Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-01-24

democratic tariff reform
cannotexactly be called "all WOOL
but in 1895 we sent out $50, ,OOO,-
900 in gold for foreign fleeces.
1t is time indeed to talk of
national extravaganza. The battle
ship Kentucky will be christened
with whisky forty-five years old.
There may be some truth in
the report that Campos was re-
Gently "penned up" The pen
has played a big part in the Gu
ban unpleasantness so far.
democracy is at least tfortu-
nate in one respect This beino
leap year, the old thing can circu
late among her timid champions
and propose to the one she can
most willingly sacrifice.
WI ny is there so much COM
ment on Ingersoll's discovery of
a church that is Just to his liking?
Didn't Bob once virtually promise
an individual reformation when
Kentucky should go Republican,?
There is no use talking, the
Democratic party is pretty big
affair. 1t lakes pronounced ex-
panse of length and breadth to
accommodate Andrew Jackson
and Grover Cleveland in the same
century.
Perhaps there was wisdom
after all in the selection of Chicago
for the Democratic convention
The city of divorces will be good
place for Miss Tammany to give
some of her disreputable fellows
the cold shoulder.
-Campos complains that the
enemy will not stand still long
enough for him to exterminat.
them. Perhaps he wants Mr.
Cleveland to write the Cubans !,
letter on military etiquette and
helligerent good manners.
The mild temper of the
Iersion debate in Congress indi
GATES "ther "era of good feel
ing Now We only need a stat,
Ci ,hings In ". i,h every man l>
fe' ling plenty of cash IN his own
pocket. lhis is the truest era
of good feeling.
England never backs down
till it is very evident there is no
other sensible thing to be done 1t
is worthy of note that Salisbury's
attitude was not at all peaceful
until it was announced that man
in Michigan was coughing up
- IL.
"A couple named Dove separ
ated in Tennessee the other day,
after having lived together thirty
years, and in the distribution of
property a regular vendetta arose,
in which most of the family were
killed. In addition to other per-
versities Tennessee seems to have
Doves that are not harmless.
- 1t is a terrible thing for an
Englishman to be defeated, for
his countrymen never forgive him.
Jameson is faring even wol Sc than
Dunraven. After Krugers direct
unkindness, Poet Austin's poem
is enough to make the doctor wish
he had never been born.
1t is well enough for Eng
land that Salisbury has decided to
let the chip ON Uncle Sans shoul- |
der alone. We Americans are
slow to anger and great deal
slower to forgive. Why, it has
taken some of us thirty years to
get thoroughly mad over the civil |
war.
The Democratic contempo-
raries that keep the $50, 900 Demo
Gratis that did not vote in 1892 on
continual dress parade remind one
OF Bob Burdette's character, who
stood on the street and called |
Turk at the top Of his voice,
until his son approached and in
termed him the dog had been lost
fifteen years.
-McClure's Magazine for
February will contain eight i'm
portant portraits of Lincoln, and
will present material never before
published. During this period
Lincoln suffered financial wreck
as country merchant; made his
first acquaintance in very rO-