The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-26
TOUCHING THE
HIGH PLACES
Victor Murdoch Keeping Busy
in His Campaign.
ENJOYING HIS ITINERARY
Necessity for a Full Turn Out
of Friends important.
ENJOYING HIS ITINERARY

He viii spend few hours this morning
in his headquarters and win leave again
at o'clock this afternoon for western
Kansas.
Victor is enjoying campaigning very
much. His dates are veTy close anC
he is kept moving AT least eighteen hour.
out Of every twenty-four on an average
He is delighted with the hurry, the ex
citemeEt and the novelty Of the cam
paign. and as learning something is hi.
passion, he finds stimulation in his work
He is especially fond of the experience:
he has with railroad men and he spend.
a great deal of time with them. Ii is hi:
delight TO take the high seat in the look,
I out OF freight caboose ana listen Il
their interesting "reminiscences.
Mr.. Murdoch is mashed" on western
Kansas and its peOple-the real short
grass folk. He said Friday night thai
has been out-a man who was not inter
esting to him in some way.
He has cut out the social part OF
campaigning. Usually when a candida te
/ for congress goes TO a town. somebody
wants him to go to his house and be his
guest at dinner of for an evening party
or something. This usually takes up con-
siderable time and does not give him
such a liberal opportunity of meeting the
| people-the primary purpose of his timer
! airy. In some places he can meet the
/ people and have some time to spare an ]
| in instances of this kind he is not unwin-
/ Ing to give some time socially to his
| friends. During the past two weeks he
/ has visited some western Kansas homes
in social way and is very eulogistic
of the high standard Of culture and re-
finement observed by him. II is his nat
urn trend, however. to be rlgidly demo-
cratic in campaigning and that he is ad-
herring to that characteristic is evidenced
by the leaps and bounds of his personal
!. popularity in the district
Young people everywhere-in town and
country-are very enthusiastic for him
Politics doesn't seem to be stumbling
block in his natural tendency 10 frater-
nize with young blooded voters. He is
finding them working and fighting for him
in every city and village. The fact is
he never dreams of asking them con-
corning their politics His training as a
reporter is SO strong upon him that he
forgets that he is a politician and takes
every man that he meets for what he is
worth without regard TO party afffliation
The result of this unstudied liberalism
is that some of his most enthusiastic
newly made young friends in the dis
trict are Democrats and Populists
The important fact is beginning to be
understood in the western counties that
the full vote should be polIed 1t looked
a few weeks ago as if Mr.. Murdoch might
suffer from overconfidence of the people
in his election
This condition has improved materially.
The people are beginning to understand
the injustice it would be to the candi-
date to elect him by small plurality.
They see now that the larger the plural
ity the more prestige he will enter con-
gress with A large majority is more i'm
portant behind a new man going to con-
gress than a large majority behind an
old member. 1t attracts the attention of
big men in public life to him and they
would be more inclined to advance him
to position honorable 10 himself and
useful to the people of his district
In Sedgwick county, the home of the
candidate. it is expected that he will get
q big vote. He has lived here all his
life. a large proportion Of the voters
know him since he was child, and few
have ever had occasion to feel aggrieved
on his account. 1t is not too much TO
say that every man in the county is very
friendly toward him personally and will
be inclined on election day to do him a
good turn. Knowing that they all know
enough about him to act upon his case
intelligently without any undue effort on
has part he Will not 90 much campaign
ing in this county. lie has confidence
that his lifelong neighbors will be as
generous in his behalf as they possibly
can.
There is practically no money avail
able in this campaign II was proposed
to get up a campaign fund. but Victor
opposed it on the theory that the boys
who generally contributed gave all they
could afford toward the general cam
paign fund last fan. RE didn't feel as II
IL would be Tisht 10 call upon Them again.
In consequence OF this the getting out
OF the vote viii be altogether a volun-
tary matter. a great deal Of volunteer
work must BE- done in the line Of working
at the polls and furnishing teams ID
bring out the Wichita vote. Many have
already volunteered with their carriages /
and many more viii volunteer In this.
as in other things. men who are not az
fliated with Mr. Muriock's political party
have been very generous The spirit Of
neighborly noa-pa rt!sanship = in fact
one Of the most touching incidents OF
the home city campaign. The country
precincts have not been hesri from vet .
but it Is reasonable 40 suppose that NJ /
Murdoch friends VIII be- equally gen
erous there. Victor-by m means a f.
wealthy man. as all his friends knows .
paving all the personal expenses OF his /
Il Is quite q drain on MS +
small resources. but sooner than tax the 4
generosity Of his friends he insisted On
taxing his owa pocketb0ok- His cam
paign viii so into history as the least
expensive r. the district 30 far as IL re-
a;es TO campaign contributors.
In politics. a. in the mana cement Of 4 b
newspaper. Victor has The good fortune
Il getting people TO work very hard for
hirn-to be in otner words. enthusiastic
IN their work Judge Thomas c. Knson.
MS chairman: James H Mcpherson. his
secretary. aud Ms Eva Shoemaker. in
-harge OF the steuograPhic work. are
daily working double tinse In his interest
and the success Of the campaign vii *
argeIv due 70 their sslf sacrifices Head
quarters is doing more work daily With
three persons than the average political
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