The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-01-06

DOES uOcLr1ue OF correspondence, Tor
the resemblance extends even to their
top pieces, inside and outside. Thus
La Toilette wears a pompadour and
Murdoch a halo the color Of brick.
Carrying out the correspondence, the
senate instruction bristles, while that
In the house is red headed.
The Red Badge Of Courage.
Murdoch himself is worth 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 Chicago reporter. In
those days he was friend Of Presi-
dent Mckinley, who referred to him
as "the brightest man in Kansas"
When he went to Chicago young Muir
dock was working for SO week on his
fathers paper. Asking for a raise, he
was turned down. Even though the
old gentleman was then a celebrity in
the Sunflower 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
he proved better prophet than most
politicians.
AS an insurgent Murdoch is good ma
tured and usually succeeds in getting
laugh on his opponents. Beware the
cheerful reformer! 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 a 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 $5,O00OOO 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 Repub-
ncan 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
ing to Washington. A third Wisconsin
man of national note is John J. Esch,
one of the authors Of the present rail
road rate law William j. Cary, Ar
thur w. Copp, E. A. Morse and John
M. Nelson make up the rest Of the
fighting seven from La Follettes state.
One Of the progressives from Iowa. the
land Of Cummins and Dolliver, is Ell
bert II. Hubbard, who has the name
but nothing else belonging to the ia
nous Philistine. Other Iowa insur-
restos are James w. Good, Gilbert N.
Hangar, N. E. Kendall, Charles E.
Pickett and Frank P. Woods. From
Minnesota, where Senators Nelson and
Clapp uphold the insurgent standard,
| quartet Of house members have fol-
| lowed them-Charles r. Davis, Charles
A. Lindbergh, Halvor STEVENSON and
| Andrew J. Volstead. Nebraska has
one of the leaders of the house pro-
gressives in George W. Norris, former
| ~ a district judge in that state, and
two able members in E. H. Hinshaw
and M. p. Kinkaid. New Jersey fur
| nishes Charles N. Fowler, the former
| chairman of the house banking COM
mittee, who has written open letters
| to Cannon until Danville was filled
with flying explosives.
From Massachusetts halls Augustus
P. Gardner. son-in-law of Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, who Gardner
not Lodge swears that the house rules
shall be amended whether the ma
| chine consents or not; also from the
same state William C. Lowering Ohio,
home of the president, has two of the
house insurrectOs in the persons of Da-
vid A. Hollingsworth. a noted lawyer,
and Adna r. Johnson. From Kansas
| e. H. Madison; from North Dakota
comes AISLE j. Gronna; from Califor-
mia e. A. Hayes, one Of the wealthiest
members Of the house, and from Wash
ington state Miles Poindexter.
The Cannonesque inquiry. 'Why is
an insurgent?' finds it's answer in the
supposed propounder of the question.
Cannon himself is the reason, or,
| rather, one reason. The progressives
say they came into being because they
want to make the house deliberative
body and carry out platform promises
| / suspect that their real cause is deep
er yet, being nothing less than the old
fight between equal rights and special
| privileges.
"Cowcatchers" For Taxicabs.
The foreman of the jury at city
inquest in London the other day made
an interesting suggestion regarding