The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22

in the House will be the Hon. jeremiah
who is said to have made his campaign by
pulling up his homespun pantsloons and
showing that his bare hairy calves were
unornamented with socks. He has been de-
scribed as rough citizen, as a boor and
braggart and when called upon him l eX-
pected to meet big burly, pothouse politi-
clan with some shrewdness, much rudeness
and with all the marks of the professional
demagogue. l know the type, but Mr..
Simpson is not Of 1t. He looks more like
business man than like q farmer and acts
more like common-sense country mer
chant than financial fanatic. Heis about
five feet eightinches tall and stands straight
in his soft shoes Of French calf-skin. He
has form slender but weli-knit and why,
and there is an air of hard iron strength
about him. His head is not a large one.
His face is well-browned and rough cut
and it shows the lines of thought and de-
termination. Looking at it you would say
that the man had had 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 1t is
broad and the hair which comes close down
to 1t is as black as the wings of the crows
which fly by the thousand along the Poto-
mac. This black hair is well-cuU. 1t is
about an inch long and it stands in bristly
black brush out all over Jerry Simpsons
head. His nose is straight and of a fair
size and under it there is a short we'll
trimmed moustache Of black, well peppered
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 well fitted his angular frame.
His coat was a sack and l noted that his
linen had evidently just come from the
| Chinese laundry and his standing collar had
a black ribbon necktie about it which Mr..
Simpson ties himself. The spectacles which
he wore had gold rims and there was moth
ing about his appearance to distinguish him
| from the average Well-to-do Congressman.
| During the talk happened to mention the
subject Of socks and Mr.. Simpson told me
that there was no truth whatever in the
statement that ne had pulled up his pants
On the rostrum and showed his bare legs to
the people. Said he:
81 never made speech without stockings
on in my life and never pulled up my pants
! TO show what sort OF stockings wore. The
story was sent out by an anti-Alliance
newspaper correspondent to a paper in my
district. 1t was made out of whole cloth
and it was instigat9d | suppose by the re-
marks that made concerning my opponent
who was noted for his fine dressing and his
! expensive ana drlSlOCraLlC airs. L called
him "Silk-stocking Hal" and may have said
that farmers could not afford to wear stock
ings Of that kind. You people don't under
stand the farmers of Kansas. They are not
Doors by any means. They are the pick OF
the east. The most enterprising of the
young men Of the country went from New
York, New England and Ohio and the other
states to Kansas ana we have the best OF
this element in our party. These men were
the old abolitionists. They fought under
John Brown and we have nearly all of that
element with US. The only farmers in
Kansas with whom such an argument
would be of weight, might be some of the
| Democratic farmers who come from the
south to that state and who form the Dem
ocratio partyday. They are from the poor
white trash who were sent to Kansas by
the rich planters in order that their votes
might perpetuate slavery. They moved to
Kansas for the rewards of politics and they
are of the same character to-day as they
were then. The Democrats of Kansas are
buccaneers as far as politics are concerned
They would join with any party that would
give them taste of the offices, and during
] this falls elections see that they have tS