Show N EDITOR SHOCKED KED IY BY BYr r NS DEATH WID nh Allen White WhiteN N Tri Tribute bu te to top p Democratic moora io I The he Sage of Em William Emporia poria William Williamn en cn n White famed editor of th the poria Kansas Gazette author feurer politician and said to be beb e b greatest single power in the thee e of Kansas Is a visitor In Salt Salte ke e today jr White who is en route rout to his Ir me ne' ne after a visit to Honolulu HalIan Hallan Ha- Ha llan lIan island arrived in the city riv rIy Monday morning He was acro ac- ac nied this far by W. W V. V R. R Armtrong Arm- Arm ro p trong irons gen general ral superintendent of Los jS-Los LoS Angeles Salt Lake Rail Rail- Sad oad ad company with whose family FE bl Kansan Fansan visited on the Pacific Pacifico o t Mr White and Mr 1 Arm- Arm were classmates at the Uni- Uni of f Kansas years ago Mr r. White was greatly sho shocked ked by of ot the death Sunday I. Jennings Bryan For or years the two men have have- been f. f fi closest personal frien friends friens s al although al- al though ough Bryan was a Democrat and White a Republican of the if Asked for a statement concerning the death of the great n oner l ner the Kansan much af af- af led said sald with a catch his voice that he preferred to tomie mie out such a statement rather I n give It orally He thereupon wrote rote the following for The Tele- Tele SUBMIT TRIBUTE The death of Bryan marks the passing assing sing of the generation of fets leaders ts-leaders leaders of the great cycle In b fie last two decades of American history that began with General Genera lames mes B. B Weaver of Iowa in the theT ate ite seventies and culminated in with the close of the first Wilon Wil- Wil on One by one strong re-strong men developed by the ther f r a of Populism Populism called called variously Gr Populists Insurgents I Liberals Liberals has has dropped ff L f. Rosevelt Wilson Vilson and te one by one made his exit am and Bryan w an goes He is the last o of major figures of that time and Ne foment rement With his death the theTen theo o Ten rh definitely h closes passes into y and Ve we are now ready for inest next adventure in ia altruism in merican It is not due for other ther decade at least When it II Sis 5 it will b be hO a part of a a- em ement nt just as the Populist ov ment was a world movement was was a fine adventure and now 1 ts leaders are of off stage and down we may begin to tomate tomate tomate mate its meaning and Bryan the last living leader to it only the emotion o of great reat heart The brains of the lay In others I his fight with hi his hisem hissom som em friend Henry Allen former forme arnor of Kansas over the In Inus Jn- Jn us trial court law passed by the legislature under the Allen ministration some years ago In Ji ourse of which Allen had White tested Rested sted for Cor hanging a placard an Sr F F Emporia Gazette window de do- do the law as an infringes infringe Infringe- s m Sent nt ot of the right of free speech lit Ur White said with a broad smile There ere was never any ill feeling be between be- be lw tween en Henry and me me- about that While we belabored each other In 1 wherever the issue pre pre- itself we ve invariably had hadieh t. t pen ieh ch together and visited each oth oth- homes iw hornes whenever the ity presented itself Yes its it's still stil Bill 11 and and Henry as of yore ore KLAN is DEAD Concerning the Ku Klux Klan on platform denouncing which Mr R X tt te made a gubernatorial cam cam- earn I pal in the last election he said klari is dead The final liis es s ar are are delayed until such a time the the mourners have compose composed f sufficiently so that they with a show of decorum attend L liast Jagt sad rites While William Allen White had attained prominence as early a as I 96 G his fame was confined largely fills ohis native state un unell ell 1909 when A Certain Rich Man Jis work earned him a national The following year h he 1 published uj The Old Order Chang Chang- eti eg and a few years later Gods Puppets and In the Heart of a aI I- I I. I His latest work was The Th Martial Adventures of Henry and Me this being a story of Whites White ID Belong long friendship with former Governor Govnor Gov Gov- nor or Henry Henn Allen White also took a leading par part Hi Ii the Bull Moose movement when I Theodore Roosevelt kicked o over oyer er the traces and left the orthodox Republican lican fold In 1912 Ho He He was as o one e of Roosevelt's right hand men In the Ii ensuing campaign L The famous amous Kansan was ine we ne neof ut of Glen Glen Miller local Republican Informal dinner at the ine leader at an Alta Aita club Monday noon Those present In addition to Mr White and Mr Miller and Mr Armstrong were H. H H. H Hettinger of St St. Louis Va and G G. M. M Smyth of Damascus D D. S S. S Spencer general passenger agent of the Union Pacific system with headquarters In n Salt Lake |