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Another chef was the wayfaring Editor William Allen White of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Far at sea, Editor White heard that his "withdrawal" of charges against Nominee Smith had been interpreted as a "retraction." No retractor, Editor White cabled his fellow Kansan, Henry Justin Allen, national publicity chief for Hooverism: "On the prostitution issue I proved my case, got a conviction and suspended the sentence. I only did this because I felt that a debate on the subject of harlotry was not worthy of a presidential campaign...
...ended the attack of the country editor (Emporia, Kan.) upon the city-bred Nominee. Judges on both sides of the party line awarded the decision to the Nominee, who made no retort to Editor White's exhumation and exegesis of the 1904-1915 record of Smith votes in the New York Assembly (TIME...
...legislation which the Nominee had introduced under pressure as a young legislator, and the republication of that same legislator's entire voting record on legislation touching public morals. The latter "expose" was the work of Willian Allen White, the round-faced, good-humored, politically astute editor of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, stout friend of Nominee Curtis. Earlier in the month Editor White had sketched the Smith record in an editorial and Nominee Smith had answered sketchily. He had accused Editor White of giving currency to inaccuracies broadcast by a New York clergyman-propagandist (TIME, July 23). Editor White...
Smith v. White. In Kansas, Editor William Allen White of 'the Emporia Gazette exercised his pen and his tongue to tell Kansans exactly how many times Nominee Smith had voted in the interests of the saloon, the gambling den, the bawdy house. Nominee Smith quickly recognized Editor White's source of information to be one Rev. O. R. Miller, a pamphleteer whom the Nominee denounced as "a parasite living on the people of the State of New York ... an 18-carat professional faker...
Begun and completed in the past tense was the article William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., wrote about President Coolidge in the August (1928) Plain Talk. Excerpts...