Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-08-19

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 A great deal of yellow fever and smallpox is reported in the vicinity Of Havana, and the sanitary condi- tions are reported to be very bad.
 The San Jose Mercury sounds a key note when it says that Punish ment for murder should be both certain snd swift. The laws delay IS responsible for nearly all the murders that are committed"
 The New York Sun says that the present campaign IS not a question of individuals, but that it was a question of whether democrats, who love their country and party, desire to aid in maintaining the honor of both, or whether they would prefer to stand idly by watching them trailed in the dust of dishonor tied to the Chicago platform.
 \ so-called Divine healer at Fort Worth announced that he could walk on the water, the same as Christ did during his mission on earth. The crowd to whom he sn- nounced it insisted ou his making the experiment. and on his refusal were about to throw him into the water, when he was rescued by policeman.
 The Gazette, takes issue with the Star, in regard to the future dispen- ser of democratic patronage in this territory in case of Bryan's elecsien and names Joe Alexander as the man instead of Judge Barnes. Joe and Senator Steve White of Califor- mia were school mates. White pIe- sided at the convention which nom mated Bryan. Joe was a delegate to that convention. Seei
 Texas populists seem inclined to fuse with the republicans of that state, in which event they stand a reasonable show of carrying the state. While the temptation to fuse and thus overthrow democracy in that state might be very strong, better a thousand times lose the state than enter into any fusion with any party, which would require a surrender of party principles.
 A few small fry democratic pa pers have been saying very taunt- ingly, 10 republicans, that Herr Most, the anarchist, is a supporter of Mckinley. Republicans can now retaliate by hurling it back into the teeth of democracy that "Rev. Sam Sswall has announced in favor of Bryan" If Most and Sewsl were each placed on the end of an equally balanced ''teeter" it would be pretty difficult to guess which end would go up in the air first.
 Because Rogers is the first man convicted under the Railroad Homi- eide Act is scarcely an excuse for the pardon of a man who, fl he did not take life and if he did not endaager many innocent lives, at lea,, en- gagged in a business in which the crushing out of innocent lives and the shooting down of honest men is the custom rather than the excep- tion, and which he threatened and seemed willing to do. -PhenIK Her aid.
 And now they do say that Bryan was not the author of that much quoted expression, "a crown of thorus,' etc, but that in a speech delivered in the House of Repre- sentatives on the 17th of January last, Congressman Mccall, of Massa- chusetts, used these words: You shall not press down the crown of thorns on the brow of labor" On the Sth of July last, nearly seven months after MT. Mccall had used that language, Mir. Bryan said in the Chicago convention: You shall not l crucify labor with a crown of thorns | upon a cross of gold"
 The Republican says that peti- ton has been presented to Governor Franklin for the communication of the | sentence of Rogers, the train rob Der. He is now under sentence of death. The same paper states that the press of the territory seems to be of the opinion that Rogers sen tence should be commuted. We do not remember having seen that opinion expressed by any large num- Der of papers in the territory. If that law was not intended as a bluff, it should be enforced. If was in- tended as a bluff, it should be re- pealed. It might be a little un- Pleasant'for Rogers to have to hang, but itiwould have a salutsry effect on future prospective train robbers.
 While the JOURNAL MINER cannot agree with all the political free trade vag4ries and democratic fallscies of it's contemporary, the latter occa- ,lonally enuncistes an opinion which we can endorse. In a recent issue one of this kind as follows: All political parties should draw he line on dead beats. Many politi- 'Ians are bad, but the fellow who s insists on living upon the commu- i lity and never paying a cent he {