The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-01-22
This Man White Won't Do for
Gouernor, Says Editor White

Emporia, Kan, Jan. William
Allen Whites Emporia Gazette re-
oeives the suggestion of White as a
progressive candidate -or governor as
follows:
| A number OF progressives at Lakin.
more kind that considerate yester-
day resulted in favor of this man
White OF Emporia for governor. They
| wanted him to run as a progressive
| candidate.
ITO which the Gazette says no-a
| thousand times no. For we are on TO
that man White, and without wishing
to speak disrespectfully OF a fellow
townsman, who, so far as we know
may be at least outwardly decent r
the simpler relations of lNe-per-
haps he pays his debts when it is
convenient, and he may be kind to
his family, though that's not to his
.redt, for who wouldn't be-and b
may have kept out OF jail, one way
or another for some time: without,
as we say desiring to speak disres
pectfully OF this man we know that
he is not the man either to run for
governor or, ii such grotesque thing
could be imagined, to serve as gov
ernor
His Ideas Are Dangerous.
He can't make a speech. He has
4 lot of radical convictions which he
sometimes comes into the Gazett !
office and exploits, which are dan
serous He has been jawing politi |
clans for twenty years until ne is a
common scold, and he has set up his
so-called ideals 50 high that the
Angel Gabriel himself couldn't give
he performance that this man White |
would have to advertise on the bills. |
$50, in the words of the poet, nix |
on Willyum Allen. The Gazettes |
nose is hard and cold on the propo-
sition to make him governor. He is a
FOUR fisher. a ring tailed, rip-snOrt
ing he'll raiser and a grandstander.
he makes big noise. He yips and
Sioodles around a good deal but he
is everlastingly and pre- eminently
\. G. as gubernatorial timber-full cf
knots warts woodpecker holes ana
rotten spots.
He would have the enmity of
more men who have walked the plank
politically than any other man in
Kansas and his candidacy would is
sue an irrevocable charter in Kansas
ior the progressive party to be the
minority report, word with
out end.
Men and women would be tramp
led to death at I o'clock election
morning trying to get at the polls
10 cast the first vote against him,
md at night perfectly good citizens,
md fathers and indulgent husbands
would risk a jail sentence to get in 4
1t least ten votes against him as
epeaters. It may be that the pro
;ressive party needs a goat hut the
lemand doesn't require billy goat.
las the Political Pinkeye. v
Now is the time for all good men
0 come to the aid of the party.
But this man White is shoulder n
allied, sore backed hamstrung wind u
roken string halted stump sucking a.
ID stager who, in addition to being IA
o good for draft and general pur- an
oses. has the political bots, blind OF
taggers, heaves. pinkeye and cpl al
ootic Moreover, he is locoed and .u
as other defects. People in the state fr.
ay be fooled by the doped gait aud Of
Incy steps OF this man White But Re
e know him lh'
And if he is a candidate for gov l.,
nor Or for any other office, we itc
oppose TO tell the truth about him on
Nv he robbed the county with na
ldded printing bill. how he offered
trade off his support to con- sm
essman for a government building the
w he has blackmailed good citizens, er
d has run bulldozing, disreput IS
le newspaper in this town for sio
enty years, and has grated off sto