The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-30
DOESN'T WANT TO BE GOVERNOR
His Mind on Seattle Strawberries, and
He Can't Think of Trifies.
Cleveland News and Heral


mo, | had not heard about my being a
candidate for governor of the state of
Ohio on the Democratic ticket" said Virgil
+. Kline to a reporter at his Office in the
Cuyahoga block yesterday.
1t has been talked for the last few days
that Cuyahoga county was to have a
candidate for governor after all. The
Democrats appeared TO have deluded them
selves into the belief that the Republicans
of Northern Ohio were disgruntled. and
that they might make little noise In the
coming campaign If some man like Virgil
i. Kline were nominated.
Have you heard any Of the rumors re-
garding your candidacy for the position
of governor" persisted the reporter.
No" replied Mr.. Kline, as he thrust
his hands in his pockets and stared medi-
tatiyely out of a fifth-story window and
watched the men who were planting flow
ers about the soldiers monument in the
public square. 81 have Just returned from
Puget sound and Seattle, away out in
Washington. Never been there? 1t Is a
grand country. The possibilities there are
incalculable. I never saw such a fine
country in my life"
"Mr. Kline" broke in the reporter. "Do
you mean 10 say positively that you are
not a candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation for governor"
Most emphatically I am not a candi-
date. / have been away from the city for
several weeks AS I was saying about the
great Northwest. that is the country. You
would be surprised to hear that the cli-
mate up there is almost tropical The
weather last summer was almost the same
at Seattle as II was at New Orleans. All
business is good. and the people are push
IN. energetic and wide-awake."
you certainly had some animation
that you were regarded as a candidate
did you not, Mr. Kline" persisted the re-
porter. again interrupting the eulogy on
the Northwest
Now / come to think Of IT, iid read
an editorial in the Leader of June 4.
found that the prospects for young men
in the great Northwest were excellent
They have better opportunities in a new
country like that than In the old settled
countries. There are so many new ave-
nues opening there all the time. AS said,
the climate
How about Ohio politics?'
The climate there" remarked Mr..
Kline. as almost tropical in summer
Such fruit and vegetables as they do
havev and his face wore a happy con-
tented look. as he exclaimed straw
berries You Just ought TO have seen
tho Strawberries. I ate them two weeks
ago. Great, big. luscious berries. and
home grown. raised right there in the gar
dens of that great Northwest country"
You have nothing particular. then, to
say about polit5cs?"
The rainfall in Washington is about
the same that We have here replied Mr..
Kline. II called on the weather bureau
man there and we compared the amount
OF rainfall there with that OF Cleveland.
We found that il was very nearly the
same. The ground there is very produc-
tive and the means Of transportation are
good and constantly increasing. l like 10
talk about Puget sound. Seattle and the
great Northwest
You positively state that you are not a
gubernatorsal candidate. then. do you?"
YES" decidedly said Mr.. Kline. 81 oan-
not help thinking about the great posi-
/ hllities OF the grand country lying on our
mort hW estern border"