Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-29
ARIZONA JOURNAL-MlNER
WEDNESDAY.......JAN. 2a, lS96

If the populists in Congress didn't make an occasional fool-speech, they would be charged with having de serted their party.
 Adlai Stevenson winks the other eye whenever anybody asks him about the Morrison boom, aud begins to talk about the weather.
 The gentlemen who have been so lsboriously declining a third term nomination for MT. Cleveland are still waiting to hear from NIT. Cleve- land.
 The republicans could settle the presidential nomination by allowing the named candidates to draw lots, and satisfy 99 per cent of the party, So good are they all.
 Some people seem to think that General Harrison Is doing some thing criminal in getting married again; why. nobody could explain if they tried.
 Secretary Olney has been Ue- quested, by American citizers of JohAnneSberg, to send diplomatic agent to the above place to look after their interests there.
 Somehow it seems to be entirel fitting that the democratic conven- tion should be held in a Chicago building especially built for horse shows; the mule IS a kind of horse, just ss the democratic party IS kind of party.
 Senator Mills has kept thoroughly posted on the growth of populism in TeIas. He would just as soon be returned to the Senate as a Populist, as to go back as demo crat. The all absorbing thing with him is to get back.
 IL now appears that MT. Cleve- land has become jealous of the Olney boom for the democratic nomination, sud has instructed his friends to throw cold water on 1t by declaring that the late Secretary Gresham, and not MT. Olney. origin ated that Venezuela policy.
 If a recent telegram from Wash ineton, to the effect that Speaker Reed had turned down statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, on account of the silver sentiment. be true, then Mir. Reed need not look for any votes from these territories in the republican convention.
 Should the bill making it misde meanor for a lobbyist to enter the capitol building at Washington, be- come a law and be strictly enforced, some senstors and representatives would have to choose between lob bying and serving in congress, in stead of combining the two as they BOW do.
 Senators would better do some thing towards increasing the revenue of the government, or else do less taking about increasing the navy The navy can't be increased without money. Let the Senate pass tGe House tariff bill, which would add S40.0O0,OO0 a year to our revenue; then it might be in order to spend some more money on our navy.
 This is supposed to be a country of free speech; still, some of our republican friends want to dislodge Ambassador Bayard for a little free speech over in England. ."-Courier. While this IS a country of free speech, man is supposed to suffer the consequence of his sayings. T.! one, in the exercise of free speech. hbels an individual, be is held amenAble to the law. For hbeling the country he is supposed to repre- sent in 8 foreign country, Blatant Bayard should be recalled.
 Editor L. C. Hughes, of the Tue son Star, congratulates Governor L. c. Hughes in the following felici- tous manner over an appointment recently made: The appointment of Mrs. R. G. Phillips as a member of the normal school board was the right thing to do, as more than three-tourths of the students of the normal school are young ladies, who are entitled 10 a representative on the board, and the appointment will be sn encouragement for other young ladies to enter the institu- tion. The appointment Is generally commended"
 An attempt was made by a foot psd in Phenix, on Sunday morning, to hold up drummer. The latter took 10 his heels, while his would be robkeT fired five shots at him as he sped along the streets. The Republican refers to il as a josh" Phenix humor is divided into two separate classes. When man empties his revolver at another without hitting him, it is simply a josh II he hits his man, it Is designated as a good practical joke Very few communities are educated up to the fine points of humor of which the average newspaper scribe of Phenix Is possessed