The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-06
He FEARED DEFEAT
Judge Madison Planned to
Leave Western Kansas.
Believed Campbell and An
thony Would Win.
HOW VIC MET "DOOLEY''
Made the First
Time Was Sufficient.
Topeka Petition for More In
formation Is Received.

the house during the Sixtieth and
Sixty-first congresses, is authority Tor
a statement alleged to have been
made near the close of the special SEES
sion of congress last summer by the
late CONGRESSMAN Edmund H. Madl-
son of the Seventh Kansas district
which may indicate the trend OF Kan
sas politics today.
According to the story told by Col
onel Casson, he was sitting IN the re
nuhlican cloak room of the house one
day alst August talking with group
of western members, including Judge
Madison They were o lscusslng nc he
probable results of the elections TINS
Judge Madison, according to ac-
| counts seemed to be deeply inter
ested in the business and pohtlcal WEI
/ fare of the states of oregon anu
I Wa s-hineton. and wished to be ADVISED
las to the prospects in that Secllon
1 of the country, indicating ms stroAs
desire to move there
Il am of the firm belief, Judge
Madison is quoted as saying, thal
there will be a radical change or pom
tics in Kansas in 1912. There Will pc,
in my opinion, only two OF the mem
hers of this house from Kansas re-
t1rnad These two men are Camp
bell and Anthony. I feel that the pai-
ance of the delegation from the
state. including myself, are doomed
TO defeat because of the peculiar po-
Iiticai conditions now existing
throughout the state. With Camppell
and Anthony, their cases are dl1Ier-
ent. They seem strong with thelr con
stituencies, which apparently IS radl-
cally different than those OF the otner
congressional districts of Kansas.
Madison Saw Defeat Coming.
1t is further stated by Colonel Cas-
son that Ed Madison was frank to ad-
nit his political future in the seventh
district was short, and that he was
then seriously laying plans to go to
some far western or northwestern
state and take up the practice OF MS
professionally
4 am planning to move away from
my home" he is alleged to have said,
because the legal practice there is no
longer sufficient to make good hv-
ing.'
This story now related by Colonel
among members of the Kansas dele
CATION 1t has been the topic of con
Versation with them for several days
All who were Intimately associated
with Judge Madison had high re-
gard for both his ability and opinion,
whether political or otherwise
There is no doubt this incident
has set some of the Kansas politicians
to thinking, and thinking seriously
about the political future of the state
The least that can be said of it is that
Madison's opinion SO frankly ex-
pressed, will result in putting unusual
ginger in the efforts of the Repub1-
cans of the state to hold the party
strength intact this year. 1t is be-
lieved that the insurgents will be in
cined to become more regular in
their campaigns in order to save the
state from being swept by Democ-
racy.
Vic Murdock's Assignment.
When Vic Murdoch was a reporter
in Chicago years ago, his city editor
sent him out one night to get a photo
graph of Mr.. Higginbotham, who had
just been made president of the Chi
cagO Worlds fair. Being sent after
q mere photograph and especially of
a male person, isn't the sort of thing
that fills a reporter with sense of
his own Importance, and Vic felt
about as aggressive as a paper hanger
when he reached the Higgenb otham
home. At the door he met another re-
porter, who was there for an inter
view.
A servant let them in and told them
to walk down the hall to Mr.. Higgen- |
bOtham s library Just as they were |
entering the mans room an oriental
rug skidded with Vic Murdoch and |
he fell on the costly hardwood floor /
with a thud, like a German come |
dian.
The other reporter, without waiting |
to introduce himself. calmly turned to /
IT. Higgen botham and began a I
learned discourse on the causes lead /
ing up to Vic's fall.
Here is a young man., said the |
reporter, who has been well reared +
and accustomed to a certain amount /
of the luxuries of life, but he has |
been blowing about these Chicago |
streets until ne has reverted to semi |
savagery and has lost his knack at /
walking on rug or a hardwood floor |
His case presents an interesting bit |
of scientific data that we might con-
slider with profit
And he went on in that vein for |
some minutes, while the host wonder
ed if he were entertaining a pair of
psychopathic patients.
When they were outside Vic said: /
My names Murdoch. May ask !
yours?"
He Met Mr.. DooIey.
My names Pete Dunno answered
the other reporter. And Vic felt |
elated to think that he had met the
author of the Dooley articles then |
just beginning to attract local attention /
in Chicago
Years passed. A few months ago |
Congressman Murdoch was hurrying |
across the lobby of a New York hotel |
and tripped on rug. He picked him |
self up, glanced about to see if any |
body had noticed him, the way a per /
son will, and found himself gazing in |
to the smiling and prosperous looking /
coCntenance of Finley Peter Dunno.
Needn't explain it this time!" ex-
claimed Vic Il know You made it |
perfectly clear that night fifteen or
more years ago. I've reverted once /
more to my semi barrie state
Former Kansas Aggies Meet.
The Washington Alumni associa-
ton of the Kansas Agricultural college
met in annual reunion the other even |
ing at the Washington Country club. |
The association is composed of ninety |
members, graduates and former in +