Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1912 — IS STAR STILL IN ANANNIAS CLUB? [ARTICLE]

IS STAR STILL IN ANANNIAS CLUB?

Washington (Ind) Herald. “The Fort Wayne News suggests that under certain conditions Colonel Roosevelt might place the Indianapolis Star in the Ananias club. He did once, and as it is so long ago and the colonel is now a private citizen, perhaps it will not be lese majesty nor a violation of white house ethics to print the incident. It was in the spring of 1908, while the administration was doing its level best to nominate Mr. Taft for president by corralling all the delegates fupm the southern states, where local republicanism properly is in disgrace and a legitimate object of hissing when the writer called on the colonel, then president, of course, with Representative Watson of the Sixth Indiana district. Mr. Roosevelt was exceedingly cordial and passed some jokes with Mr. Watson, after the introductions were over. Then he turned suddenly, his eyes snapping and his strong, white, almost transparent teeth gleaming under his rather straggling moustache, and said: ‘“So yon are from Indiana? Well, that is a great state, bat yon have two newspapers out there’—tile words fairly hissed from his lips as he spoke, giving an unusually long sound to the letter ‘s'. ’Yon have two papers down there, the Indianapolis News and the Indianapolis Star, that for variegated mendacity equal even the papers of my own town of New Tnfk’" ■* - -