Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-03-10
. L. suBLETTE, rRorprrroR
FRIDAY MARCH 10. rs9s.

Even Missouri will repudi-
ate a Governor that tries to bring
to life the dead and nearly forgot
ten State rights issue.
Coy. Stone has convinced
the people that he is too weak ands
narrow TO be the governor of the
great state of Missouri.
Some shrewd fnanciers
predict q premium on gold inside
of ten days. This ls just what
the golC. owners want to see.
Every Republican voter
who feels an interest in the citY's
prosperity should attend the mass
convention of his ward next Tues
day evening,
The Republican mass con-
ventions to be held in this city
next Tuesday evening should be
well attended and men selected as
delegates who will nominate the
strongest ticket possible.
There were fifty-one votes
cast against funding the bonded
debt of the county. These votes
were cast by men who desired to
see the bonds paid, and the county
freed from debt.
-Emmet Dalton, the sole
surviving member of the noto-
rious gang that raided the Coffey-
vile banks last December, has
been sentenced to life imprison-
ment at hard labor.
The conservative Popullsts
are denouncing Gov. Lewelllng
for his course in the recent ksns-
as trouble, aud conservative Dem
ocrats are denouncing Gov. Stone
for his State rights message.
j. W. Tinsman has made
au excellent Mayor, and his
friends are urging him TO make q
second race for the office. If he
consents to run it will hardly be
worth while for the opposition to
nominate candidate,
The Democrats, who have
had nothing to do but denounce
Republican methods and legisls-
lation, are now in a position where
they will have to supply some
thing to take the place of that
which they have SO bitterly de-
nounced. The task is one that
will give them no little trouble.
At the council meeting
Monday night, S. P. Baldwin and
James Atterberry presented peti.
tions for renewal of dram shop
licenses. The vote of the alder.
men stood two in favor of renew.
ing them, and two against, leaving
the deciding vote to the mayor
who cast his vote against renewal
W. &. Fout and T. J. Koehl voted
for, and DIR. Goben and j. r.
Evans voted against renewal.
While the condition Of the
Treasury as regards free gold con
tlnues precarious, somehow the
general business community re
fuses to be thrown into panic
Monometalists who are interested
IN or in sympathy with the move.
ment to increase the government
bonded Indebtedness, on golC
basis exclusively, cannot compre
hend why the country is not stir.
red to its profoundest depths by
the outgo of the yellow metal, re
gardfess of whether that outgo i.
a natural one, or part of purely
stock jobbing scheme as has beer
charged.
The dram shop license:
will expire March Is, and if legaI
proceedings to compel the council
to renew them are unsuccessful
the city will again be without
saloons after that date. p. f.
Greenwood, the saloon keepers
attorney, will begin proceedings
at once to compel license to ISSUE
to James Atterberry. He will
proceed on the ground that city
ofthe third class cannot suppress
saloons, that its only power is to
regulate them, and that city OF
the third class cannot pass al or
dinance that conflicts with the
statutes of the State. He claims
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