The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Justice Miller of the Supreme COur
is the latest Presidential candidate.
Mr.. Blaine thinks the pen in hi
hand Is mightier than a packed con
vention.
Osman Digna will. it Is said, meas
ure strength with General Graham
to-day.
Augustus Schell, a prominent New
York politician, is lying at the poin'
of death.
No wonder Ell Mahdi fought 81
valientlv for his home and his fire
aide. He has eighteen wives.
General Graham thinks the Sou lar
rebellion is far from being ended
Osman Digna seems to be Of the
same opinion.
Many of the would be Presidential
candidates r praying that Blaine
will not issue the second volume OF
his book before the Chicago Conven.
ton.
San Francisco experienced the
heaviest earthquake shocks day be-
fore yesterday she has felt since 1858.
A few of the same kind would make
her Worlds fair in 1887 an exhibit
ton of startling interest to eastern
visitors.
Woman suffragists find an enthu-
siastic champion in the person of ex-
Governor Hoyt of Wyoming Moth
ing but a press of business, he says,
prevents him from going to Albany
and urge the legislature to enact a
woman suffrage law.
Minister Sargent is master of the
art of administering "laffy,' as may
be learned by our press reports of
night before last. He may fall out
with Bismarck but he proposes to
cultivate and, If possible, retain the
good will of the Emperor William.
Representative Henley is from CAL
itornia, and as a Californian he re-
CARDS the Northern Pacific as a Sc
rious stumbling block in the way of
the prosperity Of his State. Hence
his report declaring all Northern Pa
cif1c lands, not earned prior to July
4th, 1879, forfeited. Anything to
cripple the great rival of California
roads ia the cry of California rail-
road men, and Mr.. Henley is their
very obedient mouthpiece.
The prospects o. IN early settle
ment of the Chilli Peru difficulty are
now somewhat clouded by the pro-
tests of the representatives of several
European powers against a certain
article of the treaty of peace between
the two nations by which the former
would acquire control of the guano
beds in Peruvian territory, which r
already hypothecated TO the foreign
creditors OF the latter until her debt
is extinguished.
World: Mr.. Blaine Is silently
gathering In the delegates in the
State of Pennsylvania, though he is
quietly devoting himself to litera-
ture and doing all he can to impress
upon the public mind the fact that
he is not a candidate for President
But then Don Cameron il not ut
home, and the Pennsylvania Repub>
licans have nobody to shape and d.
rect them.
Secretary Frelinghuysen writes to
Sargent: The President approves
entirely of your course in the Lasker
You did nothing but
obey instructions from the Govern.
ment Of the United States" Then
why did the President bounce Mr..
Sargent? If he did his duty in the
matter why doesn't the President
stand by him and see him through |
In his quarrel with Bismarck. Mr..
FreliDghuysen's taffy is too thin.
If Sargent is fool enough to swallow
it, he ought to be brought home in
Of a guardian. He Is entirely |
too simple to master the long words
Of the Russian language.
Mr.. Hoar's amendment to the Sem
bill increasing the salaries of
United States District Court Judges
% $4,000 a year is inconsistent with
present practice of that branch of
The National legislature. His amend
nent provides that 1t shall be unlaw-
'ul for a judge to appoint a relative.
the degree of first cousin, to
my position in his court. This
amendment Is urged in the face of
he fact that Senators are permitted
o appoint their wives, sons, daugh-
srs and other near relatives as their
secretaries and clerks If their
Truly, consistency has
'eased to be a jewel among our law
Secretary Of War Lincoln has
AIKEN the trouble to cont adict the
lilly report that he would resign his
.'ortfolio in the event of the Presl-
lent signing the Fitz-John Porter
ill, on the ground that he should
onsider 1t an insult to the memory
t his illustrious father. If Mr.. Lin
oln were alive to-day he probably
you'd be among the first men in
he country to do justice to a
officer who was wrongfully
ccused, tried on incomplete testi-
aopy, and so wrongfully condemned.
Ir. Lincoln was always ready to
light a wrong. He was. above all
Just. The country will be