Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1908 — Always For Each Other. [ARTICLE]

Always For Each Other.

Kenesaw Mountains Landis, federal judge at Chicago, who fined the Standard Oil Company $29,240,000 is a much talked about man in the United States. A picturesque character, many stories are told of him and of his almost equally picturesque brothers. It is probable that no family of boys were ever more devotedly attached to one another than these Lanaises. Any one of them has been ready at any time to make any sort of sacrifice for any othe*r of them. They hold their interests mutual, and all of them —they number five —have prospered. When Fred Landis decided that he wanted to come to congress his brother Charles, who already held a seat, had the brightest sort of prospect of securing the nomination for governor of Indiana. His friends knew, and so did he, no doubt, that Fred’s entrance into politics would lead to the cry of “too much Landis,” and injuriously affect Charles’s gubernatorial chances but the congressman was for his brother, Fred, nevertheless. He was willing even to lose his own seat in congress in order to see Fred get to the front. Fred got there, but served only two terms, owing to a political upheaval in his district, and is once more in private life. If Kenesaw Mountain Landis should develop as a political quantity—be put forward, for instance, for governor of Illinois or for vice president, as has been suggested—you may depend upon It that the other Landis boys, every mother’s eon of them, will be for Kenesaw Mountain to the last ditch. That is the way they are built.