Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1891-07-10

Protection is beginning to
protect in Kirksville.
Heavy rains have seriously
damaged crops in Kansas aud Ne
braska.
The celebration in Kirks-
vile last Saturday was pronounc-
ed by all our visitors grand sue
cess.
The Democratic maxim that
England should be the workshop
and America the farm is becoming
exceedingly unpopular.
The attempts made by the
Democratic leaders in Kansas to
form combination with the Peo-
ple's party has resulted in failure.
At a meeting of the Board
of Regents, yesterday, Prof W.
ID. Dobson, of Moberly, WAS elect
ed president of the Normal school.
The Democratic press of
the state is using every effort to
bolster up the waning political for
tunes of q. S. Hall. Their efforts
will be in vain. Hall is a dead
duck. This is official.
Prominent democrats are
now making pilgrimsges to Jetfer-
son City, and counseling for the
next state campaign. Their prin-
cipal object is to make sure of the
Farmers Alliance affiliating with
the Democratic party.
The harvest is a daily re-
minder that binder twine is 80
per cent cheaper than it was q
year ago. But the farmer dis
tinctly remembers that tne calam.
ity orators told him last fall that
he would be mercilessly robbed
by the twine trust during the
present harvest.
"A Fourth of July oration
that refers to any particular
religious denomination or politi-
cal party is in bad taste and i'll ad.
vised. 1t is expected that orators
on such occasions will rise above
party or creed, and only utter
words that give strength to the
bonds of brotherly love, and in
spire a higher, purer patriotism.
p. G, Niedringhsus recent
ly purchased $4,000 pounds o
American pig tin from the Temes
cal River mine near Pomona
California. 1t is estimated tha
the Temescal River and Blac.
Hills mines will supply all tn
needs of American tin-plate man
ufacturers for 100 years to come
There is no longer any dout
about the manufature of tin in th
United States.
The Iowa Republicans hav
put an excellent ticket in the felc
and there is every indication ths
it is a winning one. Hiram
Wheeler, candidate for GoYerno
is q prosperous farmer, and has a
unblemished reputation. Th
candidates for Lieutenant Cover
nor, Judge of the Supreme Cour
superintendent of instruction
and Railway Commissioner are q
men of superior ability and fitness
The best point in the platform
that regarding silver coinage.
is taken from the Ohio Republ
cal platform, and is sound.
The st. Louis Republic al
nounces that it is to have me-
tariff department which will be
feature of the campaign of lS9:
1t is quite time that paper had
new tariff department. Its ol
tariff department fought tn
legislation which has given th
people 20 pounds of sugar for
dollar, and uncorked the vials c
wrath on the heads of those VIII
had the audacity to assert that a
the tin plate required for hom
consumption could be manufae
tured in the United States. No
WAS it less bitter against the legls
lstion that has increased the valu
of nearly every farm product. Ye
the st. Louis Republic is badly i
need of new tariff department.
During the county cam
psign last fall. speakers of th
successful party declared that tn