Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-08-26

! A~N fN-
 Compulsory education is revived
 in the land again and the voters art
 being given A big dose of il in the
 line of a campaign of education.
 The abundance of political ma
 teriSl these days is due Ia the cheap
 campaigning each candidate is sup
 posed to make in view of the late ! election laws.
 COconino county democrats have
 a hard dose to swallow this year in
 their Bryan club banners and free
 wool underneath it. What a dose
 that is for the busted sheep men up there.
 "The boy orator of the Platte" is no misnomer. The Platte is 2,500 miles long and six inches deep, ssyS an exchange.
 Canada is on her ear over Ameri- can silver and green backs. and re  fuses to take any of our dough. Thsy do not want even . 50-cent dollar.
 General Samson is speaking to railroad people on political issues. He is for free silver, but when 1t comes to free wool, how he does SCOUT" the democrats.
 Canada is helping out free silver by refusing to take a cents worth of our big dollar. We want 1t all to ourselves, Ss 1t is sound money. Do you sabe, democratsf
 Delegate Murphy's sentiments on silver seems to worry many demo crSts. It should, because Oaks can beat them all in intelligent reason ing and sound talk on what they claim is their own ground.
 We wonder if the coming demo cratic territorial convention will Asssil the honesty and integrity of purpose of the Arizona supreme bench on some questions people are said to be squirming under.
 The Tucson Star comes right out boldly, like a good many good democratic papers, and repudistes the entry of NJ. A. Smith again into Arizona politics. Thisis getting to be so common now sdsys in the democratic party that it eIcites DO one, but in this instance the coura- geous stand of the Star shows that Marcus is not the good thing he and his few bedfsllows believe, sud that his nomination for congress will be the biggest emetic Arizona democracy has ever had to swallow.
 The election of legislators by Yavapsi county this year should by everything that is high and holy be considered first in the line of duty to the people of the community. Personal recognition of a sectional nature simply to 6ll in the blank space of the dummy, or the selec- ton of 8 person who hss more of 8 pull than he has ability to repre- sent shrewdly and defantly the i'm portant questions to arise in the coming session over our internal af- fairs, should be cast aside. It is ., question of principle this year and not political chicanery.
 Candidate Sewan received the cold shoulder at that New York notification meeting. No one went to meet him. and MT. Bryan never referred to him even in the remotest degree in his speech. The New York Press, speaking of this neg lect of the vice presidential candI- date, says; "Is it the beginning of the end, or was it forgetfulness on the part of the democratic cam pSign managers that Arthur SewAll, the second man ou their national ticket, came to New York without even 8 sergeant-at-arms to meet himi There have been times when ! s mere Tammany boss has been 1 greeted by admiring hundreds and | s brass band at his home coming. 1 But yesterday the candidate of the party for the vice presidency ar i rived unnoticed. and but for the | would have remained at 1 his hotel unvisited."
 The Tucson Star has named Judge W. H. Barnes as the dispenser of in this territory in the ,ase of Bryan's election. The Phe- lix Gazette takes issue wth the Star, IR1 says that Joe Alexander will pluck the rich official plums from he democratic tree and distribute 70 his friends all that he does not want himself. Now of course this g all speculative, as Bryan will not ,e elected, THIS TEAR, but if it were Imong the possibilities for him to ,et in, Yavapai county has the man Eho would be consulted in the mat CT of appointments and whose rec 'mmendation would probably 20 urther than that of any man in the erritory and that man is Col. J. F. Wilson, who was 8 delegate to the atiOnAl democratic convention. 'ol. Wilson is an old time, warm ersonsl friend of Chairman Jones, f the national democratic com littee, hailing from the same state, nd prior to the meeting of the