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Show Cox9s Campaign Manager aWillingFighterAgamstOdds ' George H. White's Dauntlesss Spirit Tested Long Ago in Klondike, Where He Won Fortune and Thereby a Bride Bv DONALD MacGREGOR. IN Congress half a dozen years ago they called him "Alaska Pete." tat to-dny he is George White, the new Chairman r.f the D'mocratic National Committee, and a such is manager of the Presidential cam-j cam-j palgn of Gov. Cox The name "Alaska Pet" came from the fact that White, just out of Princeton, Joined the rush for sold twenty years ago in the Klondike Whito got gold, too. more than $100,000 worth of it. for that was the prize he set out for to win a girl with whom he bad fallen in love, and who. by chance, happened to hae a father who Insisted that the man who married his daughter should be, fully able to support her in the way to which she had been accustomed. "How much money have you got?" the father asked White when be called around to discuss his matrimonial chano I 'None." said White, but 1 tan support her all right." "I don't know about that " replied the father "My daughter Isn't going to marry any man until he has at least $100,000. When you pet it, you come around and I'll talk with you ' Off for the Klondike. White wer.t back to his room somewhat dejected, but he bought a paper cn the way and road of the rush to the Klondike Gold, the paper sa'd, was to lie found ail over Alaska It would bf easy. White figured, to pick up $100,000 and hurry back to the altar. al-tar. So he packed up his rip and departed, . Gold, however, wasn t that easj to find It took him two and a half yours beginning In 1898. to gainer a pile sufficient to meet the requirements It was I wo and a half years of hardship, of insufficient food of frozen North, of sickness White wears the marks of It to-day. and. although h is only forty-eight, he looks much older There Is a slight stoop in his shoulders, much of his hair 1s gone, there are premature prema-ture Unes in his fact- and his complexion is weatherbeaten. With it all however, there Is a certain personal attractiveness about him, a sort of determine'! a'r and much earnestness. Ills ability to concentrate Is mm ked. White Is six feet In height and maybe a trifle more. He weighs about lr0 and is rawhoned and rangy His eyes are bluish gray. He. wears low collars, which give full play to a pronounced Adam s apple, an! he has a heavy beard which he has to shave off morning and evening if It is not to De noticeable. His friends Joke about his "Alaska whiskers " In talking with White It Is easy to gather the Impression that he is a rough-and-tumble sort of a person, rcad fer a fi-rht ;.t the drop of the hat. Sitting down ho Blidea clear into a chair, resting himself more on the middle of his hack, entwining nil long legs around each other and swinging swing-ing one of them with an e en rhythm. Ev en then he's ready to jump up at the slightest excuse, ready for a.tlon. Going after big game with the odds ngajtist him seems to be a pleasure to White In a way ihat has been Ms life. This Is typified In his search for $100 000 worth of gold In Alaska, in his entry Into public life and throughout his political career. ca-reer. Sometimes he has won and sometimes some-times he has lost. Losses do not lease him much Tou couldn't tell the difference from his poker face Back from Alaska. White went to l!e with his $10 000 bride at Marietta, an aver-age aver-age Ohio town which took its name from the Indiana Marieta..by the way. was the first tewn settled by white people in Ohio by Moravian missionaries. It is on the Ohio River across from which are the hills of West Virginia. One of Marietta's claims to fame Is thnt It Is a terminus of the C & M Railroad running between that city and Cleveland, a Jolty coal branch of the Penn-B) Penn-B) 1 an la. White Goes to Legislature. Marietta Is In Washington county, which Is ant always, has been overwhelmingly P.e-puhllran P.e-puhllran In politics The Democrats always put up a ticket each year, but It went down to defeat so regularly that It was hard, to get anybody to serve. In 190 1 the Democrats Demo-crats couldn't find a soul who would agre to run for the State Legislature so they picked Gee-rge Wlte nhi happened to be v Itlng his family at Cape May for the summer. When White got hack nnd learned What had happened he was f . rlous Thev Wouldn't said they couldn't take his naMe off the ticket, so h' made the race and, wonder won-der o' wonders, was elected, not by a lar;-e e.:e, but sufficient. Wtllte served v the lower houe In the Ohio Slate Legislature at Columbus for three , - : M i GEORGE H WHITE fjStfr "ALASKA PETE WHO W I LL RUN THE COX f yea rc That was one term with a year added to It, for it was then that the thru? of service of p. Sta' i legislator was extended f om two y ars to three. Then he run for Congress, the first Democrat ever sent t- Cong ess from th t district, the Fifteenth Ohio District comprising six counties, Washington, Monroe, Morgan. Noble, Muskingum Mus-kingum and Guernsey the largest town i which is ZanOHVllle. He r..n live times i all. and wac defeated twice. In 1914 and It 1918. In Congress White knocked around with a group of Ohio Democrats In the Houte, which Included Gov. Cox. whose race for the Presidency he is now directing There used to be some good poker games around different differ-ent places and the. had a fine time. Judge Timothy T Anshcrry of Defiance Ohio, and Washington, D C . who figured prominently in Gov. Cox's nomination at San Francisco, was one of the crowd. White, although Woodrow Wilson had - S1 ' ITf-1 'L MRS GEORGE H WHITE Ujh 3 WIFE OF THE NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE been one of his professors In his senior year at Princeton, from which he wa-s graduated in 1S9.', never capitalised this acquaintanceship acquaintance-ship alter Mr. "tt llson became President. Tin re is no record of his going to the White House on any occasion after he entered Congress Con-gress In fact he and some of President Wilson's first lieutenants had some notaule clashes during that period One of these occurred it the time the I'nited States entered the war, when White supported a bill authorizing Theodore Roosevelt to rale a division and go to France aa Its commanding officer with the rank of Ma jor-Gcneral The Administration opposed trie measure and Albert S Burleson, Postmaster-General, always the White Hoi r e political fixer, went up to the Capitol to rally the forces against It In the Democratic cloakroom Rurleson buttonholed White. "What's this I hear about vou working for the Roosevelt bill?" asked Burleson. "Yes. I'm for it." said White. "Well, don't yod know that the Admin -tratlor. is against tlio bill?" said Burleson. Kthar impatiently. "Yec, I know." resnonded White, "but that's the wrong way to look at It. What you've got to get In thla country now Is some war enthusiasm. Roosevelt Is the maul to stl It ap. Send blm t Krance at the head of a division and the country will sit up and tiikc notice This Is no time for politics." "It seems to me," Burleson snapped, "that some of you fellows who got Into Congress on Wilson's eoaltalls would pay a little attention at-tention to what he wants." This stirred White's Ire "Look here Burleson." he retorted. "You'el belter go look up the election figures. I got more votes In my district than Woodrow Wilson did. ind instead of his helping me I wouldn't he surprised If I hadn't helped him You may be able to drive some of the mem- 'Alaska Pete,' New Democratic Chairman, Chair-man, Still Bears Impress Im-press of Frozen North, Where His Ventures Gained Him Nickname. bers Into line with that sort of talk, hut It M won't go with me. i ll vote for the Roose- I bill and I'll wofli for afl White nd Burleson had another '.if at H the s.-in iTranclRCO convention. Burleson was there working f.ir the nothtnatloi 4 Di William G. McAdoOi White, t course, waj working for Cox. being second In command H under E. 11. Moore. In the prc-conventloi H organization. Along about tho fortieth bal H lot White stumhled across Burleson, who'i forty votes of Texas wi re being caut solidly B for McAdoo time after tlm 'W hire put his r right hanei to the back of his e.-ir. i il be waiting, Mberl he said, "to hoar M Texas go 'forty votes for Cox." " Burleon lexil'ed d ittcis "If . U H folnc t.i hold Our hand to voUT ear for that." Burleson retortfd. "you'll bo holding It there a darned long time," Looking Over Old Huntg. On his way back from San Francisco White went around by Seattle to look over the gtound he had travelled twenty years zflj before on the way to and from the Klondike. Mai H? dli'n t have a very good time. The cltv hul ehunjjeel considerably, and l"sl.les he lost his saiehel The portci i;ei i with B,v' It in some manner at the station, and White HH had to content himself -lth buying a collar and shirt occasionally when the train stopped Bwll on the way back He returned to Columbua : to report to Gov. Cox. considerably frayed awJHl and soiled, but grinning. LTCirl "Bad luck." was all he said, "hut it might 1? have be-on worse" 'i.vii Born In Ellmlra, N. Y.. reared at Titus- Gn vllle, Pa , educated a! Princeton, N. J., re- BflN siding at Marietta, Ohio. White's chief busl- flH r.ess Interests are in Oklahoma. He's In the Bhu oil business, drilling his own wells. Some-times Some-times he strikes oil; sometimes he does not but, on the whole, he makes It pay. HH In politics as well as In business White Li aVjfl a firm believer In luck. aVJni "At San Francisco." says he, "we got th LkI breaks. Hard work and breaks, and pledge VVjsjl! In writing that's what nominated Cox. I MESS hope we'll get the breaks In November. ,: Be |