Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-03-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Judge Gresham is not likely to be drawn into the third party move ment to any very great extent.
 The rumor comes from Washing ton that Cleveland talks of with drawing from the presidential race.
 The republican league club of Phenix is complete success, Judg- ing from the reports concerning it published in the Phenix papers.
 Coconino county republicans will hold their primaries next Saturday, March l2, and their county conven tiou on Tuesday, March l5.
 The San Diego Sun was turned over to receiver recently and there are two Snns published now where there was only one before.
 Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justice Lamar both assented to the opinion declaring the Mckinley law constitutional. Tom Parish has filed dissenting opinion.
 Republicans have made big gains in elections recently held in various cities and towns in New York. This is a presidential year and the party is just getting into practice for the fall election.
 The Army and Navy Register re- ports thirty-nine applicants for the vacant brigadier generalship. As the army only contains forty colo nels, it would prove interesting to know who the modest one is who has not applied for the place.
 The city of Chicago has a greater mortgage indebtedness on its build ings and town lots than there is on all the farms of Kansas. To be ex- act, the debt in Chicago is Sl6,0O0, 900 iii excess of that of Kansas. It exceeds that of Iowa by S4l, 100000.
 Frank Cox, of Phenix, is candi- date for delegate to Congress Mir. Cox will find one or two competi- tors for this honor from Yavapai county, in the democratic conven- tion. MT. Cox, it is said, is in train ing now to capture the prohibition vote of his party and may succeed in securing the nomination.
 Mrs. Nevins, mother of the divorced Mrs. Blaine, has written a letter con tradicting the statement made by the Secretary in regard to the do- nestle troubles of the youthful couple. The statement made by MT. Blaine, however, carries such strong impress of truth that any quibbling on the part of this woman or her daughter will receive but slight attention.
 While Senator Pugh was speak ing :n the Senate, the chair of MT. Vance, who sat next to him, broke down, letting the North Carolina Senator fall to the floor with some force and much noise. As MT. Vance picked himself up, apparent ly unhurt, he said: 'I beg your par don for interrupting you" To which NIT. Pugh rejoined that he had not supposed his argument to be so oyerpowering.
 Chief Justice Fuller and Tom Parish do not seem to agree on the constitutionality of the Mckinley bill. The former holds the law con- stitutional, while the Vulture sage dissents. That Cleveland made a mistake in the appointment of Mir. Fuller as chief justice becomes more apparent every day. But what has been a loss to the supreme bench is Arizona's gain, as we have MT. Parish while the supreme court has only Mir. Miller as its chief justice.
 Our contemporary publishes a lengthy communication this morn ing from the pen of T. E. Parish. The letter was contributed to the Tucson Star and deals exclusively with the constitutionality of the principle involved in the Mckinley bill. The writer of the article ought to be in congress just now to en- Tighten the democratic majority of the lower house on this same subject of tariff. His democratic brethren iii congress seem to entertain similar views on the subject with him but just where to attack that Mckinley bill is what bothers their brains. The article in question shows con clusively; however, that no matter what congress does tho country is safe as long as Tom Parish lives.
 The general land office at Wash ington, under the recent admins tration, continus to keep up its rec ord of disposing of business before the papers Tn the case grow musty with age and the pigeon holes in which they are kept get closed up with cob-webs, as was the case un- der Grover Cleveland's commission. Formerly, if a man received a patent to his land within two years after making his proof, the general land office was complimented for its ac- tivity. as the usual time was from three to five years. When a yea ago this month the JoURNAL-MINER announced the receipt of patent in the Prescott land office within six months after final proof, it was re- garded as a remarkable circum- stance by parties who had had ex- perience in land matters under the former administration, and one skeptical individual would not be-