The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-05-14
VICTOR MURDOCH
in ACTUAL LIFE
Some of the Interesting Traits, PeCuIiarities
and characteristics of the Republican
Candidate For Congress

or Congress
Americas greatest Presidents-one must
believe with me that there Is something
more than mere ability In Victor Muir
dock.
l never saw him shed tears but twice
once, when Mckinley was assassinated
and once when he thought his father was
dying His affection for Mckinley was
based on the beautiful affection Mckinley
had for his invalid wife. He visited OF
the Mckinley home at Canton and the
love the future President bore for his
helpmate made an impression on the Kan
sas youth that he has never forgotten.
He has told me Of 1t a hundred times II
he has told me once.
Victor has more characteristics and YER
satility Of mind than any man I have
ever known. His observation Is like light
ming. He studies everything that claims
the attention Of either his mind or his
eye whether It be in mechanism of COO
COO clock in his office or the habits Of his
old brindle COW. And he reaches con-
illusions and results rapidly. Hearing
good pianist will make him dream for two
days. But he does not dream often for
good pianists are not very numerous ac-
cording to his standard. Arthur Hoch-
man, the great Russian musician, the one
and only rival of Paderewski, told me
that Victors conversation with him on
musical topics and his technical knowl-
edge of the science Of harmony was one
of the most pleasant surprises of his
American tour. Of books and their con-
tents he can talk It'll the cows come
home" An artist now in Paris told me
that Victor almost sent him crazy giving
him suggestions as to how certain
picture should be painted. Shakespeare,
he thinks, was the greatest poet who ever
lived, Carlyle the greatest historian and
Lawrence Sterne the ceverest fanclful
writer OF Montague he is very fond.
l think I could reach a full measure Of
my pride In being Kansan If could see
Victor a Congressman and hear him In
conversation with the swell Newspaper
men and statesmen, who think they are
somebody at Washington, on books and
kindred subjects.
With all of these things he became ac-
qualnted while a boy-mostly before the
age of sixteen when he became a hard
worker.
Since coming into the estate of manhood
he has been studying those things more
necessary to an editorial life. During his
campaign with Mckinley in Ohio he mas
tered the tariff problem; in '9G he solved
the money question from Republican
standpoint; later the trust and transport
tation questions became his study Dur
ing the war with Spain he applied his
mind to what has developed under the
name of so-called Imperialism and doubt
whether there Is man in the state who
foresaw more accurately the results of
the Spanish American war than he did.
Irrigation is one of his hobbies and he be-
leves the destiny Of western Kansas and
western Oklahoma depends upon the utili-
cation of water on the surface of the land.
He Is passionately fond of studying popu-
lar movements and he can probably give
you a better and more logical theory OF
the birth and evolution of the Farmers
Alliance than any man in the state.
He Is not bitter partisan but he Is a
strict Republican in politics, He begins
his politics in the precinct and holds that
it Is the exact spot at which the pulse
of the nation must be felt. He believes
that with no local conditions influencing
1t the true trend of political thought and
sentiment can be arrived at by study
Of the precinct. He Is hard fighter and
q wise tactlclan in politics and his meth
DDS are always along the line Of honesty
and fairness towards the other side. He
thinks 1t is political capital in the end
for one to be fair with the opposition.
OF recent years he has developed talent
for constructive politics and IL he had the
disposition he could set pins and mako
which would prove him to
be a dangerous rival at the head Of
machine, because he Is resourceful. AS
D matter Of fact, his tastes are entirely
in newspaper work. Writing Is his pas
sion.
Victors most vicious habits are hard
work and a pipe. If the world would
always give him something to do bag
If tobacco and some books, he would not
be dissatisfied. The other habits Of mod ,
srn gentlemen he has not. He has no
more idea OF the relative value of blue
hip and white one than the man in
he moon. He always works with his
,oat off. He Is about fifteen degrees
warmer blooded than the average man !
Ind when summer comes around he Is a ,
light to see in his sanctum. Coat, vest, !
,alluses, and, many times the shirt, come
,ff and the sweat at the roots Of his red ,
lair looks like blood. OF course, with !,
lis experience, he can take any place In j,
he shop and when somebody gets sick, /
lie does not hesitate to add the night to !
he days toll. Once he said to me that ,
was his wish, should he happen to die,
lis tombstone should contain simply this: =
Victor Murdoch hard worker"
| have never known harder worker |,
Ior have ever known a man who could a
ret work more cheerfully out Of others. Q
Ie has a wonderful Influence over en- Il
loyes, and | have never known him to b
ave an enemy in the office but the tele- t
hone. He considers that piece Of mechan- p
i'm the continuance Of an evil spirit, When s
man Is planning out nice sentence a
nd has II about coppered. the telephone I,