New-York tribune., 1908-03-21
HOOSIERS BREAK BREAD.
EUery One Proud of Indiana and
.4ble to Sau So.

AS modest crowd OF Middle westerners as ever
wandered about the Waldorf-Astoria found their
way into the Astor Gallery Of that hosiery last
night The hundred and half persons who sat
down to the meal served by Maftre d Hotel Roldt
were there because they were from Indiana and
were proud Of 1t, but they seemed to be especially
pleased with the statements Of their orators that
the people who lived alongside the Wabash and
the White River and the Kankakee and the
Maumee are just plain people. who, though they
may not be nlillionaires. able sit up. Well.
at least each and every farmer out there where
they produce sycamores and other tall things,
would think ii bad form If he didn't have long
distance telephone right TO hand and good hotels,
and good schools. and good roads, and good every
thing else.
But what did the Hon. Charles 3. Lands, of
Delphi-on- the Wabash. Congressman from the 9th
Indiana District OF the 'Landi.'' he called
himself, among others of whom are the Hon.
kenesaw Mountain Landis of Chi-caw-ga, who
fined the Standard Oil Company twenty-ntne and
some fraction millions Of dollars, and the Hon.
Frederick Landis. who also used to be Congress
from the Hoosier State at the same time as
the Hon. Charles b. although he lives only in the
next county, when ne said he "hyphen-
ated American citizen a Buckeye-Hoosier, and that
O-hi-a and Indiana reverenced the same memory
and were inspired and guided by the same in
stincts"? Moreover, he remarked, that Ohi-a was
simply a child Of older growth and that both
monwealths possessed the same stimulus in
iinuous invita- ton ambition and endeavor-
Perhaps he putting in good word for
Charles ". Fairbanks, who. like the "Landi,' was
born in O-hi-a- but also went away from there to
the state than which there is better the Vice
President of the United States in his letter
of regret at his inability 10 be present. Digniied
applause greeted the mention OF the name of the
talest candidate for the Republican Presidential
nomination, and there laughter and applause
when the telegram of Harry New. chairman Of the
Republican National Committee read 1t went
follows: For he's jolly good fellow and will
be nominated The Hoosiers also laughed when
the words OF that wag. Tom Taggart were read
Hes a jolly good fellow. and will knock aIn
out"
Perhaps the statement last night that the chief
pride of the Indianan being a plain person and
interested in plain persons like himself explains
why Hoosier State has been successful in pro-
ducins many successful nominees for the Vice
Presidency Even President James B. Curtis Of
the New York-Indiana bunch, modest in start
ing the after-Ginner talk. Congressman Lands en-
larged upon Indiana's virtues bit, and then he
be war with Japan so long Americas present
friendly relations with Great Britain main
tained.
William Bayard Hale. q OF Indiana, who
dabbled in literature, Ike other people from the
Wabash and the Whitewater pointed out that
the Hoosier State had monopolized the centre Of
population for the last twenty-six years The
centre wouldn't away: it was SO charmed
with its habitat. So. all the Hoosiers had TO
do restrain their natural brilliancy Of
thought and speech and live up-or down-to the
centre of population; in other words, the average
man. The other speakers Were the Rev. Gustav
Arnold Christensen and c. c. Rawlings, OF the
Union Trust Company, of New York