The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-19
THE ssSUN" AND JERRY.
New York Paper Comments i
SprightIy Manner on Simp-
sons Defeat.

The following is an editorial in the
| New York Sun:
The Hon. Jerry Simpson, who des-
cribes himself technically as a Demo-
POpulist, announces that at the close of
his present term in the house of repre-
| sentatives he will seek the secIusion Of
his ranch near Medicine Lodge, and
Will be content to remain a private
citizen, furnishing wisdom to the Popu-
lists or Demo-POpulists only when they
make requisitiOn.
The Hon. Jerry Simpson had prev
tously declared that if he were re-eIect-
ed this year he would not be a candi-
date again, but such is the incredulity
of this generation that many of his con-
stituents remained unconVinced of his
intention to abdicate. The Hon. Chester
I. Long, the Republican who beat him
last week and in 1894, has made a, prac-
tee OF running against Jerry, and
neither he nor Jerry would be comfort
able if the latter should insist upon
! cultivating stock instead of politics.
Jerry's divorce from politics would be
regretted generally, for he does not
lack humor, whereas too many of the
Popul1st leaders are mere gusts of wind.
When Jerry attacked the United States
navy he did not speak from the know1-
edge of marine science which he laid I'D
when he used to command vessels on
the lakes. He loosely assumed that
as his constituents were remote from
the sea and could scarcely get water
enough to drown the grasshoppers.
ships of war, which don't even issue free
Lodge region. When he called President
Mckinley honest but weak" he re-
membered that Kansas has seen Popu-
list state legislators who did not com
bine honesty with weakness. When he
danced frantiCally on the perilous edge
of war early last spring, he knew per
fectly well that his Populist constitu-
entS would celebrate him as the states
man who forced the administration into
war; and the Populist platforms of his
district did so celebrate him When
he opposed most of the measures for
carrying on the war he was sure that
he would be able to keep a straight
face when he had to tell his constitu-
ents that he had earnestly supported
those measures.
So he had plenty of fun until the
votes were counted. Then he saw that
his district imperfectly appreciated
humOr but he was not dfscOura sred
thereby. At once he said that he would
till the soil and raise the steer and
leave the barren field of politics, acting
as consulting engineer only when duly
invoked. This Joke was too palpable
to miss fire, and will be staggered at all
winter in the Populistic households of
Comanche and Pawnee.
jerry Simpson is no fool a compli-
ment not to be bestowed indiscrirn-
inately upon the statesmen Of his party
He has oil enough. but as the Kansas
Populists have been fond of pepper
mustard and vinegar, he has thrown
those condiments down the PopuIist
throat. He is getting to be somewhat
of plutocrat himself, but it amuses
him to scourge the other plutocrats
Perhaps the legend of his socklessness
a legend which was invented bv a Re
publican opponent, helped impose a
career and sentiments to match upon
Jerry. His Apollonian legs might be
incased in the choicest silk, but at least
his speeches would be barefooted.
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