Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-12
MoNDAY EVENING. APRIL i, lssy.
INDIANA's ALI RIGHT.

INDIANA's ALL RIGHT.
A Methodist preacher At Las Vegas
smokes cigars 10 awkwardiy that II 10 be-
lievsd he was born and raised In one Of
the back precincts Of Hoop-pols township.
sndisnH.--Denver Evening Post.
There 1t is sgain-the fair name Of
Posey county called into question, q
favored section Of country where people
are cared, but not "raised" like
potatoesi Who do you suppose was
the blockhead who originated the slur
at Indianap Who was 1t who first
turned up his nose in scorn at the Hoss-
Ter and made Possy county and Hoop
Pole township the synonyms for imbe-
cilityf Upon what meat was he fed
whose sparkling genius proved itself in
pictures OF "the jay" and called every
child of his pencil a yam from the
banks OF the Wabashf In what atmos-
phere Of Grecian beauty was he brought
up who tells, at inner parties and
kindred gatherings, where his auditors
find escape from hum impossible, about
the l~udicrous, misshappen, gawky.and
ignorant children Of nature that he
found on the last trip TO La Fayette7
What sort OF q brain could have been
the caldron 10 which the thought was
brewed that IL was . shame to W q
tie In Indianaf What started the cur
rent, long-lived SANDER anyway
As . matter OF fact, the people of
Indiana are no better and not worse
than their brothers and sisters in other
states Of the union, and they have as
little reason to lie under the accusation
of verdancy, Of Stiffness, Of crude lives
and thought uncultured. Yet no one
thinks Of telling a story Of gawky Josh
or silly Sal and lacking it to q denizen
OF Iowa. No one thinks Of painting q
Of q man with q dropsical ma
brella and q hat with an obese crown
and labelling It Q "Man from Pennsyl-
No n thinks of the fellow
who bent over backward looking for
the tops Of New York's high buildings,
and associates that man In his thought
with q farmer from Ohio. When you
hear Of the victim OF thu green goods
man you instinctively accredit him to
T~ippecauoe. When You read of al
farmer who risked his acres In the
wheat pit at Chicago. you always say
s'Poor fool! Was ne from Misha-
wakag" When you see q man in a
city stopping citizens and asking
hem for 'the depot" you always send
him to some line that runs to Indiana,
md seem to think yonr mission has
'een done. When city folk meet q
youngster in the morning, his
rousers tucked in his boots, and
rod pole ia his hand, they credit him
. Kokomo OF Warsaw, and go on {
heir way fairly warmed with what
SENS to them q master stroke OF dis
eminent. /
Well. the chances are that they are :
fools. Ten to o the granger who !.
'ckles their classic eyes never saw the 1
lside Of the state to which their spleen d
ttributed HIM. Ten to one, the story 7
'hich SO tickles their fancy in its de- J
of q sshayseed's'' trlbulations, |,
as the offspring Of q brain as vapid b
. either-and.as truthless as a weather :
rophecy. In all probability, the art =
! who tells them with bis brush, Of !
,me greenhorn's clumsy deed, Is only !
"reminiscences, and knows 10 Q
10 heart that it all happened back in .
onnecticut, or down in Kentucky. !
the idiocy arose. no man can tell. !
Fly it continues, passes the wisdom of b
IAN to determine. e
The best interests OF FL Paso can be i