Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-01-03

when our Grover throws his HOOKS
away and fishes with his pen.
1t is rather too early to be
predicting as to this years crops,
but we may venture to say 1t is
not likely to be good for the Demo-
Gratis.
Sky blue as your sweet
h sari's $ eyes and snow white as
her brow-if there's purpose in
your soul. you're glad you're liv-
Ing HOW.
-Teachers' Associations held
sessions last week in four States,
and two Territories. Thus 1895
was to the very last an implacable
fee to Democracy.
savings bank figures show
there is much surplus capital in
this country. What we need is
policy that will make room for it
in the avenues of business.
-Democratic readers are re-
quested TO understand that the
word horizontal as applied to
the tendency of. the new tariff
measure, means simply that it is
in the right direction.
The fact that 125, 900 cars
were built in this country in 1896,
most of which were intended for
use in moving surplus farm
products, is in itself an eloquent
advertisement of the West.
Mrs. Margaret King cele-
brated her one hundred and ninth
birthday lately in Indiana. Mrs.
King is the mother of thirteen
children-and yet some call thir-
teen "that unlucky number"
Champ Clark will contrib
ute a series OF articles to the st
Louis Republic. There is chance
for Champ TO work more effective
" for it than he did in Washing
ton for the American republic.
A war with England would
be especially embarrassing to our
defaulting bank officials and to
those impecunious Britons whose
business ambition extends only to
an American heiress. This is
hardly a sufficient excuse, howev-
er, to be precipitating hostilities.
One of these days those
Spaniards down in Cuba are going
to find out the other side has been
fighting for a long time, and per-
haps when there are only few
Spaniards left some of the nations
may discover there have been
belligercnts on the ground.
Republican organs should
not maintain that the Democrats
have never kept a promise. They
said they would reduce the "beast
ly Republican SURPLUS" and if a
purer specimen OF veracity has
ever been unearthed, it has es-
capped the attention of the annalist.
in 1887 Gen. Sherman pre-
dicted this country would have
the most terrible war ever known
before the end of the century; but
in spite of all the discord and
jealousy among the Democrats to-
day, it is difficult to believe they
will verify the old warriors
prophecy.
Gen. Miles is not trying to
lend enchantment to our view of
war. To read his idea of our dis
advantages, one can not think he
is NEAR man" as Buckner said
of Grant, but on the contrary,
must conclude in the event of war
he would prefer to be several fur
longs from the scene OF conflict.
Those Spanish victories le-
ported from Cuba with great regu-
lari y since the present unpleasant
ness began are pretty good evi-
dehce there may sometimes be too
much of that article known as sue
cess. Campos has learned it is
not good thing to pile up care
lessly unless it hand-picked.
-Cleveland's deal in the
Venezuelan game may not have
improved his chances for a third
term, but it seems to have side
tracked those few other Democrats
whose ambition would be content
to linger along on the sunny side
of an empty nomination. In 9TH
er words, Grover has passed the