The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-04
A PLAIN TALK TO SENSIBLE MEN.
About a Political Pyrotechnic Whose
Fame Rests Not Oh His Acquisitions
But Upon Boosted Destirution.


In all seriousness, neither as a matter
of business OF of politics, can the people
of the Seventh district afford to have
Jerry Simpson GO back to congress
Leaving out the fact that he never die
any thing for the district, save to belittlt
it and its people in the eyes of the world
it still remains patent TO everybody thai
he must continue an ineffective unit fol
the reason that should Harrison be re-
elected Simpson will not be counter
anced politically, while no one will pre-
tend that he would be anything if Cleve-
land should be chosen. The men who
sold the Democratic party of this state
to the Alliance doubtless made promises
to this man Simpson, but it is known
and undisputed fact that the price OF
| the fusion was the control of the federal
| patronage of Kansas by the Democratic
bosses in the event of Cleveland S
election.
Jerry Simpson has not accomplished a
solitary thing for his district, either
politically or materially. and in the very
nature of things never can, even if ne
should be SO inclined-which we very
much doubt-not at least unless Weaver
were elected Or the Peoples party should
secure a majority of congress, which no.
body expects or believes. The only way
that Jerry Simpson did attract any at
tention at any time in congress what
ever, and the only way he possibly can,
is by extravagancies, in the role Of
buffoon, in saying hard things about the
state of Kansas and Of the women and
men of his district. How long will it
be before Wichita can be made
a port of entry. for instance,
if Jerry Simpson is kept in
congress: or, what can any city or any
section of this district expect at his
hands, save detraction and an undesira.
bic kind of advertising! Neither a
Democratic or Republican administra-
ton would touch him with a ten foot
pole, then why keep him there? 1t
would be more to the credit of the dis
trict, and we would have better stand
ing in congress, if we should pay Jerry
Simpson five thousand dollars in adoi-
ton to his salary, to remain away from
the capital and leave his seat vacant.
No business man, impractical politician
OF no intelligent individual will attempt
to deny that for the credit of the dis
trict, for the reputation of our people
and the good name of the state at large,
it would be better every way could Jerry
in case of his reelection be persuaded
to..keep his mouth shut for two years
and keep out of the house and away
from the departments. Instead of a
newly erizen prophet or great states
man in embryo, Jerry Simpson proved
to be only freak. That is all he is.
Some of the benighted districts of the
state of Arkansas or of the rotten egg
districts of Georgia OF Alabama might
afford to support such freak as their
representative in congress; but the Big
Seventh district of Kansas with its half
dozen important cities, with its develop
ing enterprises that need capital and
encouragement above all things.
and Its superior intelligence;
district which, the present year, raised
more grain than any other congressional
district in the United States, and where
great wealth and refinement are only
questions of short time, ought to have
representative in congress who would
not only be in touch with his colleagues,
but with the national administration.
Simpson, the erratic, unstable political
pyrotechnic, can never hope to be;
neither has he any desire or expectancy
in any other sound and conservative
direction
That Simpsons wild talk and extrava-
giant political propositions should catch
the fancy of certain class of adherents
is not surprising. when all the surround
ings and exigencies have been taken into
the consideration, out it is unaccountabls
that any level-headed, successful and
conservative business man whether his
party predictions. should for moment
countenance the claims or lend his vote
to sustain the dangerous ambitions Of
this man whose fame came not of anv
noble acquisitions but of boosted destitu-
ton.