The autobiography of William Allen White by White William Allen 1868-1944

Author:White, William Allen, 1868-1944
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: White, William Allen, 1868-1944, White, William Allen, 1868-1944, Journalists
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Published: 1946-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

erally he told me where to find the other source. For he loved intrigue. So when the story of Piatt infuriated its hero, he went to the White House and made a scene there, accused Roosevelt of abetting the article and demanded, as a senator from New York, that I be barred from the White House. He came out of the President's office and told the reporters that I had been barred, which made a fine story. It helped the sale of the magazine. It boosted the market value of my writing. For a few days it revived the author of "What's the Matter with Kansas?" as a national figure, which was fine. But Piatt started, or threatened to start, a libel suit for six figures against McClure's Magazine. Also against me. It scared me to death, and by Christmastime I was going into nervous exhaustion. One day in the Gazette office I was dictating a letter ordering a carload of paper. I began to sweat and tremble. The order was a formal one, routine in its nature, but I just could not finish the dictation, and came home and went to bed. The doctors hustled me out of town. I went to Colorado, then to California, and did not come back until May. For hours together, Mrs. White and I sat on the beach on Catalina Island off Los Angeles, I lying down speechless, dozing in and out of sleep with my hat over my eyes, she beside me watching me, shooing off the children who might disturb me, reading and sewing. We had a little cabin where we lived like kings. It was the mushroom season on the island and we ate great saucerlike wild mushrooms with beefsteak, and learned to cook them with fish. The island markets were filled with all sorts of delectable sea food, and Sallie was always avid to learn new dishes. Books came from Emporia, and she read to me. At first I could not bear to open the mail. She told me casually what was in it and, without asking me directly, got my reaction and, using her own common sense, replied to all the questions that were raised in the mail. By mid-April I was well on the mend. We had left Billy, our baby, at home with his two grandmothers. One grandmother will spoil a baby. Two working together will bring him up in the way he should go, for each will suspect the other of spoiling him and will check it. This should be put somewhere in a book of advice to parents.

While I was gone the papers controlled by Senators Burton, Mulvane and Curtis, my factional enemies in Kansas, printed a story that I had gone mad. So when I returned to offset the story, dear old Major Hood, the Little Major, God bless him, hired the Emporia silver cornet band, rounded up a congregation of my friends who crowded the depot platform and as the train came in the band began to play "See, the Conquering Hero Comes.

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