The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-20
SIMPSONS RISE AND FALL
A sCATHlNG SAaCAS& ON KANSAS
SCCKLESS STATESMAN.

Row Ee schisve6 Eis Greatness
Thrust Upon @ Startled Word Bare
Iegged-How he Fell TO Using era
va;s and "Ble1" Shirts-aow Sc
slipped the Traditional Beverage OF
tie Enemies CT the Populacs.
From re Greenv1lIe Is. c. Nssns.
The puolic is tolersbly familiar with tire
story OF Simpson e kansas-Simpson the
Sockless. During 9 life Of some experiences
Simpson had never been able 10 accumulate
either s supply OF surplus cash or = reputa-
ton for exalted character or remarkable
wisdom During the same years E large
number OF other meu had risen. Some o,
them on farms had increased their holdings
Of land or property year by yesr-h,erally
digging it OUT OF the grouad-uniii from
having been poor they were classed among
the independent or the rich. O;her men had
invented things, and thereby acquired
large fortunes. Some by shrewdnsss in
buying aad selling and economical handling
Of their gains nS1 taken places SIS merchant
princes Yet Others by orG5ory or wisdom
or kaowiedze of human nature or dsxtsEiuy
IL the ms .agens0t of men bloo.nei out be-
fore the world as statesmen. In every de-
~
merchandise, medicine, politics, Journalism.
.-ecasn.cS, dentistry, teaching and every
thing e.se-men who were born about he
same time as Simpson went far ahead Of
him AID achieved distinction ana wealth
aad other desirable things. Simpson mean
while accumulated only financial liabilities
aud an Indifferent reputation, AID biiei his
time. =
That came last year and Simpson burst
upon a startled word bsrelegged. de was
not particularly gifted 10 any Re poet He
1 had fought ~ uA:tleS, p-opouadsd no start.
n8g theories, swayed no ssnates or mnlti-
| tudes-bu, he vent without socks Upon
MS denGded ankles TIE eyes of the Kansas
voters rested and Toasted as did those Of the
decidedly susceptible judge Of poor jldg-
melt upon the brown ankles of Maud Null
.er. lie got there with both fee. aud no
SOCKS. &c was Simpson the Sockl=ss, Simp-
soa the rugged son OF toll, the darling OF
poverty, the lie CT convent.oaallty, the
sworn enemy of luxury, the cynical Sock
rates Of jsybswker6orl.
Simpson was elected to congress, not on
his record or MS qualifications but on his
Geprivatio1s. He denounced in scathing
terms the piutOc ats. the pampered children
Of luxury, VINO guzzied champagne and
terrspin and other saasouable Injuries and
se.eIeiy pu1ed fragrant cigars afterward,
While simpson a1d ether sons Of toll were
coming their sweat and blood into dollars
wherewith TO meet the tax gstherer and
confront the holders Of mortgages. These
remarks by Simpson invariably evoked
applause and aroused sympathy, and had
powerful effect in securing for him the votes
which made him member of congress sith
a total certain salary of $1,000 for two
years brain flag plainly in sight
Now, alas Simpson has fallen. He has ia
ken to good clothes and socks. Even a collar
and cravat desecrate the grandeur of his
slightly scraggy but strictly free-horn
American and laboring mans neck Upon
his manly and unterrified breast the hated
luster of q laundered white shirt CLEANS the
story Of his shameful surrender to the de-
basng demands of fashion.
Worse yet is the story of Simpsons fall,
for 1t is revealed that at Cleveland he ac-
cepted the hospitality of the plutocrats and
wetted his democratic whistle with cham
pagne-the traditional beverage of
the enemies of the populace. He drank
champagne, did Simpson. He ate of
savory viands prepared by a club chef of
reputation and a blue ribbon. He slaked
his unholy thirst with sparkling and ex-
hilarating liquid at SO the pint, and down
his recreant throat passed compounds of un-
known preparation and start ling cost. but
grateful to the taste and wearing on the
digestion.
Simpson the Sockless, Sim oson the start
Ang. simpson the Spartan, is no more. He
is a wreck and a memory. He has fallen by
the wayside Of prosperity, melted away in
the light of an annual personal surplus over
expenses. In his stead we have only the
common, every day, shallow Simpson
q cheap, loud-mouthed, cunning, sch9miug
fellow who made his poverty appear a
virtue and his continual failures a recon-
incubation, and who loves ease and luxury
and good eating, drinking and clothing, not
we'll enough TO work and save for them,
but too we'll to refuse them when chance of
folly put them in his reach.
In champagne headache turks; in club
dinners there is dyspepsia; tri6ulation and
doubts beset the possession of extensive
wardrobes; for silk stockings and tickled
palates and swelled heads Kansas statesmen
must render strict account to dubious
constituents. The end of Simpson is not yet