The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-16
A GOOD NAME.
Prevailing Opinion That All
Kansans Are Rich.
The State s andS Well All Over
the East.
CINDERELLA OF STATES
Wears the Glass Slipper and
Dances With Prince.
William Allen Whites Remarks
and Snapshots.

William Allen White has returned
from a fortnight's trip to the Atlantic
coast. He has been comparing notes
with Roosevelt, Peck, Tillman, Con-
gresham j. NJ. Miller, William Dean
Howells, Tom Reed and others of the
effete east and the new south. While
various reasons have been assigned for
the last and sudden trip of White to the
east. it is understood that he actually
went to personally thank Howells for
the very handsome notice given of
,Stratagems and Spoils'' by that fore
most critic who said: 1.-The author has
put his best foot forward in the opening
story, The Man on Horseback which,
when 1 read it a few years ago in the
magazine where it first appeared,
seemed to me so perfect in its way that
l should not have known how to better
it. OF course. tniS is a good deal for
critic to say; it is something like abdi-
eating his office; but l repeat it. 1t
takes rather more courage for man
to be honest in fiction than out of it,
for people do not much expect 1t OF him,
or altogether like it in him; but in The
Man on Horseback Mr. White is at
every moment honest He is honest, If
not so impressively honest, in the other
stories"
Over 200 copies of this book have been
sold in Topeka during few weeks But
that is another story White. who
Wuzzy," is home again and running
things at old Emporia. During his alb
sence the ''missus" has run a good
Gazette, and the kid has run his home
Red Rocks White says:
Kansas has good name all over the
east. The idea prevails that all Kan
sans are rich. The Populistic black eye
has disappeared. Also people have at
last got it into their heads that calamity
stories about Kansas are fakes. They
reten them as jokes. This is very en-
couraging. George Peck was in Wash
ington the other day. He referred TO
Kansas as the Cinderella of the sister
hood of states. Just now Kansas is
wearing the glass slipper according to
Peck's idea and is dancing with the
prince. This idea is such a good one
that all Kansas people writing Christ
mas letters back east this year should
steal it bodily and spread it broadcast
Chester I. Long is one of these. Long
is easily the head of the Kansas delega-
ton. He not only gets things for the
Seventh district, but he stands with the
very best men in the United States. He
is known in the exclusive set where the
dozen men move who absolutely control
congress. Long is one of them The
average man who goes to congress is a
chicken. He is only important where
there are visitors. No one pays any at
tention to him, he doesn't know what's
going till ne sees it in the paper
Long can tell you today not only what
happened yesterday, which is more than
most congressman can, but he can tell
you what will happen next week. How
he does so much work in committees
and looks after so many candidates is
very strange Probably he does it by
avoiding going out for lunch and loafing
two hours in the middle of the day Mrs
Long is a good cook and the Longs keep
house about one hundred yards from
the capitol.
Bowersock Curtis, Calderhead and
Scott are all good members and stand
well. Curtis doesn't care much about
congress, but he does care for his con-
stituents, gets them jobs and is a great
logroller. He has no equal in the Kan
sas delegation. He is a hustler from
Hustlersville. Miller no one knows. He
was absolutely the last man in the
whole congress of the United States to
get his seat this year. Some people call
that luck. It is-Miller's luck He has
introduced a bill for a 100000 building
a Emporia If he gets it through and
signed the Gazette will admit that he is
a better congressman than he seems.
But he won't, Of course.
Virginia is a disappointment to
Kansas man. He has read much
about he big colonial houses with their