Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-08-28

a great deal about MIR. Bryan's
sore throat. The complaint seems
quite common among former lead
ing Democratic speakers just at
this time.
In 1892 W. J. Bryan was
elling the people ''the protective
tariff is system of legal spolia-
tion.'' The boy orator is talking
of legal spoliation yet, but he is
doing it in another way.
Benjamin Franklin said,
"All the wealth of the Indies has
not made Spain rich, because her
outgoes have been greater than her
incomes. 1t is the Spanish style
of castles the Democrats want this
country to adopt.
-Bourke Cochran asserted
that Bryan was "swept into the
domination by a wave of enthusi-
ISM awakened by appeals to pre-
judice and greed" Isn't it about
time for the free silver leaders to
denounce Cockran's speech as the
crime of 1896!
Jones, of the Post Dispatch,
claims to have fathered the Chica
go platform. After the election
he will probably feel like the olden
Greek, who at the funeral of his
child, apologized for bringing out
so small a corpse before so large a
crowd.
The Kansas City Times
rises to explain that Chauncey
Depew criticises Mr.. Bryan's New
York speech because of the fool
ish envy one great orator feels
when a greater is discovered. That
may surely be called the biggest
newspaper joke of the season.
-Occasiona ly somebody re-
marks that the issue in this cam,
paign is the East a gainst the West.
This is radically wrong way OF
putting it. In justice to the
Chicago convention and its results,
the phrase should be the West
against the East and the rest Of
the country.
No Democrat could be ex-
pected to indorse Mckinley more
unreservedly than Bourke Cock
ran did, when he said in his
speech in Madison Square gar
den, II know of no test of pros
perity absolutely iafallible, except
the rate of wages paid to labor
ers.n
ALL the leading religious pa.
pers and most of the preachers in
the country have come out fol
sound money. This implies that,
if w. j. Bryan continues to at
tend church regularly like a good
citizen, he will hear much of the
other side of the financial question
between now and November 8.
1t is thought there are
10000 more voters in the Unit
ed States now than there were in
in 1892. The majority of these
are young men who will cast their
first ballot this fall. With them
the result of the election rests, and
Republican managers should see
to it that they start right.
Bryan will not stand up for
16 to l after all When he was on
boat in the East, the newsboy
sold 16 Mckinley buttons to other
passengers and finally wanted to
sell him Bryan button, as no.
body else would take it, but he
repudiated the ratio and refused
to purchase.
1t is folly in those captious
Southern people to stand up for
precedent and object to Mrs.
Bryan's accompanying the Chica-
go candidate on his pilgrimages.
All precedent was buried at Chi
cago, and, besides that, it is only
natural for loving wife to desire
to see how much trouble her hus-
band is making for himself.
When Greeley ran in 1872
it seemed for time early in the
as if he would sweep the
country in an unprecedented wave
of triumph. Then the enthusiasm
died out and the ticket was over
whelmed. Greeley was an i'm
mense personality on a regular
platform, and his signal failure