The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
Writes That He Will Not Be Can
didate for Lieut.. Governor.
HIS WORD IS FINAL.
Would Rather Preside Over the
Emporia Gazette.
Action Leaves the Square Deal
Leaders ut Sea.

William Allen White has written
back to Kansas that he has finally and
firmly decided not to make the race
for the party nomination for lieu
tenant governor. While aboard the
ship on his way to Europe the En-
poria editor considered the seductions
of the politicians of his state and con-
cluded that the game was not worth
the candle. He retired from the
mountain top without accepting the
offer of the whole world below. He
would rather preside over the editorial
department of the Gazette than the
deliberations of that august body, the
state senate. So the best laid schemes
of even the square dealers gang aft
agile"
Whites boom for lieutenant governor
was launched by the square dealers
and boosted sky high. 1t was mas
ter stroke, for Whites pen had just
elected a United States senator and
his name is in every mans mouth. 1t
governor via the resignation-of
Stubbs-route during the last year OF
the Lawrence mans second term
And in the meantime White would be
called upon to elect another U. s.
senator But here is a newspaper
man who recognizes the glory Of his
own profession and refuses to be led
aside into the thorny and doubtful
paths of politics.
When White went east last north
to take ship for foreign parts he met
the Kansas guaranty delegation at
Washington and talked politics with
the members of that body. Two diff
ferent reports of that conversation
were brought back to Kansas. GOV
Stubs declared and was so quoted IN
the State Journal. that White had sala
that "they can run me for lieutenant
governor as long as 1 am in Europe
and cannot make denial of the
charge"
back with an entirely d1fferent yer,
cheerfuIly to jump right into the
game and make the fur fly; Of course
he would accept the nomination. ana
there was nothing more to be saio.
Dell Valentine. White boomer. PUB
lished the Dol1ey interview in his Clay
Center Times, and although 1T was at
variance with the governors test1-
mony. yet it was accepted by the
faithful.
Now comes definite denial from
white. and the stuff is off. r. ]. Hop
kins of Garden City is now the only
square dealer in the race for the
Nomination. His location is in MS
favor and also the fact that he made
good as speaker pro tenn OF the last
house.
sneakine of the fact that on the
oeth day of next July Kansas VIII
celebrate the flftieth anniversary OF
the birth of her constitution, the Hol-
ton Signal says: 4.,;,
FIFTY years ago, on July 2e, OF TINS
YEAR half a hundred men gathered IN
a four-torv brick building In Wyan.
dotte and made the constitution OF
Kansas. The room in which the de-
liberation took place was on the
fourth foor-about 100 feet long ana
an feet wide. The walls were of I'M
plastered brick. In the front ana rear
were three windows. Above them the
ceiIingwas about ten feet high. 1ncreas-
ING to a point in the middle. following
the roofs slope The presidents seat
was on raised platform. Seats.
tables and desks were scattered about
The room. Black muslin was hung
over the bare walls back or the presl-
dents desk and over it an American
flag"
w P. Montgomery of Topeka has
been appointed by State Grain 1nspee-
tor 7. T. White as chief clerk to sue
coed A. D. Crotts, recently elected
clerk of the Kansas City. Kan, park
hoard. Mr.. Montgomery is a graduate
~ fhe law school of the Kansas uni
yersitv and was in the law office OF
Willis j. Gleed at the time or MS ap-
pointment He was Speaker j. n.
DoIlev's clerk during the last term OF
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