Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-11-15
THE WEEKLY GRAPHIC
T. e. SUBLETTE, Proprietor.
KIRhSvILLE, MISSOURI.
FRIDAY, NOV. 15

QUAKE tie lulIdCtiOH vi eaie Soiiu
South was reported.
The Tammany tiger is still
on top of the ruins, but its breath
is more than ever like that of a
skunk.
In the campaign next year
the Democrats will not sing "My
Old Kentucky Home" or "Mary-
land, My Maryland" /"
-Altgeld's Thanksgivingpr pro-
clamation is no doubt acceptable
reading in Illinois because one
more will be his last.
Poultry dealers last week
tempered the wind to the shorn
lamb as it were, and enabled
Democratic exchanges to display a
few roosters.
Those Democratic organs
which have been asserting that
MckInleyism is dead" have prob
ably only been attempting a
shorter expression for the "silent
majority"
sporting experts announce
that Fitzsimmons displayed the
white feather in Arkansas. The
public will perhaps b surprised
TO learn he had so much white
about him.
Ii Uncle Sam could leave the
selection of his national flowers
to fellows like Marlborough ana
Castellane, he wouluprobably gel
to wear III his butuvnhole sug-
gestlve marlgold.
-Adelina Patti attributes her
success III lie to putting hel
whole heart into every under
taking" Here is a valuable hint
TOR the American heiress contem-
,,1atlng matrlmony.
The Mckinley law nay
have caused the people to vote as
they did in 1892, but they have
not lost an opportunity since that
time to show that they have re-
pented in sack cloth and ashes.
-Carnagie and Rockefeller dc
not make a speciality of politics,
but they manage to make converts
TO socialism at a great rate. One
spectacular endowment, empha,
sized by servile daily press, beats
ten speeches for that purpose.
The flowers used at the hip.
podrome wedding in New York
last week were afterward sent tt
the hospitals. 1t is fortunate tha
the newspaper accounts of the
affair ceased before the readers
were in need of a similar trip.
Those persons who think
President Cleveland should think
a little on the Cuban question
forthworth are unreasonable in
their requirements. 1t is not al
all likely that he has yet gotten
his sh-hooks laid away for the
winter.
Lord Salisbury made short
but pithy Republican speech the
other day. He simply declared
that English agriculture is suffer
ing from the effects of free trade.
OF course it is pity to have Mr..
Bayard snubbed thus indirectly,
but the truth is always in order.
The late poet and journalist,
Eugene Field, was born in Mis-
souri,, but his fame and popularity
were as wide as the country. He
died at last of heart failure, vet
his strong heart had not failed to
blend a genius for the sweeter
charities with genius for quip
and song.
Bill Nye elected the egg
species of applause in New jersey
a few days before the election, and
subsequent developments would
seem to indicate the unfettered
humorlst had probably called
that commonwealth a Democratic
stronghold. Bill should either
unmask his joke or not be nigh
when the consequences appear.
MIR. Bayard recently had a
great deal to say in favor of Gin
dividual liberty This is the
same Mr.. Bayard who some time
ago recognized the fact that the
United States needs a nan for
President with the makeup of