The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-04
WOE TO COLONEL MURDOCH
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: rom the Kansas City Star.

= rom the Kansas City Star
For years and years Colonel Marsha NJ Murdoch
has been inveighng in the Wichita Eagle against al
sorts OF between Kansas and Kansas City. He
has devoted columns columns Of valuable space TO
the argument that Kansas City exists the sole pur
pose Of preyng upon Kansas and waxing opulent upon
the grain and live stock which the Sunower state sends
here to be handled. Colonel Murdoch has ind-
Gated where ne thinks the distributing point and the
market Tor Kansas products ought TO be- but he has made
manifest in season and out with ali the vehemence
that goes with sandy hair that ought not to be IN
| Missouri.
There is bold and rugged originality about Colonel
Murdoch which the trte and shopworn notion
that trading points indicated by natural grades and
by the direction of the He would laugh
in the face OF any Kansas City who would tell him
that the railroads center here because Nature formed
the beds which they laid and enabled them to
converge at this spot without running over hills or
digging through them It is not quite certain whether
Colonel Murdoch would be willing to have the grain and
cattle trade of Kansas TO Topeka but there is not
the least doubt that he would his vote for
EudOra against Kansas City.
The Wichita Eagle has also applied itself to the Wig
orous criticism of another form Of reachey to Kansas
by hansans, namely the habit which the Jayhawker
politicians have acquired Of holding their conferences
and pow-wows in Kansas City. This Colonel Murdoch
thinks is than letting all of the big traffic
from Kansas come TO the mouth Of the Kaw. With all
CT his knowledge of Topekas hotels its restaurants
it's speakeasies its drug stores Colonel Murdoch
to pass by the Kansas capital and meet in happy felw
ship in Union avenue or the Midland or the Baltimore
nothing less than false the state of their birth
adoption and prove themselves aliens to the common
wealth of the Kansas Israel.
never comes to Kansas City himself No man, it is OBJ
vious. could discourse eoquently the Colonel does
the aurements which abound in the capital Of the
southwest unless he knew something about them 1t is
when the distinguished chief of the Wichita Eagle
to Kansas City dsports himself in the Hobbies and
rOturdas of its fashionable hotels that he is torn by
fierce conflict between his nvncble loyalty to Kansas
and the disposition yield TO the destinations which life
in Kansas City presents to Of taste and learning
not speak Of refined and educated appettes For be
known that in Colonel Murdoch blended all Of the
Spartan virtues with the complete understands
ing of a true sybarite
1t is his keen appreciation Of human weakness and Of
the nsidous forces which prevail in Kansas City to
the strong well the nfTm that has made
Colonel Murdoch seduQus in his warnings to his fe
low Kansans That he has in the face of temptation
maintained his integrity and his complete fidelity
Kansas cannot be doubted But how futile and trivial
all human effort have appeared Colonel Murdoch,
and how the hot salt must have cOursed down his
quivering cheeks. when he learned that his
Victor the JOY CT his heart the heir of his fathers wis
dom and the pride of his declining years, had shown
himself forgetful of his early tuition regardless OF
the principles which he had been nurtured plant
to temptation to play golf in Kansas City with
Kansas City competitor.
How sharper than a serpent's TOOTH etc.