Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — Hitting Hendeicks Hard. [ARTICLE]

Hitting Hendeicks Hard.

Chicago Nov/". (CicveirtTrd ()f course there is considerable bitter if Ik against Hendricks a aioug Indiana democrats,, but wo do not apprehend that all this bitterness will amount to V anything on election day ; it is one of the characteristics of the democratic party to growl and howl, and threaten and kick, and then finally to vote the democratic ticket as meekly and sub- . ... . ■■■dibL, ~ missiycly as sucking doves. Yet there is good ground for complaint against Hendricks; among any other class than hide-both:d democrats it would have proved efleclive long ago. This man has stood for a quarter of a century in the way.of progress in Indiana. 110 lias delighted not only in murdering off the young and ambitious, but also in assassinating the old and re vered statesmen with whom ho has been thrownbn contact. His treatment of Joseph E. McDonald is unparalleled in the records of perfidy. Hendricks is by nature a snake. During the season of his country's peril ho was a seU-conlessod copperhead, emitting his poisonous slime and deadly- venom upon every patriot and against every measure looking toward the preservation of llio ■ mridn mid' thw ’Ytteunar honor. His record since 18(>o lias been the record of a treacherous, cold-blooded viper. A snake .during his country's danger, he oould not help being a snake when peace was restored to the nation ho sought to destroy. Ilis miserable perfidy is known everywhere, yet we doubt Very much whether it mil be condemned in Indiana by those who have suffered most by it, for the democrats of Indiana seem to Lave been educated to believe that hypocriey is smartness and personal perfidy a species of political sagacity.