The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-02
A GOOD MANS MEMORY,
Perpetuated in Enduring Bronze at
Indianapolis by His Crate
full Friends. @

Unwilling Of the Hendricks Monu-
ment Yesterday with I'M
pressive Ceremonies.
The Occasion Notable for the Distin-
guished Gentlemen in Attendance
Senator Turpie's Ovation.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 1.-Tbe day for un-
yelling of the Hendricks mr. .hment dawned
clear and hot, but with AZ Jod breeze blow
ing, and the earliest trains began to pour
crowds into the city, and it was early ap-
parent that the crowd would be the largest
ever assembled in Indianapolis Governor
Campbell. of Ohio, and party. Governor
Hill and party, of New York, arrived yes
terday, and among the early arrivals to-
day is Governor Francis, of Missouri.
About every civil and military organization
in Indiana and many from Ohio, Illinois,
lAe Kentucky and Missouri are represented;
The movement which eliminated
to-day in the unveiling by Mrs.
Hendricks of the monument to her dead
husband, was a nom bipartisan one, which
had its inception on Dec. Z. 1886, at meet
ing of the representative citizens of 1ndi-
annapolis of all parties. The monument
stands on the southeast corner of the capi-
tol grounds.
The parade formed at o'clock and was
composed of civic and military organiza-
tions. The governors of Ohio, Indiana,
New York and Missouri, and their stats,
and many notable public men were present.
The procession, mile and half long,
ito o9n1ooI- no.
ernor Hovey called the assemblage around
the monument to order, and the final exer-
cises of unveiling was begun.
At the monument an amphitheater has
been erected for the distinguished guests
and chorus of LOCO school children. The
this chorus. Gov. Hovey then made brief
president of the Hendricks Monument AS
sociation, briefly reviewed the history of
the monument, and Rev. Dean Jenckes of
St. Paul's Episcopal church, invoked divine
was then led forward, and on behalf of Tam
many hall presented to Mrs. Hendricks
handsome memorial wreath, accompany
ing the presentation with a brief speech,
eulogic of the dead statesman. Mrs Hen
bricks. who was attired in deep black and
ward, and with a deep bow and
few words, which were drowned
in the noise of the crowd endeavor-
ipg ipg boaorea to catch glimpse Es OF
mortal. Judge Rand then took Mrs. Hen
bricks arm and escorted her to the base of
the monument where she drew the veil of
natioAal colors from the bronze figure of
her husband, amid the shouts of the vast
throng and the booming Of cannon. An
read and Senator Turpie then delivered the
Grafton of the day. At the conclusion
of his address brief remarks were m ade by
Governors Hill. Francis and Campbell
After benediction by Bishop Chatard the
assemblage dispersed.
ident Harrison, who said public duties
would prevent his attendance; from
General Sherman, who said his
previous engagements for July
would preclude his attendance,
and from e1. President Cleveland, who said
of the satisfaction it would afford me to
testify my respect and affection for your
distinguished fellow-townsman by joining
those who will gather to honor
his memory on the occasion you
contemplate. His eminent public services
portant official duties, render the commem-
oration of his public and private virtue
most lifting and proper. l sincerely regret
that positive engagement for the day ap
pointed makes it impossible for me to ac-
cept your invitation"
pie gave running review of Mr.. Hen
dricks' life, and, concerning his position
during the civil war, referred to letter
Hendricks wrote to some of his constituents
in the first month of the war. in which he
said in part that he regarded it as the
duty of citizens of Indiana to respect and
maintain the authority of the general gov
ernment and give honest and earnest sup
port to the prosecution of war until. in the
providence of God, it may be
brought to an honorable conclusion, and
the blessings of peace be restored to the
troyersy relating to the causes and respon-
sibilities therefor. OF the same tenor,
added Turpie, were his numerous addresses
to the people in the political campaign of
'62, which immediately preceded his
ss1s0n teg% to sssas ae senate ss pong his
acted and voted in aid of the government
on every measure looking to the suppress
ION of armed insurrection, always reserving
the right to freely discuss the civil policy
OF the administration. Speaking Of the
Hendricks took his position in these words:
u desire this to be a union in
form under the constitution, and in
fact Dy the harmony of the people of
the north and south. I deny that at the
cioSe VI tue war there were no state gov
ernments IN the southern states. The con-
stltution of a state once admitted becomes
. part of the national compact. deny that
.fhe people of that state have the right to
destroy its government and thus cease to be
within the Union. I deny that convention.
legislature OR any other assembly whatever
can voluntarily terminate the existence
of their state government and thus cut off
their connections with the federal union. ;,
This doctrine, said Turpie, from the yery
day and hour of its utterance, was rejected
with every epithet of reproach. Ii was
beaten, submerged by large maiorities ia
both houses of congress, decried as an nm
constitutional surrender to the enemy.
Hendricks lived to see this principle, once
so much denounced, universally approved;
to see this policy of reconstruction adopted
and the corresponding shaping of all
legislation upon the subject, and
ultimately to behold these tenets
sanctioned and declared to be the law
of the land by its highest tribunal, the SUI
preme court of the United States. II Web
ster be styled the e1pounder of the consti-
tution-the old constitution, with its half
truths and compromised upon subject but
unnamed Observation-Disclosures may be as
Justly called the expounder of the new. If
one is known as the constitutionist the other
VIII be known as the reconstitutionist of
ms age, the true interpreter of the constitu-
tlon revised and amended.
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