Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-09-11

down.
The Indianapolis cores
pondent who stated The delegates
to the convention last week were
veil dressed and intelligent in ap
pearance probably wanted to en-
phasize the fact that the Chicago
experimenters were staying away.
In claiming with insolent
confidence everything in sight be-
fore the election the Bryanites call
to mind the philosophy of the Irish
man who congratulated himself on
having had his laugh before he
encountered the bovine for sport.
Whenever substantial
business man is discovered some
where in the country who favors
free silver, the fact blossoms out in
the Bryanite press as a nine days
wonder. The notoriety given it
abundantiy establishes its rarity.
Eccentricity in men or comets at
tracts attention.
Around 1850 wheat was
about 45 cents per bushel, though
silver was worth Sl.30 an ounce.
From 1911 to 1915 cotton was only
I cents pound, while silver was
nearly twice as high as now.
There is abundant evidence that
silver is a regulator that does not
regulate.
-"Coin" Harvey largely pre-
cipitated the crowning absurdity
OF the present campaign. Edward
Bellamy is an ADLER man and wrote
a netter piece of political nonsense,
but his vagaries fell in desert
places, and to-day he can look out
upon Harvey's following and de-
plore the injustice of the fates.
Gen. Harrison's illustration
of practical bimetallism by the
idea that pair of stills must be
the same length below the foot on
each side is one of the best anal
ogies going. But of course it is
not argument to the Bryanites,
who want to force Uncle Sam to
throw the gold stilt away and
shorten the silve one by half.
THE free silver speakers and
editors are resorting to all shades
of perversion and mendacity in
their efforts to mislead the voters.
Those men are not doing it from a
nataral love of wickedness, but it
is all because, in the absence of
dignitied argument, they consider
such deplorable self abasement
necessary. 1t is an indirect con
fession of feeble cause.
1t was Gen. Buckner who
called Grant a ''near man." be
cause he had observed when a
onfederate commanders sword
became useless the plain man from
Galena was in the immediate vi
cinity to take it. Along in No
vember no doubt he will be pleased
TO characterize Bryan as a far
man-far from The White Hou Sc
and the realm of dangerous eX-
pertinent.
The strike at Homestead in
1892 contributed in no small de
gree to the Democratic victory of
that year. When we consider that
the lowest wages paid in that con
cern was nearly three times the
iNerage compensation for farm
work, and then reflect upon the
prevalent industrial paralysis un-
der the present administration we
seem to be contemplating an in
stance of the genuine irony OF fat
as served up by demagogues.
The St. Louis RepuS
bids FOR little cheap sympathy
claiming that tie opposition T.
pers are abusing Bryan" I !.
appeal 10 the emotional side OF the
country falls fiat. Mckinley has
has been abused" quite as mel,
as Bryan. If Democracy had nj
ways been careful with its e.;
thetS, it would never have aSso
ated with Horace Greeley, W, :.
pet phrase was "the hell hound ..
the opposition
Il sample of the shallow
irvialitios TO which the BRYAN
democracy is resorting crops out
IN the mighty argument that the
sound money men are self con
,radictorv when ,hev t.,ll- cf