The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-22

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PETER AND HIS WHISPERS
studied law while was in the army, and
after the was over settled In the
South at GAINESVILLE, Tenn. 1t was not
pleasant for my family nor for myself and
| moved to Kansas and pre-empted farm.
Now there was newspaper in the town
near which | lived which was not run at
all TO suit the people. | went in to town
one day and bought the man out though |
had not dollar to pay for it and then
went around to the merchants and told
them that was going TO run clean paper
and that they must support me. They did
support me and continued editing, prac-
Using law and farming until I went to
Topeka 10 edit the Kansas Farmer"
SENATOR PETERS GREAT SCHEME.
The conversation here turned to politics
and the Alliance legislation of the coming
session and Senator PETER said:
81 have always been Republican, and
was really anxious to have Senator ingalls,
returned to the Senate. L hoped he would
have taken such 4 stand as would enable
the Peoples party to support him. I sent
him four questions which | asked him to
answer for the Kansas farmers de-
fning his position. He promised to do so
in speech in the Senate, but he never
made the speech, and the Farmer came out
against him. AS to the measures / Will
propose, the chief one will be a bill direct
ing the secretary of the treasury to go into
the markets and buy at current rates from
time to time all the gold and silver bullion
that is offered and to pay for this in
treasury notes. Then, taking this as the
basis, would have 1t ordered that he issue
81. 50 additional for each dollars worth of
bullion bought. This would at once in
crease our circulating medium at least
81 ,000, 100000 and would remedy to some
extent one of the great needs of the
times.'
"But how would you get this money into
circulation, Judge?" asked.
"Ah," replied Judge PETER, that is the
question. | have my own theory and will
bring it forth in due time"
TALK WITH JERRY SIMPSON.
One of the leaders of the Alliance party
in the House will be the Hon. jeremiah
Simpson, of Medicine Lodge. He is the
man who is said to have made his cam
paign by pulling up his homespun panta-
looms and showing that his bare, hairy
calves were unornamented with socks.
He has been described as q rough citizen,
as a boor and braggart, and when I
| burly, pothouse politician, with some
| shrewdness, much rudeness, and with
| all the marks of the professional
demagogue. L know the type, but Simpson
is not of it. He looks more like a
business man than like farmer and acts
more like common-sense country mer-
chant than like financial fanatic He is
about five feet eightSinches tall and stands
straight in his soft shoes of French calf
skin. He has form slender but WELL
knit and wiry, and there is an air of hard
iron strength about him. His head is
| not large one. His face is well-browned
and rough cut, and it shows the lines of
thought and determination. Looking at
1t you would say that the man had a fight
to make in going through life. and when
his face is In repose there are deep, hard
| lines about the mouth, and his eyes have
crows feet at the corners. His forehead
Is not high, but it is broad,
and the hair which comes close
| down to it is as black as the wings of the
crows which fly by the thousands along
! the Potomac This black hair is well cut,
| 1t IS about an inch long, and it stands in a
! bristly, black brush out ali over Jerry
| Simpsons head. His nose is straight and
OF fair size, and under 1t there is short,
| well-trimmed moustache of black, pep
| pered with gray. Whatever his clothes
| may have been while on the stump, they
are certainly good enough here He wore
| suit of blue plaid which we'll fitted his
| angular frame. His coat was a sack, and
| | noticed that his linen had evil
| IDENTIFY just come from the Chi
! nese laundry, and his standing collar
! had black ribbon necktie about it which
| MT. simpson ties himself. The spectacles
/ which he wore had gold rims and there
| was nothing about his appearance TO dis
| tIngulsh him from the average well-to-do
| congressman. During the talk happened
| 10 mention the subject of socks, and Mr..
| simpson told me that there was no truth
/ whatever in the statement that he pulled
! up his pants on the rostrum and showed
| his bare legs to the people. Said he:
Il never made speech without stock
/ lngs on IN my life, and | never pulled up
/ my pants 70 show whaLsort of stockings I
/ Wore. The story was sent out by an anti
/ Alliance newspaper correspondent 10 Il
/ paper IN my district. II was made out of
! Whole cloth. and il was instigated. | sup
/ pose, by the remarks that | made concern
/ ing my opponent. who was noted for his
Tine dressing and his extensive and arisrO-
{ cratic airs. | called him 'Silk-s;ocking
( Hat, and may have said that farmers
/ could not afford 10 wear stockings OF that
/ kind. 1ou people don't understand the
I farmers OF Kansas. They are not Doors by
/ any means. They are the pick OF the East
| me most enterpriSinE of the young men
n.
/ England and Ohio and the other states To
Kansas, anu we have the best of this ele-
ment IN our party. These men were the
/ oid aooltionIsts. They fought under
| John Brown and We have nearly all
/ OF that element with as. The only
/ farmers in Kansas with whom such an ar
! gUment would be Of weight. might be some
| oi tue Democratic farmers who cane from
/ the South 20 that state, and who form the
/ Democratic party today. They are from
/ the poor white trash who were sent 10
| Kansas by the rich planters in order that
Iheir woes might perpetuate slavery.
| Ihey moved 10 Kansas for the rewards Of
politics, and they are Of the same charac-
/ ter today as they were then. The Demo-
| Gratis 81 Kansas are buccaneers ~ far as
politics are concerned. They would ION
! with any party that would give them a
TASTE OF the Offices. and during this falls
elections see that they have 10 a large ex-
tent united with the RepuH leans."
THE BIG CROPS AND THK ALLIANCE.
"How wll the big crops of this year
affect the Alliance party, Mr.. Simpson %
said l. Senator sherman told me 4 few
weeks ago that the Alliance party was a
calamity party. He said it was made BIZ