U.S. At War: The Dreamer

The Emporia, Kans. Gazette’s sage old William Allen White prognosticated for the North American Newspaper Alliance: “I am one of those rare birds who believes that Roosevelt may not run for a fourth term.”

Editor White’s picture of the Democratic convention if Roosevelt declines the nomination: “The greatest show that the party has put on since Madison Square Garden. A thousand men, suddenly free, with their shackles shaken off overnight, are going to put on such a ghost dance as will look like a custard-pie supper in a madhouse.”