The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-31

deserves or is entitled 20 the alton,
but on the grounds that he can get IL and
can be elected when once nominated
Mr.. Padgett was equally enthusiastic in
advocating Mr.. CuIIop and quite as opti-
mistic as TO the prospects for nominating
him and then electing him Mr.. Padgett
is inclined 10 look on things political from
optimistic point of view. however. for
he recently achieved an easy victory him
self a candidate for the nomination for
judge in the circuit composed OF Daviess
and Martin counties.
Ben F. Shvely. of South Bend. who Is
frequently mentioned as Mt subject for
Democratic gubernatoriaI honors was at
the Grand last night
-
Judge David Myers. of Greensburg was in
the city yesterday. The judge is a candi-
date for denomination. The circuit is COM
posed of Decatur and Bartholomew coun-
ties and the convention will be held to-mor-
row at Greensburg Judge Hecker. of CO.
lumbuS. Is his opponent for judicial honors.
Il am not wasting my time figuring on
the result of the convention. said Judge
Myers yesterday. bartholomew county
has sixteen delegates i'm the convention To
fourteen from our county, and / am in
formed that Judge Hacker and his friends
made up the slate for the delegates from
his county. Under the circumstances it
looks like the Bartholomew county people
ought TO be able TO tell just about what the
convention will do"
Henry ID. Pierce, of this city, In a conver-
sation with group of attorneys yesterday.
spoke enthusiastically of the late Senator
Quay. whose funeral will take place ~
morrow.
History will place Matthew Stanley
Quay by the side of Martin Van Buren, and
Samuel ]. Tflden political managers OF
colossal success" declared Mr.. Pierce He
then commented on the peculiar physical
differences of the three men. And yet they
were remarkably alike in their love or
books. their mental training and their
habits of mind" he said.
Mr.. Pierce related curious coincidence
in political sagacty, with an anecdote OF
each. He SAID:
"You know the late Governor Tilden. who
was really elected President. prided him
self on being the successor OF Martin Van
Buren, in the management OF politics and
the handling of parties. Indeed. Governor
swell and heighten with pride when called.
as | myself heard him twice called. the
modern Van Buren, by his friend. my father.
the late DR.. Winslow S. Pierce.
We'll. il happened in 1876 that was going
to New York; quite young and full OF en-
thusiasm. As ! was the bearer of i'm
portant legal papers to Governor Tiiden, I
asked my uncle Governor Hendricks. If he
had any other messages for Tflden. They
were then. as you recall, the Democratic
candidates for President and Vice President.
respectively. Yes, replied Mr.. Hendricks
mischievously. and with broad smile. Ask
the Governor if he thinks he can really
carry New York If carry Indiana The
message was joke, of course, but &C.
livered il. When Governor T1lden saw the
smiles lighting up the faces OF the few
friends who were with him he took me by
tA Lad ed ID Of he
and in that low whisper, long since as his
toric as the odd and characteristic closing
of one eye when he talked. he fsintly but
MY young friend. you just tell your
uncle shall carry New York by'-so many
votes, specifying the figures. which I have
forgotten-'a clear majority of so-apd-so
above the Harlem river and so-and-so In
the city. Then tell him to do half as well
| in Indiana.
Il brought the message home to Governor
Hendricks. record was made of the fig
ures, and, remarkable TO relate. they were
within five thousand of the election returns,
and the difference was in Governor Tilden's
Now the point to this which has bear
ing on Senator Quay, said Mr.. Pierce, lis
similar achievement of the senator, but
one that was more remarkable because his
prediction concerned a State a thousand
miles away, and one into which he did not
even set his foot-Indiana- Governor Tilden
had like Thurlow Weed. of earlier days, a
personal knowledge of his own State, New
York. that reached into every county and
almost every village and hamlet well
city. / met Senator Quay when he was
chairman OF the Republican national COM
mittee, in the Harrison campaign of 1855.
at the committees working rooms in the
Everett House. Union square. New York.
j. S. Clarkson, the real genius of work
there, was asking me about Indiana and its
probable vote for Harrison at the approach
ing election. discussion followed. in
which Col. William ". Dudley, a former
Indianian. took part Senator Quay sat
| quietly by with not a word until differing
conclusions had brought a lull, when he
| calmly observed: Harrison and Morton
will carry Indiana by'-so many thousand
votes-narsing the figure. And they did
within A thousand. General Clarkson. who
now lives in New York, told me since that
| he thought Quay came as close as that in
estimates of many States and nearly al
ways in Pennsylvania. his home Clarkson
| thought history would write Quay down
| Americas greatest politician-and. there
| fore, a sadly abused and much-maligned
man."