Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-12-31
SIMPSON RIGHT IN LINE.

SIMPSON RIGHT IN LINE.
The following is a dispatch from the
Kansas City Star:
TOPEKA, HAS, Dec. Z.-Just how it
started no one seems to know. but the
fact remains that Jerry Simpson is be-
coming dangerous as senatorial candi-
date. If something isn't done to check
mate the ''sockless statesman" the Sew
enth district delegation is coming to
Topeka solid for him. The contagiOn
is spreading to contiguous parts of the
Third and Sixth districts, and there is
no telling where it is going to stop.
The eastern part of the state has j.
F. Willis, P. z. Elder, Judge PETER
and Prof. Garfield. The west has one
candidate alone who has developed any
strength, and the coyote counties are
nothing if not loyal. Col. Sam Wood,
who is sometimes regarded as a politi-
cal "hoodoo," but who stands Al in
the farmers movement, is devoting his
energies to the Simpson boom.
II tell you, Jerry Simpson is the
Abraham Lincoln of Kansas" said he
the other day. There is but one Simp-
son in the state. Abraham Lincoln
was laughed at when he launched forth
as politician. He was typical hay
seed, to use the expression as applied
by James Hallowell, but he was near
the people. / tell you, more than a
score of representatives will come from
the thiIty-seven counties which COM
prise the Seventh district solid for
Simpson. He will get enough in the
Third and Sixth to make his strength
on first ballot stronger than that of any
other candidate"
There is disposition on the part of
the friends of the other candidates to
ignore Jerry but he is like BanquO's
| COST, he won't down. 1t will not do to
say that any of the peoples party poll
ticians are ever satisfied with what
they have. Ben Clover was nominated
for congress. but one week later he was
not diSinclined to take a nomination
for governor. j. F. Willis was elected
national lecturer of the alliance at a
salary of $4,000, and the politicians
thought they had shelved him. But he
came back home and entered the sena-
torial fight more determined than ever.
1t was hoped that P. P. Elder would be
satisfied with the speakership of the
house, In conversation with friend
the other day Mr.. Elder Is quoted as
saying: "They have an idea that will
be shelved by speakership but they
will learn that am still in the race"
Gen. Rice distanced himself at the
first quarter by talking too much and IS
no longer considered in the specula-
tions.
The republican headquarters were
kept open Christmas, and holiday week
will be the busiest one for the friends
! of Senator Ingalls, since the state cleo
tion. Prominent Ingalls, men through
out the state will meet the senator here
Monday and Tuesday. Secondhand
reports will not be taken, but the men
who know the condition of affairs pOlit-
ical will report in person. If Senator
Buchan succeeds in pulling ingalls,
through he will stand at the head of
Kansas politicians. His interchangeable
work has brought confidence to the re-
publican leaders, who were at first IN
clined to throw down arms and &C
knowledge defeat. Many republicans
have abused him roundly for not throw
ing Senator ingalls, overheard and at
tempting to concentrate the republican
forces on man against whom none of
the representatives we're pledged. He
has steadily maintained that ingalls,
was the only republican possibility, and
every day STRENGTHENS his position. No
republican could now be elected who
did not receive the support of Senator
ingalls, and next to Ingalls, comes the
willy WyandOtte senator. From po-
litical standpoint. the election Of In
gals or someone friendly to him means
as much to Buchan as to the senior SEN
ator himself. The men who elected
Governor Humphrey are not the
ones that stood shoulder to shout
der with Senator Buchan in the senate
rial fight. An entirely new crowd, with
very different tactics, is now at the re.
publican helm. Homilies on virtue
and dissertations on temperance are
barred in accordance with the fam
Gus interview in the New York World.