The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-23
Jerry and tho Buckskin Pony.

This is to be a great week for Medicine
Lodge and consequently for the rest Of the
universe. The Hon. JERRY SIMPSON begins
his campaign for reelection to Congress
from the Seventh Kansas district. JERRY
has promised that he will never again be
q candidate" II he is elected this time. The
Hon. CHESTER LONG Is the Republican
candidate, as he was two years ago, and
JERRY will never be satisfied until he
takes another fall out Of him." JERRY's
friends explain that he pines for private
life, but that there Is ian intense rivalry"
between hin and Mr.. LONG. 1t seems a
little unjust to represent that the latter is
responsible for JERRY's resolution not to
deprive the country Of his services. Surely
JERRY cannot be tired Of holding up the
torch Of Populism in the Capitol. Accord
ing to his admirers he held the noses of the
plutocrats to the grindstone and brought
on the war. Such q man must feel that be
cannot be spared, and there needs no rival
to induce him to remain In the field. Who
will pulverize the Money Power when JERRY
leaves Congress2 1t Is JERRTs duty to be
reelected, and he knows 1t. 1t Is the duty
Of the district to reflect him, and he knows
1t. This week he Is going to begin the
work Of making the district know it.
JERRY has the aid Of an old friend this
year. The Hon. GEORGE LAWRENCE Of
Medicine Lodge has a buckskin pony and a
blackboard. During JERRY's first term he
came home from Congress unexpectedly.
No delegation or brass band met him. Mr..
LAWRENCE, then a Populist. asked the Sock
lnaa GNrn aurzd 10 -fla V,Nkor-r it'll ht1n
JERRY liked the buckskin pony's action 80
much that for several years that fortunate
animal pulled him and the blackboard and
Mr.. LAWRENCE from the station whenever
JERRY came marching home from his in
tellectual conquests at Washington.
Then Mr.. LONG was elected to Congress,
and Mr.. LAWRENCE became a Republican,
and the buckskin pony became a Long
pony and tugged at the blackboard with
LONG and LAWRENCE therein as faithfully,
II not so proudly, as 1t had drawn LAW
RENEE and SIMPSON.
Now the versatile owner of the buckskin
pony has turned Populist again, and the
buckskin is a Populist pony and has re-
ceived an imperious mandate to cart JERRY
along the teeming boulevards Of Medicine
Lodge. This week Mr.. LAWRENCE is going
to hitch up the buckskin and drive
JERRY ten times up and down the
main streets of Medicine Lodge in day
light" Warmed by the drive and touched
by his reunion with these old friends, JERRY
will make a speech at which the Money
Changers will rattle their teeth and not
their change. and the Octopus will lose his
feeting, 80 to speak.
AS the buckskin Twill have sleigh bells
around his neck. and the blackboard will be
cleaned up and decorated with the national
%colors," there will be q hot time In the old
town this week. MI. SIMPSON, as we are
glad to learn from the Topeka correspond
emit Of the KansaS City Times, "has en-
tered into the spirit of the affair, and will
make 1t q memorable event In Barber
county"
We congratulate the buckskin pony and
we congratulate JERRY. There are few
things more affecting than is the ~reconcilia-
ton of brethren e~stranged. At the same
time JERRY, who is used to mounting rub
ber-tired steeds, should beware Of the vi
vacity Of the buckskin, excited by Joy and
the sleigh bells. And why sleigh bells2 Is
JERRY destined to be showed under?