The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-05-27
THE KANSAS POPUUSTS
SENATOR AND POLITICIANS OUT
or \ JOB.
The Present condition of Men and Wo-
man who Were Politically Prominent
Few Years Ago.

William A. PETER, whose wonderml
whiskers gave him national fame, who
was lifted into the Senate by the tidal
wave of reform, who pointed out to the
country so often the only path to pros
perity and contentment, and whose
panaceas for all ills and evils We're Of
fered as freely as salvation, is now re-
ceiving a salary of SO a week to write
editorials for the star and Kansan, ii
weekly POpulist organ at Independence.
He started a paper of his own when he
returned from the Senate, but the peu
pie were tired of him. He proved d
| false prophet, and being driven out by
! his old political associates, he accepted
nomination for governor on the pro-
| hibition ticket and got 1000 votes.
Mary L. Lease, being what they call
an almighty smart woman repudiat-
| ed her party before ii got a chance to
repudiate her. She is no longer a resi-
dent of Kansas, although Charley, her
| husband, still remains as a clerk in that
drug store at Wichita. Mary has not
returned since she went to New York
as a Bryan spellbinder during the cam
| paign of 1896. She is now supposed to
be lecturing on Joan of Arc somewhere
| in the East-a character she would like
to emulate. Her daughter. who had
good deal of dramatic power and used to
recite poems at Populist conventions
I
fortune on the stage in the great Popu-
list play, The Curse of Cold" is now
the only comfort of her deserted father.
The son is in the East with the mother.
acting as her business agent.
Jerry Simpson has gone out of the
whrl with profit, and is said to have
saved enough from his Congressional
salary to keep him in reasonable COM
fort the rest of his life. He has a good
ranch down at Medicine Lodge, which
he took up" as Government land in
early times, bunch of 400 or 500 cattle
and various investments that cause him
to be rated at 100000 by the commercial
agencies. For eight years he received
salary and allowances amounting to
over $6500 or a total of $4,000 in pay
ment for his services as a statesman.
He has lived in a frugal way upon his
mileage his postage and private sec
rotary account and has had little in
come from the ranch. So, having been
too sensible to fool away his money, he
is now we'll fixed and can enjoy the
usufruCt.
John Otis, who stepped from Topeka
mill: wagon into the House of Repre-
sentatives a Washington, is dead but
his wife still carries on the milk bust
ness at the old stand and is doing well.
He sprang suddenly into prominence as
| the organizer of the Farmers alliance
| in this part of the state, with the pur
| pose of doing what he could to relieve
| the tOiling masses. They sent him TO
| Congress once, but refused him a sec
ond term, and he became dissatisfied
with them and with fate After the ex-
citement of life at Washington he found
| it impossible to settle down again to
curds and whey and wandered out West
| in the mining regions in a vain search
for the wealth he had despised and be-
| rated.
And so the most of them have been
punished because they taught false doc
| trineS and tried to induce the people to
worship false gods. There is no section
of the country, where new idea Will
terminate quicker or grow faster in the
brains of creduous people than Texas
but they soon discover when they have
been fooled and resent it with vigor
WILLIAM f. CURTES.