The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-05
OF VICTOR AND Ills FUTURE
Editorial Comment of Newspapers and CongatuIatoy kilograms
From Friends.

The following kilograms of congratula-
ton, as Wen as press opinions on the
nomination of Victor Murdoch, viii be
interesting TO the readers of the Eagle
everywhere:
PRESS OPINIONS.
Hutchinson ..ews: The Republican can
didate for congress in the Seventh dis
trict is all right. While the News and
Reno county had other intentions. not a
word did We or could We say against
Victor Murdoch. There is no brighter or
more likeable fellow personally. He is
young, he is energetic he is able, he IS
clean, he is honest, and he will make
a good congressman Born in Kansas
and his work and heart in Kansas, he
will make a most representative repre-
sentative. The more the people know
him the better they viii like him. Taken
from a field of good candidates and
made the nominee for congress without
a hard feeling on the part Of any OF his
rivals, he enters the campaign free from
political complications. He is a thor
oughbred believer in Kansas and Roose-
welt, in righteousness and Republican
ism. What better testimony can the
News give in his favor than to record
here the admission that for a month We
have looked for reasons why Victor Muir
dock should not be nominated and have
never found or named one which was
discreditable to his character. his honor
Or his ability.
Wellington News: The nomination of
Victor Murdoch for congress is most
satisfactory. To those unacquainted with
him the enthusiasm of the News may be
regarded as fattery or unwarTanted en-
oomium. But those who know him best
will agree that We state his qualifications
at less than their true value And as
The people of this county become ac-
quainted with him It will be found that
his selection was most wise.
In the brightness of his mind. Victor
Murdoch at 90 Is at least the peer of any
man Of equal years who has ever been
In Kansas politics. In ability to work
hard and accomplish things he has no
superior He is so good natured and
sincere as TO be without single enemy
In his home city, Of nearly 5000 people.
He is so erect IN his manhood and OF
such strict integrity as to be regarded
by some of his friends as being over
sensitive respecting personal honor in
politics. He despises shams and hypoc-
risy, yet conceals his contempt with such
fine diplomacy as too avoid irritation of
the boldest and most blatant demagogue.
Victor is a great absorbent, and at the
end of his first term in congress will be
as sell posted as the average congress I
man is at the end of half a dozen years |
In the harness.
The Republicans Of the Seventh district /
may Wen feel proud of their nominee, :,
and it may safely be predicted that with |
the coming years they viii be prouder |
and yet prouder still.
Lawrence journal: To Victor Murdoch |
rugged. virile, brainy, intelligent and act |
FIVE. the noble son of a noble sire, the |
congratulations of the state of Kansas
60 out on his nomination as the candi- i
date of the Republican party in the |
Seventh district for congress. The bril-
liant young man will be a credit to the
entire state, and his nomination is
vindication of the best in politics, and is
q selection in which the entire state can
heartily rejoice.
His father is a pioneer of Kansas, an
active participant in the early struggles
for freedom, and a later factor in the de-
vdopment of the state the man who has
done more to make Wichita the leading
city of the southwestern part of the
state than any one else it is easy to see
how Victor Murdoch came by his ster-
ling qualities.
Kansas born and bred. educated and
married in this state, Victor Murdoch
early became an attache of his fathers
newspaper, the Wichita Eagle and did
good work there, but not content with
that he sought a larger field, and worked
on Chicago papers for a time, winning
honors and doing credit to his early
training. After returning to Kansas he
assumed charge of his fathers paper
and has made il one of the newsiest and
most readable In the state. He is 80 years
old. and his youth and enthusiasm have
been tempered by an experience that
makes them a valuable aid in all his I'M
dertakings.
The nomination of this young man is a
credit TO the state and the convention.
and his selection on the first ballot at a
gathering where It was fought there
would be a long drawn out battle indi-
Gates an appreciation of his merits that is
not usual with q political convention in
the selection Of a candidate
From the Atchison Globe: Every one !
who knows the Mprdocks, and hundreds ]
who don't know them. are glad that Vic
tor Murdoch was nominated for congress
from the Seventh district yesterday The
nomination is equivalent to an election.
Victor Murdoch is homemade He Is I
Kansas born. and 80 years OF age. He has
lived in Wichita since he was II months
old, and is one Of the most popular men
In the town. He went through the com
mon schools, never attended college. and
st Il was supporting himself by reporting
on his fathers paper. At Is he was mar
ried TO Miss Pearl Allen. who was then
only l.. When he was %. he went to Chi
cago. where he handled sporting news
for the Inter-Ocean. returning to Wichita :
IN 1891
W. A White says he is the brightest
man in Kansas Well born. wen bred
and with a clean and honorable record.