Word: huxman
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...Topeka, Kansas' Electoral College cast nine printed slips into a yellow cardboard box for Roosevelt & Garner. Present was Democratic Governor-Elect Walter Huxman, not present was Alf Landon who had certified the results in advance. Said Kansas' Republican Secretary of State Frank J. Ryan (reelected in November on a platform of "I want the job: it pays well") as the electors filed out: "God be with you till we meet again, but I hope it will not be under the same circumstances...
After Mr. Huxman's nomination and during the campaign, Mr. William Allen White had the following to say in his Emporia (Kans.) Gazette: "Since the beginning of the State men like Walter Huxman have been shining lights and dependable leaders in this commonwealth. They have rarely won official distinction. In the sixties and seventies and eighties they were called 'the silk-stocking democrats,' men of education, of talent, of character, of vision." I doubt if you would call that the description of a second-string politician...
Your statement that Mr. Huxman was promised that the campaign would cost him nothing and that "afterward he would be given a job in Washington with a better salary than . . . $5,000 a year," is absolutely without foundation...
...intimation of your story is that the only reason Mr. Huxman made the race was for a promised Federal appointment. For your information Mr. Huxman is not now and never during this administration has been in need of any appointment. He is an outstanding member of the Bar of Kansas and recognized as one of the ablest lawyers in this State. As for the inference that Mr. Huxman needs a salary, let me assure you that his income at the present time and for more than a decade past greatly exceeds the salary he will receive as Governor of this...
Your observation that Mr. Huxman was disappointed in his success is not inaccurate. He was naturally interested in the success of the campaign but the main reason was to justify the judgment of his friends and not to further his own personal ambitions. If ever there was an instance where the office sought the man, this...