Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1891-05-15
THE WEEKLY GRAPHIC
7 C. SUBLETTE. Propri' ,tor.
FRIDAY. MAY Is lsal .

FRIDAY. MAY Is 1871.
The Mckinley bill contin-
ues to bring the factories and corn
fields closer together.
Ohio has adopted the Aus
tral;an ballot system. which
makes twenty -four states that now
have a secret ballot.
~. S. Hall is losing his hold
ON the Farmers Alliance. The
boast that he handles the organi-
zation to suit himself se,ms to
have been very vain one.
Attention is called to the
Census Blank printed in the Dali
ly and Weekly Globe Democrat.
All soldiers should Gil out these
blanks and send them to the Cen
sus Department at once.
The knights of Reciproci-
ty are causing the Democrats of
Maryland considerable alarm.
Thev claim to be able to control
the next legislature, which will
elect two United States Senators.
The failure of the jury to
convict ex-Treasurer holland has
added another stain to Missouri S
record. Sympathy for Mrs. No
land and the instructions of Judge
Burgess caused the jury to hang,
there being six for acquittal and
six for conviction.
The coke region strike in
Pennsylvania is estimated to have
cost 81, 100000, of which the
fourteen thousand strikers share
is over one million dollars. The
greatest argument against a strike
is found in the strike itself.
No man is a bankrupt who
meets all his obligations and that
is what the United States Treas.
ury is doing. When single na-
tional obligation of any sort goes
to protest then the people will be
ready to believe that a deficit ex,
lists, but such Il thing will never
happen while we have a Republi'
can administration.
The faith based on the
crops seems to be we'll and reas
onsbly placed. Their condition il
nearly all parts of the country
seems to wonderfully promising
The condition of winter whea
sown is put at 105 in Indiana ane
9Sin Kansas. Missouri and Illinois
each show condition of lO3, ane
Iowa l02. At the same time, th'
crop reports from Western Europe
are quite unfavorable, SO that {
heavy export demand for Ameri
can grain seems almost assured.
in the famous newspaper
interview In New York City, tina
gave 80 much unenviable notorie
ty to Lon. V. Stephens, that gen
tleman stated that U. s. Hall was
formerly lawyer of Kansas City
but becoming tired of the law ht
went to farming. Why didn't Mr.
Stephens tell what it was tina
made Mr.. Hall so tired of the law
The extreme weariness that over.
took him IN his legal pursuit:
should have had the benefit of al
explanation.
The proposition to Incur 6
county Indebtedness of $50, 900 to
build court house, without init
mating where the building will be
located, seems to be meeting with
general disfavor among the people
All admit that court house has
almost be- come an absolute neces-
sity, and the $50, 1000 would, doubt.
less, be cheerfully voted if there
were some positive information as
to what site would be selected. But
until there is some positive infor.
nation in regard to the location
it will be useless to ask the people
to incur county Indebtedness fol
any public building, no matter how
badly it may be needed. 1t seems
to us that the question of site
can be easily and quickly settled,
and that too, before the election,
SO that each voter may know what
he is doing and what will be the
result of his vote if the PROPOSE
ton is adopted. The public square
is the only property owned by the