The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-27

chairs come in-his listeners, by turn
ing, may always keep front view of
the colonel. and to hear him without
seeing him is only half the CONVERSE
tioss
No. 7 don't like this thing the
colonel repeated. 1T is waste Of his
life. The idea of leaving the Eagle Office
and going to congressl But ! can't tank
him out Of it, and I've quit trying he
says his friends have called him out.
and he viii not back down. Oh. it's his
mother and his wife; and that Irishman
was into it. too. They haven't fooled
me / have kept my eyes open.
Here the colonel came to a halt and
began to back up, shaking his finger
wall he sat in the window sill mo
ment, and then. rising. resumed his
walk. Once before Victor ran away
from the Eagle and went to Chicago
and worked on the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
That was his mothers doings. too. She
thought he needed more room for action
Wichita was not big enough for him
But he made a great reputation" the
correspondent ventured. This remark
got a rise" instantly
Didn't he!1 the father calculated
proudly What good things that boy
did write when he was on the Inter
Ocean. He set the pace in baseball, liz
politics, in everything that he took hold
Here Colonel Murdoch backed uD
spell until he came in contact with
fOUtM. EllQ IQ20, MS Un8Gl IN ar ne
said. But he came back to the Eagle"
You sent Tor him2"
NO. He came hack on visit, and I
kept him. They sent for him, though.
and offered him SIS week, even more,
but / made him managing editor of the
Eagle. gave him what pay he wanted,
and his work has frightened the paper
ever since
The colonel was racing around the
table now. when he came to me last
month and told ire what was on" he
continued, i said. Victor I said. down
at Washington the third class boarding
houses are fun of con2ressmen-dead
congressman 1 mean-pOOr decayed men
who refusing to be driven away from
Washington after they were shorn of
their brief glory, found lodgment in the
Departments Some of them are at the
head of divisions and some are only
clerks. but not one of them gets more
than 81 500 year, and, Victor, they are
dead men, Dead as hell. Victor I SAID,
dead as hell I've seen en-, I said,
ictOr; I've seen 'en. and it is pathetic
to hear them cackle of the way it was
done when Il was in congress" And
then to witness their obseduiOus atten-
uons to the men who have come after
thesoi
And what do you think that boy
said when I told him that" the colonel
said taking the back track of a hall
circle. Why, he said, Father, / am not
made of that kind of stuff
What are YOU going to do when
YOU get out2 1 roared at him.
I am coming back to the Eagle. he
said
~Lordy Lordyl wish it was over
and he was back on the Eagle now"
Perhaps they viii beat him at Great
Bend, and then you viii not lose him at
ALL the correspondent ventured again
Beat himl Beat him. I'd like to see
EN- beat him. the colonel backing rap
idly, snorted
Then you want him to be nominated
after alp"
No; but they shall not beat him."
The sum of it all is that the old
man is secretly no less desirous Of the
boys success in the contest. now that
he is in IT, than the mother. the wife
or the "Irishman."