Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-08-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Could has resigned and Joy
reigns as President Of the Wabash.
Democratic defense of Cleve-
lands private character-"oh that's
nothing"
- Our new state republican com.
mittee has been dong what it cursed
Fil!ey for doing--conferring with the
Greenbackers.
The talk of Withdrawing Cleve-
land and substituting some other man
on the democratic ticket, in all pro-
babll:ty amounts to very little. They
viii hardly do it.
The republicans of Kentucky
have made very good beginning.
They have Just elected Mr.. Holt,
Judge of the first appellate district
over the regular democratic nominee.
A horrible story is published to
the effect tha. the survivors Of the
Greeley expedition keep themselves
alive by feeding on the flesh of their
dead companions. 1t is to be hoped
that the story will be proven false.
-"Heroes" are made of queer
stuff if We are to accept the Post.Dis-
paftA as an authority. That paper
claims that Cleveland is one because
he tathered the child to shield one of
his married chums who was caught i'll
the same scrape. A new Damon and
Pythias
The explanation OF Cleveland's
connection with the Mary Halpin scan.
dal pre- supposes very low grade of
morality on the part of those willing to
acceptit it as full vindicatlon Of his
character. No explanation would have
better than this one. The man facts
are admitted.
The democracy have shown a
a woeful lack of imagination and origi-
nality in the silly story they have
hatched up about the early life ol
Blaine, as an offset to the Cleveland
scandal. Where is the author of the
Morey letter {? He ought to be able to
get up something bold, brilliant and
audacious. 1t is needless, almost to
add, that the Kentucky story like the
defence OF Cleveland lacks thickness
Mary Halpin, the "widow" lady
whose name has become so mixed ur
with that Of Grover Cleveland, demo
cratic candidate for president, disap'
peared suddenly from her place o
residence at New Rochelle, on last
Friday. The Dispateh says: ut ha:
leaked out that both the democrat:
and republicans have been working
the one to get the story from her lips
the other to get her out of the way
Its qui'e evident the democrats sue
ceeded." The last sentence is yer,
significant and expressive.
William Kassinger, near Newbur,
in Macon county. committed suicide
on Monday or Tuesday Of this week
by hanging. 1t seems that his mine
had been unsettled in that direction
for some time as he had made one o.
two attempts to take his own life b,
drowning or shooting, but had beer
prevented. On the fatal morning h.
took a rope halter and started for th'
pasture ostensibly to catch a horse
Not returning search was instituted
and he was found hanging to the liml
of tree. 1t is reported that his wife
when she heard of the rash act of he
husband, attempted to jump into {
well but was prevented.
We are not at all surprised tina
the Democrat is "worried" over ou
patent inside" for it enables US t.
furnish our readers with from twenty t.
thlrty more columns ofreading matte
than any other paper published il
Kirksville. The present issue, thougl
only an average one, presents in add
ton to our eighteen or twenty column
of home matter. an interesting variet
of reading matter in the twenty-eigh
additional columns of clo.ely prlnte'
literary and political news. Four col
umns of news covering everything @
interest at home or abroad, three col
umns of Interesting telegraph, in whicl
the landing of the Greeley dead, tn
bouncing of the Oklahoma Boomer:
the confederate reunion in Texas, tn
Cleveland scandal. Blaine among Il.
veterans and other minor matters ar