Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-05

| borg's doctrine of correspondence, for
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 insurrection 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 a Chicago reporter. In
those days he was a friend of Presi-
dent Mckinley, who referred to him
as 1.-THE brightest man in Kansas"
When he went to Chicago young Muir
dock was working for SO week on his
fathers paper. Asking for raise. he
was turned down. Even though the
old gentleman was then celebrity In
the Sunfiower 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 a 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 reformeri In puncturing
sham the pin point of humor may be
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 $5OO0,OO0 a year. Murdoch ex-
posed the fraud, and, although the
house machine refused to correct ii,
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 Massac husetts and one each from
New Jersey, North Dakota, California
and Washington. A most important
member of the group is Henry A. Coop
err Of Wisconsin, who presented the La
Toilette resolutions to the last Repub-
lican 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 60
ing to Washington. A third Wisconsin
man OF national note is John ]. Esch,
one Of the authors of the present rail
road rate law. William ]. Cary, Ar
thur W. OOpp, e. A. Morse and John
NJ. Nelson make up the rest of the
fighting seven from La Follette's state.
One OF the progressives from Iowa, the
land OF Cummins and Dolliver, is Ell
bert n. Hubbard, VINO has the name
but nothing else belonging re the IA
nous Philistine. Other Iowa insur-
restos are James W. Good, Gilbert n.
n E. Kendall, Charles e.
Pickett and Frank P. Woods. From
where Senators Nelson and
Clapp uphold the insurgent standard. a
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 NJ. 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 expletives.
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
thine 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-
I'D A. Hollingsworth, a noted lawyer, |
md Adna r. johnson. From Kansas !
Victor Murdock's companion in arms is
E Fl. Madison; from North Dakota /
comes AISLE j. Gronna; from Califor- !
Tia 3. A. Hayes, one of the wealthiest |
members of the house, and from Wash
ngton state Miles Poindexter.
The Cannonesque inquiry, why is |
IN insurgentT' finds its answer in the |
propOunder of the question. |
Cannon himself is the reason, or,
ather, one reason. The progressives
ay they came into being because they |
want to make the house deliberative |
'ody and carry out platform promises
suspect that their real cause is deep
T yet, being nothing. less than the old
iohf between equal rights and snecial