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Flags and bunting flew in Topeka, Kan. An enormous portrait of the inmate was hung outside a bedroom window of a modest frame house in a leafy residential street. Citizens made holiday. Indians made whoopee. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio made a speech-and Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas became formally aware that he was Number...
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...
...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 had engaged...
William Randolph Hearst kept on naming his newspapers the American. Henry Justin Allen learned to talk, became editor and publisher of the Wichita (Kan.) Beacon, governor of Kansas (1919-23), publicityman for Nominee Hoover (1928). Victor Rosewater succeeded his father, sold the Bee to a grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...