The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-22
A CONTEMPTTBLE LIE.


A CONTEMPLATE LIE.
Jerry Simpson, at the last moment,
came to the rescue of the fast mail''
swindle. He is the Pop rooster who
poses as an opponent Of railway rule,
but on requisitiOn proves their plant
tool. He is against corporation com
bines On the stump out in Kansas, but
head and soul for them in the lobby
and on the floor of congress. The fast
mali imposition, run in the name of
the people of Kansas. but in fact in the
interests of a newspaper job and rail-
road combine, for the benefit of an in
side clique, had failed before the COM
mittee. Being about to go by the board
in the house, Jerry Simpson the dema-
gogue, jumped to his feet in a frenzy
and vehemently declared that should
the appropriation fail the mails for
South Kansas and Oklahoma would be
delayed twelve hours. Jerry was not,
in all human probability, asserting
such a barefaced lie for nothing. He
IS not built that way. The fast maiI'
carries no mails, and if Simpson doesn't
know that fact he doesn't know enough
10 run a ranch in Barber county, much
less to play the Pop patriot in congress.
But he knows all about it, and so does
his constituency. The people of South
Kansas would get their mails just as
promptly, for the most part, if there
was no Santa Fe railroad at all, to say
nothing of the political job and news
paper bastard called the fast mail"
which starts at no hour and ends no
where. and which actually delays the
regular mail train on the Santa Fe, and
but for which fast" outrage the people
would get their morning Santa Fe mail
from one TO three hours earlier. There
is not business man in South Kansas
or eastern Oklahoma that does not
know this to be true from dear expert
ence. The Rock Island and the Mis-
souri, Pacific both leave Kansas City
after all eastern mail connections have
been made and after the local mails of
Kansas City have been made up and
dispatched. There is nothing left for
the fast mali which is championed
by that cheap demagogue, Jerry Simp-
son, but the midnight editions of the
Kansas City papers. In the interest of
this fast newspaper mail" deal, the
regular Santa Fe evening train out of
Kansas City which carries all the
night mail consigned to that road, and
which leaves Kansas City early in the
evening, is run on a very slow schedule;
1t is side-tracked for fast freights, and
fast paper mail fraud" TO overtake it.
The owners of the road, upon the one
hand, and the congress, upon the other,
are putting the peoples money up in
the interest of an inside deal, which
deal is manipulated by a Santa Fe di-
rector who is trustee and controller of
one of the Kansas City papers IN this
combine. The fass ,1raIf is run at a loss
TO the owners Of the road, at a loss to
the government and TO the inconveni-
ence of the people of South Kansas and
of eastern oklahoma 1t is an open
robbery and a barefaced job from in
ception to finish, and the blatherskite
Pop adventurer from Canada who walls
over railway combines in the open, and
works for them secretly on the inside
while pretending TO represent the Sew
enth district of Kansas, knows that it
is job and imposition, otherwise he
would not have been heard of in con-
nection with it. He knowingly lied
when in order to save the cheap cheat
he jumped TO his feet in his place in
congress with the broad ana unqualified
declaration that if the appropriation for
1t failed, the mails for the people of his
district would be delayed twelve hours
every day. This Canuck-imported So
cialistic propa cation who poses as a
Populistic prophet in South Kansas but
eress for things and rings and talks !
ike a retained attorney for this con
aured fast mail juggle Will later in the |
season, blk and Gully fool dupes in en-
dorsing him by voting to send him back |
TO renewed opportunities for featherins |
his Barber county nest, by voting to |
sustain an adventurer who has never |
accomplished the slightest thing or ben |
Gifted the people Of his. district by q |
single act or vote, who, in short, is |
never heard from save when he is max /
Ing monkey of himself or going on the |
records against the interests of his |
constituency, as in anti-option or in |
This fast mail railway job.
ROASTS HIM BROWN.