Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-09
THE BROWN RERELLIoN.

The bHOWN HEbEILLON'
The Brown rebellion against Jerry
Simpson which all of u sudden, liketht
Cuban instruction, has flashed Its
lights the whole length Of two or three
cJuntiea, may vet assume darker hue
than brown in the eyes Of the people
ere 1t has wInked itself out. 1t splOt
ted by W. L. Brown of Kingman, but
the sore, the battered and disappointed
spirits of the Seventh district have been
gathered together and thrust to the
front to do the fighting, while he sits
costly IN his feathered nest as chair
man of the board of charities and plays
the role of the silent man. Every one
who ever had a private grievance
against Jerry IS called upon to testify
to his meanness. Judge Mckay has
until recently been about his only &C.
knOwledged lieutenant, In an army
without privates, but last week W. F.
Brown, of Pratt, who attained some
notoriety last winter as chairman of
the railroad committee in the house
and reputed author Of the Brown Bill,
came out IN five column manifesto
charging Senator Harris and Jerry
Simpson with the defeat of the maxi
mum freight bills.
A five column manifesto seems rather
a large screed for so small man, but
it accomplished its desired nilsson of
getting into the republican papers and
Mr.. Brown IS probably content with
The idea that it produced the earth
quake at Wellington, Pratt ana other
points on that day. Mr.. Brown, we
have regarded as honest, but as very
small man with very large ambitions
and very much inflated estimation of
his own value and Importance IN the
State Of Kansas. The bill named after
him, as chairman of the committee,
was drawn by the committee and was
probably as good as any offered in the
Legislature. While it is not charged
that he was false to the measure it is
however charged that through his am
bilious and headstrong operations he
caused the defeat Of railroad legisla
ton. That this was done by his bslky
manner, refusing to cooperate with
others, gaining the i'll will Of the SEN
atOrs and getting them all at cross pur-
poses, hoping to push the bill through
bearing his name and profit by 1t as
Mckinley prO6ted by the Mckinley
bill
The evident purpose of his manifesto
was to injure Simpson, but nevertheless
his hardest language was directed at
Senator Harris. Had he let Harris
alone, he might perhaps have accom-
plished little of the de,ired result.
The singular feature of the manifesto,
aud the thing which shows the calibre
Of the man is that he charges that Sen
atOr Harris was elected by the railroads
when it is matter of history that the
frst burst of grandilOquence that
greeted legislative ears last winter
flowed from thu lips of Brown of Pratt
when he nominated Harris for United |
States senator.
The efforts Of these people have the
cooperation and support of |
every republican paper in this district.
Immediately after the election the News
Of this city began to make charges and |
send out dispatches that Mr.. Simpson
had bOlted the pOpullst ticket in his
home county. 10 prove this the News
got letter from a middle-of-the-road |
populist of Barber county and then
sent it broadcast to all the leading re-
publican papers The simple facts are
that the pOpulists in Barber county got
into arrow. The democrats refused to
endorse their ticket. Both sides called |
on Simpson for assistance. He went
out over the district and left them to
fight it out. Now a lot of them are
mad and helping republican papers to
adorn tale about his boiling the
ticket.
Mr.. Simpson IS not perfect and he
has his failings like other mortals, but
Jerry Simpson can succeed Jerry Simp-
son as Congressman if he wants to.
THAT ENDLESS CHAIN.
1t was frequently alleged during the