The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-12
SIMPSON REDIVIVUS.
Jerry, Bright and Healthy as Ever,
Says Things
SOME OF WHICH ARE WITTY.

| SayA-WfIl Lecture Tonight.
Jerry Simpson had not been shaved
when he struck Topeka yesterday even
ing and there was no brass band to greet
him as he stepped from the Santa Fe
train at 4:30 and taking his grip which
contained change of socks, he walked
leisurely as became a retired statesman,
to the Dutton house where Dick Chase
used to stop and where Mrs Lease doesn't
now.
He had not been shaved this morning
either and enjoyed a satisfaotory-to
him-degree of solitude as he sat in far
| corner Of the office wearing a black
Prince Albert coat, straw hat and a
Bland sixteen to one smile.
Mr Breidenthal called on him early to-
day and did not stay long They talked
about the weather and the Morrill, ad-
| ministration, and drank icewater and
| famed themselves. That's about ali there
was to do
Mr Simpson seems to have fully re-
covered his health, that seemed 10 be
getting away rom him last summer, and
was as obliging about talking as he ever
was Mr. Simpson is ALWAYS happy. His
smile is as continual as his quiet, pleas
ant conversation.
fellows" he said, land have left cheap
boy to take my place on the farm"
What have you got in this year?" ask
ed the reporter.
"About 200 acres of corn. You see I
have 200 head of cattle, and they eat
some corn. 1 also have in about forty
acres of wheat, but it won't make much.
Maybe | can get enough out of it to
plant again. We have a very good pros
pect for corn down our way. We have
had four or five very good rains and l
think the outlook is better than we have
had for years.
That good old question was now due,
and the reporter sprung it bravely.
What he said, do you think of the
situation?"
We'll" drawled Mr.. Simpson. ~it has
been remarked before that the situation
is little hard to size up. 1t is a little
early yet, and the man who goes into
the prophecy business now is likely to
make some mistakes. So far as the sill
YER situation Is concerned we will have
to wait and see what the old parties are
going to do. l think they will run
against some mighty big obstacles when
they come to adopt platform II the
silver sentiment causes Z split we may
be able to combine the silver forces in a
new party and surprise 'em. Altogether,
l think this viii be very good summer
to saw wood
sin case of such party who do you
think will lead it?"
81 think MIR. Sibley of Pennsylvania
will be the man. He is able and q
brilliant speaker. One of the best in the
United States, | think, and l know him
intimately. l wish he could talk in
Kansas soon.
There is no use denying that the sill
yer sentiment has grown wonderfully
and is continuing. 1t amounts to a revo-
luton of public sentiment and it is not
alone in the west. There is an i'm
| mense silver sentiment in the ReDnbli-
can party and considerable sentiment
in the Democratic party. A split would
not be surprising thing. The only
| thing that seems likely to prevent it is
the same thing that has held the parties
! together for so long-the adhesive power
of the hope of job. Those are the two
| great issues before the public now. The
| people on the one side and The politicians
! on the other.
"The condition as regards the income
tax is exactly similar to that which
caused the French revolution. The
kings government was supported
/ by tax on the people. The
clergy and nobility were exempt
! 1t was an attempt to tax the nobility that
caused the revolution. l am going to
have lecture on that subject next win
| ter. A translator is now at work on a
French history of the revolution that was
written by peasant and contains lot
of facts about the causes of the revolu-
ton that were suppressed by those inter
ested"
How do you view the doings of the
! present state administration" suggested
| the reporter
''In strict confidence" said Mr.. Simp-
son, as he leaned forward and suddenly
continued to smile, 81 am disappointed.
| One would have expected that man
| like Mr.. Morrill,, who has been celebrated
as shrewd business man, would have
| put himself at the head of an admins
tration that would have cast the Populist
administration into disgrace aud dis
trust, but fear the opposite has been the
result l don't altogether blame mr..
Morrill,, however. He is the victim of
a very bad system we have in this
country. Too many people must be pro-
vided for. The boys that pushed him
along must have job or there will be
trouble. 1t is bad system and public
sentiment should see that itsis obliterat-
| ed Mr. Morrill, knows that, too. The
| trouble with him is that he didn't begin
to educate public sentiment along that
line soon enough. | believe he holds
| that public sentiment has something to
do with the enforcement of certain
THINGS" and Mr.. Simpson gazed idly out
of the window.
"What do you think the Populists are
going to do about the next election in
| this state?n
"Well, we'll be here"
"Are you going to be candidate for
| GOVERNOR"
Mr. Simpson gazed out of the window
| again. 81 don't think I SHALL" he said
II suppose you know you are talked
Of Would you accept the nomination."
81 would not" as emphatically as Dir.
| Simpson ever gets. 81 have trouble
enough. I am not 9 candidate for any
thing. I have had four years of it and
while my Washington life was very
! pleasant | am glad to get back on the