The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-26

M REPRESENTATIVE MURDOCH.
+ side the fact mus: be emphasized that,
when the day OF victory arrived, Nor
"A ris, OF Nebraska. wore the title of III
sargent leader ard the laurels.
Now, Norris was the insurgent lead
er at the finish, because Murdoch
made him leader Having carried the
burden. having endured Valley Forge
\ and Braniywine, Murdoch turned oysr
the command at Yorktown TO. another.
Cannon and his crowd won't even
speak to Murdoch, because Murdoch,
! with his sense OF humoT. has stuns
them so hard ann SO often. Your 20
litical boss don't mind your getting
red-faced and calling him names, bus
y he grows hysterical II you turn the
laugh ON him. Murdoch has done that
often.
II is almost safe TO say that no two
of the Republican insurgents agree Oh
\ any political question. "Gussie" Gard
aer is as ready 10 defend the Aldricn
tariff as Carey OF Wisconsin is to call
II names. The insurgent band con-
tains a number OF unwilling fighters
whom public opinion at home drove
into It's ranks. Yet Murdoch has held
this group OF clashing, stiff-necked m
liyidualists together: he kept them
hammering for months, when hammer
Y Ing seemed hopeless. And now inc
victory lis won.
Murdoch, who marched in FROM
y when the battle looked hopeless, mas
retired gradually TO the background
OF the group as the chances or success
\ looked brighter.
This was generalship OF the highest
order, the generalship that takes more
satisfaction from winning the war
than from the credit OF leadership. IL
is not that Murdoch is any shrinking
\ violet. or that he Is unnaturally unset
FISH or self-sacrificing. Murdoch -
very much a human being, with veins
fall of blood even redder than his hair.
II is not that he likes credit, but loves
victory more.
In European parliament. where the
group system rather than the two
PARTY system prevails, and even IA
The English parliament, where the
. r.aborites and the Irish factions have
reached the status OF continental
groups. Murdoch would be hailed as
great man. parnell had task no
i whit more difficult when he organized
and disciplined the Irish party into an
effective force. Victor Murdoch prom
;ses a great future in the American
congress- and In American politics Hts
y district will SEND him 10 the house so
long as he wants 70 come The whole
state of.Kansas is prouc OF him. ana
\ the Republican candidate for presi-
dent who wants TO carry the Missis-
sippi valley in 1912 could use no better
campaign document than the indorse-
fcnt OF Murdoch.
This rel. headed leader of the sue
cessful house rebels Is a native OF Kan
sas. aged SO. He comes from long
line of pointers and newspaper editors.
and he was rafting type in his stick IN
the griny composing room OF a coun-
try Taper az 10. at J 5 he was hustlihg
for "items" At 20 he was real re-
Porter on a big Chicago paper, where
4 he found that personals" were Just
\ ire same. only they had to be per-
fonals about peovlc OF at least PORK
racker size. In few years he went
back TO Wichita, Kas., where he uG-
certook 10 run the Wichita Daily
Eagle This ran him into local poll
tics and congress- IN congress he tried
to reform the system of paying the
y railroads for carrying the mails, al
frst I'm a mild way, then very stub
bornly. he discovered that the house
rules wouldn't let him start anything
and that Uncle Joe" constituted the
rules. Then he invented the "insur-
gent" idea
Where Murdoch has annoyed Can.
non and his crowd most has been ia
dropping into the reporting habit. He
reported them and their rules i'm maya
zine stun which MADE people laugh At
she first reading, tempted them TO read
Il a second time, and then made them
maj at Cannon and Cannonism. That
was characteristic Of Murdoch. When
he Is going to- hit a man he GRIM
When the tight becomes general ne
lnughs.
This chap is football guard size
square built, red-topped head erect Of
b strong neck. straight looking. TN
winkine blue eyes. a smooth frecklod
face. rather chubby man, but not
lat, and a man Iervoussly alert for
y his build. he Is not much OF wind
burner. When the great moment came
in the house he only asked three min
rtes FOR hts speech, occupied but two
and half. and. having licked Uncle
Joe.- he didn't rub It in at all
This rs a reform In the house sys-
f <eu saii Victor Murdoch. and Il
Mas IT returns the power given Dy
~ people to this house, power which