Year: 1876

dabbles in mines as well as Tilden. The
latter swindled CT. Harvey out of an iron
mine on Lake Superior, and it will be seen
by the following extract of letter from q
miner in California that the Hendricks
Mining Company, of which Governor Tom
A. Hendricks is president and his relative
W. C. Hendricks is the manager, is trying
to jump the claims of lot of German
miners or has already jumped them, and Is
now trying to swindle them out of their
rights by securing the patent to the lands
from the United States. Surely, the Dem.
ocrstic party is in hard luck with its chief
candidates. They both now stand charged
by respectable citizens with swindling poor
laboring men out of their mining interests.
The extract referred to is as follows:


''In the first place W. C. Hendricks bought
about ten acres Of ground here, Cat Morris
Ravine, and then sent his brother Tom back
to Indiana, where the latter raised a company,
with Governor Hendricks at its head. Shortly
after Governor Hendricks came out here, and
the company located ,220 acres of ground, to-
gether with the entire Morris Ravine as an
outlet, thereby shutting up the entire country
(if they succeed in getting their claims pat
ented) from the use of 1t. About one half of
this 1,220 acres is protested by different claim
ants, who are mostly Germans whose claims
the Hendricks company have Jumped The
facts are that this company have jumped a
large tract of land belonging to lot of poor
miners, who have worked hard and spent their
money to hold their claims under the law.
Some of them even went to Hendricks to see
If they could not arrive at q peaceful settle
ment, without going to law about it. For
satisfaction they were told they could get what
the law would give them, and nothing more.
There are about fifty Germans among these
protestants, and yet l see that there is q Ger
man stumping for old Tom. He must be a
small pattern to help man to cheat his own
countrymen. This W. C. Hendricks is part
ner in two of the companies whose ground he
has jumped What do you think of q man
who would rob his partner? 1t may be said
that this does not affect the Governor; but who
raised the company? Who furnished the
money? Who defended the cases in the Land
Office at Washington, of which the Governor
was once Commissioner! Why, it was Gov
ernor Hendricks, and no one else. Any miner
knows that l ,220 acres Of mining ground cen
stitute an illegal monopoly. The law says
that no company shall hold more than 160
acres"


The case is clearly one of those in which
an incorporated monopoly of large financial
means and great political influence is as
siduously endeavoring to swindle a lot of
poor German miners out of their legal
rights. These monopolists are fully aware
that these poor Germans have not the
means to prosecute their cases against q
powerful company, whose president and
counsel is an ex-Commissioner of the
General Land Office, an ex Senator and an
aspirant to the highest place in the gift ofthe
people. Even the name of the company of
monopolists (Hendricks) carries with it an
immense moral power. Its influence upon
courts, land officers and claims lawyers, when
it is considered possible that its representa-.
tive may soon become the Vice resident
of the United States, is almost incalculable.
And yet it is now being unscrupulously
used for the purpose of defrsuding lot of
poor, hard-working Germans in California
out of their mining claims for the purpose
of enriching a great monopoly. 1t is
alleged that the Hendricks Company have
effected sale of their lands to European
company of capitalists for an enormous
sum of money, contingent only upon the
securing of the patent from the Land Of
fee. The Hendricks family have been
pursuing this fraud persistently since 1878.
but have not yet succeeded in getting the
patents. We annex the names ola few Of
those German claimants who protest
against the issue Of the patents to the Hen
bricks Company. They and their fellow
countrymen are expected to vote for the
president of this labor-crushing monopoly
for Vice President of the United States: