Evening star., 1927-05-21

~RTMPACkER VINO pulled
hk down the avalanche on
me in 1910. was some
~ what tinged with the vice
of insurgency" said Uncle Joe years
afterward when we we're talking al
tbis over. "nntH he became an ~.
sargent against insurgency. Conlcais
xon.u sav. of course. but no man y
more insistent on his rights than the
man who has ma regard for the
rights Of The other fellow
cone If ;he most picturesque "t
+ha Insurgents was and still y Henry
tooner af Wisconsin. he who maze
tbat great speech against me on the
night If the revolution against
tannonfsm cooper's most NloiFht
outbreaks If insurgency We're after
borame Speaker, bat | was not the
,.,nsa ~ MS fall from grace. II
dates back a generation. t. the 1ne
v-han Reed was Speaker. and, as
nSuaI had its origin in q trivial ana
rarSnn4l matter, Cooper was a 'leNti
r,an j rood musician. a convincing
4alller and an amusing story te1e}'
h,,t he had little knowledge of legis-
1afiye machinery ana apparently II"
desire ia learn. He was satisfied "l'h
ms way of doing things and was an
no1ed when everybody else did not
agree With hin.
an Reeds speakership the chair
r,ansffp If the committee on rivers
nrd 7arborS became vacant. Cooper
was nest III line for promotion ana
exnartod 10 &et the place But Reed
left il IL tGt members Of the com
,,,itf,.a to decide who their new chair
man ~nau5d nc. and they preferred
Theodore Burton If Ohio, aft@Ward
Senator. Then and there Cooper be
rao2n an ineUrgent. We were always
told Insurgency was great mofal
Issue Ii was-the issue IF one COM
n,ittee craftsmanship. ON such mo-
,,a,,trlls Questions does the fate ot
nartieS hinge. Cooper will always he
= = inelrccnt wherever he is, either in
this ijfe al, the life to come, l imagine
Most Picturesque Insursent.
Thus the Speaker and I went on
discussing the small things which
created insurgents. until we came 10
the most picturesque insurgent ot
Victor Murdock of Kansas. who
finally insureed himself out Of the
Tenuhlican party 1t was III the early
90s / first met him, when he was the
hsea hau reporter on the Chicago
Inter ocean. hut he had an ambition
to dc politics and got the assignment
ro iofn GOV. Mckinley III his campaign
for reelection i'll 1898.
In less than week Murdock was /
hack in Chicago. | took his place
on the Mckinley train and imnedi- /
ate1y found out why he left the job /
..,That has the Inter Ocean sot against |
me-" Mckinley demanded, hotiy |
.That redheaded base ball reporter I
would have defeated me had he re-
manned through the campaign. lie t
wrote about The Governor of Ohio as I
though he We're Old Pop Anse. the
Chicago base hall champion, and you |
had 10 put politics into base ball /
terms to make him understand
I laughed at the future President /
INDIGNATION. for. as a rule, he was very /
careful about uttering any criticism /
or newspaper correspondents. Ten
years later again met Murdoch, tins I
time in the Speakers room. He had /
been elected - the House as Re
publican on the issue which Of the
candidates with red hair had the
reddest On that burning issue he
won. 1t was a grotesque campaign,
and Murdock got a good deal OF pub
licity all over the country as the man
elected to Congress because he had red /
hair.