Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-02-18
HONORABLE JERRY SIMPSON,

Kansas City Times: 1no dOnOTd-
BILE Jerry Simpson of Medicine Lodge,
congressman-electf from the Big Sew
eth district OF the great Sunfower
state, the stalwart stockinglesS states
man from the plaintive prairie, has
gone over into Illinois to show the
farmer members of that state how
large is the size of his hat, and unless
reports belle the Honorable Jerry he
wears mighty close to number eight.
The Kansas conqueror of Prince Hal.
of Wichita, against which redoubtable
famed runner he won in walk, has
been telling the three members Of the
F. NJ. B. A. exactly what the Times
called their attention to fortnight ago,
which is that by holding out for can
didate of their own selection they jeO-
pard the election of Palmer, who is as
near an ideal F. M. B. A. candidate
upon all the main issues as could be
found in many days travel. The Hon
Orable Jerry on Monday talked to his
farmer friends about the tariff. Out
mis- way, he said, that issue was the one
upon which the fighting was made. Ev-
| cry other was obscured. You'd better
drop Streeter, who leans to the republi-
cans on the tariff question, and take up
Palmer, who is sound thereon, he urged.
Yesterday the Streeter three dropped
him like hot potato. Half of Honor
able Jerry's advice had been accepted.
The rest will be taken in due time.
STEELE, for whom the farmers voted
yesterday, is the obscure publisher of
an F. M. B. A. organ at Mount Vernon.
The typographical union and other labor
organizations bitterly oppose him. He
will last only twenty-fOur hours. After
him as next in succession comes Moore,
one of the F. M. b. A. members of the
| legislature. He has been promised a
chance to see what he can do in trial
heat. If the republicans don't go to
him-and they will not-that settles it.
Palmer comes in as residuary legatee.
lie will go to Washington, a democrat
ic farmer, to wear the laurels he won in
one of the most remarkable campaigns
of the country's political history.
So the situation looks at Springfield
now. The knocking out of Streeter is
the warning of the coming break.
This was the work OF the Honorable
Jerry Simpson, of Medicine Lodge, he
with the long head which recognizes
that half loaf is better than no bread,
and when the distinguished gentleman
has rounded out and perfected his mis-
sion its fruits will be good to look upon.
There is in connection with all this
balloting at Springfield pleasing yarn,
emanating from republican sources, to
the effect that the Honorable Jerry Wis
tied that capital as the custodian Of an
important proposition, which was
nothing less than that if the democrats
of South Dakota's legislature will give
their votes to Hardin, the F. M. B. A.
candidate for senator, the members
of Illinois would join in the election of
Palmer. If this were so, much more
the honor to the Honorable Jerry's pO-
litical brains. But don't you believe
it. The beaten enemy is trying to let
itself down as easy as possible, and this
sort of CUFF is the mental offspring of
those who have nothing better to do
than imagine vain things.
The country has it's eagle eye 'sot' on
the Honorable Jerry Simpson. HIS de-
velopment in statecraft since the fool
ish one and the blind laughed at his
presumption in facing the Wichita
Launcelot has been a marvel of politics.
He seems to have been born with an
instructive knowledge of how to run a
machine. Long health and life to the
Honorable Jerry. If he puts through
successfully his latest stroke in diplo-
macy he may draw on US for as many
pairs of socks as will carry him happily
dry shod through the troubled waters
of the Fifty-secOnd congress-
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