The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-02
THOMAS ANDREWS HENDRICKS.
Tho Tributes or his Associates
ADRIAN g. HEWITT OF NEW YORK.

success OF the Democratic ticket II presented issue
addressed to the conscience OF the people and in tho
State of New York especially was 50 acceptable to a
portion OF the party otherwise dissatisfied that per
sonal grievances were to large extent swallowed mp
and postponed TO the larger duty OF justice to the
In whose person the will of tho people had becn
nuned. do not think that ovsrestimate the value
OF this feeling OF loyalty to MIR Hendricks both In New
York and in Indiana and but for its existence am
quite clear that no accession of Independent voters
could have neutrSzed the strong current Of feeling
among portion Of the Democratic voters for the
didates OF the other party
JOHN j. KLEINER OF INDIANA.
Gov. Hendricks was a Democratic practical Demo
crat who believed in the principles Of the party and
traditions as embodied in popular democratic govern.
nent lie was proud of and ready to defend his
political creed, and this he did in the foro front of
score OF political campaigns lie believed that thoso
OF his political followers and companions who had
gone down to defeat with him in amost iunumerablS
political reverses during quarter Of century, should
share the fruits Of its victories in the hour OF its
triumph. when. therefore, in 1884 the Democratic
party elected Cleveland and Hendricks as Presi.
dent and coPre,dent of tile United States
he accepted the verdict Of tho people as eS.
pressed at the polls to mean that his par.
tisan followers were best calculated TO iuaugu.
rate the reforms which his party had promised
For this reasonable and fair construction OF the election
he was often derisivey termeda partisan" "pou
clan" and even a spokesman" by an unfriendly press
and those of whom discourtesy say les
sincere less patriotic aud less courageous than he 1t
was because he loved his party and believed in Its In
teRry that he stood committed to tho idea that Its ee
walton meant burdens we'll honors and retpons-
Slities; that those friendly to its perpetuaon and
future success should administer affairs and in this
view tho verdict of the future will fully sustain him.
WILLIAM MADoo OF NEW JERSEY.
He stood on tho solid rock OF conservative general
statesmanship and did not need to climb up on some
fantastic theory to be by tho multitude. lie had
no faith in universal ranaccas BY Of Congress and
had no time to waste on political nostruma Faithful
adherence to tho Constitution was his remedy for
roublous questions Little men. riding their little hob
biss 20 on and OF the stage until hobby and rider
both rseRated to the musy obscury Of the properly
ROOM but tho broadminded catholic, far. visonsd,
prophetic statesman remains for all time
WILLIAM D. OWEN OF INDIANA.
His homo life was we'll known union had been
formed there which, after nearly half century must
think have cost the sword Of death effort to
She was wife he husband but they ceased TO no
lovers oonndAnta friends. She was the AtchEuard;
he the manstay. lie talked to about tho house;
she consulted about the State Tho lines OF bliss
and burrows of care both browS you could
had been pleuRhed by the same hand The never
Shono on less than two.
WILLIAM 8. HOLMAN OF INDIANA.
admit for am anxious to delineate his character
with truth, that he partisan in tho sense OF firm
and unyeldng devotion to the fortunes OF his party
From his early youth to tho close of his life he
Democrat and only confident Of the future OF his
try in the supremacy In the public councils OF Govern
ment of the views of constitutional power under the
Federal system taught by the early whose
views were generally accepted by the Democratic
party For forty ave years he adhered to the fortunes
Of that party without varabenSs shadow ofturnug
WILLIAM d. BYNUM OF INDIANA.
Representing the district in which Mr.. Hendricks
lived from his childhood and In par-that part nearest
and dearest to him by ties of friendship of kindred and
OF home-the district which he represene ted third of
century ago feel that would not only fail to dis
charge public duty. but would be an unworthy expo
nent Of tho wishes and sentiments OF the people repre-
sent should fail to assist in emba ming tho memory
the distinguished dead with the grand achievements of
his life, in which they 30 proudly claim to have been
participants He the great isolated nguro
around which the Democratic party of tho
nation had rallied during Its darkest days
and when t looked as though Its hour of dssou.
tion was about to come He the first Democratic
Governor elected in Northern State after the
Ills greatest act OF leadership not only of leadership
but of statesmanship was exhibited from 1874 s76.
In his State In 1874, ayoung vigorous and aggressive
party, the Greenback party began to make in.
roads upon the ranks of Democracy which he had so
successfully preserved intact through all the vicssi.
tudes OF the war There began to spring up division
OF sentiment between the great mon Of his party and
the rank and file began to rally to tho support OF
this or that element until a division looked
almost inevitable. Mr. Hendricks possessed tho
clearest ideas upon questions of finance. but he
sentiment uncontrollabs tearing across the country
like tornado ready to embrace the crudes plans and
most visionary ideas upon this question
Standing between the columns, he laid a hand upon
each and imperceptiby changed their course until they
gradually came together waen, their head In 1876
he led them in solid column to the support OF samuel
J Tden and himself for President aud Vice President
Of the United States