Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-11-29
In casting reflections on the

Ill CaStluS TeueCVlohs Vh ehS
administration the Democracy Will
find no compensation for the bal
lots they did not cast Nov. 5th.
Gov. Bradley is the great
est boon Kentucky has enjoyed
since Daniel became enamored OF
the blue grass region of Missouri
South Carolina did not vote
this year, but Charleston, not to
be out of fashion, reported slight
shock this month. 1t called it an
earthquake.
Gen. Grant dimmed the lus-
ire of a great name by permitting
himself to become a candidate for
a third term. Senator Sherman
has done the same thing by writ
ing a book.
Prof. Muller is master OF
twenty languages, and yet it is pro-
bable that, when rising painfully
from the sleet-clad pavement, he
realizes the paucity of speech and
indorses the scriptural doctrine,
"All is vanity"
Doubt, debt, deficit, dis
honor, demagogues, Democracy.
For further and more explosive
ALTERATION along this line, apply
to the man who never attends
church or Sunday school.
"A prominent Hebrew at
tributes the preservation of his
race to the unifying influence OF
silver. Here is chance for the
Democratic party to point a strik-
ing difference between itself and
the prosecuted Jews.
notwithstanding all that
has been said to the contrary, Mr..
Cleveland believes in a species OF
protection. This fact is estab-
lished by the information that he
will soon again hire a syndicate
with bonds to protect the de-
pleted treasury.
Colorado is now exercising
that practical philosophy that en-
ables the small boy to relish the
pumpkin pie when he learns the
mince pie is out of his reach.
That is, it has quit yelling fol
free silver, and has rolled up its
sleeves and gone to digging fol
gold.
Senator Vest has little more
OF the appreciation of American
fun than the average foreigner has,
vet he would no doubt give mos1
of his small change for serious
and reliable answer to the ludl
crous yankee question, How long
viii it take you to stay In the
Senate?
Mark Twain is doing vel
with his lecture in Australia. II
is pleasant to note his success OF
course, but if he and Robert Fit.
zimmons are working secret reci'
procity treaty by tacit exchange
of fields. it is time for the United
States to protest. Lanky Boil
hardly comes to the Mark.
TO be sure it is humiliat
ing to see the President conde
scend to writing puzzles, yet wha'
is Cleveland's proclamation witt
reference to yesterday but puz
zle to those of his party, who car
not look beyond the gloom o
political defeat for any source o.
thankfulnesS'
in the course of an eXplana
ton of why the Republicans carried
Maryland, Senator German said
"The fact is that the protection
sentiment in the state has largel,
increased. In my own county, TO
example, we have a number o
woolen mills. Until very recent
ly they have been run upon
rough and cheap class of goods
In the last two or three years
however, they have undertaken
higher grade of work, and in orde
to do it they have been obliged t
import a large number of skille
laborers from Massachusetts, an
other New England states. Mos
of these men are republicans. !
like condition exists in othe
counties. There has been a change
too, among democrats who al
naturally inclined towards pre-