Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1891-09-04


rope for breadsiuffs, the pros
poets of the American farmer
were never more promising or en-
C ,ursging.
Our weather prophets
promise q winter that will be un-
usually favorable to wheat As no
crop at present prices pays better
we advise our farmers to SOW 80
large an acreage as possible. If
the wheat should prove failure
the ground can be used to grow
other crops next spring.
The best thing the silver
producers of this country can do
to secure permanent free coinage,
the permanent recognition of sill
yer as money metal, and a per-
msnent market for the products of
their mines, is to bring about an
international agreement on uni-
form ratio of silver to gold at the
earliest possible date.
The periodical outbreak
against Fllley is again bobbing
up. These outbreaks however,
have ceased to have any signifi-
canoe. The people have learned
that they are the work of fright
ened Democrats, and the spoils-
syestem Republicans who never
lose an opportunity to sell out the
party.
The Kirksville fair opens
next Monday. Fsrmershaye work.
ed hard during the summer an d
harvested bountiful crops. They
should now, with their wives and
children, enjoy few days of rec
reatlop and ell come 70 the fair
There should be a reunion OF
neighbors and friends from every
part of the county at the fai,
grounds each day next week.
The day Of the profession sl
politician has undoubtedly be-
gun to wane. The people OF this
country are getting sufficiently
posted to think for themselves,
and do not need to be told how to
vote. The time WAS when profes.
sional politicians could put upon
the people any sort of q candidate
and the voters would blindly elect
him. That day has passed. Now
if a candidate IS not acceptable
to the party al large, he IS simply
ignored at the poles, and the OTHER
follow gets there.
Rev. W. a. Stone, profes.
sor of mathematics In Lagrange
college, in his address before the
Baptist association, at Ten Mile
church, in Lewis county, last week
made the following statement
'One of the professors in the
Kirksville Normal fell from his
chair beastly drunk while hearing
q recitation one day last winter. -
The statement does violence to
truth that should bring a blush of
shame to one who occupies less
exalted positions than minister
of the gospel and teacher in an
institution Of learning. When en-
emies of the public school system
are compelled to resort to such
depraved methods to make that
system or any part of it unpopu-
lar, it is time for the people 10
question whether the future citi-
zens Of our country can be safely
trusted to their care and instruc-
ton.
The rumor, recently pub
lished in the GRAPHIC, that Hon.
G. c. Fogle, of Schuyler county,
would be in the race for the next
Democratic nomination for Con-
gress, aroused the editor of the
Lancaster Excelsior to a pitch of
frenzy, and he lost no time in
making the startling announce
ment that, when Mr.. Fogle desir-
ed to run for Congress some of
his friends would announce him.
But who are Mr.. Fogle's friends? !?
The editor of the Excelsior well
knows that there is not Demo-
cratic paper in the First District
that would speak Of Mr.. Fogle as
a candidate for Congress without
first getting permission OF Mr..
Hatch. The fact is the editors of
Democratic naners of the First