Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-08-23
rIrHY. POINTED AND PERTINENT

2 flTHN. POINTED AND PERrINE NJ.
 Congressman Breckinridge ap-
 pears to be the "black sheep" of < Kentucky chivalry.
 Nero fiddled, and Grover Glove | land-Oh, he went fishing 1t would not be surprising should
 the democratic party find itself in
 the hands of receiver before the
 close of the Fifty-third Con gress.
 Every prommissory note it has out will before then be protested by
 the public bank.
 What use has the democratic ma } jority of the House for such cum } bersome things as rules and com
 mittees, anyway7 It will be much , easier to keep the republican mi
 nority out Of its rights without
 them.
 For the man who deserts his post in the face of danger, the entre
 civilized world feels only contempt.
 The penaly according to military
 law is death; in politics, oblivion.
 If the mouths of some people
 could be permanently closed, few
 more mills might remain open.
 The President should try to con
 trol his temper, just as every one
 else should. Fretting and fuming
 Is no more becoming to the Presi-
 dent than to a child, and it is more
 calculated to make him enemies
 than friends.
 We are glad the responsibility
 Tor the cholera and the yellow fever cannot be placed upon the demo cratic party, which already carries a load that Is slowly but surely 1 crushing its life out.
 Did Congressman Rayner, of Ma ryland, speak for the administration
 when he said of the Chicago plat
 form: ''I am not blinded nor intim- dated by the glittering words of a convention declarationf"
 There seems to be some sort of affinity between the fire which de- s:royed S3,OOO,OOO worth of proper ty in Minneapolis and the demo cratic party.
 There is danger that the cheeks and scrip now being used as cur rency may produce results similar to those which followed the wild eat and red-dog currency of the old state banks. Those who issue such should consider we'll the resposi- bility they assume.
 Perhaps Mir. Cleveland thought that a perusal of his last term pa pers might make a mugwump of the Pope.
 Congress must believe that Lieut.. Totten is right and that the end O f the world is at hand, or it would get faster move on itself.
 Senator Hill had not up to the hour of going to press telegraphed ! to Gray Gables for information re- garding the Presidents health.
 The delay in announcing the com mittees of the House may be inten- tional. There are democrats who wish the tariff let alone for the present, and Speaker Crisp may be ! Dne of them. Without the Ways and Means committee no tariff bill ,an easily get before tPe House. q
 It begins to look very much as if a t was not what is wanted by any II man or set of men, in a financial r measure, but what can be gotten U rom majority of Congress that O will escape a Presidential veto, that n must be worked for.
 Administration democrats in Con d, ,ress are displaying a wonderful bi mount of confidence in banking u Ipon the assistance of republicans, O save them from a majority of heir own party.
 Rev. pr. Parkhurst has got his ecOnd wind and started in for mother bout with Tammany. He A eserves to win. tn Arizona has broke her financial 9u ,cord, and the Hartford Bank has Ut kewise broke several alfalfaites. Carlisle's national bank order has -. sileut effect on our local democra- n. ', as they were wont to discuss be, ate bank schemes a short time wh %. an, The only failure in this section is sio e temporary embarrassment of @ P. X A. C. telegraph line. As on as the rains close their run" will resume.
 A well known hunter, of the Dem ratic pursuasion, writes us to ow If revision of the tariff will We ect the county bounty on bear ngl alps" two sent out from Con Auo ass are very lonely in mentioning '"'' 9 name of Mark Smith in the yer discussion. Get on record. n lrk
 Reports from Phenix say that T;a l estate is on the rise there. We L 'uld judge so, since a big pile of ..r vent up in the Hartford bank, the lure. ratit Since the baby has been born, ness Ire is just little chuckle of con o,' oui tment noticed in Prescott on like countenances of some ambitious with d office seekers. rope . democratic paper in Connecti '0"o tells its readers there is no a, son to howl hard times when from rel of flour can be bought for the ( doIIar- 9, m. .ll died