New Britain herald., 1916-08-02
INDIANA'S YEARS.
No Matter What Happens in the Po- litical Arena Her Spirit Should
 Be Proud.
Be Proud.
(NeW York Times.

Why should not the spirit of In- diana be proud? She has a presi- dential candidate two vice presiden- tial candidates; whether Hanly, Fair banks, or Marshall is elected, there is no way for Indiana to lose. The control of the United States senate hangs largely on her nod; if Watson and New are elected. the republicans expect to tie that body, now demo- cratic. If Kern and Taggart are elected, the democrats will still con- trol it and be able to bid defiance to a republican president or make life easy for democratic one. At least, such are the calculations of the poli- ticians; and if a Watson-Neew vic- tory in Indiana ties the senate, an Indiana vice president will give the casting vote and make glorious the policies of a New York president, as the case may be. The limelight falls on the banks of the Wabash. far away No wonder the chest of h. diana swells.
 Fairbanks and Marshall compelled each others nomination. With so much hanging on that nod, no chances could be taken with Indiana. If one party nominated an Indiana man, so must the other do. As for the prohibitionists, who do not expect to elect their candidate. but do in tend to raise as large a crop of trouble as possible, they picked out the state where they could give most pain and create most anxiety. If any Indiana man wavers toward a third party, the name of Hanly should decide him. Hanly was a fa- vorite son, too; Indiana thought we'll enough of him in his republican days to make him governor.
 She has three children to choose from, widely different, but each en- phasizing in himself some trait of h. diana. Marshall illustrates the Will Carleton or Farm Ballad side of her: homely apothegms, old-fashioned phi losophy farmer plainness and wit, the prairie, In short; the James Whit comb Riley phase. As for Fairbanks, Indiana never did anybody any harm, and neither did Fairbanks. She has other characteristics, more salient ones, sharper ones, but Fairbanks does not illustrate these. Sometimes she Is silent and would rest; her ideas have given out for the moment; then she can turn to Fairbanks and see her mood embodied. At other times she is speechful, baggling, prone to yammer, and then, turning to Hanly, she can see herself as in a glass. He losses back that movable hair of his, he draws down the corners of his mouth again in that terrifying ges- ture of his jaw, he sends forth again that btllowing voice. and the caves of the sportive and sophisticated in diana hears herself at the height of bathos. It is thrilling, but 1t wearies, and she can take refuge in the cool silence of Fairbanks, or hear another side of herself in Tom Marshal1's Moody and Sankey speech. Then she can turn to the candidates who really matter, and see other sides of herself; the sportive and sophisticated in Taggart, the keenly political in Wat son, the Commoner or Bryanesque type in Kern, the Eastern semi-me- tropolitan in New. She has large choice this year and it is all In diana's; and however the election goes she writes her name on the political history of the next four years.