Jerry Simpson: Populist Without Principle

Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men

“…Myron C. Scott, "A Congressman and His Constituents," 176-78. In a recent article, actually published after this work was on its way to the editor, Karel Denis Bicha ("Jerry Simpson: Populist Without Principle," Tl,e fournal of American History, LIV [September, 1967], 291-306) presents a most unfavorable portrait of this Populist congressman. Even though the interpretation were one he had heard on numerous occasions from 1886 to 1900, it seems certain that Jerry Simpson would have been most exasperated to learn that he "became a Populist without principle"; or, better yet, that "he rarely possessed the courage of his convictions."…”