The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-23

: be says:
81 4 number OF ProeressiVes Il Lakil
more kind than eonsiderate. yestel
day res0luted in favor Of this Inai
I Nnite q Enp0ria. for governor The.
Eanfed him 10 ran as a Progressive
( candidate. To which the Gazette say
no-a thousand tines no. For We ar
On TO that man White. and Nithou
wishing 10 speak disrespecffully Of /
feiior toEnsman. Nho. 50 far as a
knoW. may be al least ousNardiy de
cent IN the simpler relations Of life
perhaps he pays his debts when il IS
convenient, and be may be kind 70
his family. though that's not 10 his
credit, Tor who wouldn't be-and he
may have kept OUT Of jail. one way or
another for some time; without. a.
We say desiring 10 speak disrespeci.
fully q this man. xe know that he's
not the man either 10 run for governor
or, Il such a grotesque thing could b.
imasined. 10 serve As governor.
~He cant make a speech. he has
lot Of radical convictions which he
sometimes comes into the Gazette Of
iice and exploits. which are dangerous
He has been jawing politicians for
twenty years until he is a common
scold, and be has set up his so-called
ideals 50 high that the Angel Gabriel
himself couldn't give the penormaace
that this man White would have 10 ad-
vertlse on the bills.
So, In the words Of the poet nix
on Willyum Allen. The Gazette's
no . is hard and cold on the propost
ZION 70 make him governor. He is
iour.flushef a ring-tailed. .T-snorting
hell-raiser and grandstander He
makes q big noise He yips and
hoodles around good deal. but he
is eyerlastingly and pre-eminently n
G. as gubernatorial timber-fuil OF
knots, warts. woodpecker holes. and
rotten spots. He would have the en-
nifty Of more men who have walked
the plank politically than any other
man In Kansas. and his candidacy
would issue an irrevocable charter in
Kansas for the Progressive party 10
be the official minority report world
end. Men and women would
be trampled to death at O'Clock cleo
ion morning trying 10 get at the polls
o cast the first vote against him and
It aight perfectly good citizens. kind
athers and indulgent husbands. would
'isk Jail sentence to get in at least
en- votes against him as repeaters It
nay be that the Progressive party
leeds a goat. but the demand doesn't
equire a BilIy-goat, Now Is the time
or an good men to come to the aid o.
he party But this man White is 4
houlder-galled, sore-backed ham.
trune, wind-broken, string-halted,
old stager who. in addi.
Ion TO being no good for draft and
eneral purposes has the political
OTIS, blind staggers. heaves. pink-eye 4
nd epizootic. Moreover. he is locoed 4
nd has other defects. People in the a
tate may be fooled by the doped gait 4
nd fancy steps OF this man White 4
ut we know him And If he is a can ii
idate for governor or for any other !,
ffice, we propose to tell the truth y
bout him-how ne robbed the county .
ith padded printing bill. how he Of
red to trade of his support to con
for government building. ~
ow he has blackmailed good citizens. =,
nd has run bulldozing, disreputable
swspaper in this town for twenty
ears, and has grated cff business o.,
en-, and sold fake mining stock. and 4,
iyocated anarchy ana assassination.
hese are but few preliminary
ings that occur to US as the moment
lsses. But II his fool friends insist .
/ playing UP this self-advertising =,
Ime for him any longer we propose
abandon twenty years OF guarded
nuendo and prattling subterfuge, and N
me out with the real facts. We shall y.
eak plainly hereafter. IN
"A word to the wise should gather
moss
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