Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-06-10
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 General Fitzhugh Lee, the new consul general to Cuba has arrived at his post of duty.
 The republican who will succeed Joe Blackburn in the Senate will know how the man who laughs last feels.
 NIT Cleveland still has that Cuban card up his sleeve. Will he play 1t before the Chicago convention meetsi
 T. J. Wolhey, of the PheniX Re publican, has been appointed as citizen member of the territorial board of control.
 A train load of corn for the St. Louis sufferers was struck by light ming at Wichita, Kansas, on Sunday and two car loads burned up.
 Private Secretary Thurber is still an admirer of Grover. He has named his new baby Cleveland Tburber. Poor baby! He'll be hard 70 raise.
 If Hoke Smith doesn't do any better in Georgia than Carlisle did .n Kentucky. Mir. Cleveland may soon be asking them both what they are in the cabiHst for, Anywayf
 Senator German shakes hands with himself every time he thinks of the wisdom he displayed when he announced, months ago, that he would not attend the Chicago con vention.
 TilImaG, as the driver of the dem ocratic donkey, with pitch fork for . whip. is the central figure of the night mare which hovers over the slumber of Grover.
 The Yavapai county democratic convention neither directly, or by implication. gave any instructions to their delegate to Chicago to favor a candidate in favor of silver coin age al a ratio of Is tco l, or any other ratio.
 As long as Senator Quay has con ceded Governor McKlnley's nOmlna- ton on the frst ballot, with a nun Der of votes to spare, why not make IL unanimousi It will be TO dis credit to sny of the othss candidates withdraw in Governor Mckinley s favor.
 Democratic papers profess 10 be- moan what they sllege to believe as a fact, that there is no hope that the national republican convention will nominate 6 free silver man for president What an interest they do take in republican politics!
 Another fraternsl insurance con cern-with 12,O0O menbers-is re. ported to have gone the way oi many of its predecessors. Still, new suckers are being caught every day with promises impossible to be kept.
 President Cleyeland's financial policy did not meet with as favor able . reception at the democratic convention in Kentucky as it did iu :he democratic convention of Yava. pal county. At the mention oi Cleveland's name, it was received with misses.
 Some democratic papers are kept so busy just now trying to harmo- nize Cleveland's financial policy and free silver, and explaining how the one can be embraced without offend ing the other, that they find very little time to talk about Mckinley straddles and straight up or bolting republicans.
 When men, occupying official positions ignore the rights and in- terests of the people, whose servants tLsy are, they generally get called down. Some people, who are hon 07ed with positions. become exalted with the idea that they are ''the people" and those who placed then, in position are their servants.
 Edison has succeeded in develop ing . new white light by means ol electricity and a metallic crys.cl known ss tupgstate by which he says that a two-candle tungstate lamp will light a room as well as a sizteen-candle power incandescent light.
 MarieoPa county democrats Te- fused 70 endorse Cl-vsland's admin. islration. with h.s financial policy left out. Yavspai county democrats voted down a resolution condemn ing his financial policy, thereby ta-Itly endorsing it. And yet, you hear 1t argued that the party is a unit
 Fourteen Presidential tickets iu t'e field will not prevent the head O. the ticket nominated at St. Loui: becoming president Of the United States. Granting the very improb- able claim that bolt would prevent an election by the electoral college the St. Louis candidate would be all right; he would be elected bv the present House of Representative.
 Wyoming is right ln the sw i'm iu Arizona educational affairs. Tn, Tucson Citizen says: The schoo