The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-22
be made I'D of the friends of labor. of the

De MADE up OF the friends OF labor, OF the
agriculturists and the poos."
The above is the grist of my talk with
Jerry Simpson. 1 met him at his house on
First street, Northeast within stones
throw of the capitol. He talks freely and
has good command of language though
his grammar Is not as good at times as it
might be- He says done" for ''did" and
now and then "seen' for "saw" but his
words drop clean cut from his short, sharp
teeth and he apparently believes what he
says. He Is not man of education save in
the school of hard American life. He was
born in New Brunswick just fifty years
ago next month and as boy moved to New
York. He drifted to the great lakes and for
twenty-three years worked upon the YES
sells there starting In as cabin boy and
and coming out a captain. He served
short time in the army, and about fifteen
years ago lett the lakes and bought farm
in Kansas. He pre- -empted 100 acres and
bought $40 more. During my talk with him
l asked him as to whether ne still owned
the farm and whether there was mortgage
on 1t. He replied that his farm consisted of
one square mile of land and that he was
sorry to say that it had mortgage on it.
SENATOR INGALLS, SUCCESSOR.
Senator PETER, the leading Alliance Sen
ator, is keeping as close to the tracts of Mr..
ingalls, as possible. He was conspicuous
during the last hours of the closing session
of Congress upon the floor in that he shook
hands there with Senator ingalls, while the
crowd looked down from the galleries and
wondered how ingalls, felt. He has chosen
his apartments for the winter in the same
block in which ingalls, lived so long, and he
can look out OF his front windows at the
Senate wing of the capitol across the way.
He is in appearance, action and thought the
direct opposite of ingalls,. ingalls, was as
straight as Lake Superior oak. The back
| of his head rested in plumb line directly
over his heels and his lean shoulders were
well thrown out and his whole manner was
! stiff With his bright red necktie and his
exquisite clothing which fitted him like a
| glove he reminded you of Sir.Pitt Crawley
in Vanity Fair'' of whom Thackery said
he would rather die than sit down to dinner
in anything else than white neoktie
PETER is straight too, but his straightness
is that Of a jointed snake held up by q string.
He looks as thought he dropped into seat
he would go all TO pieces. His joints are
| loose while those Of ingalls, are tight. In
| gals in action is as quick as lightning.
PETER is slower than the wrath of the Al
mighty. Ingalls, had tongue that went by
| jerks and always ierked to kill. Peffer's
words flow from his lips like the waters of
a sluggish canal and though they are well
chosen you have to wade through great
quantity of them before you find fish worthy
of catching. Every word of ingalls, told.
He was as full of ideas as an egg is full OF
meat and he had q new word for every idea.
He dealt in the pyrotechnics of speech and
he made the ceilings Of the Senate fairly
blaze with his cutting satires and his COM
binations Of comparatively unknown die
tionary explosives. PETERS language is
that of the commonplace. Even in private
conversation he talks more like a preacher
of the old school than like a sharp, shrewd
active man which should be the type of the
United States Senator. Ingalls, was com
panionabie, approacEable and sociable, but
he was an aristocrat. He prided himself or
his ancestry and on his New England origin
He once compared Plymouth rock to Cal
vary and he localized. though he was mo-
overburdened with religion, the virtues O.
the Puritan fathers. | believe it CALLED hin
that he was poor and he would have made
right roy al member of the House of Lord.
with big rent roll at his back and with hi
seat so secure that nothing could touch it
In such condition ingalls, would have beer
prince both in his entertainments and OF
the floors of parliament. AS it was, with
j big family and comparatively small mean