Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — Hendrieks, The Professional Slanderer. [ARTICLE]

Hendrieks, The Professional Slanderer.

Logansport Journal; In Thoa. A. Hendricks’ great eagerness to make capital against Secretary Chandler he denounces an allege I steal of S6O, 000, perpetrated, if at all, by a Democrat, endorsed, by Seaker Carlisle and Senator McPherson. Hendricks had hardly got the words out of bis mouth before Chandler wrote him a letter commencing with the words *A candidate for the ''.'ice Presidency should speak with decent fairness.’’ It is well known that Hendricks, in 1880, sla r dr red Pres’ddnt vGarfield after endorsing him as the best manthe Republicans could nominate, and slandered him to wch an extent that the former declared that under no circumstances, whatever, would he hold any personal

communication with Hendricks. Had Garfield lived, Hendricks would have been excluded from the White House and that for lying after he had full knowledge of the truth. Indianapolis Join naL Thomas A. Hendricks slandered General Benjamin F. Butler iff 1876, and in 1880 he foully and malignantly slandered James A. Garfield, so that General Garfield declared that he could never recognize him again,, nor permit him to enter the White House should he (Garfield) be elected President. It will be a beautiful spectacle of “Independence” to see Republicans who found their ideal candidate in Jffmoe A. Garfield, and who talked reverently' of him as the “sainted Garfield,” following the banner of a man who most cruelly and wickedly libelled him, and led the pack of bowling hotinds in Indiana who did all in their power to blacken his character. Thomas A. Hendricks is a fine man to invoke the, charity of the public for himself and to protest against slander and misrepresentation.