Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-03-14

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aminlng committee as S3S, 900.
Judge Dillon has decided
that the antitrust law of Missouri
is unconstitutional. The test was
made by the Simmons Hardware
Company of st. Louis.
--Ex Congressman Taulbee,
who was recently shot at Wash
ington, by Chas. f. kincaid, cor
respondent of the Louisville
Times, died Tuesday morning from
the fleets of the wound.
Congress should lose no
time in passing the Service Pen
sion bill. There are many soldiers
actually in want, who will not be
able to get, at least for long time
what is due them if this bill does
not become law.
An exchange says that
Governor Francis s ;s'looming up"
tor the Senatorship. Just where
he is "looming" it is difficult to
see. The poker element of Mis-
souri, democracy will have moth
lug to do with him. and the young
men have turned from him in
disgust If he is looming at all
it is in very small territory.
The LaPlata Home Press
has again changed its manage
ment. When the sale of the paper
was made by Charley Mitchell,
about year ago, j. A. Hudson of
the Macon lines became the own
er. 1t is said that Hudson bought
the paper to secure harmony in
the party, and to get rid Of
Mitchell, who was a terrible kick
er against rings and bosses.
MIR. Vest has written anoth-
er letter. He has the happy fac
ulty of taking his pen in hand"
just at the tina when it will do
his party the most harm, and the
Republican party the most good.
The Republicans of Missouri owe
him a debt of gratitude, and will
make that gratitude manifest by
retiring him to private life, and
thus enable him to devote his en-
tire time to fanciful letter writ
ing.
The question Is now being
discussed whether holland, the
defaulting state treasurer should
be prosecuted. There should be
no question about it. Every Of
ticial who puts public money in
to his pocket should be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law. Eff
forts to cover up these frauds,
and failures to prosecute, give
stealing from the public crib
an air of responsibility.
Whether we shall have 6
primary election or a convention is
beginning to agitate the minds OF
some who are interested in poll.
ties. One very good feature oi
the primary election is that il
takes the party machinery out OF
the hands of the politicians and
placessitin the hands of the people
where it belongs. Another thing
favorable to primaries. is the
strictness of the law governing
them. AS will be seen by reading
the law, published elsewhere in
these columns, any fraud however
slight, is liable to meet with severe
punishment. A convention, how
eyer, would probably be much
cheaper for the candidates, and
they would also be saved the
trouble of making county can
vass, as all electioneerlng before
hand would have but little effect
in manipulating the county con-
yention.
The way in which the peo-
pie of the state have been treated
by withholding from them the
facts in the state treasury matter
is very suspicious to say the least.
Every citizen of the state is enti-
tied to know the facts, and any at
tempt to deprive them of this
privilege will only cast suspicious
reflections on him who seeks to
withhold any information which
the public ought to know. The
Governor is, 10 doubt, in possess
sion of all the facts, and there is
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