The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-24
THU RISE OF JOHN GOLOBB
OKLAHOMA EDITOR DOES Nor
KNOW WHERE BE CAME IRON.
ShIpped Somewhere IN the Austrian rSro'
70 America when We was 10 years
OId-NoW re writes Editorials and
Do TRIMS 10 Get Int C0nsreas.

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70 America when We Was 10 wears
Old-NoW ne writes Editorials and
IL Trylng 10 Get Into C0ngress.
John Golobis ol Guthrie. Okla, who is
proprietor 81 the Oklahoma state Regis'sr'
came 10 New York not only 10 see Col.
Roosevelt but q see Castle Garden again
after thirty-Give years. Mr. Golobie was
lust 10 years old when he saw Il the hrst
and last time. and he has mostly forgotten
what language he spoke then. His English
u perfect. In fact Mr.. Golobie admits
that his editorials have powerful in
iuenoe in Oklahoma.
Mr.. Oolobie also Confeeses IN asptra-
tiona toward Congress Indeed. he 70
going Tn he candidate in the primary
against Representative Mcguire of the
First DISTRICT Politics aside. Mr.. Golobie
said Yesterday that his life epit0niizes
the history II civilization and progress
in the world the last four centuries.
I don't know. said Mr. Golobie, who
might look like a certain eH-President
II he wore a mustache. whether ] was
horn a Dalmatian. Cruatian, an lstrian
nr what. but do know that ! came from
A little district IN the Austrian TyFnl.
and was only 10 yelrs old when J left
They had just heard 81 this country IN
that p7rt n the World ] know the idea
thereabout was that the earth was hat
md square and On wheels, md they
used to say IN mar village. whenever We
would feel the jar n an earthquake II
which the full force was being felt m
Italv. oh. that is one Il the earths Wheels
joltinE over a stone
They did not have locomotives In that
part e the world then There Was talk
II a railroad being built but the people
II our village opposed Il IN the ground
that lnything driven by fire and smoke
must perforcs ne by the Vaccination
~ the devil I remember that when !
left home / rcds four days anda half
IN a wagon before We reNChed town
where there VIZ o railroad was victim
II primoEeniture. and my mother had
saved up N give me a chance in the world.
When she heard of America she deter
mined n send me here. and ! came alone.
except that a German Woman who spoke
a LITTLE n nv language took me in charge
on the journey
so strong was my superstition that
when the locomotive came putting into
the station. In a cloud Of smoke took 10
my heels and they had to catch me. ]
could not understand Tor a long while
how IL was that ! was 10 he put In one 81
the houses on wheels behind the engine
and taken To Hamburg In Vienna ! saw
INV hrpt orange and ! enjoyed eating
h. Il vas this that led me when ]
reached New York 10 invest in a pretty
red unknown thing which one Of tho
numerous Deddlers about offered me-
I blt into Il. I, was a tomato, and the
Juice sauirted ell over my shirt front .
kinca then ! have never cared for
tomatoes
4 know that In Castle Garden they /
shot ~ up the wrong chute and put VA .
in with a bunch u people whose language |
We did not speak. Even when they put |
IN into the place where the woman with /
whom ] was belonged there wasn't any ,
BODY else that spoke my tongue. In fact +
| never found anybody that did ] was /
a wear and half learning enough English |
20 get along with. and ] was by turns a |
dry nurse. q wood chopper. and A. ] got 1
q little older . shoemaker
When the Wichita boom came along I. I
who had gone first into insurance and /
then into real estate in Kansas, made /
SIS ono in about six months. ] reinvested /
Il again and lOst II all. Then ] took 10 i