The southern argus., 1891-10-22
JERRY's WINE sUPPrn
The "Sockless Socrates" Unnaerc,snn-
Played af Cleveland
kansas City Journal |

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OF the Franklin club Of Cleveland n
gather to devote about four hours i
the consideration OF economic onest,o..
and peoples party politics. Evarr
member of the club is natural ~.
orator, says the Leader, OF that H..
and they take turns in speaking ura,
the question under consideration
number OF stupendous reforms has haar
proposed by the club, and sharp eri,;
cism has been made OF the great noIi,,
cal parties. On occasion the wrath 4,
the speakers has been visita! -.
prominent men Of both parties ara
they have been roughly hauled a..
the Goals. But not single one OF tha,n
| ever received such roasting a. az
TO the lot of ''Sockless Socrates" S,rna
son of Kansas, yesterday. He
tlayed from his gold eyeglasses /, ~
russell shoes as bctrayer Of his par,v
LIZ was determined not to pay him r.
coming to Cleveland, continues n.
Leader, nor even to settle for his hn,aI
bill, so that il is made possible far N.
festive Jeremiah to leave some Of N.
congressional salary in Cleveland
The cyclone was due entirely n n,
fact that after the Saturday night ns,s.
ing Jerry and DR.. Tuckerman ;ojrss
Hon. Tom l.. Johnson, $ ID. Dodsa az
l.. A. Russell in a wine supper IA ~.
HOllenden cafe. From B until o'cln.,s
yesterday afternoon the retormcrs ~
comprise the membership OF the elA
spoke about government OWNERSHIP i
railroads. They are very much II A.
vor OF that and they said so. Safg =
guments were advanced 10 support theI,
position. At o'clock il was decIaaa,n
devote the remainder of the time ID, ia
peoples party affairs. Hugo Prycr M
David Rankin, who have been stumpinr
the state ever since the campaign
opened, were present The chairman
called for remarks bearing on the good
OF the cause, and Hugo Pryor arose.
WHINING WITH ENEMIES.
If 1t Is true, as reported in the
Leader OF this morning, = he said. 'that
Mr.. Simpson wined and dincd with a
party OF democrats at the Holleuden
last evening, | want to say that | am
opposed to any such actions He should
nave better sense than 10 do anything
ike that Applause. don't propose
to 20 out and stump this state for our
principles and then have men supposed
70 DC on our side 20 out and wine and
dine with our enemies. prolonged ap-
plause.l He thought, perhaps, that 1t
was all right because both be and John
son are In congress, bat he should
have had sense enough 10 keep away.
| have seen that thing worked BY the
men of the old parties in Washington.
They stand in congress and howl
about each other, and then go out and
eat and play cards together
you ask il that report is true, said
John Kircher. 1T Is only too true.
crowd of us went around TO the ll0llen.
den last night, and found him theirs
with Congressman Johnson, Lawyer
Russell and ) ID. Dodge. We asked
him what he meant by talking ID the
square and then going away 10 enjoy
champagne supper with the very pco-
pie be had been abusing. We told him
that we were there a workingmen. and
did not want TO be represented In that
and that he was not under any obIiga-
tions to us. He proposed TO do as be
pleased, and said we could do AS We
pleased. Mr.. Magee was with us, ard
he asked Simpson how IL would b. II
prohibitionist held forth on the public
square against the LIQUOR traf.
fic. and then went out and
had a wine supper with some
of the prominent brewers and saloon.
keepers of the town. We told Simp-
son that his was exactly parallel case.
| expressed my opinion and told him
that II he did not have any respect for
himself he should at least have respect
for the party. The revolution had it,
Benedict Arnold, and 50 have We to-
day. We should protest against any
such schcmers coming here and posing
Is representatives OF the peoples
party"
]. G.. Clementson -'T will object 10
the payment Of one cent 10 Simpson for
his speech"
fly of the hook. Johnson came 10 the
platform after the meeting In the
square and asked II he could have Jer
~ for fifteen minutes. We had no oh.
jections If he wanted him for fifteen
minutes A fellow member Of congress.
but the time was stretched into an hour
and champagne supper went with 1t.
Why was Johnson's lawyertherey"
Hugo Preyer-"A similar scheme
was on foot when Senator PETER was
here. put flea i'm his ear and tn
kept out Of the trap. | don't want "a
ascribc any bad motives 10 these peo-
pie, but they certainly show poor jude
ment We know that DIR. TuckermAn
II all right. bit be II not a polittcian
Simpson said he was no. here at oar
expense, but nevertheless, he vas here
A. the representative Of OUR principles
and we all contribute to pay bis con-
gressional salary Last SUNDAY
urged that only his hotel bill - paid
and hope now that not even that wiA
be done"
Mr.. Clcments0n--'T Was out this
visiting the sick members oi
our lodge and al the very first h0nse
paper was thrust al me By friends which
contained an account OF the wine sap
per. They said. III seems your 5ocg-
less Jerry Il not such a great man aiteF
All.fH
Peter Witt-'"Thcre In no sense In
such fuss over . littio rDaisef.
has a right 10 drink H1IA
Ehom be pleases- lie did not drink
Eith the democratic party
Mr. Kircher-'srhat may b.. tlf
Tom Johnson i large section 81 ia
party
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