The Alaska citizen., 1914-03-09
WHITE WRITES FUNNY ARTICLE
 ABOUT HIMSELF
KANSAS EDITOR EXPLAINS WHY HE SHOULD NOT BE.
 ELECTED.

VI Al1A, ituAilOt ISAt l'giAl-Ns4t .A''+N ''tisi
 editor of the Emporia CKansas) Ga
 zalte. has denounced the effort be- ing made 10 have him run fir governor of Kansas On the Progress,
 sive ticket. Through his own paper,
 the Gazette. White holds himself ID
 to ridicule in one of the most novel
 criticisms pr bably ever published 1 o1cerning a candidate
 In teoouncing his own possible
 candidacy. White says in part as
 follows through his paper:
 They wanted him te run as q i Progressive candidate To which The Gazette says no-a thousand
 times, no, For we are cn to that man White and without wishing
 70 speak disrespectfully of a fellow
 townsman. who, as far as We know
 -nav be at least ou.wardly decent in the simpler relations f life nerhaas he raEs his debts when it IS convenient, and lie may be kind to lis familr. tho that's not 10 his credit. for who wouldn't he?-and he may have feIt out of jail oae
 way or another fr some time; with out, as We say, desiring 10 speak disrespectfully of his man, we know l that he's not the man either to run for governor or. If such a gro tesque thing could be imagined, L serve as governor.
 He cant make q speech. H. has a lot of radical coavietions which he sometimes comes mo The Gazette office and eXplois, which are dangerous. He has been iawine politicians fir twenty years until he is common scoId, and he has set up his so-ea}1ed ideals 90 R#gs that the Angel Gabr'e himself oou'2- n't give the performance that this man White would have to a3yer-
 ise on the bills.
 50, in he words of the pct. nix on Willyum Allen. The Gazette's nose is hard anl cold on the pro, nos'tion to make him governor. He is a four-flusher. q riae-tailed, rip sn rtiag hen-raiser, and a grand stander He makes a big noise. He yips and kioodles around a good deal. but he is eyerlastingly and prominently x. G. as gubernator- ial timber full of knots, wars. woodpecker holes. and 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 issue an irreyocable charter in Kan .as far the Progressive party 10 be the official minority report, world without end Men and women would be trampled t1 death at : o'clock el- ection morning, trying to get at the polls to cast the firsc vote against him. and at night perfectly good citizens, kind fathers, and indulgent husbands woulf risk jail sentence to get in at least ten votes against him as repea,ers.
 Tt may be that the Progressive nar'y needs g~at, but the demand doesn't require 3 Billy-s at. Nov is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the rarty Bu, this man White is a shouldergalled, sore-backed, hamstrung. Wind-brok- en, string halted stump-sucking old staeer who. in addition t3 being no rood for draft and general purposes. has the political bots, blind sag ~ers. heayee. pial,-e~c. and epiZooti". Moreover, he is locoed and has eth or defects.
 People in the state may be fool ed by the doped gait and fancy steps of this man White. But we know hiW And if he is a candidate for governor or fir any other office, We propose to tell the truth about. hir how he robbed the county with 2 padded printing bill, bow he offered to trade off his support to con gressman for government build 'rg. how he has blackmailed good citizens and has run a bull-dozina 7isreputahle newspaper in this town for twenty years. and has grafted off business men, and sold fake mining stock. and advocated anarchy and assassinati2 n. These are but T few preliminary things that occur to us as the moment passes. But if his fool friends insist on playing up this self-advertising game for him any longer, We propose to abandon twenty years of guarded innuendo and prattling subterfuge and come out with the real facts We shall speak plainly hereafter
 "A word to the wise should gather no moss!"
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