The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-25

bide the fact mus be emphasized that.
when the day of victory arrived, Nor
ris, OF Nebraska. wore the title or ~
"A surgent leader and the laurels.
Now, Norris was the insurgent lead
or at the finish, because Murdoch
made him leader. Having carried the
burden. having endured Valley Forge
and Brandywine, Murdoch turned over
the command at Yorktown TO another.
Cannon and his crowd won't even
speak to Murdoch. because Murdoch,
with his sense OF humor, has stuns
them so hard anu so often. Your POI
litical boss don't mind your getting
red-faced and calling him names, bu.
he grows hysterical II you turn the
.angh on him. Murdoch has done that
often.
II Is almost safe to say that no two
OF the Republican insurgents agree on
any political question. "Gussie' Card
ner is as ready to defend the Aldricn
tariff as Carey OF Wisconsin rs 70 can
IL names. The insurgent band coz
tains number Of unwilling ngnters
whom public opinion at home drove
into its ranks. Yet Murdoch has nela
this group OF clashing, stiff-necked m
Gividnalists together; he kept theh
hamrnering for months, when hammer
Inc seemed hopeless. And now the
z victory Is won.
Murdoch, who marched In IRON.
when the battle looked hopeless, mas
retired gradually to the background
OF the group as the chances OF success
! looked brighter.
This was generalship OF the nignest
order. the generalship that takes more
satisfaction from winning the war
man from the credit of leadership IL
r. not that Murdoch is any shrinking
violet. or that he is unnaturaily unsrs-
Hsh or self-sacrlficing. Murdoch -
very much a human being, with veins
ran of blood even redder than his hair.
II Is not that he likes credit, but loves
victory more.
In a European parliament, where the
croup system rather than the two
marty system prevails, and even III
the English parliament where the
.aborites and the Irish factions nave
reached the status OF continental
rroups, Murdoch would be hailed as 2
great man Parnell had task 40
whit more difficult when he organized
md disciplined the Irish party into an
effective force. Victor Murdoch prom
ises a great future in the American
congress and in American politics H's
district will send him TO the house SO
long as he wants to come. The wnoie
state OF kansas is proud 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-
fent OF Murdock.
This red-heade1 leader Of the sue
cessful house rebels is native of Kan
sas aged 80. He comes from q long
lire of printers and newspaper editors,
and he was rafting type in his stick in
the grimy composing room OF coun-
try PAPER at 10. Al 10 he was hustiing
for items At 20 he was a real re-
porter on a big Chicago paper, where
he found that personals were Just
TIE same, only they had 10 be per-
\ sonals about peorle Of at least pork
packer size. In few years he went
hack to Wichita. Kas., where he Ga-
Certook 20 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
railroads for carrying the mails, at
first in 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 10
dropping into the reporting habit. He
reported them and their rules in maya
\ zine stuff which made people laugh Al
fhe flrst reading, tempted them 10 rca1
& a second time. and then made then
maj at Cannon AMI Cannonism. Thai
q was characteristic OF Mnrdock Wher
4 he is going to hit a man he grins
& when the fight becomes general b.
laughs.
This chap Is football guard size
z square built, red-topped head erect OF
strong neck. straight looking. IN
vmking blue eyes. smooth freckloa
. face. n rather chubby man, but moi
fat, and a man Eervoussly alert toi
mis- build lie is not much of a wind
burner When the great moment came
< IA the house he only asked three min
b .11fes for his speech. occupied but two
and half, aud. having licked "Uncle
JQe.r he didn't rub IL in at all.
~This - reform I'm the house sys
<eu.r said Victor Murdoch, and /.
"a ~ returns the power given Dy