Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-03-04

Jefferson City has been q
boiling political cauldron for two
weeks.
The worst bondage imposed
upon the Missouri farmer is the
bondage of bad roads.
Hon. l.. F. Cot.ey has
been urged, and has finally con-
sented, TO become candidate for
Congress on the Democratic ticket
The special session is the
best thing that ever happened for
the Republican party of Missouri.
Democracy is being brought out
in its true colors.
1t can no longer be said
that the Office of Circuit Judge is
not political office. The dis
graceful and dishonest gerry
msnder of the state will cause par
ty lines to be rigidly drawn.
1t matters not what your
political faith may be, you will
want the GRAPHIC during the
campaign. New subscribers can
get it until the close of the cam
psign for the sum of so cents.
The. Cleveland Democrats
OF Missouri have been shocked by
the announcement that David r.
Francis has been captured by the
willy David B. Hill, of New York,
and that the famous option dealer
will give his support TO Hill in
the nominating convention at
Chicago. This announcement
should not surprise any one who
has studied the political methods
of Missouri's Governor. With
him political movments are the
same as option deals. He buys
when he thinks it profitable and
sells when the market seems to
warrant the deal. When the
young Democracy of the State
saved him in 1888, he rewarded
it by recognizing those who had
been standing directly in his way.
His Kansas City deal with the
Corrjgans was treated in the same
manner. Mr.. Francis will rot
be able to throw the Democratic
strength of Missouri to New
York's political trickster.
An itinersnt speaker is now
going about over tie country ad-
dressing the farmers wherever he
can get an audience, On the ills
they have to bear. He spoke to
small audience at Sublette last
Saturday night. For an hour and
a half the harangue lasted, and the
burden of the talk was denuncia-
ton of q country that has estab-
llshed national banks and collects
taxes from widow women and Or
phans. After exhausting himself
and his limited stock of knowledge,
he gave the audience his family
history. His mother he said died
when he WAS young. No one
doubted the statement, for the
Language used in the speech, and
the expressions of disrespect for
his country, plainly showed that in
early youth he had missed the
training of patriotic and chris
tan mother. A few years later a
drunken father deserted him leay-
Ing to his care a younger sister
and two little brothers. dragged
and poverty-stricken were they
that the respectfully dressed chill
dren refused to associate with
them. The youngest brother, then
boy of tender years, is now a
young man, who owns ten-thous-
and-dollar farm, all paid for by
himself, and is as Independent as
man can be. The little sister with
whom other girls would not as
soclate on account OF her poverty,
has grown to womanhooj, lives in |
flatte City, and is possessor of |
s5o,O9O all accumulated by herself.
hight here it occurred to every in
telllgent person in the audience |
that a country whe,e ragged, pow
erty-stricken orphans could accu-
mulste property and rise from the
most humble places to positions Of
the most eminent responsibility
and honor, Is a grand country, and
one that should inspire the noblest
thoughts and aspirations instead
of slang, profanity and denuncia-