Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-04-11

date for the Chicago nomination tnan
is his brother, Tecumseh is ofthe opin.
ion that Ohio will be carried for the
Republicans this fall as easy as rolling
of log. if only The night man be put
forward. What mental reservation or
secret evasion possessed Mr.. Sherman
in. making this conditional prediction
can best be ooaiectured by the logic
Of events tina, accompanied Mr.. Sher-
mans candidacy four years ago. He
said then as he says DOW. that ian en-
thusiastic and united party was OF
more consequence and more 20 be de-
sired than the working out of any
mans ambition, be he never 50 popu-
ar or were he decked with the garb Of
unquestioned availability" The sly
ness with which Mr.. Sherman has al
ways manipulated our machine politics
is manifesting itself now when he says
that, believing that the convention
when il meets should be free, unin-
structed. and in shape to do the very
best thing for the whole party, have
counseled my friends TO that end, and
do not find that condition OF things
TO justify my being candidate that l
found four years ago" Putting this
aud that together, then, We are to
assume that Mr.. Sherman's candidacy
can be relied upon in an emergency,
which emergency he and his friends
hope may overtake the Chicago con-
yention before anybody else rakes the
pool.
England having pulled our nose aud
cuffed our ears in the O'Donnell bust
ness, Chill was embroidered to do the
same thing when we protested against
he unwauanted Imprisonment Of half
a dozen American citizens in that God
forsaken country. Both of these
GROSS INSULTS
te pocketed, as matter OF course,
and so here comes Turkey, nation so
poor that it picks its living from the
swill barrels OF a standardization that
lives and dies from opium eating, and
slaps our face with the same compla-
cency that has characterized the impu-
dent assaults of the others. The
cause of the Turkirh disgruntlement
arises from Our protest against the eX-
action. of the Sublime Porte is levying
an exorbitant duty upon our petroleum
in the face Of the treaty upon that SUBJ
jeet. live were sure that our navy
would not 60 to the bottom, before 1t
could reach the Orient, and if We
could be guaranteed that it would not
be blown out OF the water should it get
there by the two war-ships that Tur-
key purchased OF us years ago, 1t would
not be bad idea for the American
Government to resent this last insult,
!. and show to the other nations abroad
n that will not allow sick man to knock
, chip from its shoulder, whates er it
may take from muscular chaps like
John Bull.
The grave, reverend, and dignifed
body, the United States Senate. spen,
an hour in
SECRET SESSION
with closed doors on Monday after
noon. The matter under discussion
was not the ratification Of a treaty
with some great and powerful nation
nor was il to discuss some solemn
question affecting the diplomatic rela-
tons with foreign powers, nor was it
to confirm the appointments of minis
tiers plenipotentiary and ENJOYS extra
ordinary to the kingdoms and empires
of the old world, bur it was to discuss
the resolution offered by Senator de-
claring that four Of the pages upon the
Senate floor were bounced by the Ser
geant-at-Arms without proper canse.
OF course this proceeding will shock
the moral sense Of that portion OF the
community who think that the mission
OF the Senate is above and beyond this
sort of thing, but did not Mr.. Flana-
gan, Of Texas, ask what We were here
for, if 1t were not the Offices Indeed |
If there is anything that will stir the
Government to its foundations with |
more facility than an attempted expul.
sion from Office Of one of the ordinary
Washington barnacles, have not vet
learned what it is. The fellows are to
the manner born, as it were, and We
can no more get nd of them than we
can shake OFF the Indian contractor or
the man with French spolfation
claim.
The debate in the Senate npon Mr..
Blah's Educational bill has brought
out some of the old-time discussions
upon the
STATUS OF THE NEGRO
Is An element in our political economy.