Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-09-30

paper thinks NIT. Reppy should have taken up his abode in the camp of the Buckeyites. As a matter of fact, MT. Reppy has been a friend and admirer of the Buckeyite leader, aud was rather inclined to vote for him two years ago, and for aught ge know, may have done 50. But whether he did or not then, he will probably do so this year after he reads the following nice little notice of himself in Bueksy's paper: We thought for a long time that the editor of the Florence Tribune was an advocate of free silver from principle. Now, We feel satisfied that all his free silver talk was a bid for pie, to be furnished by democ- rAcy, in county where, so long as he remained a republican, there was no hope. The brother went cheap: A job al A per dsy for 6O days S2f0 all told. Judas sold the Saviour out pretty cheap, but Reppy went still cheaper"
 Colonel Brodie's withdrawal from the race for treasurer, on the re- publican ticket of YSvapai, while regretted generally by men of both parties. is due to his association with many enterprises affecting the building up of Arizena's principal industry. that of water storage and the reclamation of its arid lands. Since Mr Brodie has withdrawn from the field of politics, the i'm pression prevails that he desires to be free and unincumbeTed in his work of experimenting the Im- mense Walnut Grove dam, an en- terprise of incalculable benefit 10 the territory at large, and which will probably be rebuilt, or started, at once. Had MT. Brodie, however, decided to again come before the people for any office of his choice, he would have received a hattering testimonial from the voters of Ysvapai and been elected, beyond a doubt.
 The republican party does not seem, after all, to have gone back on the silver question, as will be seen by the financial plank adopted by the Pheni1 convention, but rather it has simply expressed a lack of confidence in the democratic party. There are more ways than one of expressing the same sentiment The democratic party in the past has been recreant to its trust, false to it's promises, hence Is considered unworthy of confidence, and the republican party in its convention yesterday so expressed itself. The ! financial plank is as follows: We endorse the national republican platform as enunciated at St. Louis, without any reservation whatever.
 While We believe in bimetallism, we believe the republican party is the ouly true friend of silver, and will legislate in such manner as will be favorable to the coinage of silver without disturbing the business interests of the country. We regard the silver plank m the democratic national platform as simply sub terfuge, invented to confuse the psople and d rect their attention from the true issues before them in this campaign, which is legislation on the tariff question.
 The awful curse of office itch will yet be the cause of the down fall Of this great nation" The above is taken from Bueky O'Neills Pheni1 paper, called the Populist. Whether MT. 0'Neill wrote the item or not we have no way of knowing, but one thing We do know and every man who has lived in Arizona for a decade knows the same thing, and that Is that there is no man residing in the territory to-day, who has more pronounced case of the above type of itch" than Buckley O'Neill. Ever since his advent to the territory he has been a chrome office seeker or office holder, starting out in the eighties, with the office of court reporter, a position he held for several years the exact time not known. In 1880 | he became a candidate for probate judge of Ysvspai county and was elected. In lSSS he was elected sheriff. In 1890 he was again nomi- hated, but betrayed his party by withdrawing through fear of de feat from his opponent. In 1892, he was again in the hands of his l friends as a candidate for delegate to congress, and soon after the cam paign was over he announced s change of political heart and be- came a populist, since which time l he has been working early and late in season and out to secure his | election as delegate tn congress. If l this does not show up a very serious l case of "office itch, we do not know | the symptoms of that complaint. l We can heartily agree with the sentiment quoted from his paper too, so far as it applies to him, as the office itch" with which he has been affected, has not been benef- ! cial to either this great nation or to the great territory.