Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — LIE NAILING. [ARTICLE]

LIE NAILING.

- Governor Hendricks Puts Another Batch of Keuublican Lies to Rest. A Sentinel reporter yesterday called the attention of Governor Hendricks to a Washington special of the Commercial Gazette copied into the Journal of Wednesday morning. Among the lies cited was one which read as follows: “He early left his church and went to another because his minister preached a loyal sermon.” The Governor laughed at this newlv coined lie and exclaimed, 4 vv ell, I never belonged to but one church, and that one I belong to yet and never have left it?’ “They seem to be lying about you almost as freely as during the canvass of 1876?” “Yes,” Mr. Hendricks replied “but do you notice that these lies do not stick any better than they did then?” “They say that you were unfriendly to Mr. Lincoln, and refused to support him in hie prosecution of the war?” “ u ell,” replied the Governor. ‘I have some first- ate Republican authority to refute that story, and that is Mr. Lincoln himself. In March, 1865, only a short time before he was assassinated. I went to • 4 he White House to bid him goodbye. I was a member of the 1

United States Senate, and that body had .just adjourned and I intended coming home immediately. I frequently called to see him and was always warmly welcomed by the President. On this occasion, as I was about leaving him he took me warmly by the hand and said: “Hendricks, I know you are a democrat, but you have always treated my administration fairly, and I think it is due to say to you that in a short time things will assume a shape over there (pointing in the direction of the Potomac River), when I can have a gen eial jubilee.” “I was so impressed,” continued Governor Hendricks, “with Mr, Lincoln’s broad, charitable and Chirs ta i n views regarding the proper solutions of the questions growing out of the war, that when I came home I told my friends that the Democratic party would not be a distinctive organization very long; that Mr. Lincoln intended to adopt such a policy toward the South that we would be compelled to support him whether we wanted to or not, but his assassination followed shortly after that, and another line of policy was adopted. I favored the necessary appropriations to carry on the war and the encouragement of enlistments of men by bounties. I liked Mr. Lincoln very much. He and I were the best of friends ” Tims one by one the lies are disposed of. As the genial candidate for the Vice Presidency remarked, “they don’t stick.”