The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-03-29

Jerry Simpson Tells Why He is
a POpulist.
His Conclusion Has NO Relation
to Premise.
l UNIQUE CHARACTER.
MIR. Wilson Small Man With a
BIG Voice.

MI. w lls0n a Small Man nv It'll g
Big Voice.
WASHINGTON, March e. Especial. =
There are certain factions or cutoff subdi-
visions ia this house of representatives
whose condition is calculated Do excite
mirth IN one not too deeply interested.
Among them are the prosllver Repu bile
ans, the antisilver or so called Wall street
Democrats, the mildly protectionist Dem
ocrats, -the seven Republicans from the
south and, lastly the Populists the lat
ter again subdivided into those who are
Ropulists from the ground up and those
who are really Democrats with thin Pop
ulistic veneeriug OF course the radical
Pcpulists look forward to holding the bal
ance of power In the next house and ez-
pect 10 choose the speak er and it is al
ready talked in che capitol that If they do
Jerry Simpson is to be that speaker. If he
is, there VIII BE fun.
Every body knows BY this time that Jer-
ry Simpson IS a Populist, a greenbacker
a fatist. free trader, single taxer and
a good all around reformer. Every body
does not know, however, that outside OF
politics he is one of the most genial and
cOmpaniOnabie men in Washington and
has had wealth Of experience on land
and lake la timber and prairie. liza peace
war and politics. which ID the hands of Z
skillfUl writer would make his biography
more fascinating than dime novel Jer-
ny says that etof all occupations which
man can follow there is none SO healthful
as that of a sailor. He has all the advan-
tages of regular hours, open air and the
Ike which farmers have, and has in adj
dition complete exemption from dust. mud
and stagnsnt heat There ia always q
breezy, liberal fellow, who fears God be-
ieves in Justice and wants to do something
for his fellow man; hence am a Popu-
list"
a Plain Case.
The unique character among northwest
ern Republicans Isl John IL. Wilson. who
is a little bigger than 4 bar Of soap, but if
you could hear him talk from behind
screen you might think be weighed q ton
He says; On this silver question those
eastern fellows are hurting themselves
worse than they are US. They are unwise
enough TO think that hostility to silver
only hurts the west, and chat but for
short time But as q matter IF fact every
thing ID our country that brings lib actual
cash belongs to the east. They own all
the railroads, nearly all the mines, the
stage companies and the steam boat COM
panies, and st is dollars to pennies that in
one way on another they own a very large
proportion of the land and the sheep and
cattle Now. when they cut down our
profits. and the volume Of money, and the
general returns on everything what about
their stock, and their bonds, and their div
idends generally3 Why we shan t be able
to pay any 1t is a perfectly plain case.
Tying down everything to this steadily
shrinking gold basis means nothing more
or less than a slow but long continued and
mercilass contraction of values.
Gwen, who can make money on fall
ing market2 I have tried it. We had in
our bank So 600 ia good clean cash when
the scare began and good gilt edged paper
enough to pay all demands and good
deal more. but what did it signifyg The
people thought our paper was 81 no &C
count and for Immediate purposes it was
not. We co1aIdn realize On lit. They crowd
ed i'd Oh US, withdrew their deposits, swept
away our margins and shut as up Now
come along the Democrats and propose in
addition to destroy some of our best indus
tries, to take whack at Cur tim Der, and
our sheep, and our lead, and our coal, and
hand over what little profit we have TO
those fellows just over the line IT'D British
Columbia. When they do it, we shall be
fat ON our backs. of course But we shan e 4
stay there Wei get up and do sorne thing.
We can stand it because we have the re-
sources. But these eastern fellows VIII
howl for their dividends and wish the
thing was to do over again. & on hear metz
sTwixt Two Evils.
With this statement THE silver Republic
ans an agree There IS one point in COM
mon with all the factions above mention
one need be ia doubt as to their opinions /
ON the other hand, the eastern Democrats T
take rather lofty tone and affect to- treat F
the western views ON silver as mere de- +
fusion Ar. Coombs Of Brooklyn says. /
OF course we shall worry through and +
pass a good tariff bill. and prosperity VIII T
return 1T IS returning, in fact, and every f
thing viii be in splendid shape, and tie F
Democrats VIII get another lease of power +
in 1896. They don It deserve it, you know, f
but they VIII get ST just the same because F
the people VIII take their choice between +
two evils. And they VIII see that with .
all their foolishness the Democrats are
little better than the Republicans"
Such eastern Republicans as General f
5rosvenor and Mr.. Payne Of New York
take occasion to triumph rather malicious
s. over their Democratic neighbors and
sm brace every fair opportunity to make
-he point On these divisions on silver aud
tariff But such men as MIR Walker of
Massachusetts, deprecate this kind of talk
and say. we shall need all the help we
sam get to make a sound money system se-.
cure. With this view great many DEM
7crats of the south and west agree. but
heir opinions as to what sound money is
iilfer very radically. I'm the present con
7ition Of what might be called suspended
egisiation, while the senate discusses tine
ariH and the house deals with measures
If not very exciting character, these
opinions are of value as Indicating what
lac final division viii be-
en- Unfounded Report.
The proposition that the president was
10 SIGN the Bland seiEniOEaQe bill on CON