Evening star., 1936-09-06

ing and thanks for this most delight
full day. shall always remember
these visits to Indianapolis in the 1892
campaign I think the thing that
stands out most clearly in my memory
was that wonderful meeting in the
circle with those millions. almost
they seemed millions-with the sea
of faces in front Of me. On this visit
I have been glad to see more of the
city and more of the fine work that
has been carried on in the recent past.
And thank you for a most delight
full luncheon. was saying to Fred
Vannuys that your orchestra knows
when to play the right State tune,
which is somewhat different from
what happened back in 1924 in Madi-
son Square Garden, at the Democratic
convention.
I'VE had a magnificent band. The
bandmaster came to me before the
convention opened and said, Would it
be all right when the roll Of States is
called for me to play the proper
tune?' said, That is splendid idea.
Things went all right through the A,
C and DIS and we got down to G, and
they called Georgia, and this New
York City band played Marching
Through Georgia
Tremendous Contrast.
There is only one piece of bad
news; we have been trying at the
head table to get Senator Barkley of
Kentucky to sing Wagon Wheel"
II am not talking politics on this
trip and won't talk drought to you
have been doing that for nearly two
weeks. I do want to say this, and I
think can say it with perfectly good
faith and without bringing politics
into it.. This trip, at the end Of Au-
gust and beginning of September,
1886, is tremendous contrast to the
trips that I was making and lots of
other people were making in the
Autumn Of 1892.
II shall always remember, almost
every day in going through the
country districts and the manufactur-
ing districts, not only the garb, the
clothing Of people, but the faces of
people. 1t was a narrowing expert
ence as campaigned in that year be-
cause there was such obvious want In
almost every part of the country.
"As Alben Barkley and I were
going across the State OF Kentucky,
he would say. jokingly perhaps, to the
people who thronged around the end
of the train, You have t h e same
clothes that you had in 1928 when I
was through here And it was all
too true; there wasn't enough cloth
ing to 60 round and there wasn't
enough food to 60 round.
Conditions Much Better.
Those were difiicult years that we
went through and am thankful as
an American, that today the faces of
show that their mental condition and
their physical condition Is a whole
lot better than they we're at that
time.
II think everybody who goes
through the country at the present
time feels that we have come through
very dangerous and very sad ex-
perience.
1T is not question, in my judg-
ment, that ought to be brought into
politics, into the partisan give-and-
take of a campaign-it is q fact, and
today the people of the country, of
all parties and in every section, are
looking forward to the future with q
great deal more hope than they could
possibly looked forward to in 1882
For that reason this trip of mine
has been a happy trip.
Even people who have been hard
hit by the drought haye a new cour-
age to go through the year without
losing hope. That is true not only in
the drought areas, but here in the
State of Indiana, where, I am happy
to say, conditions are much better
with regard to crops.
$50, at the. end of this trip of
nearly two weeks, I am going back
to Washington in happy frame of
mind. am glad to be here in In
diana among so many old friends OF
both parties.
1T has been fine to see you. Many
thanks for a delightful day"