Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-02-07
rIrHY. POINTED AND PERTINENT.

name prominent democrat who has been consistent in his public utteranees on one subject, the tariff, for instancei
 No one can blame the boy who thinks that prize-fghting is our best paying industry. He has been reading the newspapers. Congressman are complaining oi the bad air in the House, at Wash ington, but not half so loudly a. the people are complaining of tho bad acts of Congressmen. Perhaps it is the bad air that has made bad i Congressmen.
 Senator Chandler stirred up the Tennessee democrats when he eX- pressed the belief that If elections were as fair in Tennessee as they are in Massachusetts the former state would have two republican Senators. and yet he only voiced a belief that is general among those who know anything about elections in that and other southern states.
 The people can now enjoy the fight without gloves between Cleye- land and Hill. The former has strength and weight in his favor, but the latter has never been eK- celled in trickery.
 Amos Cummings is an ex pert at the game of playing the editors of the Gotham dailies, but he holds tight to the Croker strings all the while.
 It must be pleasant to those who really wish to see bridge built between New York and Jersey City to see the question used as a weapon in the Hill-Cleveland combat. It also gives the country an opportu- nifty to size up the democratic idea of statesmanship.
 Jerry Simpson says he has finally made up his mind to again be a candidate for Congress. We trust that his constituents will by No vember have fully made up their minds to elect Jerry to stay at home.
 Congressman Tom Johnson, although professed free trader, acts on the short but comprehen- sive .platform-Protect my interest; never mind the rest.
 The democratic party has bosses and sub-bosses in profusion, but it has no leader, neither in or out of Congress.
 The administration will find all the trouble it can handle on ac- count of that bond issue. That wing of the democratic party that is tinged with populist ideas is flap ping wildly, and seems determined to either destroy itself or the ad- ministration.
 It looks as though the free traders had got a good grip upon the democratic majority of the House.
 A young milliner at Louisville, out of work and out of friends, com mitted suicide in order that her mother might realize tho S2,OOO in surance policy on her life and thus save her parent from want.
 Gold pizen" is an innovation in the free advertising line made by Sarah Bernhardt, who was doubtless jealous of the notoriety some of her sister actresses were getting by mar riage.
 A million Americ ans ask for work, and the democrats of the House offer them the Cleveland tariff bill. For indifference to suffering this discounts the stone given for bread about one thousand per cent. The unemployed expect better treat ment from the Senate.
 If Senator Voorhees, will heed the answers the Senate Finance com mittee will receive to the questions contained in that circular letter, 60,000 copies of which have been sent out, he will join in killing the Cleveland tariff bill.
 The starting of few idle mills with a reduction of force and wages may be in the eyes of democrats signs of a resumption of prosperity, but they are not the kind of signs the country has been given by re- publican legislation.
 Why should Congress pass bill the very sensible law which forbids an American official accepting decorations rendered by foreign governmental Does the present generation care more for these baubles than our sturdy fore fathers didf We cannot believe it, there are indications in some quarters that it does. Let the | law alone.
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