Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-29
WHDNESDAY~....JULY g, 1895

That Watson nomination seemed tohsve s string to it. They are talk ing of his withdrawal already.
 There are some people who insist that it was more 8 question of price and position than of principle at the PoPulist convention.
 Every time Mir. Cleveland hears, "She May Have Seen Better Days, he is said to regard it as intended as a personal insult to him.
 If the democrats have no more solid foundation for the expressed hope If carrying the country than Sewan has when he talks of carrying Maine, they are to be pitied.
 The Nebraska populist delega- ton says thst if Bryan is elected, he will se no democrat, no populist, no republican, but the peoples pre- sident. He will please his own party then.
 The great Popuist auction sale at St. Louis was about the only affair of the kind in the history of this country, and every patriot should pray that it retains that unique position.
 Our contemporary insists that republication, this year, means the advocacy of the gold standard Mir. Bryan, the democratic nominee fer president, emphaticallv insists that u does not. Which is correct' The platform should settle the question.
 We don't hear much of middle of the road Populists in Arizona, Wonder if there gre nonei 1 mid de of the road" populist IS one who believes in his party first, last and all the time, and is opposed to all fusions or compromises with any other party.
 The Irish World, which supported Blaine in 1884, and which has since been a earnest advocate of the principles of protection, has come out in the support of Bryan. The Irish American, which has been a radical democratic paper. Is support ing Mckinley.
 The man who assumes that sll the honesty in the country is centered in the people who believe in and advocate the political principles he eSpouses, is certainly presumptuous, narrow minded and bigoted, to say the least. Yet we see newspapers, ss well as individuals, moving on this line. They are not willing to allow any one to entertain sn opin- ion which differs from theirs, with out accusing them of dishonesty, or ascribing corrupt motives for their belief.
 The Courier hss said that men who went before the people crying for free silver in order that the peO- pie would send them to national conventions, and who voted against silver when the people did send them, were lot of political Judas IscSriots; and if any democrats have done this, the Courier has not heard of them. Courier. If any repub- hcSns have done this the JeURNAL- MINLE has not heard of them. If our contemporary has heard of any such will it kindly mention them by name.
 Among the distinguished gentle men who are attending the Populist convention in St. Louis are "Whisk- CTS" Pefer, 'Sockless" Simpson. of Kansas, Cyclone" Davis, of Texas, Buffalo" Jones, of Oklahoma. "Gen." CoIey, of Ohio. Carl Browne, of Nowhere, and Mary Ellea Lease. The Associated Press dispatches states that the Texas delegation were unusually quiet" from which it Is to be inferred that Texas was expected to -whoOp 1t up" in the convention.
 The people of this country have not forgotten that four years ago the democratic party adopted a bi- metallic plank in the party plat focn and that the party had scarce lv got possession of the national administration before it abrogated every sense of honor and decency and put forth every effort 10 destroy that plank, even going so far as 10 call an extra session of Congress for that purpose What can the people expect from such a party Herald.
 In communication in the Phenix Gazette, Territorial Treasurer Thos. E. Parish says that. while he does not believe ID silver coinage st 3 ratio of l6 to l. he feels It his bounden duty to support the nomi- nee of his party, as he believes in majority rule Republicans, though, who believe in silver coinage. and yet believe in every other tenet ad- vSnced by their party, are denounced as traitors and every thing else, be - cause they are not willing to sacri- fee every political principle for one single issue. Mir. Parish Is in accord with his party on every issue except this one, hence, sinks his personal views and submits to the majority. According to some democrats, though. s republican may not do this