The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-12-19
1000 WOMEN
WANT TO MARRY
How Governor Elect Bailey
Of Kansas is Being
BOmbarded

Topeka, Kas., Dec 19.-More than
1000 women in the United States and
Canada have written 10 Governor
elect Bailey and Lieutenant Cover
norelect Hanna proposing marriage
when it became known that the Re-
publlcans OF Kansas had elected
bachelors to thece offices, young wo-
men and old who desired husbands,
and particularly those who were anx-
ious to preside over the $4,000 exec
utive mansion at Topeka. began bonn
harding Mr. Bailey and Mr. Hanna
with proposals
Naturally tho majority of these let.
ters came to Governor elect Bailey,
for, with the exception Of death or
resignation, Lieutenant Governor
Hanna would not be permitted to oc
cupy the mansion. Hanna has receiv-
cd several hundred proposals and in
a conversation with the correspond
ent for The Leader, he said:
yes, I have received all kinds Of
offers Of marriage. Some of them
are from women of intelligence and
refinement who have a notion that
the laws Of Kansas require COVER
nor to marrv before he takes office
if he is a bachelor or widower. Hap
PLY. the lawmakers of this state have
not yet placed such law on the stat
utes, but some fellow is liable TO
spring this proposition when the leg
islature meets next month.
"The majority of letters received
from women are not direct proposals.
but they are so worded as to lead w
to that point by correspondence. Most
of the writers are young women un-
der 20, and they are generally school
teachers Some ara poorly written.
others show evidence Of culture and
refinement. The majority Of these let
ters come from the far east. where
the impression prevails that the pop
Glation of Kansas composed Of men
who are mostly cowboys, jack rabbits
and prairie dogs"
Lieutenant Governor Hanna says h.
has not replied 10 any Of these letters.
Many Of the writer's, he says, offer to
send him their photographs, but he
has declined to make reply. Hanna
IS SO years old.
When pressed to answer the ques-
ton. "Wili you get married?" he said:
81 think / am old enough to solve
mat problem when / come to it. r.
bridge 1 viii cross when l get there.
When / find the woman I wan, | will
marry hsr--if she will let me-and If
She won't why then, I suppose will
go ahead living a life Of single bles-
-edness and do like Governor Bailey
Is dolng--put in the balance of my
life a confirmed old bachelor.
Mr.. Hanna says Governorelect Bail
ey has probably received no less than
900 letters from women VINO want
10 preside over the Kansas executive
mansion Nearly every mail duiins
the past month has brought TO him a
score of letters These he has read
and filed them away. but he has made
rephl to none of them.
Governor Bailey has been constant
/ ly at The bedside of a dying father fo-
six weeks. and only last Sunday did
death end the suffering of this aged
man. The new governor has not been
to Topeka since his election, and will
not come here until after Christmas
He is living at his quiet home a
Baileyville. where. with his private
secro-ary he rs preparing the mes.
sage and inaugural address TO be de
livered to the legislature on Januar,
IS.