Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-09-18

'ut the Cnbans in sad plight, he'll c
lire a Bryan journalist to edit i
very fight.
Yes, Bryan's figures reach
ne ear, his tones are smooth aud
clear. and he will live in memory
is the Silver .Auc.ioneer.
II Bryan would be Presi
dent, why has he not proposed IN
silver key that will unlock the
factories free trade clOsedl
Organism is trusting to the
emotions and superficial reason
ing of the people, and in so doing j
i reckoning without it's host. 1
Flour years of clover was
the cry-how did it come to passs l
The pasture was SO scant they
drove Jake Coxey from the grass.
Earl Iii Hung Chang and |
Col. Mary Elizabeth Lease have 4
shown once again that great minds ]
lun together. Botn forsee the
crushing defeat of Organism.
The Democrats propose to
hold up the nation to held up the
silver owned by a few Western
schemers. But the hold up of 1892
is too fresh in the minds of the peo-
pie.
The Silver Auctioneer once
suggested in Congress that the
size of the gold dollar could be
reduced to make it go with silver
at Is 10 L. does this not sound
lik :. fifty cent dollare
They call it the New South,
to be sure bat we shall see how
much of ibe old Dixie remains,
unless tb 90 orator should d is
creetly IL .be;.' to quote from Lii L
coin oD his Southern tour.
Bryan has fearful sympa-
rhy for the poor of the world, but
n 1891 he assisted largely in the
defeat of the meas are for the re-
lief of destitute Russians. Sympa-
thy is sometimes olly for effect.
W hen the Silver Auctioneer
admits that free silver legislation
would cause panic. he evidently
does not understand that the
American people feel they have,
already had enough of that sort
of thing.
The Silver Auctioneef Is
unalterably oppose d to the pluto
Gratis, but at the same time he is
talking OF making everybody rich
de seems to coylsi'er plutocracy
a bad disease orlly when the other
fellow has it.
Ii must have been Labor
Day with a vengeance in Chicago,
IL those une mployed men who
heard Bryan i,ried to work out of
his speech an Y explanation of the
way DEMO- ratio tariff has been
making thaiI condition better.
The Post Dispatch calls
Watson Il j udas because of his
Dallas spec ch. If Col. Jones is
correct, 1t ought to be an easy
matter to g ct Tommy out of the
way. The metal mentioned in a
certain ct ,apter of Holy Writ
would do ubtless prove potent
again.
Me. Bryan is about as in,
accurate in scriptural quotations
us he IS in political philosophy
de can g uote Boute lie and Me
Cali fair ly well, but when he
speaks OF gatherr ag ''fgs from
thorns and grapes from thistles, y
as he didl at Buffa 10, he is mis-
repesen ting ST. Matthew.
THE fact Il lat the four King
Georges of Eng land all died OF
the same day of the week has beer
considered a 81, lgular coincidence
and really it " ould be harder t,
explain than & ne same similarit,
IN the polStii al fate of Horac
oreely and w illiam j. Bryan.
That farmer from Rail
county, Miss ouri, who shipped
'ot OF cseSu to Mexico, an
thought he was driving goo
bargain ats 1900, had an objee
lesson Ga oeap money when h
preseHSe& I is bi of exchange {
Texas DC nix and got $3.50 j
Amerinam money for it.
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