Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — SOCKLESS STATESMAN SIMPSON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SOCKLESS STATESMAN SIMPSON.

A Graphic Picture of Kansas' New Conpressman. Jerry Simpson, the Congressional curiositv from Kansas, is now one of the leading attractions of Washington, says a Kansan who recently visited him. The sockless pride of the West is about five feet ten inches high. When he stands erect he looks as if he were leaning against a post. This m supposed to come of his habit es iesa* ing against posts around his town, where, through ward politics, he wastown marshal for some years before his elevation to Congress. The handshake of Jerry discloses that while he may be intended for a farmer representative, he is not of the class of farmers who report in person for labor in the fields. His hands are the softest thing

about him, except his new office. Sincetaking up his residence in the capital he has substituted gold-rim glasses for plain wire rims. His hair seems inclined to be independent, and standson end, each particular hair apparently fighting for more room. The distance between the hair line and the dark eyes is scarcely equal to the average measurement. The facial angle is suggestive of a town marshal or a rider of a bucking bronco. The mustache looks downward, and instead of arresting progress in itsdownward course by the timely interference of a barber, Jerry surrenders it to the mercy of a cigar “snipe” and the incisors in the immediate vicinity. He has an emphatic malaria, complexion. The points of his shoulders press forward and downward, even more so than the average farmer as he follows his cultivator on a brightspring morning. He does not move as if he was trying to stop a herd of cattle on the stampede; it is decidedly atown marshal walk with a record of “two drunks per month.” He wears a. number nine shoe without apologizing to any one. The stripes in his “pants” are very distinct, and run perpendicularly instead of longitudinally. His present stock of “pants” shows a broad, yellowish stripe alternating with a> chestnut sorrel section. His coat and vest came off the same shelf. Everything fits like paper on the wall when the floor above has been visited by the fire department. When a caller sends his card up toJerry he always comes down to see what the trouble is about. He has been somewhat embarrassed since the last campaign by the receipt of over 300 pairs of socks. His dynamite strength in the political quarry was due to his disregard of socks.

JERRY SIMPSON.