Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-01-04


 hurry about declining that cabinet place; he should have waited until askea to accept.
 It must be pleasing to American coal miners to know that a brother of Ex-SecretaFy Whitney is at the head of syndicate which has se- cured control of the bituminous coal mines of Nova Scotia, Scotia in antici- patton of the removal of the duty from coal by the democratic Con gress, and the control of the New England coal market.
 Representative Tom Watson of Georgia, evidently does no, know when he has enough. He is roing to contest the seat of his late demo. cratic competitor, in the next House. It is easy enough to tell in advance where Tom twill be al" when the contest is decided.
 A descendant of Christopher Co lumbus has been made chairman of the committee on the Spanish ex- hibit at the Worlds Fair,
 Not single Congressman object ed to taking the usual two weeks Christmas holiday.
 'Tis better to be extrayagant in making Christmas gifts than to be parsimonious
 The banner republican Congres- sional district of the South is the Second Tennessee, which has not sent a democrat to Congress in forty years.
 German, Brice and Hill are the people who arc trying to steal U. s. Senators.
 When the last vestige of a law au- thorizing federal supervision of federal elections is wiped from our statute books this country will be about on a par with Mexico, so far as its national elections are con- cerned. The democrats say these very necessary laws arc to be re- pealed by the next Congress. We shall see.
 
 The pleasures of the holiday sea son are unknown to the selfish. The man who is willing to sit down to a bounteous Christmas dinner knowing that he has neigh bors who have no dinner, does not deserve good digestion, and he seldom gets it.
 The .Alabamans who banqueted Adlai do not regard it as case of casting bread upon the waters.
 Either the fool-killer Is not in Washington or Representative An tony-no relation of Mark possess es a charm which preserves his life. Antony is the fellow who introduced a bill the other day to suspend the granting of pensions under the De- pendent law aRadto stop payment on those already granted
 An increased tax on whisky will not for obvious reasons be popular with the rank and file of the demo cratic party.
 It is very gullible individual who will believe that those south ern editors called on Mir. Cleveland solely to pay their respects and to swap yarns"
 If lotteries were not illegal We would suggest that the democrats draw straws for the offices.
 By adding up the number of democratic ofice-seekers and sub tracting from the total the number of federal offices. you will get the exact number of democratic kickers that will exist after all the offices are filled.
 One of the democratic ideas about legislating for the benefit of the masses Is to restore the tax on sugar, which it is now stated is to be the first whack of the next House at the tariff. When the aforesaid masses go back to getting l2 pounds of SUI gar for Sl, instead of the 20 pounds l which it now gets with sugar on the | free list, the democrats will hear their opinion about the friendship | and love that party displays for the poor.
 The Queen of Hawaii threatens to retire from the reigning business, aud to cede her crown to the United | States. Why not give it to Mrs. Lease2
 We'll, well. They say that Dan Lamont is selecting MT. Cleveland's 1 cabinet for him. Under Dan La i mont's hat are the brains that earn ed the little reputation for state craft which Mir. Cleveland has.
 Southern democratic editors wish the wildcat given show before the tiger swallows everything.
 John Russell Young thinks the result of the election shows the ef- feet of too much mince pie on the systems of the voters. It was quite as night-marish as those effects are apt to be.
 Let every republican paste in his i hat the recent brave words of Gov. McKinloy-'T do not think that any cause that is just is ever lost"
 After the democratic administra- ton gets through its work it will probably not make much difference whether that comet strikes the earth or not.