Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-03

be recognized as the Kansas farmers hope in
| the next session.
Jerry promised his buffalo grass constitu-
| ents that he would camp within gunshot of
| the Capitol. So far he has kept his word
he is at the Kenmore on Capitol Hill.
When caller sends his card up to Jerry he
| always comes down to see what the trouble
| is about. So far he has not resorted to be-
ing sick or out, but has responded in route
step" way and seen every visitor.
Jerry's Personal Appearance.
Jerry is an ordinary looking man and
should himself and another man be lined up
and third induced to pick out the Congress
man Jerry would be second choice every
time.
The sockless pride of the West is about five
feet 10 inches high. When ne stands erect
he looks as if he were leaning against post.
This is supposed to come from his habit of
leaning against posts around his town,
where, through ward politics. he was Town
Marshal for some years before his elevation
to Congress.
The handshake of Jerry dIscloses the fact
that while he may be intended for a farmer
representative, he is not of the class of farm
ers who report in person for labor in the
fields. His hands are the softest thing
about him except his new office. He is re-
farmer by consent for political purposes.
This hay press and sockless statesman was
enjoying Washington when 1 called on him
to-day. Some foreign glassware was being
rapidly prepared for the ash barrel.
"What are you doing Mr.. Simpson ?" 1
asked.
I'm drinkiu' little clarieta, "he replied
cordially "Won't We jine?"
Head of Rebellious Hair.
took a glass of claret and looked over
nv friend, whom had known in Kansas
Gold rim glasses partially obscured the ex-
preston of his eyes. During the campaign
it was plain wire rim. His hair seemed
inclined to be Observation-Disclosures obstrep-
erous-and stood on end, each particular
hair apparently fighting for more room.
Constant agitation by Kansas zephyrs is
thought to have lent it quality of stiffness.
The distance between the hair line and
his dark eyes is scarcely equal to the aver
age measurement outside of an asylum. The
facial angle is suggestive OF a town marshal
or a rider of a bucking bronco. The mus
tache looks downward, and instead of arrest
ing its progress in its downward course by
the timely interference of barber, Jerry
Surrenders it to the mercy of cigar
ssnipe" and the incisors in the immediate
vicinity.
He has an emphatic malaria complexion.
The points of his shoulders press forward
and downward, even more So than the aver
age farmer as he follows his cultivator on a
bright spring morning.
He does not move as if he was trying to
stop herd of cattle on the stampede; it is
decidedly a town marshal walk with a
record Of "two drunks per MONTH" He
wears a No. shoe without apologIzing to
Rv nf Sfaras pchi ho
marked to-day that he was not embarrassed
in that part of his anatomy in the slightest
degree, and said. II can stand good deal
of tramping over in that house called the
Capitol"
Overwhelmed With Gifts of Socks.
Jerry has been somewhat embarrassed
since the campaign by the receip: of over
300 pairs of socks. About one-third of his
stock is present from wooleu mill at Fort
Scott. Kan. They were accompanied by a
card in which it was expressed rather deli
cately that the manager hoped from the bot
tom of his heart aud pocket that the re-
cipienL would ever be found on the side of
protection to the woollen industry in its
many branches Jerry says that he prom
ised his people to do whatever they directed,
and should they request that he show no
favors 10 his Fort Scott friend he will be
placed in an exceedingly delicate position.
He hopes the manager who grasped the sit
uation so thoroughly and his constituents
will agree. and this will relieve him of his
first embarrassment since his great victory.
In the absence of great rush to see him
all Jerry's callers will be supplied with his
card. He decided on the wording soon after
his election, and used it without anv reser-
vation during the Senatorial fight in Kan
sas, when he had weather eye to succeed
ing ingalls, in advertising his State for the
United States Senate The card was as
follows: