The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-05
Three Doomed Candidates.

Three POpuliStS who havo contributed in
various degrees to the delight OF mankind
and have felt the approving pat Of Fame
upon their foreheads. are awaiting Tuesday
with more than the wonted anxiety OF can
didates. For these three may be called
upon Mt any time before the vote Is counted
to give up their lives for their country. At
least they say so. Now. much as they love
their country. they would rather do 1t good
by talking to 1t and helping to rule it than
by taking a place. however proud. among
the storied dead. Incidentally, there is
the question OF salaries and glory. No
wonder, then, that the Hon. lena
THUS DoNNELLY Of Nininger, tho Hon.
JERRY SIMPSON OF Medicine Lodge.
and tho Hon. THOMAS E. WATSON OF Thomp-
son. McDuflle county. Georgia. prefer to
continue to exist and to continue to help
the nation and themselves. Mr.. DoNNELLY
needs no Introduction in any audience. al
though he might need q nimble pair OF legs
II he should stray into SHAKESPEARE
Club. He is trying to be elected Governor
Of Minnesota on the Peoples party ticket.
There is no doubt in Mr.. DoNNE1LYs
mind that he is the People. He announced
month or SO ago that the Minnesota Re-
publican State Committee was seeking his
life. Few persons in Minnesota have had o
wink Of sleep since.
Mr.. SIMPSON Is dear to US all. He has
diluted his greatness little. we fear. since
he has stood at the helm OF power. He Is
known to ride bicycle. and he Is said to
have drunk that distinctly plutocratic tip
pie. champagne. at q symposium with Tom
JOHNSON Of Ohio and other powerful think
ers. We should advise him to have his
ankles painted flesh color in token OF his
continuing simple agricultural tastes If no
wants to be reelected to Congress. He says
that n presumably caitiff wretch or collec-
ton thereof is seeking to bereave Medicine
Lodge Of her sockless SOCRATES. A mystic
rious being Of tho name OF SILVER" or
"STTvER" or "FAKIR" or something Of
that sort scatters notes containing
declaration OF an intention to mar
JERRY and put out his fair young
life. It is generous to tell your en-
envy that you mean to unscam him
from the nave to the chops. butJERR feels
little uneasy. He never can tell hosy soon
plutocratic bullet may whistle into him.
We assume that 1t Is the plutocrats who
want to make way with him. Nobody else
would. Why. JERRY ought to be fed ut
public expense and otherwise maintained.
He Is a boon. OF course we don't mean to
say that the United States ought to pay
$1,000 year for JERRY's benefit. but tho
man who would kill him would kill O robin.
Lives there another THOMAS DIXON?
THOMAS WATSON. universally known MS
Tom. is trying with much valor and vigor
to DO reelected to Congress from the Tenth
Georgia district. The vote in that district
Mt the State election indicated thnt THOMAS
has hard road to travel Hc is the young
man who sold or burned his law library so
as to be in full communion with the Farm
ers' Alliance. He was or was said to be a
| Democrat once. He loves tho Peoples
party. he has plenty OF rhetoric and self
possession, he has been great man in his
district. Somebody ia going to kill him,
too. he says.
Why does anybody want TO kill these
three ornaments OF Populism. or Populis-
ticism. or whatever You call it? They arc
delightful persons. all three. Ii is singular
that tho lives OF the three should DO thront-
ened. Is tho criminal the same in the three
cascs2 And Is his name like that OF the
slayer OF poLYpHEMUs in the Odyssey"
Mr. NONAy2