Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-03-11
PETER AND SIMpSON.

WASHINGTON, March 5.-Judge PEI
fer and Jerry Simpson addressed meet
ing of the citizens alliance last night.
Judge PETER talked about finances and
other topics agitatIng the alliance, and
took occasion to criticise the reciproci-
ty idea. Before he closed Senator Pef-
fer INDUCED in a little political prophe-
cy. He said that it was not at all I'M
likely that in 1892 Grover Cleveland
would be the candidate of both of old
parties east of the Allegheny noun
tains, and that the western democrats
and republicans would Combine on an
other candidate. 1t would be contest
OF the west against the east. In con-
tinuing his explanation of the objects
Of the alliance, he said that in addition
to plenty of money the people wanted
means of transportation. He advocated
the building of double track railroad
from Manitoba to the Gulf of Mexico
This work should be done by the gov
eminent, and would cost about $50, OOO,-
900. and freight would be put at min
imum.
Jerry Simpson began his address by
stating that of the men comprising the
convention that nominated him for
congressman in the Seventh district of
Kansas, only one man wore a white
collar, and not one of them wore a
white shirt, and there was not lawyer
IN the convention.
When we hold convention III Kan
sas without lawyer we think that the
millennium is dawning. He said the al
lance did not pretend to have reached
the correct solution of all questions, but
it would get around to them after
while. He was confident that there
would remain in the future only two
great political parties. One OF these
would be the alliance and the other the
democratic. Mr.. Simpson thought the
conservatives would naturally drift to
the democratic party. The republican
party was dead. He repeated the usu-
al arguments in favor of a third, or peO-
ple's party, and interspersed his re-
marks with illustrations and stories
that set the audience III a roar. The
Medicine Lodge orator gave the wo-
mans council recently held in this city
a rap, probably in retaliation tor the
snub it administered to Mrs. Lease. He
said he had visited the convention and
had seen there Zine ladies dressed in
silks and wearing fortunes in diamonds
and precious stones on their persons,
reading fine essays on education and
woman's sphere, but he had not heard
them say word about the %, 900 young
women in New York who are driven to
crime to obtain livelihood, nor pro-
pose plan for their redemption"
Mr.. Simpson described his first visit
to the capitol; how he had viewed it
from all sides, and looking at the figure
that surmounts the dome, though he
saw it in the representation of work
lngman carrying bod. He thought
how appropriate such a statute was.
He timidly inquired of a bystander
what the figure represented and was
Informed that it was the Goddess. of
Liberty. Then he began to think, and
seeing that the face of the image was
turned to the east, he said:
How appropriate; she can look over
to New York and see the 10000 little
children that die annually for lack of
proper protection, she can see the e, 600
young women doomed to degradation;
she can look on the thousands of op-
pressed in factories, mines and mills,
ground down by greedy capital, and l
said to myself, if this is free country
and this liberty, then give me DEATH"