Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-02-13
CONGRESSMAN MURDOCH HERE.
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butte to Congressman Nealey for h.
vote ON the tariff commission Ques
ton.
MIR. Murdock IN his speech, state(
that he had mot voted Tor the Tariff
Bill because he believed that tn
same should have BEEN taken up ARK
discussed and passed One item at
time. As there we've something ovel
four thousand items in the bill, ant
as it would have BEEN impossible fcl
congress to have taken. up more THAI
one bill per day and passed the same
AFTER the usual flow of e5cquence hat
been wasted upon it BY both sides
and .maaiy of the iitems would haV'
taken weeks of deliberatiOn if tn.
time mad been allowed for a full dis
cussim, especially ON such items al
wool, sugar, hides, etc., and as con
greSs is only in session about twt
hundred days in the year, it will b
readily seen just how much Mr.. Muir
dock was in favor OF a reduction q
the Eariff. According to his program
the time taken in consuming thk
work would have been at least TWEEN
tyfiWe years, providing no other leg
iSEatim had come up fer consideration
during that time. If other work had
come up, the revision Of the tariff
schedule would have dragged alcng
for ten or fifteen yeans longer.
He declared for a presidential pri'
mary law, the initiative and Referan'
dunn, the Recall. and National Wom-'
ems suffrage, and declared that the
man who feared petticoat govern
ment was the one who need it.
Apropras of Mr.. Murdoch, Barney
Sheridan in his paper Of last week,
The Western Spirit, of Paola, Kan
sas, gives an interesting account cf
the gentleman and his political car
Ger, which Is worthy Of reproduction
and is as follows:
MIR. Murdoch Is the elder son Of
Marshall NJ. Murdoch, of Wichita,
who died many years ago. His moth
er, Victoria Murdoch, owns and dr.
rects the publication Of the Daily
Eagle, Wichita'S morning newspaper.
Victor Murdock is about forty five
years of age, robust in health, weighs
about one hundred and seventy-five
pounds, and is five feet and nine inch
es tail. His hair is of a dark red,
that is really a. brown, and rather
kinky; he is fair skinned, blue eyes,
very expressive, stands erect, has a
strong voice, modulated by practice
in TIbEc speaking, He dresses in
business fashion, wears some ieWelry,
and shows in his talk that accuracy
Of expression that comes of early
newspaper training. !. He was born a
Republican with a silver spcen iq
his mouth. Indeed, if there is amy
fOnce in the saying that a child par
takes in character of the events
happening around the mother befcra
his birth, Victor S first cqtcs wre fer
the Grand Old Party His father
came to Kansas in the fifties and
set out making his living in politics.
AS tine. late Chester Thomas said,
Men in those days, seeking fame
and profits, naturally Joined the Re
publican party because there were
more of them
Victor was a mere boy of ten at
the time TiJden was ele,tcd Presi-.
dent i'm 1876, and it is a tradition that
between the date Of the election in
November of that year, and the time
in February, 1877, when Hayes was
counted in, the redIhaired boy Of the
Murdoch family nearly cried his
eyes out. It was to him a sorrow-
ful thing, a disaster, which meant
that the men folks would have to go
to work to make a living in some
other way than being fed by the U.
S. government. When the young
ltdAl Was pIp0en ne was active ard
influential I'M wand. politics, always a
Republican Of course. The Eagle, ev,
er from the very start, had all the
land office notices and all the gov
ernmeut patronage of the Arkansas.
valley. It was the organ of Pomerey
aud all his powerful workers. What
ever of public patronage that Unit.
ed States Senators and Congressman
controlled that was necessary to feed
and fatten the Bagle was served en-
a government platter. The Murdoch
regency named the members of the
legislature from that part OF the
state, nominated the county officials
and these were the days when a Re
publican Nomination was enuivalart