Arizona republican., 1896-06-24
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.


 Tombstone Prospector: The St. Louis convention has met and placed their candidates for president and vice president before the American people asking from them their suffrage. They have placed those candidates on a sin gle gold standard platform and expect the people, who have borne the pres sure of the power of the gold standard with great patience for many years, to support their candidates and platform. Will they do it? Senator Teller and other noble men of the party gave an- swer to that question when they be- came convinced that their party was under the control of the money power, and showed their independence and devotion to principle by parting com pany with the party and boiling the convention. The honest, sober, think ing men of the country will honor these men for their courage and stead fast adhesion to principle and for the good of the people. But what can be said for the Arizona delegates who but few short days ago, in Phoenix, were vociferous for silver and the double standard? Will some one answer?
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 Prescott Journal-Miner: The more overwhelming the Republican victory in November is made, the sooner good times will return to the country.
 Flagstaff Democrat: Governor Boies of Iowa, who is himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination doesn't take any stock in the idea that Senator Teller, or in fact, anybody but tried and true Democrat, will head the tick ct nominated by the Chicago conven- tion. In a letter from Governor Boies, received by close friend in Washing ton this week, he says: ''It would in my judgment be absolutely impossible to unite any considerable number of the delegates to that convention in favor of nominating any one outside of the party, for the head of the ticket, at least"
 Tucson Citizen: The Republican of day before yesterday contained a very lengthy article which charged the il- legal, unauthorized and useless ex- penditure of $28,000 of the peoples money in and about the territorial in sane asylum. The charges are made against the board of control and are seemingly corroborated by the evil dence offered in their substantiation The Star of this morning takes up the cudgel in defense of the board of con- trol and indulges in some language more forcible than elegant. If the charges, as made by The Republican, be true, then of a verity the people have been fearfully and wonderfully buncoed. If, on the contrary, they be false, The Republican has laid an ex- cellent foundation for an action in damages.
 Prescott Journal-Miner: Democrats affect to believe that they see a ray of light for their party on account of the action of the Republican convention. They had better keep their crop of growing roosters penned up until after their own convention gets through with business.
 Nogales Vidette If The Star and other Republican papers in the terri eoiy " III tOll uo OuS SOllIdly LILLE Oakes Murphy has done to benefit the people of Arizona we will be thankful for the information.
 Flagstaff Democrat: The Demo- cratic territorial convention this sum- mer will convene in one of the banner Democratic precincts of Coconino county. Williams has never failed to roll up a handsome majority for the Democratic ticket and we are glad to know that the Democracy of Arizona has Fhonored our neighbor with the next territorial convention. We're all going.
 Prescott Journal-Miner: If the country cannot have Mckinley and free silver both it can improve its pres ent condition very much by Mckinley alone
 Nogales Vidette: Since the nomina- tion of Mckinley, a good number of our Republican brethren have sud- denly become imbued with the goldbug ideas.