Evening star., 1924-11-04
White E|SFEARFUL
HE'LL Be ELECTED
Kansas Candidate for Gov
ernor Says He Has Ended
KIan Menace, Anyhow.

lll1am Allen White has comp ed
a joyous campaign tour of his be-
loved kansas-"three of us in the
family boat" as he describes it, He
has kicked the Ku klux, joss in the
Stats and shown it to be a basswood
| image, and he has a horrid fear
that he is going to be elected gov
ernor. Anyhow, he has enjoyed the
campaign. His conception of it is
related as follows in the Kansas City
Star of Thursday. when Mr. White
reached Kansas City.
How is the campaign" asked the
| reporter.
The campaign is the best expert
ence of my life. For six weeks Mrs.
White and my son Bill and l have
been riding in our little old Dodge
car over Kansas. Kansas is never so
| beautiful as it is in October And
| Its beauty changes every day as we
! plow our way through the prairie.
| Some day / want to write a book on
| My Kansas, and tell the world
about the dozen kinds of Kansas that
| are included in this parallelogram
| 200 by 400 miles-industrial Kansas
IN the southeast, rural Kansas of
! smaller farms in the northeast, graz
| ing Kansas with broken, rolling hills
| in the central part, the great wheat
I
! and the magnificent empire of the
southwest with its rows of cotton
WOOD trees Set out by the men who
| came in the sos and took up timber
claims; the southwest, with its great
| wheat farms, it's wide alfalfa mead
ows and its beautiful booming Kansas
| towns
we havefseen, never to be forgot
ten, landscapes, gorgeous with the
soioen buckskin of the buffalo grass
wide and inimitable stretches like the
sea, with vivid green patches of wheat
! bringing out all the sheen of gold
upon the wide, level floor of the land
| ihen in these scenes, when the family
! poat surges down into some arroyo
| IKE a schooner upon the sea, the
lavender and pink of the frosted
| punch grass or the last stand of the
oiue stem in some ravines adds a great
| splash OF beautiful color to the
/ piue and buckskin golden monotony OF
the level that rests the eye and cheers
! the soul
! Il would like to live another hun
dred years in Kansas. to greet the
drtlst who must come out to our peo-
PIE and tell another generation of the
Joyous loveliness of this Kansas. II
Is anything but bleak 1t is vivid
alive and gorgeous, and our whole tri,
|
the Kansas scene. The gubernatorial
campaign has been a rather passing
! incident. Sometimes ! talk four OF
! hFe times day, riding from town tc
| town, 20 and 80 miles apart The talk
occupies but a few hours of NV time
but the delight of sailing across the
| landscape, three of US. in the famiI,
BOAT VIII be lasting memory In a
feW months | shall forget the speech
/ ell II
allotted time at hard labor in Topeka
that episode may fade from my mem
! ory, but a certain joyous twilight ride
! from Wellington to Anthony, through
/ landscape that would have delighted
/ Corot or would have given joy to the
men of the Barbizon School in France
! always Will remain with me. Its
thrilling beauty cannot pass from nv
heart"
! Victory Believed Certain.
! Yes, but come down to earth. What
about your election" he was asked.
| one thing | have done dead sure
| answered Mr.. White, Il have kick ed
the ku klux joss in the Stats and the
lact that l have prospered proves
that he is no joss. but a Eastwood
image. Politicians no longer fear the
Joss III Kansas. His Stats are broken
and all we need to do now is to cart
! MIN of to the garbage heap in No.
| Fember. and the White bandwagor
is backed up ready to load him on
| es, but what about your chances p
! insisted the reporter
My chances" said Mr. White. 81
nave no chance. / took no chance ir
this campaign. l was sure to win.
have won. What can / lose?
started out to prove that thee was
a tremendous anti-klan sentiment ir
| Kansas. | ran to give men and WON.
| en- supporting that sentiment chance
| TO vote for some one not tainted will
| the Endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan
have gone about the State kickine
the klan joss in the Stats publicly
! The joss has been unable to put any
black curse upon me. I am we'll
hearty and happy and gaining vote:
every day.
| And alas, I fear I shall be elected
In which case maybe the ku Klu,
joss will feel that he has got even
But at any rate / shall stay on tn.
job for two years, do my best and gc
back to my regular avocation, which
chiefly is enjoying life and helping
others to believe in themselves anc
! their fellowmen. 1t is a lot of fun
1t seems to me the art of life consist.
not in getting some place, but in the
| tremendous delight of going. of be.
ing on the way, of thrilling at splen.
dors and the felicity of the journey.
| But, getting down to cases. wha
do you think your chances are?" the
reporter persisted.
Hush, listen, draw night: let m,
whisper it to you.' answered Mr.
White: "I know now exactly how
the man feels who is dead certain II
his own heart beyond any question
that he is Napoleon Bonaparte-nont
other, yet he is afraid to say SO, be-
| cause they will lock him up"