Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1884 — HENDRICKS’ WAR RECORD. [ARTICLE]

HENDRICKS’ WAR RECORD.

Always a Fire-in-the-Rear Copperhead. [Washington special.] s Secretary McPherson, in response to numerous Inquiries, has prepared the following letter as to the record of Thomas A Hendricks during the rebellion: "D. E. Welch, Esq., Baraboo. Wis. "Dear Sib : I have not prepared any pamphlet about Mr. Hendricks’ record in the Senate, but during his term in Congress he voted against every tax bill to raise money to carry on the war. He was in the Senate when the tariff act of 1804 was passed, and he was one of the five Democrats who voted against It. He was in the Senate when the internal revenue act of 1864 was passed, and he was one of the three Democrats who voted against it. On the question of the draft act, which was passed in the winter of 1864. and which increased the power of the Government to fill up our weakened armies, he was one of ten Senators who voted against it on its original passage through the Senate, and one of sixteen who voted against it on its final passage. He also voted against the passage of the supplement to the enrollment act, which was passed in July. 1864. He did not vote in favor of any measure that looked to carrying on the war. On the question of employing colored troops he was always in opposition, and was one of the most determined of the opposition to the administration of Abraham Lincoln in all its measures for putting down the rebellion. He was opposed to the amendment of the Constitution abolishing slavery, and was one of the six Senators.who voted in the negative. He was opposed tq the fourteenth amendment to the Constitiftion, and was one of the eleven Senators who voted in the opposition. If there was a suggestion or a movement calculated to embarrass Mr. Lincoln Mr. Hendricks was always in support of it. If there was an honest blow to be struck at the enemy Mr. Hendricks was always unable to come up to the help of Mr. Lincoln. Sometimes he had one excuse and sometimes another. He always had an excuse. His record during the war was detestable and unpatriotic. Very truly yours, "Edwabd McPherson, Secretary.” The Democratic workingman, unable to support Cleveland, should not stop at the Butler half-way house. Better cast a vote that will count in sinking the friend of New York City monopolists. Cleveland’s veto of the mechanics* lien bill and of the bill fixing twelve hours as a day’s work ought to and will soundly defeat him. Let every friend of labor aid in burying him so deep that he will never be heard of again.