Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1909 — 200 HOOSIERS AT NEW YORK FEAST [ARTICLE]

200 HOOSIERS AT NEW YORK FEAST

Shively and Others Sing Indiana’s Praises. SENATOR A SPECIAL GEEST David Graham Phillips Calls His State the Literary Center of America. William Hepburn Russell Declares That Politics Here Are of the “Healthy, Whole-Souled Variety." Banquet Is Served at the WaldorfAstoria. New York, March 16.—The Indiana Society of New York, 200 strong, enjoyed a banquet at the Waldorf-ABtoria with Senator Benjamin F. Shively and a dozen or more prominent Indianapolis citizens, who had come on especially for the event, as the guests of honor. The speakers devoted themselves exclusively to the discussion of Indiana’s supremacy in various fields of endeavor. David Graham Phillips said to the banqueters that the state was the literary center of America; William Hepburn Russell informed them that Jt was the banner state for politics of the healthy, whole-souled variety, and Senator Shively wondered what the history of the United States —or of the world either, for that matter —would have been without Indiana. Senator Shively’s speech was his maiden effort in New York city, he said.