Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-08-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

--Guiteau was bah. the name l
too contemplate to be mentioned as a,
illustration of anything. Besides h
did not belong to our side of the house
Let mm sink into oblivion.
Our ill-natured neigbbor is alway
urging people to sit down. on some
thing. As people prefer something sof
the editor of that sheet would do wei
to keep his eyes skinned.
I'VE hardly think it would pay
any public institution to allow a false
impression to 60 out without correc.
ton, in order to secure patronage, not
wlthstanding the labored TRADE Of the
bread and butter organ" Honest
men generally agree with this view Of
the case.
The Frank James trial is still
cut,on seems to he drawing net work
of evidence about the defendant that
fixes the crime positively as his indiyld
ual act. Unless the defence should
bring IN some very powerful and con-
elusive proof in rebuttal, it begins to
look as ifconviction is not only possible,
but extremely probable We give a
portion of the evidence IN this issue
and will continue it in our next.
Some very good men are so consti-
tuted that they imagine a"personal at
tack" in every criticism of their public
acts, and resent as an "affront" to their
personal character any theory or policy
that does not dove-tail with their own.
Such men must be constantly fed with
fattery to keep them in good humor
They are disagreeable in private life
and when once they become public SER
wants this trait makes them positive
nuisances
We do not care to take time or
space to reply to the trade issued by
the bread and butter organ this week,
or to notice at length IT'S contemplate
effort to work up local prejudice Its
management has never yet been able
to rise higher than the patronage
level of politics, religion, or anything
else. hence its first dive is always in
that direction. The GRAPHIC does not |
depend on ring patronage of any kind,
in order to perpetuate its existence;
those who do, deserve pity as well as
contempt.
1t is claimed, and We get our infor-
nation from close to headquarters that
everything possible has been done by
our Board of Regents to comply with
the requirements of the State Superln-
tendent in order to entitle our School
to his recognition in the granting of
certificates and that 10 notice of his de-
termination to refuse the same was re-
cieved until the Catalogue was in the
hands OF the printer. Ifsuch was the
case, it exonerates the Board Of Re-
gents from any charge of Intentional
Misrepresentation in the matter, and
Coleman ought to so
state in his card to the public.
ii our State School Superrntend-
ent, Of whose action we spoke last
week, is prompted by personal pique
in his refusal to grant certificates TO the
graduates of the State Norm al School
It this place, then he has committed a
yrave blupder, which will in the end
'ecoil upon his own head. That he
las refused seems to be the fact. Ifthe
Board of Regents are to blame then they
,lundered. In either case it IS mat
er that should be adjusted at once.
Hard or bitter words or personalities
lave no proper place in the matter.
They can only aggravate and not cure l
he trouble. The GRAPHIC prefers to
lear both sides before judging, and the &
'ublic at large are entitled to all the
acts. The GRAPHIC does not believe
n the "repressiye" policy in such mat
ers.
The GRAPHIC is down on subterfuge
n false pretense, wherever found. 1t /
elieves the good old adage that "hon- t
sty is the best policy" n
The "repressive idea" in journalism is u
nd insult to the intelligence of the a
ublic. There are no "censors" of the $
ress in this country and the American X
ltizen Of average intelligence needs 81
o guardian to tell HIM what he may g
: may not read. u
Neither are our public institutions, D
whatever kind, above Or beyond the
e pale OF reasonable comment or
iticism. Tender plants thai cannot :,
and the sunshine and light of day are u
o frail for practlcaliife or have some. .