Arizona republican., 1890-09-28
ON THE CURBSTONE.


 Tempe during the week. They went to electioneer, they said, but some of my friends say they wooed the public enemy rather than the voter They were en- toying themselves in peculiarly Demo- cratic way, when Chalmers concluded he would visit an estimable lady in the city, who is somewhat of free thinker. The conversation turning upon theology, Chal. remarked that he had always been taught to believe in great spirit and to worship it. "Yes," came the prompt retort, "I am confident of that, for can smell it in your breathw
 
 REALLY, the early train to the south is a factor of good to Phoenix. The town is easy to enter, but bad to leave. As one drummer expressed it, "I'd have been gone three days ago if didn't have to get up so precious early in order to catch the train"
 FARMERS seem undecided whether to put in barley or wheat this fall. The present season has been a very prosper OuS Out TUT bdiltI, "Hlit NiSdl, uhicSS of superior quality, was nearly unsala- ble Now, the season before, barley sunk to nearly nothing, while wheat commanded good price. It's a sort of gamble, agriculture is, just as much so as stalking your money on the red or black at a gaming table.
 
 WHILE am on the streets see many amusing things. That is, things that are amusing to me, though they are sepulchral in their humor, viewed through some other folks spectacles. For instance, l hear men who have always borne the designation of moss back Democrats, vehemently protesting that they will not have their politics served out to them by the Webb-Fickas ring. Not that they have, in the least ialtered in their Democracy, but that they are not to be dragged by the nose by any small faction that has obtained, by shady means, control of their County Convention.
 ToM SMITH is usually termed, now-a- days, "the Speaker of the House."
 
 THERE are two young men in this city who are twins. They much resemble each other, not an uncommon tea- ture with twins. They went to school here in the early days to a gem tleman who was a severe disciplinariau and who insisted upon accuracy in reel tatiOns. Now it usually happened that one of the twins would have excellent recitations while the other would utterly fail. So the delinquent one would be booked to stay after school to study his lessons. It was amazing how quickly the task was performed for, ere ten minutes had passed, a hand would go up, a recitation be craved and familiar ity with the subject amply demon strated to the teacher. The failure in recitations was made sometimes by one and sometimes by the other. It was not until near the end of the term that the mystery was explained. Only one of the twins learned the lessons each day and he was the one who managed to be kept in.
 MET Democrat in front of the post office the other day and in the course of d tOuNtTsdllOl llt Itllldl hSii m o hi'h ner that showed he was in dead earnest : "The ring no more represents the Dem Ocratic party than the devil represents heaven. l shall not vote for one of their candidates, and there will be about 200 Democrats in this county who will act with me-"
 I HAVE heard from number of sources that Sam Webb has already spent over 5000 on his canvas and ex- poets to spend 5000, if necessary. Now, there is something wrong when the eX- penditure of such sum IS necessary to obtain an office which is supposed to pay gross income of but S5OOO year, out of which comes salaries for deputies and contingent expenses amounting to fully 5000. There must be something rotten when a man like Webb, who IS not wealthy, can command sum like that for such purpose. And, again, where does the money go? No legiti- mate expenses of bands, transparencies, printing, or even liquor, could eat 1t up. Crookedness is the only thing that could eat it up and hear many cries in the air concei ming MT. Webb's candi- dacy even this early in the fray
 VERY often an apparent victory is a positive defeat. To be more explicit, the ring bosses, when they captured the Democratic County Convention, thought they had gained a fight, but they were mistaken-they had but insured the defeat and degradation of the men advanced by them as candidates.
 
 TIE train is now loaded each day with townspeople returning from their sum- mer vacations. Singularly enough, most