The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-04
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and Edmunds the Japanese Minister, Mrs.
General Mcclellan and many others.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.--Meetings of
Senators and Representatives now in the
city were held Thursday, and the follow
Ing committees were appointed 20 attend
the funeral of the late Vice President
Hendricks:
Senate = Messrs. Edmunds, Sherman,
Harrison, Allison, VOORHEES,, Pugh, Gull
lom, Gibson, Conger, Blair, Dawes. Cam
den and Vest. House--MeSsrs. Carlisle,
Randall, Hisceck, Long, Phelps, Hepburn,
Brown, Byman, Morrison, Holman, Her
bert Blunt Barbour, Hewitt and GiddeS.
Thomas Andrew Hendricks was born on
farm near GAINESVILLE, Muskingum County,
o., September Z. 1919. His father was John
hendricks, a native of Western Pennsylvania,
and an active participant in public affairs,
positions of trust. The mother was Jane
Thomson, of Scotch descent. When
Thomas was only six months old his father
removed to Indiana. settling at Madison,
on the Ohio River. This was the house of the
brother, William Hendricks the second Gov
ernor of the new State, the first Representa-
tive IN Congress and afterward the prede-
cessor of his most famous nephew in the
United States Senate. In the year 1882 the
father of Thomas concluded to move farther
into the interior of the State, and took up his
The lad attended the village school, and after
ward graduated ftom the college at South
HANOVER, near Madison. He Immediately be
gan the study of law at Shelbyville with
Judge Major, a leading attorney of that day,
and in due time was admitted to the bar. In
lS4S. at the age of twenty-eight, he was elect
member of the Constitutional Convention,
and here began his acquaintance with
Schuyler Colfax and William S. Holman,
to represent the Central District of the State
in Congress in 1851, and again i'm 1852. During
his second term in Congress the repeal of the
Missouri compromise came, and Mr.. Hend.
ricks 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 defeated for re-
election by Lucien Barbour, now dead, the
first Republican Congressman from the capt.
tai district of Indiana.
President Pierce rendered him the commits
sionership of the General Land Office in 1855,
and he held this position until 1859, when he
resigned and resumed the practice of law at
Shelbyville In 1850 Mr.. Hendricks received
the nomination for Governor at the hands of
the Democratic State Convention. his oppo-
nent being the late Colonel Henry S Lane. The
Democratic party was split into the Douglas
and breckenridge factions and the result was
the election of Lane. Mr.. Hendricks after
this campaign removed to Indianapolis, and
began the practice of law.
The Legislature of 1928 was Democratic,
and Jesse ID. Bright having been expelled
from his seat in the United States Senate,
David S. Turpin was elected to fill out the
eighteen days of the unexpired term, while
for the full term OF six years. He took his
seat on the 4th of March, 1858, and
served until ls69-four years as the colleague
of Senator Lane and for two years with
Senator Morton. With Mr.. Hendricks Sena.
torial services and record the country is fa-
miliar. He became in great measure the lead
er OF the small Democratic minority in that
body. While yet Senator in Congress his
party again nominated him for Governor the
Republicans nominating Conrad Baker. Aft
er an exciting campaign Baker was elected by
about 800 majority. and Senator Hendricks
again went to his law office.
In 1872 MI. Hendricks was again the nom-
inee OF his party for Governor his opponent
was good deal of temperance sentiment in
the State, to which Mr.. Hendricks made him.
self acceptable. AS the result of another
close election Mr.. Hendricks was chosen Gov
ernor by plurality of 1900 votes, while all
the other officers of the State, except the
Superintendent of Public instruction, were
Republicans. He made an urbane careful,
satisfactory Governor, and retired from the
position with the respect OF all parties in the
State
Governor Hendricks on the ticket with Gov
ernor Tilden are fresh in the public mind. He
was candidate for the Presidency, as he also
was in 1868 in the New York Tammany Hall
Convention, but there he was antagonized
by part of his own State delegation,
headed by Richard J. Bright. This oppo.
SlblOu ORI0dIou HlIu Ill 1910 Il SCrOng anu
vigorous opposition to Mr. Hendricks was
organized in his own State, and made its ap-
pearance in st. Louis. The nomination of
Mr.. Tilden and his own nomination for Sec
Ond place was great humiliation to Mr..
Hendricks and sore disappointment. After
the election in November Mr.. Hendricks made
no secret of his disagreement with Mr..
Tilden's course. He wrote letter the
purport OF which was that he was OPP
posed to the Electoral Commission, and that If
he were Governor Tiden he would take the
oath of Office and demand it of President
Grant, leaving the Supreme Court to adjudi-
cate the dispute. After the Inauguration of
Hayes and Wheeler Mr.. Hendricks proceeded
quietly with his law business, Governor Baker
Hendricks was again a candidate for the
Presidential nomination in Cincinnati in 1880,
and this time had the ardent and enthusiastic
support of his entire State delegation, but his
nomination was impossible. The circum-
stances of his nomination and election on the
ticket with Mr.. Cleveland are of too recent
date to require elaborate mention.
Gr. Hendricks was married near Cincinnati,
September rs, 1876, to Miss Eliza G Morgan,
by whom he had one son, born in 1S4S, who
lived to be only three years of age. This was
the only child, and its death greatly affected
the father. He was nurtured in the Presby-
terrain faith, and was member of that COM
PauIs Episcopal Church in In.
dianapolis in the year 1862. He be-
came a member of that parish and was elect
ed senior warden. He has never belonged
but to one secret society, the Odd Fellows,
being charter member of the Wellsville
ticipate actively in its work After the cleo
ton of 1876 Mr. Hendricks made an extensive
\ tour of Europe, meeting with cordial recep-
l%tions everywhere.