Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-10-30

is small element Of prophecy in
the boy orators makeup. After
Nov. 8 the people will only think
it strange that he did not realiz
what a big country it was.
-Bryan's 53c silver dollar in
the West and 100c silver dollar in
New York are sort Of financial
Siamese twins old p. r. Barnum
himself could not have fooled the
public with, however he might have
tried.
Bryan is deeply intereste d
in the honor and dignity of Uncle
Sam. He merely wants the ac-
commodating old gentle: an to tell
a plain unvarnished lie on every
piece of silver unloaied in his
yard.
Silver was more nearly
"demonetiZed" in 1906 than it
was in 1873 The difference is,
Grant, "the butcher" was Presi-
dent in 1873, while Thomas Jeffer-
son, the infid"l father of the self
righteous Democracy, was Presi
dent in 1906. Trifles sometimes
have tremendous significance.
Those tramps whom the
Bryanites have been hiring to
swear in various places that Mex
leo is prosperous and the Mexican
dollar has not deprecated, can
probably get work in the affidavit
department of the patent medicine
business after the election When
Mckinley is elected there will be
no need of idleness.
Chairman Jones has figure
out that Missouri is going for
Bryan by 93,327. Yet some men
say there is no confidence in the
country. Does it not take conf
dence to get down to the tens and
units of the thing in this manner!
But for the high religious plane of
Organism, no doubt Mr.. Jones
would bet quarter or two on the
election.
The st. Paul man who took
five twenty-dollar gold pieces to a
bank to get 500 bill for them,
and saw the cashier place them on
the scales, and heard him call for
70 cents extra because the coins
were worn, had a lesson ON the
government stamp that would
make an average Populist shake
his fist at England till the cows
come home.
A few Bryanite ministers
have had the hardihood to declare
that Bryan occupies to-day the
moral plane once occupied by
Moses and Jesus. This is put
ting it rather strong, surely, es-
pecially if we take the trouble to
remember that the Savior at all
times manifested a profound re-
gard for the eighth command
ment.
-Four years ago Mr.. Bryan
knew that free trade would make
everybody rich and happy. He
still sticks to that indispensable
Democratic adjective, Gree" but
now he uses the word silver to
give the phrase Go ugh or Phillips
polish The people can not un-
derstand how he can possibly
know any more about free silver's
effects now than he knew about
free trades effects in 1892.
Since the Bryanites have
suddenly grown passionately fond
of Holy Writ, they may not object
to a casual reference to a scriptur-
al declaration about King Solo
mons drinking vessels and the
like: none were of silver; it was
not anything accounted of in the
days of Solomon" This deyessel-
izing of the white metal by the
great Hebrew was an insult to all
Populists in the country, and, had
he been Republican, there is no
doubt whatever that William J.
Bryan and other good DemoCIa s
who voted for Weaver in 1892
would have inflated their lungs
and called him down for it.
The election of Mckinley
and Hobart does not mean enough
within itself. Without a House
and Senate to co operate with