Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-11-14
Editorial Pith.

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 The triumph of Hill proves that | Tweed's snEi IS marching on.
 It pleases Uncle Dana, m the happy mood m which he finds himself in this past election season, to discourse learn edly and from the rich fruitage of his own experience upon the Mugwump. | Uncle Dana says-and he remembers the bleak November days of just one year ago-that Nobody pities the Mug wump when he IS in sorrow. NobOdy's 8 blood warns toward him in the hour of his defeat and humiliation. When the superciliOus sheer on his mug gives place to a grin of anguish everybody else relOices. The ordinary virtues of Christian charity and humane commis eratiOn are suspended when the Mug wump comes to grief" All this IS true, and Uncle Dana might have added that the Mugwump doesn't seem to care a IIckel what people think of him SO long as he is permitted 10 sit up nights and stay at home on Sundays, so as to! have ample time to admire his own moral grandeur.
 Secretary Lamar Is light in deploring every "effort to give a sectional tenden- " No ROAAAAIhA NOhNEHNS LulH tNlA lH avoided in his state by having the "pol- ltical contests" constructed on the jug handle principle-all on one side.
 Fiiz Lees victory will not, in the long run, be more beneficial to his state than were the victories of his distinguished uncle.
 If fsuch a Yankee invention as Thanks giving day should happen to be observed m Mississippi, the Democrats of that state ought not tO forget to render thanks for that peculiarly happy state of affairs m their commonwealth which enables the minority to stay at home on cleo tion day and yet beat the majority.
 The circuit court at Cincinnati. in a sound opinion delivered by Judge Cox. sustaiDs the petition for a msndamus in the electi Jn eases. This will prevent the issue Of certificates to Democratic candidates for the state senate who were elected by the most rascslly frauds ever attempted in any northern state.
 Secretary Whitney will, of course, complete the vessels ordered by the last c Bgsess, and show what reform ad- ministrstion can do in the way Ot naval construction, before any other ships are provided for hy act of Congress.
 The Philadelphia Record argues that the federal patronage ID Pennsylvania was a hindrance rather than a help 60 the Democrats. IL says theIr candidates were loaded with the Inimical support and friendship os the congressional syn Gicate, who, ID dIctating the changes made in federal offices, had incurred the resentment of the rank and file of the party.
 II had not thought about it in this respect" was the suggestive remark of Mr. Hendricks when asked If the New York result meant an indorsement of the administration. The wicked suspi- con vill force its way sometimes into a depraved soul that Mir. Hendrics does not anxiously and prayerfully desire to have the front end of the administration indorsel
 There are a grUat many Republicans left in Iowa despite the sfforts of the Prohibition fanatics to destroy the party.
 From the character and size of the cuts which sd, m many of our exchanges we infer that the Democracy are taking their Thanksgiving rations out in politi- ticsl poultry. It has happened 10 that party almost invariably sin @ 1856 that lubilstion has come in of years." There was 8 slight break or crack ID 1884, but the regular course of events will be resumed in 'SS.