El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-21

really merry way. His smiles do not
exhibit any curve of lips, it is square
| emile. Simpson has square face and
q square figure; his hands are big and
rough and square also. He is a
thorough New Brunswick Scotchman
thinly alluded with Kansas spirit.
| Simpson was not q social fGvOrite at
Excelsior Springs. He repelled the
advances of the people and resented
their curiosity about himself. He was
seldom in evidence, and when he did
come out on the hotel veranda the peO-
pie stared at him as he sat modify In
| q chair tanning himself. He was very
simple in his manners and when he
took his coat off to get cooler he ex-
posed q shirt with a elk bosom: other
| wise his attire was very plain.
He unbent one afternoon, however,
and chatted with two or three men for
| a half hour and seemed to enjoy it,
then the doctor called him away and he
went to his room again. His talk was
largely reminiscent and the few opin-
ions he expressed were positively po-
pulistic. One thing he thoroughly
believes and that is that w. j. Bryan
will be elected president of the United
States in 1900. "And when he is," said
he, 81 am going to ask him to give me
the postoffice at Medicine Lodge. l
think I ought to get that much out of
it,
"There were several old fellows
congress used to like to get joke
on he said, land one OF these was
Cannon of Illinois. had made an anti
expansion speech and Cannon got up
and said that if had made that speech
in Manila 1 would have been tried by a
drum-head court-martial and shot.
When he had finished I got up and said
that I would just as soon be shot in Ma
Mia for making speech of that kind
as to be shot in congress by an old
smooth-bore, brass Cannon from IL
linois. Tom Reed enjoyed that very
much, and he shook all over with sup
pressed laughter. He came up to me
afterward and said: ''That was all
right Jerry. 1 forgive you lot OF
things for that"
sit is my opinion that Tom Reed is
the biggest man in the republican
party. but none of the party's big men
have got the presidency of late years,
and neither will Reed. He will be set
aside, or rather, he will step aside, for
Mckinley. He is q bitter anti-expan-
sionist, and that sort of thing is not
popular with the party. Tom Reed Is
a mighty smart man and he Is an hon
est one.
"About th at Dingley hat episode! 1t
was not I.whodiscoveredlD ingley's hat.
used to wear q fine plug hat that was
a regular cloud of smoke by day and
pillar of fire by night We populists
used to take q shot at it every once in
while. When he was in the house
Dingley always kept 1t sitting on the
corner of his desk. One day a repub-
lican happened to look into it and said
to me, Jerry, go over and look In
nd
was told to look again. Then I saw
the word "London," and sailed into
Dingley, the night priest of protec-
ton, for wearing London made hat. L
was in fun. but DingIey took the mat
ter very seriously and splut-
tered and fumed and said,
It's all rot. That hat was made
in Connecticut and the London was put
in it to catch the dudes Then I said,
well, 1 caught a dude from Maine
with it. He wouldn't speak to me for
q month on that account, but one day 1
went up to him and said: See here.
Dingley, how much longer are you go
ing to sulk about that old hat business?'
and he laughed and put out his hand
and we became good friends again.
Reed enjoyed this joke on Dingley i'm
that his fellow statesman had simply
been tripped up"
Simpson in the plunge was an entire
ly different man than the one at the
hotel. The evening he went in there
was a big crowd of spectators, not
many of whom knew Simpson when he
came out in his bathing suit. An Ex-
celsior Springs bathing suit is a weird
garment and complete disguise to the
figure. 1t buttons over each shoulder
and the wearer must be contortionist
to get it fastened. It has short skirt
sewed on to it below the waist. This !!
did not add any to Simpsons natural |
beauty. But he was soon in the water |
with a crowd of small boys and kept to |
the shallows.
As soon, however, as it began to be
noised about that the noted Jerry |
Simpson was in the plunge everyone
stared at him until at last they drove
him out and into his clothes again. 81
was having a good time with the boys"
said he, "but couldn't stand the 9th
,rs. They seemed to think they had a
perfect right to make audible and I'M
pleasant remarks s.bout my feet, you
Know"
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