Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-07-11

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Ben Buffers Big Boom Brrsted.
He has been veritable Ban
quo's ghost to the democracy.
Though laid out this time the
question is will he stay Land.
The lack of enthusiasm at Chi
cago is in vivid contrast with that dis.
played one month ago.
There IS every probability of G
substantial gain of republican con-
gressmen from this state this year.
The prohibitory amendment
went into full force in Iowa on the 4th
Of July.
The Democrats have had a hard
tusocl with the tariff question this week.
The thing is loaded at both ends.
Large numbers of inshmen are
declaring their intention to support
James G. Blaine for president.
speaking of the Moberly Sena
torial convention, The LaPlata Home
Press says: "The speech of young
Oldham, seconding the nomination of
DeFrance, eclipsed the effort of Dan
Doughterty when he nominated Han
cock.
The GRAPHIC having swept the
field in Adair county on circulation
and business-no wonder it sighs fol
new fields of conquest Macon and
Moberly are laid under contributor
for business ard We fill several order:
for Job work this week. Enterprise
and push are the secrets of success.
The Morning Call, of St. Louis
pronounces the present 4th of July
nuisance and fraud, and recommend
the discontinuance of its observance
For shame. Patriotism still glows ant
the American eagle still flops as O
yore. Come out into the country mex
wear and be convinced. Leave you
effete city civilization, your artificia
life copied from the crowded slums O
Europe, your enervated and blear
eyed specimens of humanity; leav
your beer drinking, whisky soaked
commune-tainted fellows who are cit
zens of nowhere, and spend one da
with the great American sovereign, g
home, and learn that true manhood
old time hospitality and generou
patriotism still exist in the land. Yor
cities filled with population iroI
everywhere, with THEN rush apd the
whirl, their turmoil and their selfis
pursuit of the everlasting and almigh'
dollar. are but very Insignificant tra'
tons of our broad country after all
thank heaven. If the safety and St;
bility OF the republic depended @
these then, God help her. But it dot
not. There is another constituent
amid the farms and villages, the han
lets and homes, where the sons of rev
lutionary sifes still live. They a
neither beer guzzlers, whisky sucker
stock gamblers nor dudes. They a
plain, simple, honest, whole souled, il
telligent and patriotic citizens. Tht
still believe in the constitution Of the
country and the declaration OF the
fathers. You city sharps are prone
call them "grays" and country greeni
when they visit you. but they are mat
ofthe same material that suffered
Valley Forge, and fought at Lexingto
without them your streets would II
TO grass in less than decade, 20
factories rust in idleness, and yo
palaces of Business and fashion
come the roosung places of the o
and the bat. Fix it as you Will, sne
at them as you do-tbey are your ms
tiers. 1t is for them you toll and w
~, that you run to and fro. There q
millions of them and they are Anne
cans not only by birth, but by sen
ment and by every impulse that thro
in their bosoms. Come out amo
them next year, and you will not S
that the "Day We celebrate is "n
sance ard fraud"