Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-04-08

lent start last Tuesday by elect
ing the entire Republican ticket.
Quincy elected Republl-
can mayor and five Republican
aldermen Tuesday. Such thing
has not happened in that city for
years. Shake.
"A number of prominent
democratic politicians were in
Kirksville Tuesday. The air,
however, was SO impregnated with
republicanism that they made
their stay short.
The Silk Stockings have
made another attack on Filley.
Time thus spent is worse than
wasted. The Silks should stop that
kind of business and make an oc-
casional attack on democracy, or
they should get out of the Repub-
lican party.
The deposits in the savings
banks of Great Britain amount to
only S536,0O0,O00. LII the United
States they amount to 81, ,524 4O0O,-
600 or three times as much as In
the free trade country. In Great
Britain they have been accumu-
lating much longer than in this
country. This shows that the
American people are much more
prosperous that the people of the
European country with which
they are most frequently compar-
ed.
ALL good things said about
the democratic members of the
House committee on elections, be-
cause of their votes to put Rock
we'll out of the seat to which his
republican opponent, Col. Noyes.
was really elected, will have been
said in vain, if it shall turn out to
be true, as now reported, that
Senator Hill has secured pledges
from a majority of the democratic
members of the House to vote te
retain Rockwell, Notwithstanding
the report of the committee.
Superintendent Porter o
Census Bureau, says he welcomes
the investigation of the bureau
ordered by the House, and tha
the more thorough the investiga
tion is the better he will like it
as, in no other way can the i'm
portant and excellent work dom
by that bureau be SO effectuall,
brought to the attention of til,
country. Ifthe democrats get NJ
more out of it, then they are get
ting out of the pension Office III
vestigation, the republicans vii
certainly have no reason to com
plain.
The Democrats were JUS
as positive that the Mckinley bil
was unconstitutional as they wer,
that it was ruinious, and woul,
utterly destroy the foreign trad
of the United States. The Su
preme Court has made know
how badly they were mistaken ol
the first point, by showing tha
the law is constitutional and vail,
in every particular. The great in
crease in foreign trade since tn
bill went into effect, conclusivel
disposes of the second objection
the Democrats made to the Nc
Kinley tariff.
"A cordage manufacturer, @
Boston, claims to have perfected
cotton twine which by the use G
tar applied during the preliminar
stages of manufacture, makes
perfect substitute for the hem
binder twine now in common ust
By this new method of manufac
ture, or rather the application of
principle that has long been know
to rope makers, the objections t
cotton are said to be entirely over
come, and a twlne made that wa,
Will work as well as twine mad
from hemp or sisal. Cotton an,
TAR are both productions of tn
United States, and the substitu
ton as home staples for foreigl
rope making materials, will be al
advantage to the Southern planter
and tar makers, as well as to th,
farmers and general business in
terests of the Nation. The cottol
production of the Southern State