The Topeka state journal., 1905-10-23

ceeding in a humdrum sort of way. Col.
Pete" Hepburn, OF Iowa, who is a
humorist, intimated to the Ezansan that
on looking inside Mr.. Dingley's silk hat
he would probably find something to
his advantage
This silk hat had been deposited. crown
down, upon one of the house desks, as
was Adr. Dingley's custom on coming
into the house for a few moments. MI
Simpson walked cautiously passed It,
peered within saw that it bore Lon
don label. walked back to his side Of
the house, and DroDounded a query TO
the gentleman from Maine
There was an object lesson against
protection. which Mr.. Simpson made
the most of. The chairman of the ways
and means committee and author OF
the Dingfey law was wearing a silk hat
made in London Mr.. Simpson wanted
to know why the champion of protec-
ton and home markets did not wear
a silk tile c. American manufacture
Routed the Floor Leader.
When Mr.. Dingley replied that the nat
was probably made in this country, but
given London label to make it sell bet
ter, the Kansan only pounded him the
ment- For the first time in his long ca
reer as a member of the house, Mr.. Ding
ley was plainly routed The house was
IN nigh spirits that day. Wnen It's He-
publican leader angrily denounced the dis
cussIon as all rot there was shout OF
Unless it were Speaker Reed. no other
member of the house was more written
about than this POpulist member from
Kansas. He was always good natufed
and obliging. His frequent sallies into
debate enlivened dull proceedings. He
80 ore ~ +Le 1,esf ss-r7,x1 m Ire7-S'' in
congress, and himself liked to set the
house by the ears. He would even go to
the extent Of stirring up his Populist
brethren at times Their fantastic theO-
ries of government were by no means al
found himself in accord with such con-
serEatiVe Republicans as Uncle joe
Cannon, and inculcated into his speeches
deal OF homely but sound phAosophy
about the administration of the federal
government and the expenditure of gov
ernment moneys. Scores OF stories have
been written of him, some apOcryphal-
Joining the Bryan movement, Mr. Simp-
son became virtually Democrat He
was d free silver man for years before
Bryan was nominated at Chicago. Quite
time ago he moved into New Mexico,
where, on a ranch. he grew many kinds
of fruits by irrigation. During the hrst
session of the last congress, while a state
hood debate was in progress, he sent sew
eral boxes OF beautlfu apples TO the
house. These We're distributed in the
cIoakrooms. He wanted the nomination
as delegate from New Mexico in 1904, but
was unsuccessful
In one of his last visits to Kansas
Jerry Simpson stopped at Chanute. It
was on this last visit to Chanute that
Mr.. Simpson talked of the Populist
party in a reminiscential mood Talk
about the Populist party being dead,
he SAID and smiled, when we have
converted Roosevelt and Taft! IF
Roosevelt had made the speeches he is
making now four years ago he could
not have been elected constable in
/ the most ignorant precinct on Long
Island They are all coming our way.
They do not call themselves POpulists,
but a rose by any other name smells
as sweet. And III bet all the money
| in New Mexico that if there had been
a POpulist supreme court in Kansas,
! like there ought to be, the will of the
! people expressed in the state refinery
law would have stuck. Talking about
/ New Mexico, did you know that
came within one vote of being nomi-
/ mated as delegate to congress from the
/ future state2 Well, it happened and
/ the fellow who voted against me had
1 Mexican blood in his veins He apollo
gized afterward and said if he had
/ seen me before he cast his vote that
I would be in washington now instead
| of organizing excursions for a land
| syndicate. That shows that when
mans luck gets started the wrong
way nothing will stop it.
True to POpuIism-
Nov, if that men with Mexican
blood had voted for me would have
] had an opportunity to officiate at the
/ second coming of the Populist party,
/ because it is coming. You can't any
more stop the progress of PopuIist
principles than you can stop the perl
! odical visits Of the grasshoppers or
/ the locusts. They have called the
Populist party the hard times party,
and that is just what it is People do
not need relief from good times. 1t is
when you have to look Wall street in
/ the face and haven't got the money
to pay that you need legislation. No
man ever asks for an Endorsement on
| his note until he hasn't got the money
to run his business. That is what the
Populist party is. 1t is an indorse-
ment upon the note of all the people
of the United States. Now, don't
laugh. Wait a few years, perhaps not
! so long, and then watcn US come to
the 'front.'
And during the same talk half hu-
morous half regretfUl, half argumen-
/ tative, he said: THE country is not
going to always remain as it is going
now. Tt is rapidly getting to be a case
of the very rich and the very poor The
| farmer going to town to stop at
medium class hotel cannot find it any
| longer. He either has to go to the mar
/ bic palaces OF the cheap lodging houses
poems and as have never experienced
the joys of being the first, I expect I
shall land in the latter class"
THE old party which gave Kansas
| such a reputation as she has not en-
joyed since the days of John Brown has
gone to pieces" he said later on. Look
at Mary Ellen Lease and then wipe
your eyes. Think of her being robbed
of $500 in a New York hotell That is
all convincing evidence she is no longer
a Populist, because in the old days no
respectable Populist would be caught
with that amount of money anyWheres
close to his residence. Harris is presi-
dent of some cattlemen's association
Little is prosperous and back to his old
associates. Hugh FarrelIy and myself
are the only two left Even Farrelly is
not faithful because when went to
New Mexico I left my principles in his
keeping and he has let Hoch and the