Reunion in Fargo

Two Texans who had not seen each other for 34 years met last week in the aisle of a Pullman at Fargo, N. Dak. "Hello, Bill," said Farmer George Thomas Murray of Berthold. "Hello, George," said his brother, Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma. Vith true Texan restraint, the reunited kinsmen briskly shook hands and sat down to talk politics.

In 1881 Brothers Bill and George ran away from their Toadsuck home. A third brother, now dead, went along. In 1895 they started a newspaper in the back room of a barber shop at Corsicana, Tex. Two years later the Murrays separated and George did not get in touch with Bill until Bill got into politics. When the Murray-For-President boom began, Brother George put Brother Bill's name in the North Dakota Democratic primaries to be held March 15. Last week they stumped the State together.

"Don't believe them when they say this State will back Governor Roosevelt of New York for the nomination," George Murray told his brother.

"George," replied the Governor of Oklahoma, "I see you still got good horse sense."

Meantime, in Oklahoma City it was announced that impecunious Alfalfa Bill's campaign would be financed by selling trinkets which politicians usually give away--photographs, windshield stickers, campaign hats, "ladies' handy pocket mirrors."

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