Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-02-13

state printing contracts. county pub
fishing, city printing, government
land notices, and all the other Od(
and even perQusites 6 po.Sdcai pow
er were the grist that came to Viz
tors mill. He waxed fat and Won
fine linen, was a iavorite Of Plumb
and a special friend Of Chester Long
He always threw the cloak Of char
ity over every detalcatio1 of the Re
publican party and never unearther
anything but the profits of the syS
tenn under which he worked. He wei
always fair in dividing the rich re
turns that came to the Republican
managers, and was never known Il
tell tales out of school. He wa.
frugal, too, and invested his pohtica
EARNINGS 50 that the dollar Of toda!
became two dollars Of tomorrow. 81
we'll did he look to his part of hi
individual household, that a conseNa
tive estimate Of his possessions tcda.
would be considerably over one huh
dred thousand dollars
When the Eighth district was or
gani0ed, Victor Murdock get the Re
publican nomination for Congress.
This was ten years ago, or mere
and in Congress has been ever since
an active, though at times somewhst
turbulent, Republican, who 'uphelt
the Republican system and shared
in its profits. Under Mckinley, Roos
evelt and Taft he often talked thu
language of Populism to the galleries
but spoke plain English to the pow
ers above when he asked for ap
pOintments. Murdoch for ten years
was one of the fainest and most Sue
ceSsful Republican bosses that Kan.
sas ever sent to Washington. His
skirts were kept clean, and no cor.
ruption charge has yet been made
to stick against him. He was a good
advertiser OF his political talents, and
always had a first class stand-in witt
the newspaper crowd. He kept his
promises, always kept sober, paid his
poker debts like a gentleman, and
never failed to speak earnestly for
the old flag and a big appropriation.
And now this. same Victor, the gal.
Lant and ilovable Prince of the Muir
dock dynasty, has turned upon the
party with which he worked frtm his
INFANCY. He has had a. new vision.
The things he once liked. he now
mates, and the Republican system un-
der which he fed and fastened to
his heart s content is to him a hid
eous ghost that will not down. To-
day he is champion of the. under
dog, a leader of a political rebellion
chat is destined to take ON the dig
NIFTY of a revolution. He is in earn.
est, God bless him.
In ancient history We learn of an
old statesman who wound up his ev..
cry address by saying Carthage must
be destroyed, and now comes Victor
Murdoch, after forty years of. profit
Table service in the party of his faith
erS, saying The Republican party
must be destroyed. In this the Dem.
ocrats of this. country, from Wilson
70 John Saunders will say, Amen.
Let Carthage be destroyed. The
evils of Repubican.Em have muki.
Piled until they have bIighted this
Fair land and widowed humanity Of
this age. The new vision of MIR.
Murdock has opened up all of this
and oven mOree. He iS-a cand date
for United States senator as a Pro.
gressiVe, and he came to Miami coUrl.
ty to cheer the faithful ON their way,
True, he denounced the Democrat e
party along with his denunciaticn OF
the Republican party, but this, was to
make it balance. He voted for the
WiNon Currency Bill and fer several
other vital measures of the. Demo.
cratic caucus in congress. He voiced
the doctrine that the rich have al.
ready had too much and he. wants
nationwide party of progress. His ad.
dress was we'll timed, and he sounded
the chorus of the new faith so, that
anyone who could carry a. tune at all
could sing with him.