The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-29
NOT A KITE TAIL.
Heartless Remarks Of Democratic Paper
Concerning the Vice-President.

Heartless Remarks of q Democratic Paper
Concerning the Vice-President.
Memphis Avalanche.
If Mr.. Hendricks were tail to kite he might
be excused for switching himself about in pub
lie view. He would then have important func-
tons to perform. No kite can be properly regu-
lated without a somewhat frisky tail, making a
public exhibition Of itself. Mr.. Hendricks is
not kite tail. 1t is not one of his missions
hence on, or officially to do any thing in particu-
lar.
We do not know but that Mr.. Hendricks bears a
closer resemblance to the goats tail, than to any
other caudal appendage, of which Mrs Parting
ton said, adjusting her Spectacles: why, l
believe it's worse nor none"
Mr.. Hendricks great mission on earth as
Vice-president is to give the world an example
of wholesome caudal supineness and passvty.
The injunction, tacitly given in the Constitution
The Vice president greatly resembles the
'possums tail in some respects. The night
wandering marsupial may travel late, travel far,
and travel often, and never find the slightest use
for that caudal appendage. Upon some dog
barked night, when the full moon is big with too
much light and the woods are full of cross track
ing dogs, lowdown white folks and 'possum-
loving niggers (bake taters and corn dodger), his
life may hang on the firm hang of that tail to
some 'simmon limb This country now and
then finds itself dependent upon vice-presi.
dental tail-holt, in the absence of the Presi-
dent.
We must not despiss our tail. But our tail
should have kept still. The views of the tail on
civil-service reform were not called for. Since
the administration is every way committed to
civil-seTvice reform and the enforcement of the
law on that subject, it was a gross and boorish
offense to good taste and propriety in Mr.. Hen
dric ks to open his mouth on the subject.
Mr.. Hendricks is a very good man. In his day
he was made an excellent executive official dis
playing marked administrative ability In the
Senate he rose to the height OF craftsmanship.
Mr.. Hendricks day has passed. He is out OF
time and tune. Many a good man in his day
wouldn't fit this day. If Mr.. Hendricks wants
to make himself the leader of the mounting
opposition to the administration, let him say so.
The issue will not be lodged. It were best it
had leader, and of Mr.. Hendricks character
and standing. By all means let fossilism stand
on its best leg and make its last fight under
heroic auspices and we'll led.
What Vice -president Hendricks said about
civil-service reform wasn't so much as what he
I has said before, nor so much as what he meant.
He did not intend to antagonize the President.
That the willy old politician dared not do, or had
more sense than to do. He has put himself on
record against the civl-seryice law. He meant
only to put himself just enough out in the open
to have the boys crystalline on him as a white
string hung in the crystalline matrix of slowly
crystallizing opposition to the President The
Avalanche pointed out before the Inauguration
that Hendricks didn't propose to be the useless
fifth wheel the constitution has made him. He
intends to pose before the public, and for all his
dsavowal, he means to be leading part in the
next election, if the boys don't forget, as very
likalv bhev will