Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-07

NoNOhfscSmAN N IT. GA
 sentative Harter of Ohio on the silver question. Jerry Simpson Is to take the field as an apostle of Populism and tells me that he is now confident that the forces of monetary reform will combine for 1896 in every state west of Ohio, and here Is his platform verbatim as he puts it:
 First.-Free coinage of silver and retire ment of bank currency.
 Second-A real tariff for revenue on tho principle of taxing luxuries all they will bear and leaving all absolute necessaries free.
 Third.-Such governmental control of the railways as will lead by safe stages to ownership, tho Pacific railways to be taken on the mortgage as starter.
 4 Moral Miracle.
 Of course Mir. Simpson is sorry he was defeated, but there is no retiring congress man who goes with moro sublime conA- denco in tho early triumph of his princi- ples. It is said that Mir. Bland will bo managed" by the Brockway lecture bu- reau and will address clubs, lyceums and other paying bodies, but Mir. Simpson in- tends to take the popular chute. speaking in all places where the largest crowd of voters can hear him at the smallest ex- pense. He says, however, that there must | be another turn of tho screw before the people will riso against the goldbugs; that the prices of all farm produce must go | lower and mortgages press harder; that after that pressure there will suddenly be- gin a grand revolution, and if the example of repudiation Is set 1t will go through the | debtor nations like a prairie fro. Of course he maintains that if creditors were wise they would join with the silver men and not press debtors beyond the point of endurance, but l must not attempt to re- port his speeches in advance Inciden- l tally says Mir Simpson: The Wilson tariff bill has wrought u moral miracle, in that it has convinced the Republicans of the iniquity of trusts, the very existence of which they denied two or threo years ago. They are down on the Sugar trust | as a Democratic institution, and now both parties arc in a humOr to listen to the truth"
 | We are already acquainted with ma1y of the coming men, and in view of recent | occurrences 1t is amusing to recall what was said only short time ago about an | extra session. The only time l talked | with Senator Voorhees, about it he said: | "Cleveland will never call another if he should live thousand years, and think a president should and hereafter will risk | every evil, even to a successful impeach- hent, rather than call an extra session. don't just now think of ono that did not injure the president who called 1t unless it was that Of July, 1861. It helped defeat | us at the last election, but the pension business and the troops at Chicago and elsewhere are what did tho job for us. The ' whole labor vote went against us solid, | and this thing of detectives in the pension line looks to the people like bounding the pensioners. While 1t is true that compara- lively few were hurt-very few indeed yet 1t was SO managed that every one felt as If the hounds were on his track. There are 70, 900 pensioners in Indiana, and we had been polling nearly half of them, but this last time we didn't get per cent " This is slight Aggression, but 1t came in under the question as to whether the com ing congress would investigate tho pension office savagely, and the senator rather thinks 1t will.
 A Fighting Member.
 "The man who beat Billy Springer" is
 @ subject of general inquiry, and he is a
 man of very varied experience indeed. Mir.
 Springer, by tho way, came in on a flood
 and went out on a flood. The political
 revolution of 1874 came on the Republic
 ans of that timo like clap of thunder
 from a clear sky. They had ruled so long
 and absolutely that they had got into a
 way of thinking that the government be
 longed to them, and it was years before
 they could forgive MT. Springer for cap
 turing the Lincoln district. His 20 years | in congress have, one term excepted, been
 contemporary with those of Joe Cannon
 and tho two could get up book of thrill
 ing interest. The political revolution oi
 1894 brought in, in place of Mir. Springer
 Hon. James Austin Connolly, of Spring
 field, who has probably beon in more. big
 battles and held moro offices than any
 other new member west of Indiana. H'
 was born at Newark, N. J., in lS4S, wa.
 message clerk of the Ohio senate in 1857
 S-9 and was admitted to the bar in tha
 state while minor, literally going |
 while he was young. He went to lllinoi
 to practice law as soon as ago would al
 low, enlisted in 1869 and fought his wa,
 up to a licutennnt colonelcy. Since tn
 war he has been Q member of tho legisla
 ture twice, United States district attorne,
 twice, solicitor of the United States treas
 urz and diver. other things and whensys