Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-08-21


try. This fact would seem to call
Tor several falsehoeds from the
bonanza boodlers and calamity
carpers, if they intend to maintain
the system of argument now in
use by them.
The 16 to / hallucination
looked haggard enough before the
record fiend discovered that some
of Bryan's present hackers favor
cd the tcrime of 1872 The
sound money men should use their
arsenal of history with degree of
charity.
Geo. Graham Vest advises
Missouri Democrats to "vote the
ticket first and read the Chicago
platform afterward." Vest can
gratuitously insult American citi-
zenship more easily than he can
r,main in the United States Sen
ate.
Candidate Bryan's speech
in New York was not remarkable
for its figures after all. 1t may be
the gentleman is now thinking
mainly of that magical so, 900 that
represents the dollars he wants to
draw per annum for inflicting a
financial experiment upon the
country.
In an Oratorical contest at
Galesburg years ago, Bryan de-
clared that all justice was compre-
hended by the golden rule. This
was before he adopted the silver
rule, however, and began to do
unto others as his own interest
aud needless the majority might
dictate.
In one of his recent speech
es Bryan told his auditors that 16
to l means that every free silver
man will get sixteen of his neigh
bors to vote with him. There is
as much truth, dignity and philos-
ophy in this piece of puerile levity
as may be found il, half the cam
paign thunder of the Democratic
Populists.
School teachers meet stu
dents occasionally who cannot un-
derstand how cipher may be
added to a decimal without alter
ing its significance Such students
become men and. cannot under
stand how bimeJallism in theory
may mean the mos emphatic mo-
no metallism in fact.
-Once in while an editor ol
the Bryan school calls Mckinley
"the syndicate candidate II
takes considerable nerve to do it,
of course, but heroic exertions are
in order to make the voters forget
that little $500, 100000 in posses
sion of twenty of Bryan's West
ern hackers, who want their prop
erty legislated to giddy premi
um.
The Brook field Gazette in 4
recent editorial mentioned Thomas
Jefferson as "the second President
of the United States.'' Will the
Gazette accept a little z residential
information in fraternal spirit!
Thomas Jefferson is gene rally con-
sidered the third President of the
United States, but the first of Dem
Gratis to fill that place, just as
as Grover Cleveland is the last.
With peculiar brand of
modesty, borrowed perhaps from
cowboys of his acquaintance, Can
didate Bryan proposes to E'drive
Republicans from the field" with
two questions. One question n is,
''If the gold standard is a good
thing, why not keep its'' The
other is, eff it Is a bad thing,
why should we keep its" When
the boy orator undertakes inter-
rogative sophistry he becomes
ridiculous even to boys. The
"new Moses' should stick to cross
and crown assertions and leave
vexing questions to older brains.
In 1859 corn was worth only
10 cents bushel in Illinois. while
oats went begging at s cents and
eggs were 2hs cents per dozen. A
Populist editor, who, of course,
with all the popgun statesmen of
his llk, has stoutly maintained all
the time that the IA ilroads are