Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-09-12

The fact cannot be too often recalled that not one of those who framed the Mills bill ever raised finger to defend the government during the rebellion. But a majority of them, including MT. Mills himself, exerted themselves very industriously on the other side. as SOL dier. of the confedeate army.-Cham' pion.
 Our contempory mlsstates history when it says Denis Kearny was a repub- lican previous to his joining Grover $ free-trade party. Denis was a socialist with tendency strongly to anarchism. All of his class can now be found in the ranks of the democracy as they consid- CT tree trade very big step in their direction.
 It was Blue Jeans Williams, . demo- crat. that appointed Harrison to the command uf the Indiana militia during
 the riots of 1871. Whatever MT. liar. rison did in that connection, wal done in obedience to the orders of the democratic governor, "Blue Jeans
 although Senator Mcdonald says he never ordered the militia to fire into the voters.
 Arkansas is reported to have gone democratic by an increased majority while Vermont comes to the front with
 republican majority the largest since the war. These results indicate thai Cleveland will be confronted with a
 solid vote from the northern states and
 Harrison will face a solid democratic electoral phalanx from the southern states with the possible exception Of two or three states.
 Kentucky sadly needs the enlighten- ing influence of the gospel. as according to Brother Watterson's reliable newspa- per, the Courier Journal, the state has six connties-Harlan, Perry, Letcher. Knott, Bell and Leslie-that have never had a church within their borders dur ing the sixty or seventy years of their existence as counties ThIs probably accounts for the democratic majority in that state.
 The Old Roman was so enfeebled Tn New York that the democratic mana gers were unable to exhibit him satisfaC- tory. While attempting to speak he became so exhausted that he had to be taken to his hctel. NIT. Thurman en- phatically denies that his trouble was caused by over indulgence in stimu- lants IL is an even wager that Thur man will never live to be vice president although his physical energies may posi- bly, hold out until after the November election.
 Can an intelligent democrat vote his party ticket this year, after the frank con- fssslon on the part of the leaders of the party acknowledging that their admins tration of affairs has been failure, with out stultifying himself. If, during the past three years, which they have been in power, they have made such failure of the administrator of government that they cannot endorse the acts of their own officials, how can they consci- entiously expect the support of the rank and file of the party, or how can the
 latter consclentiously support their tickei'
 Our contemporary quotes the Troy
 Press as sayingthat England has the lowest tariff in all Europe and the high est wages pad there Australia is a free trade continent. Wages are higher there than anywhere on earth. Y"
 If the Troy Press ever published such an assertion 1t only goes to show that its editor IS either very ignorant man or has no regard whatever for the truth, as every intelligent man iE the country knows that laborers as we'll as artisans are flocklns from England and Australia to the United States in order to obtain better salaries
 At the deep water convention at Den yer, Thomas Mcconnell, delegate from Dakota, presented proposition asking Congress for an appropriation to tap the Missouri river at a point in the south eastern part of Flannery county, and construct canal which shall be Go feet in width and 20 feet in depth along the water sheds of the east between the Mis- souri river and the James to a point in Hutsman county. The canal will be 4So miles in length and will cost $2o,- oo,ooo He says that when completed it will not only throw open to navigation over I,5oo additional miles through most excellent farming and agricultural country, but vil afford irrigating facIli- ties for .,a,ooo, 900 acres of land only lacking an advantage of this k,nd to assist in growing crops.
 Speaking of the defeat of the resolu- ton endorsing Governor Zulick and Grover Cleveland in the democratic convention the Tucson Citizen says "ihe territorial and national administration, Zulick and Cleveland shared like fate. In the eyes of the democratic territorial. convention of Arizona neither were worthy of recognition. and neither were recognized. In ail this broad union there is not a like parallel. A territo- rial convention refusing to indorSe the administration of ills own party was never before heard of and probably never will be again. but Ii was Zulick victory all the same. The position of the unterriied in Arizona as demon strated by the convention IS not envia-