Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-11-27

Illinois had called out the thank
ful spirit of. .Christendom as it did
Nov. 5.
The Bryanites in this coun
ty perhaps never played chevy
much at school, but they knew
how to give the Republicans
Affair.
-Spain's bluster about whip
ping the United States will hardly
cause alarm now, following so
closely upon the empty boasts of
Chairman Jones and otler mis-
guided free silver leaders
Grover Cleveland has found
time, outside of his fishing, hunt
ing, issuing bonds and winklng at
Spain, to prove that the Democrat
ic party is more dead against the
mistakes of Moses than Bob In
soil ever was.
The editor of the Louisville
Courier-Journal thinks the Demo
cratic party sh. uld set aside the
Sth of January for fasting and
prayer. This means there is at
least one Democrat yet who has
not entirely forgotten Andrew
Jackson.
--Republican aspirants should
not grow ridiculous in the post
office scrambles. Democratic hank
ering is not in keeping with a
Republican victory. Let the mania
of Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby
abide among the mossbacks.
Chairman Butler, the heavy
weight Populist, has served notice
on Bryan that he cannot lead the
free silver cause in 1900 as a
Democrat. Mr.. Butler is correct
in his position. The label is an
important feature. The skull and
crossbones should not be neglected
next time the quacks prescribe.
The male ontents and social
Ishmaelites who are true to no
policy, and who see in any species
of resolution a plan of revenge or
a hope of gain, will not be united
again on a politica! platform in
many years. The chief dema-
gogues have had lesson that will
go down to posterity.
-Kleptomania has long been
regarded as a bifurcate evil, which
gives the experts a chance to pom
der between the theory of mental
and that of moral
obliquity. Some persons think
the Populist idea of reputation
adds another horn to the dilem-
ma, but the bulk of the evidence
indicates it is'simply.a blending of
the two old symptoms of the dis
ease.
1t would perhaps be as well
for Democrats anxious to step in
to the shoes of r. P. Giles not to
lnaugurate a headlong scramble
ust yet. Men who have given
5he matter some thought believe
here will not be a special election
until after the 4th of March, as
Congressman Clark's term does
lot expire before that date, conse-
luently the vacancy provision will
lot sooner apply. In such cases,
services as a substitute
re a poor expression of sorrow
Or the dead.
Sam Jones declared the
vertexed campaign thunder, "all
len are created equal" is gilt
sring falsehood. With the polite
significance given it by design
lg leaders, Sam hits the nail on {
ie head. The idea is held out to t
he masses that, under equitable t
gislation, all men would prosper
ike, and grosser error was b
ever extant. Gould, Rockefeller o
Id others were born with ac- 3
lisitiveness superior to legisla- "
on. Jefferson wrote a self -evi- |
mt truth, but demagogues have IL
storted it into falsehood of b
lfish design. h
interesting condition b
nfronts those who have always o
Intended that silver regulates A
e prices of farm products, and a,
at when the white metal appre- n
stes by some mysterious sympa- u
Y in the laws of traffic those
oducts grow dearer. They have f.