The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-08
SOUTH KANSAS AND THE MURDOCH
CONTINGENT

No less than three state exchanges
reaching our table yesterday were try
ing TO be smart with speculative gratui-
ties touching the role of Southwest
Kansas in the late state convention,
which efforts lead us to remark:
Take from Kansas the grain fields and
the live stock products Of the southwest
counties represented by the hundred
Murdoch delegates at Topeka and Kan
sas would cut but sorry figure in the
market centers of the world.
This is not gall. but truth which the
official agricultural reports of the state
will verify.
Take from the state the counties and
cities of South Kansas, represented by
the hundred Murdoch delegates, and
from it tho railroads which were built
into and through the state because of
the efforts and enterprise of South Kan
sas; the packing houses, the grain ele
vators and the salt plants. and Kansas
would not be the equal of the poorest
This is not an idle boast but solid fact,
to be found in the footings of the tax
rolls of the state
The one hundred delegates mentioned,
and the four hundred business men addi-
tional, who were present at Topeka,
from the cities Of south Kansas, asking
the nomination of Murdoch for governor,
represented more wealth, more absolute
taxable property in their own names, more
enterprise, more true soberness and more
brains than was represented by all of the
other six hundred delegates and by most
of their candidates all combined.
This may taste like gall also, but it
will be found good for worms and for
bloat, and might as well be swallowed
first as last
These being verities of easy authenti-
cation, and these men being of the stamp
and character set forth. not only bv us
but SO recognized by every observing man
at Topeka, there need be no apprehen-
sion as TO their action in the coming
political contest.
Men in the control of millions in the
aggregate, whose devotion to the best in
terests of their party thus lead them to
abandon their business and TO give their
time and money in honorable effort to
forward the cause of the commonwealth.
are not the men TO play the pouting boy
and jeopardize all and everything be-
cause their choice for governor was not
acceptable to convention whose great
majority had been drummed up and Sc
cured through personal efforts of candi-
dates ard machine agencies.
The four hundred men and one hun
dred delegates representing the finest and
richest section of Kansas and the bright
est and most prosperous cities of the
state, were and are MEN, in the fullest
sense of that term, who will abandon
neither their principles nor the fortunes
of the commonwealth which owes 70
their enterprise and wisdom so much.
because of matter of a single disap-
pointment, disappointment now seen
10 have been inevitable, but one in no
way dishonorable to them or to their
candidate.
In short, the five hundred men and
delegates, composing the so-called Muir
dock crowd, constitute factor that,was
only felt for good at Topeka, as it will
be only felt for good in the future for
the state at large, and as it will be found
to he true blue and undismayed at the
polls in November, when through its
loyal influence thousands of Republican
ballots shall be saved 10 the Republican
party and for the prosperity Of Kansas.