The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-22
OFFICE OF FORT SCOTT
WOODEN MILLS,

Hon. Terry Simpson. Member of Cougress-elect
Medicine Lodge Kan.
Dear Sir-Hon. J. r. Hallowell of
Wichita, was here yesterday. In re-
counting to his intimate friends some Of
the incidents and facts relative to the
late campaign lin which jim thought for
a time he was a candidate), he stated
among other things, that you had no
socks, OF at least wore none during the
canvass; then when, like Coriolanus,
you appeared before the populace on the
market place asking for their voices
you put your worthy rage into your
tongue" and while admitting the
wounds his body bears, which show
like graves in the holy churchyard. -
you won d also point out to the populace
his patrician underwear and stockings
formed with silk, and then ycu would
''give him hostile strokes in the name of
the people" by displaying your own ''un-
derwear," which was unadorned and as
nature made it.
Now the election is over, cold winter
is coming on, and it is not meet that one
of the "tribunes should thus appear on
the steps of the capitol" Therefore,
Jerry, | herewith enclose you a pair of
socks, not the petrician stockings of
costly silk, but socks made from good
honest wool-woOl grown by Kansas
farmers on the backs of Kansas sheep,
and manufactured at the only successful
wooden mill in this state. Take them,
Jerry, and wear them. They are good
honest socks and will do you good SER
vice. They are not so fine as some of
your compeers will wear in Washington,
but they are well BETTING a good,
straight, honest Kansas American, as |
know you to be. In this connection l
desire 10 commend TO you the
words of wisdom uttered by EXPIRES
ident Cleveland at the late Thurman
banquet, which can well be learned by
heart by partisans of all parties:
when, therefore. men in high places
of trust, charged with the responsibility
of making and executing our laws, not
only condemn but flippantly deride
cheapness and economy within the
homes of our people, and when the ex-
pendltures of the government are reck-
less and wasteful, we NAV be sure that
something Is wrong with us, aud that a
condition exists which calls for a vigor-
Gus and resentful defense of American
ism by every man worthy 10 be called an
oAltit thl ClNiLEl.
Now. Jerry, when comfortably seated
IN your place IN congress, and the hydra
headed iniquities of corruption. combi-
nation and fraud appear. sock it 10 them.
When the Democrats undertake to put
the tariff back on free sugar. sock
it 10 EN-. And when any one
undertakes to claim that Ameri-
cans cannot complete with the vile stuff
made by pauper labor of Europe from
old horse blankets, cast off undershirts
and refuse of smallpox hospitals. which
the very disinterested importers call
foreign goods, show them your socks
and tell them how they were made from
honest Kansas wool.
Jerry, live over here in the east side
Of the Second ''deestrict." where the
winds were not so hot. and corn was
not 50 short as in the Medicine Lodge
country. Crops were pretty good, and
we can still hear the early fog hog cali
ing the swine 10 their moot-toot tOot-inal
feast, but there Is no telling what viii
happen next time IL viii probably he
the unexpected In the meantime,
Jerry, wish you a hearty God speed.
Yours truly. T. +, RoBLEY.
Proprietor Fort Scott Ayoolen Mills.