Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-12-04

'peakeT. anu DeyoHu question the
lblest man the Democrats could
Daniel Webster once made
/ long journey to see SEA ser
pent. William j. Bryan can cite
his fact in defense of his states
after having gone to New
York to address his ''friendsn
The GRAPHIC charges nothing for
the suggestion.
Secretary Morton's report
shows that ~ per cent of the farms
in the country are free of mortga
ges. This would have been a
good ampaign statement, but it
was not really needed 1t will
serve now to show the Populists
of different varieties what eyre
gious errors they cultivated.
The handsome plurality
with which Giles was elected
seems to have convinced every
day Democrats in each of the ten
counties that they are undiscover-
ed statesmen. The voters of the
district are yet to be convinced,
however, and sometimes plurali-
ties are partial things.
-Ex- Governor Flower, of
New York, prOnOunces the cleo
ton of Mckinley a peoples
victory" and claims that it is non
partisan. 1t is a victory of the
people, to be sure, but present
conditions demand that it be fol-
lowed by an administration of
patriotic partisanship, and there
is reason to believe every require
ment will be fully met.
A Democratic sheet de-
plorcs the fact that Republicans
mention the election with the dole
full phrase, "Poor old Missouri"
1t argues that Missouri is a great
State and has always had model
government since the Democrats
got control. y hen Iowa, Illinois
and other Republican States acted
the sublime idiotic, this paper
claimed that corruption was throt-
tied and right was triumphant. 1t
proved beyond cavil that occasion
al change is salutary and purify
ing. 1t is poor rule that works
only one way, but Democratic
rules never stand the test of ap-
plication to both sides.
Certain papers that sup
ported Bryan because it seemed
the one chance to beat the Repub-
licans. continue to refer to what
Lewis was falsely reported to have
said at Kirksville. One with more
audacity than Judgment asserts
that the election in Missouri proves
that Ingersoll and infdelity are
not popular in the State. 1t is
not necessary to mention the
crowded houses Ingersoll has had
at st. Louis and elsewhere, or the
State University wrangle of last
spring. Missouri's Democratic
piety is sufficiently shown in the
"rebuke' it gave Lewis by leav-
ing Stephens nearly 10000 behind
Bryan. The pharisee is worse
misfit in politics than anywhere
else.
a Republican organ in a
neighbocing town feels that politi-
cal argument should cease with
the campaign. This idea would
be infinitely harmful if carried in
to general practice. AS it is, en-
tirely too much of the moulding of
popular sentiment is left to elec-
ton years. The masses are dis
trustful of tremendous, transient
pressure, such as characterized
the late campaign. The suspicion
of ''bOodle" and "coercion' an
nuls much of the sturdiest doe
trine. Political argument, 20 be
effective, must be persistent and
unremitting. The peril of the elec-
ton recently held would have been
crafty lessened, had the sound
money advocates steadily gone ov-
r the ground from the time free
silver first became a menace. TIE
per that is partisan only in cam
2aigns should be classed asa peri
deal deserter.
Wabash Excurion.
On Nnyamhar lth the Wabash