Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-27 | Page 1 | Democratic Manager Former Dry Leader; He is Fast Worker

1 4 : 4. ! democratic manager former dry leader; i he is fast worker: I i . . George White Is Princeton i iMan Who Looks and Acts Like Son of Toil, Mates to Shave, Even R t . C. 1 YON, v r. v staff Correspondent. MAK1KTTA. Jul 27. Down .here In Marietta, where folks generally like to take life easy, tleorge White. Ith new Democratic national chair-iinnn. chair-iinnn. is known as a fast worker. The day after ho moved to Marietta j from TitUsyllle, Pa., back In 1S'2. White thought hd like to represen Washlngton-co in the Ohio Legislature. Legisla-ture. He was a total stranger In the town so he started In electioneering the hotel ho-tel clerk 11 Is the testimony of the old residents resi-dents that within a month White had Introduced himself to every voter In town and was ready to begin In the outlying districts. The people Just naturally couldn't resist the affable and clever stranger. He dldn t get the Democratic nomination nomina-tion for the Legislature in the fall of 194)2, but he landed it two years later. His FIRST VICTOR1 The country was "safely Republican' Republi-can' but he was elected Here's how he did it: The wet and dry Issue In 1904 was forging to the front. T!v big majority major-ity of pojltlolann In I'OtK parties, were wet bur White wrV bond dfy-w He sent word out that he'd vote dry on every proposition If elected. His Republican opponent wouldn't promise. prom-ise. In the Legislature he kept his prom-' Iso He became dry le ider in the house. The Anti-Saloon league leaders In their conference and praer meetings would generally end up with "Let ' ieorge do it " DRYS ELKOl HIM In 19US after two onus in the legislature, leg-islature, White had ber-omc so dry that the arid countries along the ihio river, constituting his congressional district, turned in and s-nt him to ashington. Ho was there two terms with Congressman Con-gressman Jim Cox of Dayton, and they became fast friends and pals. The secret of White's success in poll-lies poll-lies Is that he's a cultured roughneck. rough-neck. ' He's got everything any highbrow high-brow has. He's a graduate of Princeton Prince-ton ami there ho was student under Professor Woodrow Wilson. But White came up in the school of hard knocks. ii i i s i c , sr; i; The mere fact that White, from being be-ing ji well-driller, has made more than a million dollars In Ohio and West Virginia oil. hasn't put any drawing-room drawing-room polish on him He still wear! Ill-fitting rlothes and his wife has to j GORGE SHITET keep everlastingly at him to shave e ery other day. White Is a bulldog when it comes to ga.ning his point. As a boy in Princeton he was in love with a girl In his home town of Titusvllle. He spoke to her father soon after his graduation. The "old man" was rich and he liked Ceorge. "I'll tell you what I'll do, George." said the lather. "I'll give my consent as soon as you've earned Sluft.Oftii for yourself and if you can do that I'll glva Charlotte another $140,000 the day you are married." GEORGE COMES BACK For several years Titusvllle saw nothing of young White. Stones drifted drift-ed back from the Klondike gold fields that he was there and making good Then, one day. Old Man McKelvey, of Titusvllle, got a telegram from George at San Francisco, and It said "I'm coming for Charlotte. Get your , hundred thousand ready' George married the girl and they are have an interesting famllv of five c hlldren