Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-07-22
Just watch the grass shoot.

as dead as Tree traQe.
 Phenix had its irrigation congress
 little early this year.
 Wait until the Slate Creek States man gets on the stump.
 The treighter is commencing to cuss and sling mud at the elements.
 Judge Hawkins candidacy for Congress seems to be laying on the ''bench" somehow.
 Democrats are over bolsterous on free silver. Just like they were four years ago on free wool.
 Mayor Monihon is hard at work renodeling PheniX. He never touches the political sewers, as he IS on to his job.
 The Phenix Gazette seems to have its wings clipped, and is not inclined to futter little bit over the admin istTstion poie counter.
 Pheni1 is consoling itself over the fact that there are other towns above hades where the thermometer gets l2O in the cottonwood shade.
 Pheni1 sufferers from heat are placed in cold storage tanks at the ice works. They soon revive, think ing, evidently, that they are in hsdes st last.
 A well known lawyer of this sec tion thinks he can wear the sena- torial collar. If hewants to get 1t in the neck, he should come out and have his measure taken early.
 "The silver question is not the most important, but the most prominent issue before the people to-day.".Populist. A change has come over our drea.Asi Eh.
 Yavapai has been a very dry coun- try and the rains, while hailed with joy by every one, have not phased the pie counter demagogue in the least. They thunder along as usual.
 The Gazette says the democrats do not straddle. We agree with 1t, and also with Hill, Villas, Whitney, and the rest of 'em. There is no straddle with these boys, either, J. Dunbar.
 Bryan's famous saying that man kind refuses to be crucifed on cross of gold" won't be anywhere alongside of the silver slavery that pollutes the Hassayamps with the virgin blood of Arizonans, etc. Selah!
 Governor Franklin is sad by the Gazette to be the grand old man, or something else of a white wash character, of democracy, as he has ciown his hand down at last on the nominees. The governor must have consulted Wolfey.
 The boy orator of the Platte and the Silver stayer of the Hasa ysmpa' ought to work congenially l as companions in an Arizona cam paign, provided, of course, if Rowe l receives the democration nomina- tion.
 We favor the free and unlimited | use of alfalfa for the plaza, should ! be incorporated into both platforms | of county political conventions. Give us something original and use ful, gentlemen, once in a while, flor | the people and of the people.'
 It is said that Governor Franklin | is preparing to come up this "'ere" way, and that his entry will be graad one, purely unofficial and | non-political. We'll believe him as seriously in earnest if he will bring | Wolfey along to control him.
 It is 8 Is to bet that Yavapai ! will poll the heaviest vote of any county in Arizona, and it is a l6 10 l | bet that Mir. Smith will try and l explain away in his glib tongue and | would be silver style, his conduct in fighting for that gold amendment to the Arizona funding bill while a member of Congress.
 The vital question of Yavapai has been settled. What would free sill yer or free gold be without water to develop our mines. The politicians in dry times prated on protection and free silve-, but they never got hosrse in talking fo- rain. But they might as well have, .Jr all the good their jabber would do.
 It is said that Governor Franklin is partially inclined toward the news paper fraternity, and ths. he be- lieves in them as ranking next Co divinity. We are pleased to hear such joyous tidings, but in view of their deathly silence on some of his apPointees, compared with the standing of the men he kicked out, we are inclined to believe the gov ernor has muzzled them from the devils ink keg to the sphere of the holy sanctum.
 It will require pretty good Po- litical pilot to steer the ship Of during the campaign this year, should the convention to- morrow nominate Bryan. To up hold and support the national de- nocrscy, and at the same time to deuonnce !ncal democracy in the
 ous sections of the country, in