Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-04-29
POLITICAL POINTERS! !
The GiSt of DOinsS in the Political Sphere Throughout ths Nation on the
 Presidential Question.

Toledo Blade: Senator Cullom's band wagon has badly punctured tire.
 Pitsburg Leader: The party st large is demoralized and divided. It presents not one man of command ing eminence, aside from Mir. Cleve- land.
 Philadelphia Times: While Reed is averse to being S dark horse, he would mind being Ssddled with the nomination.
 PROVIDENCE, R. l., Aprll 2o.-The delegation will be for Whitney for president with ex-Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts, as second choice.
 MONTGOMERY, Ala, April 20.-The silver men of Alabama are in the saddle here to-day. They will con trol the democratic state convention tomorrow.
 CINCINNATI, Ohio, April O.-Since last Thursday there has been here \ secret national meeting of the su- prsme officers of the national exc cutive board of the 4. P. 4. The purpose is confeSsedly hostile to Me kinley for president.
 CHICAeo, April A.-James H. Eek els, comptroller of ebe currency, ar rived here from Cincinnati to-day. h talking of politics, Eckels said: "I do not know anything positive about President ClevelSnd's inten- ton or wishes relative to the presi- dency, but my impression is that he feels that there is no reason why he should be unwilling to enter another political campaign" ."
 New York Mail and Express: Isn't 1t about time for the Allied Bosses to sublet their contrsctsi In s word. haven't they bitten of more than tkey can properly masticatei
 Cincinnati Tribune: The demo cratic party is like Hamlet. It is troubled by third tesu ghost, and the question of its insanity IS still subject of active debate.
 Washington Star: A number of critics are growing more and more eE. phstic in their opinion that the Mckinley movement is taking up altogether too much of the Presi- dental symphony.
 OpELoUsAs La, April 2O.--At this hour 6 p. m.) 500 armed men of bSi D parties are on the move, and a desperate conflict is expected st any time. Over two hundred and fifty regulators armed with Winches- ter rifles have surrounded the town, and their ostenSible object is the capture of the courthouse. On the vote of the Opelousas ward depends their success or defeat ID the parish, a@G .-ey are concentrating their ef- fo- here. They realize that fl a fuIi vote Is boiled the combine will win.
 Riverside county, Cal, in in s.ructiag it's delegates unsnimousl !, for Mckinley, voiced the sentiments of nine-tenths Of iis republican voters. The alleged opposition of the A. P. A. to Mckinley did not materialize. although hat orgsniza- tion was strongl, represented in the convention.
 Chicago Record: 4 man who has the moral courage to confess that he cannot learn to ride 8 bic cls l. worthy the presidency. This is one strong point in NIT. Cievelsnd's third term boom.
 New York Mail and Express: IL is officially stated that Morrison, of Illinois, takes only two drinks of whisky q day. Yet this man dreams of winning the democratic nomina- tion for president.
 Chicago Post: Wa are getting our choicest humor from Washir gton nowadays. Here Is q specimen: Senator Dubois is ,uoted as saying that If the democrat will sCOpt a free silver plstfor and nominate Horace BoieS, of iowa, they cSU sweep the country.
 New York Commercial Advertiser: Congressman Thomas Settle, who is the only republican from North Carolina in Congress, thinks that his state will go republican for the national ticket next fall.
 (Tombstone Prospector): It was reported on the streets to-day that an A. P. 4. organization was formed in Tombstone last night. It is known a number cf \. r. 4. leaders of Bisbee who arrived yesterday en- deavored to establish an organizs- ton here and met with success. II IS said, quite 6 number joining. This oTter IS claimed by members 10 be over 20 strong in the copper camp. and throughout the territory ..s ln- fuelce IS felt quite strongly while n.' paper reports from all over the l-.ted States show its growth and strength to surprising extent.
 (New York World) It is rot a lU-stioH of liking Cleveland or ap- proving sil that he has done, but of finding man to beat Mckinley and f 3iL.A.ster the government on democratic principles. With New 1o.k restored to the democrats by -epublicsn blunders, with sound n, V the leading issue of the ca. pai n. and with extreme pro feet onism-s tariff for Dounties and trus,s-again presented in the per son of it's chief sponsor, Mir. Cleve- -ant would seem to be the natural car !idatc.
 H. L. Stoddard. writing from Louisv..ie, Ny, 10 the New York , and Express, says: "I asked .-s- or Todd today what had uc- cuueG to rouse the people here so Tor Mckinney. I presume my case
 Ike others, sAiC ne; I know from practical experience the difference to . business man between trying Go r, along under the Mckinley ta-.f 2ad the Wiiscn tariff. Mckinley seems to me 70 embOty the Ameri- can idea of protection better than any or the other candidates Out of thOusanQs of letters received We are informed that not only republicans spt democrats as well. want Me hluley, and that. too. in sections of