The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-31
OUT OF POLITICS.
Jerry Simpson on a Speaking
Tour i'm Cattle Country.
Former Kansan Now Registers
From Roswell, n. M.

Denver. March 31.-The Republican
says: Jerry Simpson. Roswell. N. NJ,
is the apparently misleading name and
address that appears on the register or
the Albany hotel. There was consid-
cradle discussion in the lobby last even
ing as to who this unknown Jerry
might be. but investigation revealed
the fact that he is none other than the
.'sockless statesman of Medicine
Lodge"
NO. I don't live in Kansas any
more" said Mr.. Simpson last night. II
have gone into the cattle raising bust
ness in New Mexico, where and my
son are stocking a ranch and l expect
to make that territory my future home
/ am a full-fledged cattleman now, and
1 am entirely out of politics. The fact
that 1 have moved into a territory
ought to prove that statement abso-
lutely true. What show will have in
politics down in New Mexico. 1 would
like to know
TT isn't much use for me TO say any
thing about politics since l am out or
the swim. Still, have opinions as TO
what think will happen. don't think
Bryan will be the candidate for presi-
dent in the next campaign What the
Democrats want is a man from the
middle west VINO hasn't expressed him.
party. Carter Harrison might do, or
Dockery of Missouri. 1 think it will be
difficult TO eliminate Bryan from the
light but his ideas are too definite Tor
the Democrats in the next campaign,
Mr. simpson also said that he did not
believe that Theodore Roosevelt would
he the Republican candidate in 1904 Il
like Roosevelt" he said, but think
the Republican leaders are afraid of
him He has the unhappy faculty of
doing what he believes is right without
said before. L am out of politics and am
not supposed to know anything about
it"
Jerry Simpson is emphatically against
the oleomargarine bill. which puts
tax of 10 cents a pound upon oleomar-
gsrine and butterine.
1t means" he said. that ii win turn
the entire butter business of the coul-
try over TO the creamery men. and ali
substitutes will be driven out of the
market. 1t is liable to send the price of
butter uD to 30 cents pound. L was
surprised that two of your Colorado
FOR the bill, and 1 am unable to under
stand why they did this. The bill is
decidedly against the consumer and Is
entirely in the interests of the creamery
trust / was forced out of congress
two years ago because I would not
agree to support such a bill. Beca use I
would not promise to do this L was re-
fused the ECminat ton, and it was given
to another man. 1 have been lighting
this proposition ever since l went to
congress. and l shall continue to oppose
it.
4 shall be in Denver for a day or
two 1 am interested in the work of
the National Live Stock associa ton.
and today L met John c. Springer. the
president of that organization. We pro-
pose to make the next convention in
Kansas City the greatest in the history
of the association. l am going from
here to Ogden to address the state
On inn Of Of Tfnh nd
from there I go into South Dakota and
Idaho and other western states for the
same purpose. Ny object is to stir up
interest in the association and to urge
upon the cattlemen of the northwest the
necessity of getting together. They are
realizing more and more that if they
want to accomplish anything in con-
greSs or anywhere else they must pull
together and exert their influence as a
body 1t is through this method that
other interests have been so successful.
and the StOcksroWers must adopt the
same tactics.
What we need more than anything
down IN Washington is secretary of
the interior who is from the west.
Nearly all the business of that depart
ment has to do with the country west
of the Missouri. and the man who is
at the head of that department should
come from this section. Just now we
are fortunate in the fact that the man
who is in the presidents chair under
stands the west, and / believe he will
do great things for us before his term
expires.
4 speak of this especially in regard
to the order of the secretary of the in
terror for the removal of fences from
the public domain. Down in my part
OF the state the summary removal of
the fences from the public land will
work great hardship to the small cat
tleman. the very man whom it is the de-
ciared- intention to protect 1t Will
mean that the man with a small herd
viii have to hire herders, which he is
unable to do. and that he will have to
sell out to the big cattlemen, who will
IN a short time have complete control
OF the range I think the leasing sys-
tenn that is advocated in the west will
solve the difficulty to a large extent
but of course that is experimental