The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-17
CONGRESSMAN MURDOCH WILL APPEAR IN HIS
BEHALF ON FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST rs
Two Forceful Progressives and
Leaders in Fight for Popular
Government Will Tell Yakima
People Their Views on Politics
of the Day.

Congressman Miles Poindexter, cam
didate for the United States senate
will make his first appearance before
q North Yakima audience on Satur-
day evening August 20 at the Yakima
theatre. Congressman Victor Murdoch
of Kansas who is soon to begin tour
OF this state in the interest of Judge
Poindexter's candidacy, will deliver an
address in the Yakima theatre on the
evening of Friday, August 26. Con-
gresham Murdoch is the man whom
Uncle Joe Cannon went into Kansas
to defeat. and failed.
Two Good Fight Men.
Perhaps no two congressman have
been more in the public eye during
the past two years than Judge Pom
dexter and Victor Murdoch. Both
are leaders of the progressive move
ment in the lower house of congress.
Both worked hand in hand to secure
an honest revision of the tariff. Both
1abOred increasingly for a revision Of
the rules and the limiting of the
cZar-like powers of Speaker Cannon.
While they failed in securing a tariff
revision downward, their fight for the
revision of the house rules was sig
nally successful. Mr.. Murdoch is per-
haps the pioneer insurgent of the
country as affecting the conduct of
legislation in the lower house of con-
gress. He is known as forceful
speaker and is considered one of the
ablest men in congress. He will spend
one week in this state in assisting
Congressman Poindexter and North
Yakima has been allotted one date.
Two Speeches i'm tho Valley.
One the afternoon of August 90
Judge Poindexter will address the peo-
pie Of the Sunnyside country at a pic
mic at Strobie's grove and will come
directly from there to this city, ar
irving in time for the evening meet
ing. Congressman PoindeXter's tour
of the west side has been in the
nature of a triumphal procession, al
though in the enemys country At
Seattle last week when he appeared
on the platform with Senator Piles
and several Of the republican ma
chimes Old warehouses; in joint debate,
the audience became so impatient to
hear him that he was forced to rise
and ask that silence obtain until it
came his turn to speak, much to the
confusion Of the other speakers who
were DelHS uepeHueu upon u Itldhc
things embarrassing for him. His
campaign on the sound in point Of
popularity has been a stem winder,
say those who have been spending the
summer in Seattle and Tacoma.
1t is expected that at least a por-
ton of Judge Poindexter's address in
this city will be aimed at the pur-
poses and working of the state pri
mary law which the ring politicians
are working SO hard to defeat. He
will probably point out that the same
men who secured the election of Sem
ator Wesley l.. Jones two years ago
by pledging the legislative candidates
according to the new primary law, are
seeking to send men to the legisla-
ture this year who are not pledged.
to secure his defeat and throw the
election of United States senators in
this state into the control of those
interests which will furnish doodle"
money to gain their ends as was done
in Illinois this past year in the cleo
ton of senator Billy Lorimer and as
was done in Washington prior to the
passage of the direct primary law.