The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-04
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Kansas City Journal: Victor Murdoch
| who Won his first and very remarkable
/ victory at Great Bend yesterday is a
clever, companionable young man with 3
/ clean record and brilliant future As
| the phrase IS understood in Kansas he
/ was born with a golden spoon In his
mouth He has had all the opportunities
which well-to-do and influential parent
! age could give him. and IL is to his credit
that he was able 10 and did take advant-
/ age of them.
| The house of Murdoch has been, almost
/ since territorial days, a popular and po-
tent factor in politics and in the social
| and commercial life OF the Sunfiower
| state, and now bids fair 10 be a power
which must be reclzoned with for long
| while yet 10 come The hearts OF Marsh
and Bent Murdoch, father and uncle re-
! speetively, must swell with pride as they
| behold their red-haired and freckled-faced
Vic. whom they probably still con-
slider no more than boy now the Re
publican candidate for congress from the
Big Seventh"-a title which will soon
be followed by the right and privilege TO
associate with statesmen of national re-
nown and be one OF them. TO call author
ttatively upon the president and TO dictate
who shall be postmaster in every town in
the district.
Young Mr.. Murdoch secured the nomi-
nation by a unanimous vote on the first
formal ballot This fact shows that he
will begin his campaign with a united
party. There are no factions to deal with;
this is a Republican year. and so his way
to victory should be smooth and easy.
Topeka Capital: Victor Murdoch. the
nominee of the Seventh district cOnven-
ton for congress, is the son of Colonel
Marsh Murdoch, and for five or six years
has been managing editor OF the Wichita
Eagle. Since his school days he has been
in newspaper harness, all of the time,
except for a few successful years on
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, at Wichita on
the Eagle. He is only just turned 30. he
is very popular in the Seventh district
and among his acquaintance and friends
throughout the state and his nomination
will be enthusiastically received. With
Victor Murdoch in the house. Kansas
will be represented in the Fifty-eighth
congress by two native sonS-Curtis of
this district being the other.
The nominee TO succeed Mr.. Long is as
far from the type of machine politician
as could have been found in the district.
and will make an admirable and indie
pendent representative for the state He
has the ability and character to win
place for himself among the leaders of
the delegation, and his selection by the
convention vii be generally regarded as an
acceptable choice from an unusually
large field of strong and able men.
The Seventh district convention sur
prised everybody by the quickness with
which IL did it's work, though not by the
result. Victor Murdoch is not only per-
sonally popular. and he not only had the
largest delegation in the district Loyalty
behind him, but he was in position TO re-
ceive support of both machine and anti
machine delegations. each vieing with the
other to name the nominee Whether
newspaper support for newspaper men
counts for much or not in Kansas is a
question, but in any case Victor Murdoch
has hardly less of it than Ed Hoch had
for state printer. There will be little
soreness on the part OF the defeated
candidates. and the Big Seventh will have
a creditable representative to succeed
Chester /. Long