Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-08-14

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ing forrenown. Be charity for old
and young, for all the nation veal
but Bill should note that holy
writ that says. "Thou shalt not
steal.'
in Buchanan administra-
ton government bonds at twelve
per cent went begging. Democracy
has always meant hard times.
Free trade and various revolution.
AIRY tendencies invariably under
mine confidence and paralyze in
dustry. 1t is the verdict of his
tory.
The Republicans are max
ing this campaign of education,
the free silver men are conducting
a campaign of lodges. Bryan is
backed up by Western bonanza
kings, like Stewart, Jones, Hearst
and Teller, whose individual wealth
runs high into the millions. When
free silver organs refer to "Mc
Kinley Doodle" they call to mind
the case in which the daughter told
her mother to hurry up and call
the woman with whom she was
quarreling prostitute first.
The Democrats of the Chi
cago school condemn dollar that
is worth two hundred cents. OF
course there isn't such dollar
now in the United States, but the
voters will be reminded by their
present attitude of the time not
many moons agone when those
same men demanded free wool in
order that dollar might buy
more clothing. This is but one of
a hundred instances of Democratic
inconsistency cropping out this
year.
Bryan is young man with
lively appreciation and desire to
learn This fact is brought out by
the mastery manner in which he
appreciated and displayed at the
Chicago convention McCalls S cross
and crown rhetoric and Boutelle's S
Napoleonic metaphor. The fact
that those gentlemen are Republi
cans merely argues the stronger
that the boy orator of the Platte
knows a good thing wherever he
sees it, if he does make a bad use
of it sometimes.
- Ex-Governor Crittenden
writes from the City of Mexico to
Joe Shelby, entreating the old wal
horse to stand by Bryan. He ad-
mits the Chicago platform is bad y
off color, but processes to under
stand that Bryan winks the bour-
bon eye when it says soda water.
This is rather an ingenious plan OF
compromise, to be sure, but the
man who contrived the taking of
of Jesse James will have to make
a better apology than this before
Missouri Democrats forgive him
for the crime.
Prior to the repeal of the
Sherman act in 1898 local Demo
cratic leaders were loud in asser-
ton of the necessity of knocking
out iniquitous Republican silver.
They claimed beyond the shadow
of doubt that good times only wait
ed upon that stroke of statesman
ship. Now those men want to
give the country a surfeit of the
thing which was tn en- only small
experiment. Can the voter think
of these things and yet believe that
such men really have any accu
rate or unvarying idea in regard to
the legitimate place of silver in
| finance?.
THE Chicago brand of De-
mocracy is not talking free trade
much now. They are talking it
in England however, and a recent
issue of the London Globe virtual
ly admitted that perhaps after all
Richard Golden was wrong. The
editor goes on to say that he would
be rash man indeed who would
now predict that fifty years hence
England will be a free trade coun-
try. But the complete proof Of
late repentance is furnished in
the admission, remarkable in an
English journal, that perhaps after
all the civilized world NAV be
right in its idea of protection.
An English writer declares
that the Republican financial plank
backed by Republican reciprocity
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