Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-08-07
COUNTY licKET

Coroner-Cassius NJ c. Wilcox.
The ratio of 16 to ! IS not
wholly inaccurate after all. There
are about 16 untruths and Iii
statements to ] in tn: free silvel
arguments.
Mexico has a circulation Ct
So per capita and the best month
ly wages there is Sc. The silver
basis is a poor groundwork for an
industrial paradise.
Bryan seems destined to
live in history as the political ad-
venturer who discovered how
many nominations a man could
endure without being elected.
The free silver papers
should cease declare that Bryan is
"stampeding the country" The
phrase is coarsely suggestive, and
the opinion already prevails in
the East that the Chicago candi
date is something of a cowboy.
The average Repudiationist
isa man who can not successfully
grow a crop of corn in six months,
vet proposes in half the time to
perfect and put into operation a
fiancial system that will make
every American rich and content
cd.
Those Republicans who
voted for Cleveland in 1892 be-
cause they wanted one dollar a
bushel for their wheat have tasted
a mild disappointment in com
parison with that which those
would feel who vote for Rryan this
year, in case he should be elected.
An occasional Bryanite
censures the Republican party for
its expressed regard for the stars
and stripes. There is nothing
strange about it. The Bryanites
have condemned just about every
thing with which the Republicans
or the reputable Democrats have
ever been connected.
AT Chicago Bryan told the
old story of the man at the hotel,
who advised sleepless debtor,
who was pacing the floor because
of money due, to 60 to bed and let
the other fellow do the walking.
This story hit off the Bryan brand
of reputation to dot. Bryanism
means a great deal of walking, es
pecially for men in search of a Job.
Roscoe Conkling once said
that there are only three kinds of
men who habitually use the pro-
noun "we' when speaking of self;
namely, potentates, editors and
unfortunates with a tapeworm.
Had the great statesman lived un-
til this year he might certainly
have included in the privileged
list a candidate for President with
two running mates.
The Republicans who were
tricked into voting against their
party four years ago should not
accept the free silver doctrine
without forethought. The Chicago
Chronicle asserts that forty sound
money Democrats have been nomi-
mated for Congress already in the
region committed to free silver at
There is trickery in the
air, and petulant Republicans owe
it to their own self respect to be on
the alert.
Since the novelist of the |
present finds no subject too sacred |
or too horrible for his subject, it |
really seems some popular writer
might find in the receut political |
farce at ST Lonis material for a |
taking yellow back. "The Pass
ing of Populism" would be so
eminently in touch with popular
sentiment as a title that the work
would not need many exclusive
merits.
The public has ceased to
expect the boy orator of the Platte
to be observant of the ordinary
rules of grammer at all times, but
he should understand that some
examples o. bad syntax are not
good politics. The Populists are
sensitive, and Bryan can not af
ord to mention himself and the
Georgia man as II and Watson
t is hoped this admonition Is in
ime.