The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-04

Sc1ouSly, in emphasis, as he pronounced
the last two words). Absolutely UNI
towrd public questions; and also to
lind how close he has kept in touch
with what has happened IN the last
year and a quarter.
Nothing more pleased us than his at
once congratulating US and those asso-
ciated with US in having succeeded in
putting into the railroad rate bill the
provisions vitality necessary in order
that it should represent progress along
the lines of proper control of interstate
common carriers"
AS the train got under way Mr.. Muir
dock said impressively:
You can quote me for one thing;
there was delicious quality about the
-- iced tea"
Yes" added Mr.. Madison with de-
liberation, we took that for a COM
rliment to prohibition Kansas. You
know we're a mighty moral state The
senator here never says anything
stronger than BY gravyl' and when
the colonel said BY George!' once or
twice, he looked almost shocked
What Bristow Said.
Senator Bristow giggled They were
all immensely pleased.
Ny son., began the tall senator from
kansas, laying a lean hand on his in
terlocutors knee, Il can say one thing
to you. Theodore Roosevelt is a bigger
went away. That man is a marvel.
What he says tingles. When he speaks,
he speaks the truth and the naked
truth, whether truth naked is beautiful
or ugly. 1t comes out like shot, and,
like a shot it goes right to the mark,
I never saw him show such incisive-
ness. His jaw has a new angle of de-
termination. He seems to me not only
broader but more alert
Was anything said about the Pin
q ION r-flxv
NO" answered Mr. Madison: him
self member of the Ballinger-Pinchot
committee, nothing. We thought the
colonel avoided that subject with ad-
mirable tact. It was one that it would
have been difficult for me to talk about
with propriety to the colonel"
Mr.. Murdoch had been listening at
tentively, checking a phrase here and
there that he thought sounded too
radical.
AS an old newspaper man myself,
let me turn the tables on you," he sug-
gested suddenly. Let me interview my
interviewer? How does this visit-the
mere fact of it-impress you as likely
to impress the country"
Reporter Is Interviewed.
Well" began the interviewed inter-
viewer tentatively, there are a great
bare fact that you three insurgents
were received here and that you came
away with the air of having been well
received, as encouragement for your
attitude on public questions"
Mr.. Murdoch listened with his mouth
tight shut, but smiled at the corners
of his eyes and nodded as he listened.
"I'll tell you something. I'm red
headed. don't go where I'm not want
ed. 1 might go into the wrong front
yard by mistake, but there'd surely be
a fracas on the porch before I got out
when discovered my error. I suppose
was as radical in the house as the
forefront of the insurgents I don't
call myself a progressive; I'm an in
surgent. And Senator Bristow, here.
kept step with me in the senate.
don't have to say anything more to you
with that preface, after the statement
we just gave out"
Your statement that Colonel Roose-
welt praised your attitude toward the
railroad rate bill seems especially sig
nifcant" it was suggested.
IT don't think so,' said Senator Bris-
tow, the whole country knows that
the insurgents shaped the railroad bill
in all it's important particulars. Our
statement adds nothing to the general
fund of information We hear that the
administration is pleased with the bill,
too"
To use the Kansas language, it is re-
garded as Significant" that Colonel
Roosevelt gave out an interview fol-
lowing the visit of the Kansans. 1t is
the first time he has given out state
ment following such a conference.