The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-18
WILL PLAY WORM
JERRY SIMPSON SAYS MRS. LEASE
UNDERSTANDS ADVERTISING.


joices That She Has Entered the Minis
try, He is Afraid She has Taken the
Sword and Not Peace as Her Helmet
He Thinks That as She is a FuIIfedged
Mason She is Rather Severe on a Brother
jerry Wants to Go to Congress Again.
Jerry Simpson was in the city last
night on his way TO Hutchinson to at
tend the state Populist convention. He
had just returned from Washington,
d. c., where he had been to hear the
dicussion of the silver question in the
senate When asked If he expected to
be a candidate for congress in the Sew
enth district this fall he gave one of his
sly winks and said:
Stranger things than that have hap
pened, and 1t might be that 1 would
again be pitted against Hon. Chester I.
Long"
Jerry, have you seen the interview
of Mrs. Leases in the Kansas City
Times? She says you ought to be
placed on the shelf. That you are, as it
were, back number, and should be al
lowed TO rest"
ooh, yes; have read the interview,
and appreciate 1t very much. While Sis
ter Lease has designated me as worm
"a common, everyday worm-it is GER
tainly very kind and considerate in a
lady of her talent to devote so much
kind solicitude upon the welfare Of
worm, and 1 appreciate her goodness
very much.
Il am not what would be termed an
extremely pious man and lay no claims
TO sanctification, yet I would not for
the world say on unkind word against
the Rev. MolIie
''Doft you know I admire the lady
very much. She is certaily the most
gifted lady in the world and a finished
orator. I believe she can coin words
equal to John ]. ingalls,. She is now in
the ministry and in the lecture field and
] believe that she is the peer Of any
man of woman in the United States
yes, in the WOrld-to work up advertis-
ing schemes, and if she desires to aid
herself in bringing her name before the
public and thus enabling her TO bring
light to the hearts and minds of the
people by passing me off for a cur or a
worm, or advertising that I need rest,
] can only say God bless AIolIie Lease,
and let her tongue never cease TO was-
Bible, but I am afraid she has got hold OF
the text: I came not to bring peace,
but sword bring I to my people, and
has forgot to go any further. But as
she claims among her other things too
numerous TO mention las they say on
sale bilD, to be a fulI-hedgsd Mason I
think 1t rather hard that she should
jump onto a brother Mason quite so
severe; because, in the lodge room as
around my mothers knee / learn the
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood
of man, and think it would be rather
hard for her to preach Christianity to
the world when she reflects that away
out in Barber county she had laid her
brother Mason on a Shelf and has caus-
ed the lightning Of heaven and the tiny
wire to say that this brother was a
worm and a cur.
Il hope she viii succeed IN her Efforts
and that the year 1896 can be placed
upon the records as the first and only
year IN which MoIlie has held TO one
view for twelve long months. They
tell me that she has belonged TO all the
denominations known to man, and 1t
would be natural that she shunld also
belong TO all political parties.
81 don't know what turned her loose
upon me at this time with all her elo-
quence. I was UP in Minnesota talking
silver at a IA ton Of Is to l when l pick
ed up a paper which announced in
startling letters that Rev. Col MoIIie
Elizabeth Lease had donned the clerical
robes and was rejoicing over the fact
which 1 CHANGED to look at another col
umn and read an Interesting Interview
which some Chicago reporter had had
with me the night before (whEn was
=
column about the Rev Col MoIEe
Elizabeth Lease calling me a EOTm-
Now. you see, that the Rev Colonel
MoIlie Eliza beth Lease had by her in
genuity received about $T0O worth of free
advertising, and I had done her a great
favor.
But let the Rev. Colonel MoIlie Eli
Zabeth Lease rest She needs It She
has a great work before her. She Is no
common woman. No, she is a brilliant,
educated, highly refined lady, a little
given TO changing ner mind, but with all
a woman who has no equal that I know
of and I can simply say God bless her,
and may ! ever have the chance to do
my sister Mason a kindness.
About politics l will say that I be
lieve the silver men viii all get together
at St. Louis. The gold bugs believe
that they have the votes at their back
and make their figures from the vote
of the house of representatives,. They
viii push the fight 10 the wall, and at
St. Louis / believe an entire new man
viii be nominated for president
4 now advocate the government own
ership of railroad beds. the same as
New York state owns Erie canal.
think this a better plan that the govern
mant conducting and OntrOllinR the
business.
Il am in the best of health and can
live very well without going to congress
but l viii not deny that 1 have a bee in
my bonnet and would like TO go back
again.
Il think the Populists should nomi-
nate Colonel w. \. Harris for governor
this fall. He is the practical candid
ate and one who can win and would
make a good governor"
Pardon