Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-10-12

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ignominy in this sort of thing TO,
the administration. First, in
trading upon necessities of old
soldiers. many of whom are known
to be sadly in need of the pittance
for which they have applied.
Second in taking up the time OF
clerks in the Pension Bureau to
prepare lists of applicants to be
used by democratic candidates,
thus lessening the number of ap-
plications granted and robbing the
old soldiers out of Just that much
assistance. And all for the pur.
pose of making votes for the
democratic party, which has dur
ing the short time it has been in
power managed to do the country
more harm, aside from actual loss
of life. than did four years of war
As a rule the old soldiers are
thoroughly patriotic, and for thai
reason it is doubtful whether theS,
tactics will influence many of then
to vote to send democrat to Con
gress, thus helping to continue the
democratic times of the last veal
and a half.
The roorback season began {
little earlier in this campaign thai
it usually does. but there is reason
for the belief that the publication
of the first one, that charging the
chairman of the republican Con
gressional campaign committee
with being mixed up with the dis
tribution of A. Z. A. literature
was premature. The democrats
were quietly nursing it with the
intention of using it in all districts
were the Catholic vote is heavy {
day or two before election. when il
would have been too late for its
correction, but a newspaper mar
got hold of it and having more de-
sire to furnish his paper with 8
sensation than to serve the demo
cratic party he sent it out and il
was printed. Ofcourse the story
is too silly to be accepted by any
but the most credulous- 1t carries
its own contradiction on its face.
No man not an idiot in chairman
Babcock'S position would hold any
relations W it'll the A. p. A or any
other organization with similar
objects in view, and chairman Bah,
cock is so far removed from being
an idiot that he is regarded as one
OF the best campaign managers the
Congressional committee has ever
had. Mr.. Babcock will this week
go to his own district. to look af-
ter his reelection, leaving Repre-,
sentative Apsley, of Mass, vice
chairman, in charge of the Con
gresSional committee.
The result of the Georgia legis-
lative election has put the demo-
cratic campaign committee into
what closely resembles a panic.
It's members now conced the
loss in one Georgia Congressional
district to the populists and other
democrats say they will be lucky
if they do not lose at least three.
There is disposition among dem
oeratS to make Senator Faulkner.
who is chairman of their campaign
committee, the scape-goat for the
unpromising outlook of their con-
gressional campaign. They say
that he either intentionally mis-
represents the situation or is such
a confirmed rainbow chaser that
he is unable to see things as they
are They do not object TO his
making his talks for qualifications
rainbow hued, but they say that
he talks the same way to them
when they know better, and they
think if he doesn't know any better
that he isn't fit to be at the head of
the committee. Hoke Smith
comes in for most of the blame for
the result in Georgia. He is
charged with having unnecessari-
ly introduced the silver question
into the state campaign and with
having by his extreme position in
favor of a gold standard driven
many silver democrats into voting
with the populists.
The situation in New York is
giving the democrats much trouble.
largely owing to their uncertainty