The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-06-09
his voting for tho bill at this stage of

his voting for tho bill at this stage OF
the proceedings would very likely Sc
cure his erection and insure his being
on hand when his vote might be OF
greater value and when the vote of one
member might suffice to give the bill
that quietus so much desired-by the
boards of trade.
After the election, March, 1898.
when the bill came up for final action.
and when a few votes more or less
meant its defeat or enactment, Mr..
Simpson ''could afford" and did afford
to vote his convictions-or those of the
exchanges-although he had gone to
Washington as the representative of a
Kansas district where not one man in
the hundred favors the continuance OF
present board of trade methods; but
then we have the assurance of the hon
orable gentleman that the citizens of
the Seventh district had neither the
capacity to investigate this measure or
judge of its merits.
Not only did Mr.. Simpson appear at
tive of the Seventh district. but as the
especial champion of the farmer and
wage-worker as we'll: and although he
could not afford to vote his convic-
tions when the nomination and election
hung in the balance there came time
when he could and did-that time was
when his vote might mean either the
defeat or passage of a measure desired
by nearly all his constituents. Then a
high sense of duty governed his action:
uefore the nomination he could not
afford to let it.
What is quite as remarkable as his
action on the ''anti-option bill'' was his
vote on the ''car-coupler bill: bill
which was the one measure before the
Fifty-second congress having the undi-
vided and earnest support of the indus
trial classes of the nation: those indus
trial classes whom the representative
of the Seventh was posing as the espe-
cial CHI ampion of.
There were but two bills before the
Fifty-second congress which were sup
posed to have money in their defeat"
the ''anti-option bill and the car
coupler bill"
Strange as it may appear to the
farmers and artisans of the Seventh
district, Mr.. Simpson was. on the high
est kind of moral grounds. alike Op-
posed to taxing gamblers who deter
mine the price of the farmers grain,
and laying upon the railways the
grievous burthen of so constructing
their cars that a regiment of railway
employees shall not be MANNED and
killed every fortnight by the merciless
car-coupler. 1t gratifies me to be able
to say that a few men in congress
can be directly influenced by
the most unworthy appliances
and that Notwithstanding the fact
that the representative of the
Seventh Kansas" voted with such at
torneys of the railways as have secured
seats in the house, to kill the car
coupler bill'' it became the law al
though it will involve the expenditure
by the railway companies of some $780,
900, 900 to $4,000. 900 within five years.
Possibly had there been 800, 900. 900 of
actual revenue at stake-as with the
''anti-Option bill"-instead of paltry
$50, 0OO,00O in five years the other Jer-
rvs might have seen great moral light
and the coupler bill have gone the way
of the ''anti-option bill" Ought not
the railway operatives who desire to
preserve life and limb give thanks that
there was not hundred million a year
in the car coupler bill? Yours very
truly, c. WOOD DAVIS.