Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-01-19


the resemblance extends even to their
top pieces. inside and outside. Thus
La Toilette wears pompadour aud
Murdoch a halo the color OF a brick.
Carrying out the correspondence, the
senate insurrection bristles. while that
In the house is red headed.
The Red Badge of Courage.
Murdoch himself is worth q newspa-
per story and probably Will get whole
pages OF such before he is done with
the game. He Is himself an editor and
was one time a Chicago reporter. In
those days he was frieAd OF Presi
dent Mckinley, who referred to him
as 1.-THE brightest man In Kansas"
When he went to Chicago young Muir
dock was working for 50 week on his
fathers paper. Asking for raise. he
was turned down. Even though the
old gentleman was then celebrity I'm
the Sunfiower State. that fact did not
prevent the cub from telling him that
some day he would be known as the
father of Victor Murdoch" In which
politicians.
AS IN luSuTSeut Is SOOQ nd-
tured and usually succeeds In getting a
laugh on his opponents. Beware the
cheerful refovmer, In puncturing a
sham the pin point OF humor may be
a better weapon than the big stick Of
argument. Perhaps the greatest serv-
ice Murdoch has rendered the Ameri-
can people was in exposing the rail-
way mail graft. OF old time the mails
were weighed seven days IA week, but
\ to get the daily average the total Of
seven days was divided by six, which
resulted in a clear gift to railroads of
about S5.OOO.0O0 n year. Murdoch ex-
posed the fraud. and. although the
house machine refused to correct It
President Roosevelt afterward did so.
The Valiant Thirty.
According to the list of house pro-
gressives furnished by Mr.. Murdoch
himself, there are thirty In all-seven
from Wisconsin. four from Minnesota,
six from Iowa, three from Nebraska.
two from Kansas, two from Ohio, two
from Massachusetts, and one each from
New Jersey, North Dakota. California
and Washington. A most important
member of the group is Henry A. Coop
er of Wisconsin, who presented the La
Toilette resolutions to the last 2epub
lican national convention and who re
ceived more votes for speaker Of the
house than any other insurgent. An
other striking figure is Irvine l.. Len
root, new member. who was speaker
Of the Wisconsin assembly before go
I IT, % III A trI notv
man of national note Ia John j. Esch
one Of the authors Of the present rail
road rate law. William ]. Cary, AR
thur W. GOpp, e. A. Morse and JohI
NJ. Nelson make up the rest Of thu
fighting seven from La Fohette's state
One OF the progressives from Iowa. thu
land Of Cummins and Deliver. is Ell
bert H. Hubbard. who has the nam
but nothing else belonging to the ia
nous Philistine. Other Iowa insur
restos are James w. Good, Gilbert n
Hangar. N. E. Kendall. Charles Z
Pickett and Frank Z. Woods. Fror
Minnesota, where Senators Nelson an
,Clapp uphold the insurgent standard,
quartet OF house members have 70
lowed them-Charles r. Davis. Charlie
A. Lindbergh, Halvor Stevenson an
Andrew j. Volstead. Nebraska ha
one Of the leaders Of the house pre-
gressives In George w. Norris. forme
~ n district judge In that state, an
two able members In f. II. Hinsha'
and NJ. r. Kinkaid. New Jersey fu
nishss Charles N. Fowler, the formt
chairman Of the house banking con
mittee. who has written open letter
to Cannon until Danville was file
with flying explosives.
From Massachusetts halls Augustl
z. Gardner, soD-in-law Of Senat'
Henry Cabot Lodge. who Gardner
not LODGE swears that the house rul
shall be amended whether the N
chine consents or not; also from Il
same state William G. Lowering. Obi
home Of the president, has two Of L
house insurrectos in the persons Of d
Z vid A. Hollingsworth, a noted lawy,
and Adna r. johnson. From Kans
Victor Murdock's companion in arms
: e. II. Madison; from North Dako
comes AISLE J. Gronna; from Calift
MIA Il. A. Hayes, one Of the wealthit
> members of the house. and from Was
" ington state Miles Poindexter.
= The Cannonesque inquiry. why
% an insurgentr' finds it's answer In {
, supposed propounder Of the questit
Cannon himself is the reason,
:" rather. one reason. The progressi,
~ say they came into being because tn
~ want to make the house q deliberati
body and carry out platform promis
=. I suspect that their real cause is de-
- er yet, being nothing less than the
~ Aobf batwoaD auual riohtS and sDar