Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-10-23

luke tHe pOllCy uuucI WulCu thCy
rere promised such great pros
,erity but under which they have
SO severely.
The Philadelphia Press finds
" a canvass of the college presi-
lents in the west and south that
III of them a,e opposed to Bryan
md the majority of them will vote
or Mckinley.
The campaign is getting
'eal warm down in Kentuckey.
republicans are lining up for an
lnprecented victory.
Mr.. Bryan himself says that
!, panic would follow the change
TO free coinage of silver. Most
people have hal ali the panics
they want for a long time to
come.
Noah Webster pronounced
more words than William Jennings
Bryan could think of in hundred
campaigns, and it stands out to
Mr.. Webster credit that he did it
quietly and all for the good of his
country.
oh, yes, its the same old Dem
ocracy. The only trifling difference
is, it has repudiated all its former
principles and traditions and has
chosen a consistent leader who
voted for Weaver in 1892. Surely
can look over little
changes along that line
The case seems to be about
this way; between fish bites Grow
er Cleveland is thinking of the ad-
versities in politics, while between
bites of whatever he can get the
workingman is thinking of the job
he lost because of the calamity OF
1892
-Bryanite exchanges men
ton the eqine display in free sill
yer rallies as "sixteen white horses
and one yellow one." Of course
yellow is rather singular word to
employ in this connection, but
perhaps the Bryanites object to
the more appropriate and sugges,
tive term, "dun."
Bryan has been telling the
people in various places that he
resembles Thomas Jefferson and
Abraham Lincoln in his statesman
ship. AS six months ago most OF
them had not even heard of him,
this may have a better effect than
,ome other errors to which he
gives utterance.
The first judicial district
will be fortunate indeed, if il
elects man so pure and able as
Major r. ID. Cramer to the place
made vacant by the death of Judge
Turner. Maj. Cramer is a maj
whose legal ability can not be
questioned, and against whose
character as a man and citizen no,
a word of reproach can be uttered
Mr.. Bryan continues to tel
a suffering people that all the gooG
and great ment of former time!
thought precisely as he thinks
concerning the money question
Come think of it, it is a pretty
serious thing to be trying to pul
departed patriots down t. the lev
ell of demagogues and repudiators
and if Thomas Jefferson, DAME
Webster, Henry Ward Beeche.
and other illustrious American
were alive o-day, the boy orato
would no doubt have several suit!
for cri minal libel on his hands.
Times were good in 1892
Nobody denies it. Mills and fac
tories were in full blast and ther,
was a lively demand for farm pro
ducts that meant fair prices. w,
have the same currency in 1S9'
that we had in 1892, but we hav,
not the same times. Now is goo(
time for the voter to ignore tn
free silver hoax long enough to re
member we have not the SAM
tariff we had in 1892, and max
up his mind that voting should b
IA matter of business before senti
ment.
The Bryanites accuse Rob
ert Z. Lewis of scarilege becaus
ne ridiculed Judge Bryan's pray
RS for divine guidance when {;
case was on trial Lewis deride,