People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-09-16
Jerry's Opponent.

the man that is running for congress
against Jerry Simpson, entertained
the citizens Of Hutchinson for an
hour at the recent great Republican
blowout, (izzle, for not two hundred
people outside the city were in at
tendance) on September l, and for the
benefit Of the VOICE readers, we made
a few notes that those who were de-
MED the privilege of hearing him can
judge what kind Of a congressman he
would make.
The probable reason of his being
such a deSpairing failure to people
was the fact that he bent the
greater part of his energies posing as
an orator; but his posing was that Of
a school boy taking his first lesson in
elOcutiOn. 1t is safe to say that he
will be remembered, only as the man
that ran for congress against Jerry
Simpson.
He started out by saying that he
proposed to make this canvass on
Jerry Simpsons record, and that If
the people endorsed that record, it
was their duty to send Jerry back.
He charged Jerry with "never having
passed bill" 1t seems that Chester
considers Jerry, congress. He is a big
part Of it, but not quite big enough
to pass bill by himself.
In TRADE against the sub-treasury
bill, Long never once attempted to
refute the scheme by argument, but
tried to cast cOntumely on it by Of
fering some cheap wit, eminating
from the brain of a Texan, about gov
ernment stables, pig pens, etc. But,
Chester, before you ridicule the sub
treasury scheme too much, don't you
think you had better have the sub
treasury law expunged from the stat
ute books Of Kansas? Weren't you,
as a senator, derelict in your duty to
the people in not having that mon
strouS, unreasonable, ridiculous, unr
constitutional law repealed? This is
Republican consistency. You pass a
sub-treasury law for Kansas, and then
shout treason, unconstitutional, re-
diculOus, absurd, wild scheme" when
the people ask for a national sub
treasury. Has the Republican party
acOpyright on the sub-treasury scheme
that you want no infringements:
Either call your sub-treasury law of
Kansas a foolish, ridiculous, wild
and unconstitutional piece Of Repub-
lican legislation, or quit your howl
ing against it.
He tried to make it appear that
Jerry and the old soldiers were at
outs, because Jerry referred a letter
of inquiry about pensions to a pension
attorney. We believe that was en-.
tirely proper and the only old soldiers
that are out with "Our Jerry" are
those that believe ''the doctrine of
forgiveness is the doctrine Of trea-
son."
See what Chester would have done,
If he had been in Jerry's place. "If
the people elect me to congress, | will
let Blaine, Reed and Others run ma
tional politics and all l will have to
do will be to sit around and answer
the letters of the old soldiers"
1t would be well for Mr.. Long to re-
member that the people Of the big
Seventh do not elect a representative
to 'sit around" for we are not a race
of sitters. We want a man to make
himself heard and make a name that
is familiar to every soul in this ma
tiOn and that Jerry Simpson has done.
Farther, he says, II would hesitate a
long time before making an issue be-
tween myself and the old soldier" b"
Why? Because there are eighteen
to twenty thousand old soldiers in
this district and each one has a vote. "
In his eagerness to catch the soldier
vote" he bids to ''sit around and do
nothing but answer the letters of the
old soldiers" just as if there were no
one else in this district. If the old
soldiers want that kind Of a represen-
tative, surely the rest Of the voters
do not. Evidently he will be damn
ed if he does and damned if he
don't"
Chester says, in my judgment, he,
Jerry, has injured the credit of the
state" How? "When asked if it
was not fact that more mortgages
were being released than recorded, he
said there was-'with the aid Of the
sheriff." What would the moral,
courageous C. l. Long have done had
he been in Jerry's place? If l had
been in congress and been asked that
l would haye"-denied it? No, "kept
still and not let the people know it,"
Now, mark you, he does not deny