra dividend.
These kilograms urged Mr.. Hendricks by
all means to give Atlanta a chance.
One wag .telegraphed, what are .
dispatch settled it, and Mr.. Hendricks
telegraphed that he would swing through At
lanta. and thus make Hendricks march through
Georgia as memorable as that other march about
which 1T is not so pleasant to mediate in this
region.
Well, he has come, and now he is gone. and
still the n,onentous question remains unan-
wered. He smiled upon so many, and was so
bland with each that each one feels sure of rec
ignition at the proper time. All day long the
hotels and newspaper offices have been filled
with little knots of men discussing the utility Of
the civil service, and the morality of a Demo-
cratic President paying any attention to such q
law as that which limits a division of the spoils.
D old Pendleton, anyhow" said one iraSe
colonel from the Wiregrass.
yes. damnum, | say" responded his compan-
ion, as he arose, and. approaching the bar, called
for the straight article for the party.
The offices to be given out in Georgia are
numerous, and of agreeable fairness. There are
two judicial districts, with judges, marshals.
attorneys. and hosts of contingent deputies and
bailiffs. There are two customs DISTRICTS, .
port surveyorship in Atlanta, postoficeS with
four-figured salaries in Atlanta, Savannah, Ma
con, Augusta, olumbus and a dozen smaller
places. These offices are all filled at present, ex-
cept the Southern district judgeship, but that
does not lessen the desire to replace them with
others who have eft on the right side.'
Before the war Georgia was never satisfied,
with less than a Cabinet position, together with
frst-class missions, consulates and posts in
which good salaries and easy times were COM
bined. An effort is now under way to revive tho
goodlv custom, and as a result delegation from
this State has been among the most persistent
callers on Presidentcelect Cleveland In New
York city. The object of the delegation was to
insist upon the appointment of Gen. A. Il. Law
ton, of Savannah, to a seat in the Cabinet. Tom
Hardeman would like to get the Agricultural
Commissionership, when he could deluge Geor-
gia with garden truck. The Mexican mission
will be claimed by Georgia, with Gen. P. M. b.
Young put forward as the man for the place.
The Colombian mission is another among those
to which Georgia will lay claim, as we'll as the
missions to Brazil, Belgium, Austria and Rus
STA.
The few remaining weeks until the inarJura-
ton of Cleveland will be taken up in excited lay
ing of plans for the success of the favorites, and
when the day comes the Georgia Colonel, in all
his glory, will be observed on the sidewalk
pennsylvania avenue, watching the procession
to the White House.