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Show THE SOCKLESS STATESMAN. One of Jerry Simpson's masterly oratorical ora-torical efforts, opened with the familiar classical quotation: "When Greek meets Greek 'tis folly to be wise." Hutchinson Hutchin-son News. Jerry Simpson ran a livery sUble at Holtoii some years ago. The more the public hears of Jerry the more it is impressed im-pressed with his versatility. Kansas City Star. Sockless Simpson wants to take Senator Sen-ator Ing.ills place. It will probable prove to be only an "iridescent dream" of his, however. The senators dont want In that body a man who won't wear socks. Philadelphia Call. It was a condition and not a theory that cutifronted Mr. Jeremiah Simpson of Kansas ami induced him to take his bold aud barefoot stand upon tho platform plat-form : "While the barefoot farmor limps rn There'll lie uo socks on Jorry S mpson." Chicago News. If Hon. Jere Simpson should he the next senator from Kansas ho would doubtless have kindly memories of the amiable member of a benevolent trust who sent him a pair of socks with an intimation that he would better put them on and soak his head. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. To elevate a rustic simply because he is a rustic to a position requiring intellectual intel-lectual equipment and familarity with public business if pure botloomery, and it would bo a pity indeed if grangerism in Kansas were to report to any such indefensible modo of asserting itself. Pittsburg header. Congressman Simpson, of Kansas, alias "Sockless Simpson," has sprung into fame as champion yahoo and contemner con-temner of the laws supposed to govern in tho uso of Knglish speech, lu the language of A Ward, he ought to prove "an nmodsin' little cuss" during the next session. St. Paul Pioueer-Press. Jerry Simpson continues to receive the usual amount of good natured advertising. ad-vertising. The fact that he is frequently alluded lo at "Terry" may be a typographical typo-graphical error, but" is probably the result re-sult of the ignorance of editors who are not familiar with the political history of the couutry and tho names of the leading statesmen. Kansas City Times. It is now thought that Jerry Simpson, the opponent of Senator Ingalls for the United Stutes senatorship in Kansas, will get there "with both feet." even if he doesn't have a stocking on them. It is better to have a bare-footed man in the united States senate than a man who believe that purity in politics is an iridescent dream." Boston Globe. And now it Is Uncle Jerry Simpson, the sockless statesman, who is an aspirant for Iugalls's seat in the seuate Verily, politics grows stronger every Wlint would the revolutionary fathers have thought if they could have foresont that a man would be a strong candidate on the sole ground that he wore no socks! Peoria Transcript. Our esteemed down East frionds are anxious to know what Jere Simpson, of Kansas (jot in his sock Christmas. This is a reaseuable joke, but when Kansas begins electiug congressmen without socks it is timn for our down Eaat friends to begin speculating, not on what Kansas has got themselves when Kansas gets what it is entitled to. St. Louis Republic If the farmers' alliance of Kansas should succood in dispelling Ingall s iridescent iri-descent dream of re-election, the next thing for it to do is to hoist the sockless statesman into the senatorial chair blazoned by the dreamer. Aside from Jerry Simpson there is not a ruan of national na-tional celebrity in the Kansas alliance; and his renown is due chiolly to his lack of socks. New York Sun. It Is related of Congressmaa-elect Jerry Simpson, by a Kansas paper, that when a napkin was offered to hi in by a hotel waiter he resented the attention with the remark: "'Look here, young feller, none of your pranks with me. I've got a handkerchief." The man who carries a handkerchief, even though he fails to recognize a napkin, may yet wear socks. Kansas City Journal. The latest candidate for Ingalls' seat in the senate is Jerry Simpson, "the sockless statesman." Jerry is popular with the farmers on account of bis contempt con-tempt for socks, "biled" shirts, collars, etc., which he looks down upon as mere showy and unnecessary adornments of the human frame. Hi's exposure of his sockless ankles from the stump in the late campaign secured his election to congress, and he expects to go before the legislature with a strong support. With a candidate who never wears socks in the field the coming contest at Topeka will be watched with deep anxiety anx-iety by the hightoned and aristocratic senators. Jerry would be as unwelcome unwel-come in the senate chamber as a bull in a china shop. The gentlemen of the senate not only wear socks, but as a general thing they wear silk socks, and the effect of thrusting this uncouth nondescript non-descript from the wilds of Kansas amoug them can bo but faintly imagined. imag-ined. Tho bare thought of his election is quite enough to till them with dread, aud the first sight of his sockless ankles stretched in rustic awkwardness across the top of his dosk would throw the senate into an utter panic. -Chioago Herald. |