Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 April 1898 — Page 3

JERRY HAS CHANGED.

PEN PICTURES OF THE FAMOUS KANSAS CONGRESSMAN.

Nothing Uonpbiiticated About the "Sage of Medicine Lodge"—tirifin of the 8ocklesa Simpson Story—His Views on Some

JKatters of Public Policy.

[Special Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, April 11.—Nothing is BO marked, even to the casual observer, as the change that has come over jerry Simpson, representative from the Seventh district in Kansas, the well known Populist and "Sage of Medicine'Lodga No disrespect is intended by calling him

I think

by his Christian name. In fact, "*,*•»*, fa.***•safe

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SIXTEEN TO ONE IN KANSAS,.

he wonld resent beiug addressed as plain Mr. Simpson, for the people in the oonntry at large, and particularly his constituents, would not know him by that appellation.

It has so long been the custom to allude to the Hon. Jerry Simpson as "the wild and uncouth Populist from the backwoods of Kansas," the fiery, untamed child of nature, to imagine him in slouch bat, jumper, overalls and rawhide boots, with flowing, unkempt whiskers a#M uncombed hair, that his present appearance is a startling surprise. Before frequent meetings with him had divested mo of the popular misapprehension I had pictured him in the language of the poet:

Lo, tho poor Indian, with untutored mind And ragged locks nil floating out behind. I was struok with the apparent difference between the ideal and the real, and after I had recovered from my astonishment I set myself to discover the why si and the wherefore of this great and radical chauge in bis attitude, mental, moral and physical. They say there are weeping and lamentation in the tepees of Medicine Lodge over this defection f.vof their gallant chief and deep and dire Ithreatenings of revenge for this departure from the tenets of the fathers. But j„yas Jerry has only just returned from a TStwo weeks' campaign of "fence mendfeeing" and srill preserves his scalp peryK haps this is a rumor merely.

I asked him about it dt*" W1** terday aud invited him td ho replied: "Why, tyloss soul, there isn't any change in me\u*v am aware of. If I may be permitted v,-*, to make use of an aboriginal simile, I 1% am like that old Iudian who got astray £-. in Wichita. When asked if he was lost, i^w.ho answered proudly: 'Me no lost wig* warn lost. Me here!' I'm right here

every time. I haven't departed from my primitive aud original principles. I am still Popocrat, as expressed by that word which I myself coined, and of which I was never so proud as at the present day." "But, Mr. Simpson—pardon me, I moan Jerry—they say you are no longer imbued with Populistic principles that you comb your hair, wear your trousers outside your boots and also wear socks." "And 1 always did," answered Jerry. "That 'sockh'ss Simpson' story—do yon know how that originated? Well, I'll toll you. It was away back in the limes when 1 was on the stump, running against H.illoway—Prince Hal, the boys used to call him. One day in

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JKRUY, THE ONLY JERKY, ON HtS WHEEL. joint debate I alluded to him as the silk stocking prince, j»ud that stock. Well, the representative Republicans saw that was going to hurt their candidate, so somebody invented the story that one time, in speaking to my own people, in order to impress them with my poverty and common ways, I just pulled up my pants and showed that I couldn't even afford to wear socks. It wasn't true, of course, but I didn't deny it, and so the yarn spread, aud to this very day thousands of people believe it of me. "What effect did it have on my election? I don't think it had any in particular. My constituents are sensible folks. They had pretty much all seen me and got Acquainted with me and knew about what I was and how I'd perform in congress if 1 got there. But it had the effect of advertising me abroad, and when I reached Washington, wbjr, nearly everybody in the city. It seems to me, including senators and ladies, c&me over to the house to have peek at me. "Now they say I am no Populist befMraM I opposed Peffer and oonsider Mi*.

Jkeftse out of the race. I did oppose Peffer and for the very reason that he has hsooxtt* more cotuervative than even the most fosaliwdofour opponents." "There was nothing conservative abunt bis aridity for offioe," I suggested, recalling the reports that Senator jpeffer when here had foot members of

his family drawing pay from the goveratOfgpjL "Not a bit," assented Jerry, with a merryjfewinkle in his eye. "As to that, whether Senator Peffer had or hadn't his family all here on pay, I can truly say that I haven't a single relative, in office ihrough my endeavors or influence 'iMy wife and son, an only child 19 years old, are at home running'the ranch while I'm on here trying to save the country."

Government Ownership.

"But some claim that yon are no longer in favor of the government appropriation and ownership of railroads, telegraphs, etc., as formerly, and you have dafected on the silver question." "As to that, perhaps I may be open to the charge of having in a measure changed my views—I mean as to the government ownership of railroads. Now, when I came to congress first (it was the Fifty-second) I didn't quite know everything, though I came pretty near thinking so. I claim that if a man has anything in him at,all be can't attend the sessions of a big representative body like congress and take part in its proceedings without learning something. It is a big school, and if I've ohanged any, as charged, I'm glad of it, because it shows I'm susceptible of improvement. I know there are some folks come bere and sit like a bump on a log who don't change a hair and go back to their constituents claiming that they haven't departed from their original convictions. Now, I have. I've learned something since I came bere, and I'm not so hidebound that an idea oan't be shoved into me without the aid pf powder or dynamite. "I still believe in government control of the railroads—that is, I think it ought to own the roadbeds and sublet the running of the roads to different parties. Tbis would insure fair and equable rates and would obviate the objection of so many thousands of employees being under the political control of any one party. ¥es, indeed. I firmly believe in the government supervision if not the ownership of what I call all natural and publio utilities, as the railroads, telegraph and telephone lines and even of express companies, gaslight and water supplies, etc. I still believe in free silver and don't think I have ohanged my views at all on that subjeot. In truth, if you will look about the country today you'll find that I've got lots of good fellows to keep me company, for the sentiment is growing— catching, like the grass in front of a prairie fire." -Biographical.

Jerry Simpson of Medicine Lodge, Kan., the Congressional Direotory tells us, was born in the province of New Brunswick, across the bay from Nova Sootia, and consequently came pretty near being what the down eapters call a "blue nose." He was 56 years old week before last, and 50 ypajs

il reer as a sailor on the greavrAKea lasted until the early part of the war, when he enlisted as a soldier in the

Twelfth Illinois infantry. His patriotic impulses were checked by Providence before he had done muoh fighting, and he left the service and drifted to Kansas in 1878, where he affiliated with the Republican party, his first vote having been cast for Lincoln in his second elec tion. For the past 18 years, however, his lot has been cast with the Labor and Greenback parties, and he was first elected to congress by the People's Party, aided by tho Democrats. He was reelected to the Fifty-third congress as a Farmers' Alliance man and was nominated for the Fifty-fourth, but defeated.

He explains bis first defeat by saying that just preceding the election at least 70 per cent of his constituents emigrated to the new territory of the Cherokee atrip and his return to this congress by the explanation that most of them had returned to Kansas and the others had been converted to bis opinions. His enemies may tell a different tale, of oocrse, but that is another story.

To one interested in statistics it is a curious fact that of the two senators and eight congressmen from Kansas only one was born in the state, and he is a Republican. .^r

A Serlotiif Humorist.

Jerry Simpson is feeling the effects of fame in the same manner that others of his ilk have felt it—that is, he has earned the reputation of a humorist— and now that he wishes to say a serious thing occasionally his colleagues in congress and the publio will not allow that he can do it. They will never take him seriously, when the truth is there is a deal of shrewd common sense as well as wit in Jerry Simpson. Bnt if you will read over The Record yoa will find bis remarks pnnotnred and followed by "Laughter," "Applause" and "Great laughter on the Democratic side," etc. It is not all on the Democratic side either, for everybody loves a humorist whether he be of his own political party or no. He shares the approval of the Republican side occasionally,as the great and inimitable Qy Sulloway of New Hampshire does that of the opposite party. When we come to lock at it, we find that a real humorist always has something more in him than mere potentiality of laughter. We like a man who can make ns langb, bnt we respect him when we find tbat he can also give us something worth listening to. *v?I wonld give a good deal to know Kerry's real opinion of Speaker Beed, for the battles royal that be waged with "the csar" are now matters of history. The opinion he did express (for publication, of coarse) was that his dougihty enemy is the biggest man of bis party, bnt that his arbitrary ways might be dangerous when copied by another man of less ability. That was a safe and conservative opinion tor a man who fig* ores in one committee only and shows that our friend does not "slop over," no matter what else he may do.

V. A. On.

BELLES OF HAVANA.

HOW THE SENORITAS ARE OCCUPIED IN WARTIME,

Their Grief Is Too Deep For Tears, and They Wear the Orcn of Mourning. Mirth Amid Tragedy—The Senorita's Personal Charms. (Special Correspondence.]

HAVANA, April 4.—In Havana, counting out the soldiers, there are 20 women where there is one man. The missing 10 men are either in the bushes with the insurgents, in the hospitals or in graves. La senoritas and la senoras sit all the long day in big rocking chairs and roek and rock. They are sad eyed and composed. Their grief is too deep for tears. All wear the dress of mourning.

War with the United States? Of what interest is that to the women of Havana? None. War has already taken away father, husband, lover and brother. Who has she left to fight the United

HAVANA SOCIETY BELLE.

States? Speak to ber of a possible war and she displays not the slightest interest. For her such a war would have no terrors. How can she lose more or suffer more since she has already lost all, suffered all? f,A

In the evening the military band plays in the plaza. The senoritas leave their rocking chairs, don the jmautilla and go to hear the music. Alone? Never! By the senorita's side is la senora or the inevitable duenna. They promenade they smile through their sadness, for grief is intermittent. Like war, it has its periods of truce. In the plaza, side by side, walk the senoritas and the soldiers, the Cnban woman and Spanish man of arms. Here is a picture as novel as it is terrible, a picture of mirth amid soldiers side of the the very sol-,' hot the bus*

ers ofTKe women Besiae them. Here is a trace indeed. Here is peace between the men who kill and the women who suffer because of the killing."

But the men of Cuba are scarce, and the Cu ban women are numerous. Surely a woman must talk to some one besides a woman. So she goes to the plaza in the evening to talk to the enemy of her island and her independence.

Is the senorita of Havana beautiful? As a New Yorker would say, "Are there any pretty girls about?" Alas, there are many beautiful eyes and few pretty girlsl If it were only a question of eyes, there would be no race on earth so universally beautiful as tbe woman of Cuba. Even if her features are perfect the senorita spoils tho effect with a coating of powder. She oarries the powder with her wherever she goefi. It covers tbe face like a mask. Tho effect is ghastly. When her face is not powdered, it is greasy. This greasy look is due to perspiration, unavoidable in so warm a climate.

In tbe tobacco factories every girl has ner box of powder and the necessary handkerchief to apply it. I was in one of the rooms of the faotory of La Corona, where 200 cigarette girls sat at work. The clock showed a quarter to 10. At 10 the girls would go to breakfast. But in the intervening 15 minutes they all had something to do—they must needs put on the ghastly mask of powder. Even little girls not more than 8 years old whitened their faces.

With all classes it is the same—too much powder. With all ages it is the same—too much powder.

The monthly soirees given by the Olnb National are the swell society

MAIRNTLA ami. or HAVAXA.

events of Havana's winter season. Tbe olnb membership comprises both Cubans and Spaniards. At these balls, therefore, yon can again see enemies at war oonaorting as friends. But for the sprinkling of uniforms an American present at a soiree of tbe Club National wonld snppoee the island of Cuba was is 1 state of the most serene peace. La Moarita is there, of course. And theae are tot tbe senoritas of tbe tatrtoco Ite

TEBBE HAUTE SATTTKDAY EVJENING MATT,, APRIL 16, 1898.

tory nor. yet the senoritas of the plaza promenade. They are the belles and the buds of Havana's Four Hundred. They are, as a rule, undersized and over powdered, the men the same, for in Havana even tbe men powder their faces. At tbe last soiree of this club I made careful observations. There was not a man present whose height would measure over 5 feet 8 inches.

As this was the most high toned social affair of the season, any American, having been invited, would naturally go dressed as for a bail in New York. He enters tbe ballroom. He is the only man in the room in evening dress. The men wear their clothes of the day, and not a single senorita wears a low out gown. In the room there are not half a dozen bare arms and no bare shoulders at all.

Most of tbe women—there are proba-bly-200- dancing—wear a domino and mask. The dominos are homemade affairs consisting only of a hood and cape. After studying these 20Q senoritas of the best Havana stock for two or three hours tbe American carries away with him such impressions as these:

The senorita of Havana has very broad hips, too broad. She is usually too stout for her height. When she is tall, she is very thin.

Her mouth, is large and voluptuous, and on her lips there is, plenty of rouge. Her teeth are torge and white, and gleaming, but tlrey are usually far apart, and not more than one senorita in ten can be said to have a "perfect row of pearls."

The senorita's cheeks are Beldom plump, seldom have much natural color. The skin tint is olive, but more often sallow.

Her hair and her eyes are her glory. Her hair quivers like a mane and indicates the passion that comes of Spanish blood. She rolls her eyes she talks with her eyes she flirts, cajoles and captures you with her eyes sho holds yon with ber eyes.

She cannot converse for more than a few minutes on any subject. You must be satisfied with two glorious eyes.

After an American man has spent a single evening with th^senorita of Havana he yearns for a glimpse of tho New York girl. GILSON WILLETS.

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