Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — Indiana is Flying High. [ARTICLE]

Indiana is Flying High.

Delphi Journal. I do not lmow what the American world of letters would do this year were it not for Indiana’s contribution to—literature. Colonel Richard Thompson's ‘‘Reminiscences, ’ Lew Wallace’s “Prince of India’.’ and the poems of James Whitcomb Riley occupy places on the most conspicious shelves in all the largest book concerns in the country. The products of the pens of these men seem to be in greater demand than the works of any other authors. All of them Indianians! James Whitcomb R ley is the most popular American poet. No»' American author has ever enjoyed a greater popularity than General Lew Wallace, while the story told by Richard W. Thompson, the “silver tongued,” cannot be duplicated by any other citizen of the Republic. With Thompson, Riley and Wallace, with General Benjamin Harrison, the leading , citizen Of the nation, thirteen Republican congressmen and a Republican legislature, Indiana has much to be proud of this week before Christmas.