New-York tribune., 1910-09-07
OPTIMISM OF MURDOCH
Claims insurgents viii Dominate
Next Senate and House.
PREDICTS GREAT UPHEAVAL
Tariff Revision. Schedule by
Schedule, Paramount Issue,
Declares Kansan.
From TIE Trib1II,e. Bureau ]

Fsshins ston, SEPT 6.-Victor Nurdcck
the militant insurgeT1t Representative from,
Kansas. passed through Washington TO-
day on his way to Chicago, and he ta-ried
just long enough to predict the ultimate
triumph of the principles Of insurgency.
As a beginning Mr. Murdoch prophesied
that the next United States Senate would
be controlled by the Proeressives Of the
two parties. with the result that re-
vision Of the tariff. one schedule at time,
would follow
The. next Senate will be dominated by
the Progressive element without regard
for his party label said the Ka1san. The
next House Of Representatives will have a
Progressive ma atority that will surprise the
nation.
Democratic? don't know. I haven't T
been thinking about that. II will he Pro
sressive. and il Will be productive of the
sort of legislation that the nation needs.
With the Progressive representatives in
control of both houses, tariff revision.
schedule by schedule. will re possible. /:
Will he more than possible. 1t will become
q fact.
1t is funny 10 see the way in which the
former stand d-patterE are adopting the
creed Of the insurgents. From one end of
the country to the other they are changing
front. I can count fifty changes In the
personnel of the next House. and every
change will be in favor of the Progressive
wing of one party er the other
National interest in national affairs was
never SO deep seated nor SO apparent as
ing political upheaval that the country has
in hal no min
is awakened. the public conscience is
stirred. and the public vote is going 70 be
cast in favor of something different. some
thing better and more wholesome than
party emblem a party tradition.
insurgency is just as strong factor IN
the State of Washington as it is in Kansas
or Nebraska. 1t is just as strong in New
Jersey as It is IN my own home. The senti-
ment is no more confined to the Middle
West than a river Is confined TO its banks
in food time.
What I find in my touring of the nit ed
States. in what has been something of a
UhirlHind campaign for me-, is that the
people have stopped listening to the re-
count of past performances from their party
orators and that they want TO hear some
thing about new and advanced legislation.
The day of the so-called 'oId-fashioned
the fellow who could get
elected repeatedly the promise of new
postoffice for his constituents. is dead The
people have come TO a realization of the
fact that Congressman are elected to make
laws.
The people, moreover, are learning that
Congress is for the purpose Of righting
wrongs and correcting injustces, and not
solely for the purpose Of making appropria
tions while they hinder and haggle and
quibble and temporize over new and bene-
fetal legislation
There are five things upon which the
present campaign will be waged. They are:
a revision of The tariff downward. sched-
ule by schedule.
The physical valuation of railways as
projected IN the railway bill and later cut
out.
The enactment of direct primary law,
for every state.
The elimination of Cannonism; not of
DDS of selecting committees OF the national
legislature, with view Of putting the right
men in the right places
The simplification of the methods of pro-
cedure in the federal courts
These are the five points upon which the
insurgents are making the winning fights
all over the United States. Of them the
tariff issue is paramount. On these issues
the fall elections viii be Won. The man
WHO stands for these things at the primary
and at the election will be the Congress
nan-elect from his district