Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-30
Mr.. Murdock's Grievance.

| then wait for Sept. 8.
|
Mr.. Murdock's Grievance.
| At Gardiner, Thursday evening
| Rep. Victor Murdock of Kansas, wal
the chief speaker. The Kansas gen
tleman took occasion to pay his re
spects to the Kennebec Journal in {
| manner hardly to have been expected
of one standing at Armageddon ant
living in a moral atmosphere so higi
above all standpatters. reactionaries
tories, old guards, etc. We take ex-
ceptions to his reference because ht
went out of his way to gouge one dis
posed to use him with utmost fair
ness and generosity. We object to
Mr.. Murdocks ungentlemaniy words
because he had no occasion for his re-
marks, yet in the most unGhristianllke
spirit accused us of political pefhds
without qualifying his sneer by even
suggestion of error.
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of his Oakland speech as printed IN
the Kennebec Journal. "Garbled, n.
said. and quoted what he had said.
His exact words used at the Gardi-
ner rally follow:
sWhy should the people OF Maine
send a Republican to Congress VINO
will no sooner arrive at the Sapi'o,
than he will surrender himseii 10 d
system of politics which believes III
the boss and the machine, i'll the con-
trol of the many by the few, a system
whose alliance with special privilege
is not only natural, but inevitable
That our readers may understand
the full magnitude of our perfidy to
which Mr.. Murdoek referred, We re-
peat the paragraph from the ookland
report, exactly as it appeared in our
columns the following morning:
.swhy should the people of Maine
sepd a Democrat TO Congress who Will
no sooner arrive at the Capitol than
he will surrender himself TO system
of politics which believes in the boss
and the machine. in the control OF the
many by the few, system whose al
Hance with special privilege is not
only natural but inevitable2
Do you catch the difference7
Then you can perhaps understand
what the corrected proof reveals. The1
next paragrap pin following the one quo
ted begins the same, using the word
Democrat" in the speakers query,
where he had just used it in connee-
ton with the word Republican"
typographical error appeared in the
first proof of the line in which oe-
curred the word Democrat" 1t WAS
marked by the proof reader and reset
by the machine operator and the.
bank boy" took the new line TO insert
in its proper place. But that is where
we gave the very charitable Mr.. Muir
dock the opportunity TO point out the
renewed evidence of tory and black
hand wickedness-the new line was in
adyertently inserted in the wrong
paragraph, and the Journal went To,
press, unaware of its deep dyed guilt
That Murdock speech was garbled.
by the bank boys failure TO carefully
scrutinize every line of type on the
galley. He ought to be fired and go
To that heaven of the printers devil
Progressive newspaper. But as he
is still on the job and uniformed OF
the part he has played in political
tragedy, we offer the two paragraphs
together as they appeared in copy and
| on the proof:
| "Why should the people of Maine send
| a Republican to Congress VINO no sooner
| will arrive at the Capitol than he VIII
/ surrender himself to system OF poiiiics
| which believes in the boss and in the ma
| chine in the control of the many by the
| few, a system whose alliance with specia
| privilege lis not only natural but ineVi'
/ table?
| "Why should the people of Maine SEND
| a Democrat TO Congress who will not bs
| in Washington a week before he will bs
/ hidden away from his constituency In 9
| secret caucus. gagged and bound. nead
hand and foot and forced to submit Il
! traditional Democratic doctrines tha
| neither he himself or single one OF hii
| Maine constituents would individually
subscribe to?'
The word who" in the second lint
| of the second paragraph was marked
i by the proof reader because IT was
blurred and might be "whe." The
corrected line from the machine wai
Lcarelessly inserted In place Of th'
second line in the first paragraph.
We presume Mr.. Murdoek should b'
| thanked for calling our attention t.
| the matter-in so magnanimous {
manner-but We yet fail to understand
the apparent bitterness which his au
| dience report. when he was equally sc
| we're with the Democratic party, AM
| the story was not "garbled" to re-
fleet on the Progressiyes. At any rate
| from those who come to us with tn
| Gardiner incident, We gather that
gained no votes for Murdock,
| All Eyes on Maine.
| Outsiders are commenting that tn
| Third Congressional District OF Main
has the honor of expressing the frs