Indiana State Sentinel, May 30, 1883. A Washington special to the Courier-Journal, which journal alludes to as a tribute to an old friend, says: Horace Heffren, who died at Salem, Ind., Sunday, was an extraordinary man in many other respects than his size and weight. He had a brain commensurate with his body, and in an intellectual struggle was a hard man to down. He had the ability to make a great man in law and politics and doubtless would have made a great man if he had been possessed of will power enough to overthrow an appetite that has caused ruin and disaster to so many of our ablest men. In the last session of the Indiana legislature, Horace Heffren stood by himself and was by odds the most able man in either branch of the assembly. He represented the people of the state with honor and credit and won the respect and confidence of the members of the House and Senate, irrespective of politics. He was a true and good Democrat, ardently devoted to the great principles of his party handed down by Jefferson and Jackson, the fathers of democracy. In private life Horace Heffren was a man who would never turn his back on a friend. He was as kind and gentle to those whom he loved as he was fierce and unrelenting to those whom he hated. Like most large men, he was a pleasant and agreeable companion, and he had friends all over the Hoosier State. In his death the democracy of Indiana loses one of their best workers and advisers.