Year: 1876

position to National banks. and hi


willingness to substitute Governmen


notes for bank circulation. His aetiol


in going into the Ohio canvasss in Isl


in support of Mr.. Allen, was base,


upon the desire for the success. of tn
| Democracy. He deemed the triumph


of the party in that State essential, ant


threw himself into the canvass hearth


ly, holding that the financial issue wa


not the Oyershadowing one. The grea
thing to gain was victory, no matteI
whether some of the men in the same
ranks agreed with him on all fine point.
In politics or not.


On questions of State policy Mr.
Hendricks has shown masterly knowl.
| edge; but there is one matter upoI
which he has ever been especially so.
licitous, namely, the school system oi
Indiana. As member of the consti.
tutional convention he was active il
securing ample provision for popular
education and placing its support be-
yond the vicissitudes of politics. I'm
pressed with the value of the work
then accomplished, he has since re-
peatedly insisted upon the most anxi-
Gus watchfulness over the growth and
perfection of the system and relaxed
in its favor his Democratic prejudices
towards strict constructions and econ
omy.


Governor Hendricks is a man ofme-
dium height and symmetrical form.
lie is erect, active and vigorous. His
face is manly and handsome. The
features are large and expressive, and
while there is soft, good-humored
expression in the large blue eye and in
the mouth and dimpled chin, the brow,
forehead and full heavy jaw. show wis
dom and resolution. His complexion
is forid and his hair rand side-whiskers
are yet untouched with gray He looks
like one who has lived happy life, en-
countered no great sorrows and yielded
to no great vices. Though he has for
years been taught to regard the presi-
dency as within his grasp. his ambition
has been rather sort of rational long
ing for the honor than an Unsuitable
thirst for power. His disposition is as
sunny as his complexion, and in social
life he is great tfavorite. To aequaint-
ances he is affable and easy, to close
friends warm and lovable, to political
partisans courteous, but catious. He
would rather conciliate any enemy
than oblige an ally. His habits are
such that he found 5000 year ample
for his expenditures during his sena-
torial term at Washington. He has
always trusted to doing the work which
he had in hand as well as the highest re-
commendation in the long run before
the people, and the many honors which
have come to him seem to have been
conquered without great effort. His
voice is rather thin tenor, and has
nothing imposing in its tones, but is
audible to great distance when ne
speaks with earnestness. He appears
to the best advantage before crowd,
for then he kindles with the excite
ment of the occasion, and an Interrupt
tion or jest from some dissent
ing auditor is all that is neces-
sary to make him forget his habitual
deliberative cast of thought, and fling
himself into dashing and aggressive ar
gument. One of the features Of his
career has been the long rivalry be-
tween him and Morton rivalry in
which the bitterness was all on one
side. In all combinations in his behalf
his friends have taken the possibility
of the continuance of that rivalry for
the highest prize in the nation into ae-
count. Now that Morton is out of the
field, they can probably promise, with
outa mental reservation, to carry In
diana for their favorite.


Mr.. Hendricks is an Episcopalian
in religion. His wife is a woman of
great culture and force of character
one formed to be mans comrade
in the path of honor, rather than a
source of temptation. They have no
nhildror,