Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-12-11

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forgotten or ignored there on that
date. The sound mou.y Dcmo
Gratis will spare no pains or ex-
pense to keep his memory greeu.
Bryan has for the present
given up the "more money" idea
with reference to the country,
though it is still cardinal prin-
ciple in his individual affairs. He
lately set the price of $4,000 on a
prospective lecture before a reli
gious body a Des Moines, but the
managers at once decided the W ind
would be too high.
The Gar of Russia wants
an international conference, with
power to fix the price Of wheat at
stated intervals. By thus indi
rectly admitting that his ukase
cannot accomplish the impossible
by itself, the autocrat displays a
knowledge of the law of supply
and demand some statesmen in
this country do not possess.
The Democrats have tried
| free trade and free silver in the
last few years. Neither proved
satisfactory. Mindful of the eggiug
of Carlisle at Covington and the
riotous reception of Palmer at
Fayette, they could retain their
indispensable watchwood ''free"
next time and make a bid for
public confidence by demanding
free speech.
"A writer with an eye for
odds and ends remarks that the
American people seem to prefer
for President a man with single
Christian name, and cites num-
Der of instances in proof. What
eve truth may be in the theory,
there is no doubt that if the Demo
Gratis had their way. some of their
men, Ike Van Buren and Cleve-
land, for instance, would step
down AMI out with no name to
speak of at all.
-Populist papers in the dis
trict have taken the position that
a representative of their party
should be nominated by the free
silver forces to take the place of
Giles. The contention is grounded
in simple justice, and the Populists
should not submit to any species of
snubbing in the case. A glance at
the returns shows what the party
did fox the Democrats in Missouri
this year, and if all this assistant e
is to pass unnoticed and unrewa' D.
ed, it is time for an energetic piu-
test to rise from the neglected al
lies. SO far the Populists have
had neither plums nor praise Tor
their troull... and if recognition / ,
denied j" his matter. Senator But
ler's if''as ard parting of the
ways "culd seem to be the only
course left them.
The analysis of the might
have been has given various Bryan
supporters much pleasure since
the election. A crank on the
Washington Post fancied he had
astonished the world by discover
ing it was not much of Republi
can victory after all, since change
of 25,000 votes in five or six
States would have ele"ted Bryan.
1t requires a genius for old curl
osity shops to waste time in specu-
lating with so shadowy a ground
work, and few except chronic
heresy hunters will fall into the
folly. What might have been is
the grossest fraud in philosophy.
If Bluchcr had failed to arrive.
W aterloo would have had differ
ent story; if Albert S Johnston
had not fallen at Shiloh, Grants
name would act have been associat-
ed with Appomattox. History is
too dignified for discussion of
what never came to pass.
Table Talk
Table Talk for December has its
leading article, "The Road to
Christmas by Lucy Elliott Keel