Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-11-18
Is, 1896
g.C. MARTIN. Editor and PrOp'r.

The Pheni1 Gazette IS figuring out how "it might have been"
 The vail of the defeated candi- dste is the mournful sound now heard in the land.
 The Los Angeles Express says that even the oil wells are running better since McKinley's election.
 Kentucky democrats are raising fund to contest the election of the Mckinley electors in that state.
 Bucky O'Neill received eleven more votes in Maricopa county this year than he did two years ago.
 That prison labor leasing contract may be 6 valid one in law, but it is a very one-sided affair and is not good for the territory.
 Bryan will NOT be the nominee of the democratic party for president in 1900. Paste this in your scrap book for future reference.
 The Kingman Mineral Wealth has left the Populist party and has come out straight democratic. This makes two democratic papers in Mohaye county.
 The next legislature will have three republicans in each branch. The democrats will have nine coun- cilmen and twenty-one representa- tives.
 Mexico expects large amount of capital to be invested in that coun- try from the United States as a result of McKinley's election.
 There are few of our exchanges which consistently refuse to accept any evidence of returning pros perity.
 The highest vote cast in Maricopa county for populist for the legisla- ture was 6l0 and the lowest 525. O'Neill's vote was 73S.
 Alpine County, California, is the smallest county in the United States, Four years ago the total vote in that county for president was only eighty-siX.
 The report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell, just issued, states that 1474 postofices in the United States were entered by burglars during the year ended June 30, 1896.
 It is a safe Is to 1 wager that Mrs. Castle will never steal any more fuIs, fans or fancy articles. KleptomaniA is . curable disease and the probabilities are very strongly in favor of a permanent cure in the case of Mrs. Castle.
 Wheat continues to advance in price. Is it possible that Mark | Hanna does not know that the cleo tion is over, as the democrats | charged him with spending cam Paign money to boom wheat for political purposesi
 The gall of certain editors who are advising President-elect McKin- ley to abandon protection, lest the feelings of some of the free traders who supported him be hurt, is great. but their judgment is bad.
 No man is better qualified, by ac with republicans in ev- ery section, to select a cabinet of competent men than Is Maj Me Kinley. He knows them so we'll hat hs will make no mistake.
 Decency was probably the most potent factor in the defeat of Breck- snridge for a seat in the house, and ve feel sure that the same influence Fill be sufficient to prevent any | considerable number of republican of the Kentucky legisla- .ure taking part in the scheme to send him to the senate.
 An exchange, in reviewing the re- iults of the recent election, and in Pesking of the breaking up of the Iolid south, says the result m Texas places that state in the doubtful col nm hereafter. Inasmuch as Texas ( Iave a majority of lls,l3S for Bryan ye ftil to appreciate where the doubtful feature comes in. The house of representatives of he next legislature will have one one republican, Jesse N. Smith, in {. The liIt heretofore has included !. H. Crosby of Apache and Tom of Maricopa county. The official count in these two counties hows that both were defeated. The -tter by only four votes.