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Show MURDDCK EARNESTLY CLOSES CAMPAIGN Declares Question for Kansas Is Progress or Stand Still in Republicanism. By Associated Press. HOLTON, Kan., July 30. Victor Murdock, insurgent congressman, closed his campaign tonight in tho first Kansas Kan-sas district with this appeal: "Is Kansas noxt Tuesday to keep her place in the forefront with other western progressive statos, with Wisconsin, Wis-consin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and Nebraska, or is she for the first time in her forty-five 3'cars of brilliant leadership as a 6tato to fall in with Rhode Island and Pennsylvania? That is the question; surely thero as but one answer to it that Kansas will keep her place up at the front of the firing line. "Down in Washington,' ' continued Mr. Murdock, "tho macliino teaches tho lesson to its followers that tho peoplo must be held in check; that it is the first business of a congressman or a senator To lead his peoplo with extreme conservatism and not to permit pooplo to rush him off his foot and into progressive pro-gressive legislation. The legislative device de-vice of the pigeonhole, postponement, delay, and tho practice of enacting inadequate in-adequate legislation aro common instruments instru-ments of the machine, which is run by the stamlpatturs. Insurgency, on the other hand, is a movement in tho Republican Re-publican party which frankly admits the newer problems in the nation and desires to approach them witli an open mind and lo apply such remedies that the whole country may move with dispatch dis-patch into the higher forms of a moro perfect democracy. "The tari'ir," ho concluded, "ought to bo revised, a schedule at a timo, to the end that the revision may take place with full knowledgo by all con gressnicn of every schedule and without with-out trading betwecen different sections of the country 011 different schedules." |