The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-14
KENNEsAW M. LANDS.
Picturesque Personality of the Judge Wb,
 QuesfiOned Rockefeller

f1cturesque Personality of the Judge Who
 Questioned Rockefeller.
 Judge Landis. the Federal Judge who made John D. Rockefeller. the President of the Standard oil Company. appear before nim. was we'll know for many years in Washington. says a special from that city to The Baltimore American. when he was Pri- vate Secretary to Secretary of State Gresh- am under President Cleveland's second ad- ministration. Judge Landis' name is Kenne- saw Mountain Landds His father was a soldier in an Indiana regiment, and he was badly wounded at the battle of Kennesaw Mountain When he reached his home he learned that a little stranger had arrived on the same day that he was wounded and SO the little boy was nomed Kennesaw Mountain Tn spite of his handicap Landis succeeded in life.
 Judge Landis Is one of the five Landis boys we'll known in Indiana and Wash ington The oldest brother is Charlie Lam dis. one of the most eloquent members of the House of Representatives. Representa- tive Lands formerly very fond of speaking of his brother Kennesaw with an air of profound sorrow "Kennesaw." he would say. with a heavy sigh. "is the black
 sheep of the family. All the rest of us are
 Republicans. and all of have good jobs under the Government. Kennesaw Is Dem ocrat, and has really never gotten anything
 good except for a little while when he was
 Secretary to MT. Gresham" Kennesaw's ap-
 p0lntment 10 a li1o position on the reuefdi
 bench reconciled his brother.
 Of the four Republican Landis boys. two
 of them have served in Congress. Charlie
 Landis is still in Congress His brother.
 Fred Awas defeated last fall. but all indica-
 tions point that he will be returned at the
 Congressional election. Another brother Is
 Chief of the Postoffice Inspectors at Porto
 Rico and the fourth brother is land
 aminer out West. Kennesaw was out in the
 cold after MT. Gresham died, but about two
 years ago President Roosevelt. believing
 evidently that it was shame that there
 should he a Iandis boy without a good Fed'
 eral job, appointed him judge in Chica-
 go. and Judge Landls made good in his
 new position, just he had done when he
 was MT Gresham's Private Secretary.
 No greater contrast can be imagined than
 the difference in appearance between the
 Republican Congressman and the Democrat
 ic Judge Congressman Lapdis is a round
 dapper, perfectly groomed little man with beautiful gray hair and always looking as neat though he had just stepped from the bandbox. Judge Lands. on the contra ry is the typical Hoosier of the cartoonists' long. lean and lanky. always wearing black. with a shoestrng necktie and hair that al ways needs cutting and combns He has shown great ability and fearlessness on the bench and his caurse of bringing the Standard oil and other big corporations to strict accountability to the law has won him the warmest commendat ton of the Admins tration. He Is quite a young man.
 It was while he Private Secretary to MT Gresham that the term ''shirtsleeves diplomacy" was coined in Germany de- scrfbins the direct and unconvention- al diplomatic methods of this country. Neith- CT Secretary Gresham his Private Sec retary had any patience or regard for the | conventionalties that up to that time and afterwards formed the principal features l of the solemn decorum of the State Depart ment. Young MT. Landts usually sat in the | Secretary's magnificently furnished room at | the State Department in his shirt sleeves | with his feet on the Seeretary's gorgeous | table and large cigar in his mouth. Sec retary Gresham in public was the picture of | dignity. but he very fond, when busily | engaged with some important problem of | retiring to small room and taking off his l coat and collar and making himself entire | ly comfortable One day MT. Gresham was hard at work and had even taken off his waistcoat. and his suspenders dangled loose l Iy by his side The German Ambassador. Count Non Hoevan, than whome there was no more digniried and ceremonial dplo- mat in Washington. called at the State Department attired. in spite of the swelter- ing heat in full conventional costume-frock coat and silk hat. Landis. without stop ping to think ushered the precise German | Amba ssador into the little room where sat the Secretary of State literally in his shirt sleeves The German Ambassador hor- rified. though, of course. he concealed his amazement; but undoubtedly he reported to his imperial master at Berlin the fact tNa, the American Secretary of State had receiv- ed him in most unconventional costume for 1t was not long after that one of the Ger man newspapers In an evidently inspired editorial, referred to the "shirt-sleeves dip- lnmacy' of the United States