Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-19

I really think there is more or the quality we call individualism in Ken lucky than in any other state, and per haps in the display of that character Kansas comes next among an our American sisterhoOd. once spoke of it as the state of John Brown and the Bender family. The truculent James II. Lane and the sanctimonious Samuel C. Pomeroy were examplars Of its highest citizenship. Later came "Sockless" Simpson and the unspeak- able Pener, Mary Ellen Lease and Carrie Nation. And the Kansas that stole negroes in Missouri to make them free men, subsequently burned a negro at the stake 10 preserve civil ization-
 But a new Kansas is on the stage and as republican Kansas turned pop ulist for the sake of Jerry Simpson. the present Kansas turned insurgent under the lead of new crop of states men of whom this man Murdock is one of the richest sheafs. lt is also the Kansas of William Allen White, E. W. Howe, and others of that ilk. l have often wondered what wOulo have happened in political way to Kansas If John James Ingalls, had seen the storm coming with the clear foresight of Preston B. Plumb. Would that remarkable Yankee have met it, combatted it. and stilled it. or would he, as certainly Plumb intended 10 do. have surrendered to it, got con trol of it and directed it? When il was too late Ingalls, made the wonderful and fallacious speech on silver; The Image and Superscription of Ceasar." Another casting of anchor to wind ward by the wizard of the tongue was that no less remarkable production. Flat Justitia," but Kansas was going to school to Coin Harvey, and her most brilliant son found himself , statesman without job.
 Kansas is mostly New England Pur- itan and was born of revolution, strife and blood when border ru.han and jayhawker were face tO face to set tie by sword what congress could not tranquilize by statesmanshiD, nor the supreme court compose by law. The compromise of 50 deferred the great war, the Dred Scott decision precipitated it, aud it's first clood was shed in Kansas.
 Among those who weaC to Kansas to engage in the war for what they called liberty" was a Firginian, Mar shall M Murdock, and he was the father of Victor Mudock, the present congressman, so conspicuous in the ranks of the insurgents" who are become such a virile force in political life the last few years.
 Victor Murdock was born in a re nnhlican community at Burlingsme, Kan, in 1871. The next year his father set out for the frontier to Ouili a city, and halted at Wichita, where then dwelt Indians and buffalo, the one soon to be supplanted by the cowboy and the other to be supplanted by the shorthorn. He was a printer and an editor-this man-Marshall Murdock- and he became the father of Wichita where, with a peck of type and a Washington handpress, he started a newspaper and called it the Eagle. He was the stuff of which your real journalist is made He believed some things and made no secret of it. have not the slightest doubt that DO litically speaking he was tremendous ly wrong, but there was nothing of the shiIly-shally about him, and the public loves to support such a newspaper, and so he prospered after the order of what was prosperity in those days The city was built, and the tradition is that the Eagle saved it from a veTJ vortex of calamity. such as oyertoo6 so many other western towns, by a trenchant editorial that put an end 10 reckless speculation that thl eaf ened to bring universal bankruptcy
 The boy Victor got such schooling as the community afforded. aad at a very early age he was set to learn the printers trade his task the first day was ito distribute a thousand bodr Eeois dry" a job that a few old print CTS will understand.
 
 Al Is young Murdock was reports,