Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-04-15

cused of trying to influence mem. bers on the Arizona land lease bill, and say to you that if you have any regard for the official life of the commissioner of navigation you will allow this bill to be defeated for if this bill passes and Grover Cleveland is true to the principle he laid down in the Hughes case, the commissioner of navigation will very speedily navigate out of Washing ton"
 Congressman Taft, of Ohio. is howling blatherskite. His argu- ment against statehood for the ter ritories was a tissue of misrepre sentations, and his mouthings should be .epudiated by his state. Arizona is never ashamed of the truth, but she has been chronicSlly lied about for the past twenty-five years by the ignorant and misinformed, tall the thing Is becoming monOtonous. We are in favor of Mckinley and be- lieve that he will make as grand a president as the United States ever had, but Taft's mouth should be spiked before the kindly feeling of Arizonans has been alienated from the great protectionist. This is sp- parent to the dullest mind.-Tucson Citizen.
 The Populist, of PheniI, blows hot and cold on the question of fusion. In one column of the paper it denounces any alliance with any other party and particularly with the republican party. while in an other column the following is found: The populists of Maricopa will meet the republican and democratic parties more than half way to do battle for the cause, and in order that there may be no mistake as to the position of the peoples party its members will willingly entertain any proposition 10 support legis- lative ticket selected by the farmers under the canals, every member of which ticket should be pledged to enact such laws as will make the monopoly of water Tn Arizona a thing of the past"
 For reasons very apparent, our contemporary, on every occasion possible misrepresents this paper. By insinuation it has heretofore charged the JOURNAL MINER with having taken an active part on be- half of a certain candidate at last Saturdays primary. No attention having been paid to these insinua- tions it Is emboldeued this morning to make the following downright false statement: 1t is an open secret that the J. NJ. man and all his fol- lowing threw their whole influence to the other side" Both candidates for delegates are friends, or at least presumably SO, of the editor of this paper, and in accordance with it's policy, for the past thirteen years never to take any sides il any polit- ical contest within the republican party. or prior to the holding of conventions, both candidates were informed tha, the paper would main tain a strict neutrality which 1t did. The J. NJ man never tried 10 influence a vote for or against ei her candidate and besides gcirg quietly to the polls aud depositiuS a ballot took no active part in the matter.
 In a recen: speech in California, Chsuncey NJ. Depew, in referring to the administration of the govern ment by he democratic party, said that the history of the world had shown that there are cycles when people, even of the eXtraor. dinary business ability of the Ameri- cans made fools of themselves. The first not ib'e instance was during President Buchauan's administra- tion, who, during a period of pro found peace, found II necessary to issue bonds to 1eiray the ordinary expenses of that government. The mex. instance, he said. was during the present administration, when more bonds had to be sold for the same purpose. He said the country would never reach the highest pos sible degree of prosperity while the country Is in such hands. The hope of prosperity, he said, rested in pro- lection to American labor, anu also in reciprocity, that great principle which Blaine did so much to foster during the declining year Of his career.
 The bill pro?iding for leasing school lands of Arizona for oducs- tIonal purposes is now a law. The governor and secretary of the terri tory aud inc superintendent of pub lie instruction are entrusted with the business of making these leases, that the school fund of Arizona may be enhanced. Let them do their work honestly and faithfully | the people of Arizona, and at the same time let them protect all legal rights which settlers on these lauds may pOssass. The bill although if 1