Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-12-17
JERRY SIMPSON,"
The Bare.Legged Statesman's Cam.
paign-The Kansas UpheaVal.

The Bare.Legged StateSman's Cam.
paign-The Kansas UpheaVal.
New York Star: what did General
SpinOla mean the other day, when in
the house of representatives he twitted
one of the Kansas republicans with the
fact that q bare-legged man had beat
en- one of that party's nominees for con-
gress in very strong republican dis
trict Of that stateg"
l asked the question of Kansas State
Senator Prime, who ID on a visit to this
city, and brimful of western stories.
well" said he, Gen. Splnola told
the truth. Two years ago the Seventh
district of Kansas sent republican to
congress with plurality of something
like 10000. This time that same dis
trict elects a bare-legged farmer, an
Alliance man, and by humping ma
jority, too, over one of the most pOpu
lar republicans in that section. Jerry
Simpson is the name of the granger,
and when he reaches Washington he
will create sensation. He is one of
the most taking stump speakers the
state has ever known, though it is GER
tain he scarcely knows the difference
between a pronoun and a verb. When
he was nominated for congress half Of
Kansas just laughed outright, but Jerry
got to work on the stump and soon
made the fur fly. He went around in a
pair of blue jeans pants, short on the
legs and long above the waist band, and
his home made wooden socks fell down
over his cow-hide brogans, leaving a
good portion OF bis legs literally bare.
The Kansas republican, laughed more
and louder, but Jerry did not mind
them, The papers were full of jokes on
him, but he kept right on making cross
road speeches to the farmers. and when
the returns came in, 'Bare-legged Jerry
was found to be elected. HIS home
paper says he is going to Washington
in the exact suit of clothes-socks and
all-in WHICH he made his campaign in
Kansas.
lone of the Kansas newspapers says
that about a couple of weeks before
election Jerry remarked to a friend,
Say, Hank, wouldn't it beat thunder if
should be elected, after alp It prob
ably will, and hear that Jerry has al
ready received supply of socks from
sympathizing friends sufficient to start
furnishing store.
lyon eastern people, )" continued the
senator, scarcely realize what politi-
cal upturning there was out in Kansas
last election, but when the new fellows
who have been chosen to congress get
to the national capital there will be
some fun. One of them Is a Methodist
preacher by the name of Baker, who
can talk louder and longer than any
man west of the Mississippi river. He
used to be a school teacher in one of
the back Kansas counties, and he IL one
of the best shots In the state, He is a
boxer Of no mean ability, q good all
| ropnd athlete and one of the rccd-hot
advocates Of advanced Granger doc
trines. He never was heard Of in poll
tics before last fall, but be will be
heard in congress, for In voice and per-
sistency he will surpass any man on the
floor. Then there is John Davis. There
is something peculiar about his cleo
ton. He is an out-and-ont socialist,
and the only man Of his opinions who
will have a seat in the house. He is a
sort of half editor of turbulent, social
istic labor organ at Junction City, and
tor the last ten years has been doing
scarcely anything except running for
congress and getting defeated by enor-
nous majorities. This time John has