Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-03-31

hAutcHS that uo slate naFlng a cap met officer can have the appoint ment of an assistant, Col. H. c. Otis, of the Los Angeles Times, is ruled out of the assistant secretary ship of war. President Mc Kinley and Col. Otis served in the war of the rebellion together, and but for this ruling the president would have appointed him assistant seere- tary of war. Col. Otis was offered the consulship to Calcutta at $500 per year, but he declined it, as he did not wish to go abroad aud neg lect his private business.
 The free trade liars are now busy with the senate. It is entirely un- necessary to say that no republican senator will raise any objection to the Dingley tariff bill, because it is protection measure. That the bill will be amended by the senate Is certain-no tariff bill has ever been accepted by the senate with out amendment-but the senate amendments that will be supported by republican senators will not make the bill less protective, and if any such amendments are added by the senate 1t will be by the com bined votes of the democratic and populist senators.
 On March 9th the daily ARzoNA JoURNAL-MlNER, published at Pres colt, completed the thirty-second year of its existence. The JOURNAL MINER made its first appearance on March 9th, 1864, in the above city and is the oldest newspaper in the Territory. During all these years it has worked fearlessly for the best interests of its hone and the terri tory in general and today stands in the front ranks of journalism in Arizona. The Sentinel extends it's best wishes, and hopes that the flu ture birthdays of that pioneer jour nal will be many, and that its labors will be richly rewarded. Yuma | Sentinel.
 The Phenix Republican, under it's new management, is very credita, bic paper, but some one connected with it has fallen into the habit oi literary piracy which is not at all creditable to the party as journal i ist. Whole articles are "cribbed' from territorial exchanges and re published without credit, giving them the appearance of having originated with the aforesaid paper Recently several mining articles have been transplanted from tn, | JouRKAL-MINER columns into tn, l Republican in this manner. Papers 1 exchanging with the Republican
 which do not exchange with th' ! JOURNAL MINER, in copying these ar
 ticles give credit to the former pa
 per instead of to the one in whicl
 they were published originally. Il
 may be very gratifying for the Re
 publican editor to see these stolel
 articles credited to him, but it ]
 not reputable journalism.
 Chicago is just now passing
 through a peculiarly warm cam
 paign in city affairs, there being nc
 less than four different candidate
 for mayor An effort has been mad'
 to get the president to take a hand
 in Chicago politics, but it has provel useless. An election of mayor il '- Chicago has no political significance whatever, as the issues are purel local. 4 republican, who is runnini } as an independent candidate, is ; pronounced anti boodler, and thi principle is his platform. He will ge
 votes from both parties. Carte
 Harrison, jr., son of an ex-mayor O Chicago, favors giving the greates ' lieence of freedom to saloons an,
 gamblers, or as he states it himself ''is in favor of throwing Chicag wide oren." Such a platform a that is popular in Chicago. Hi
 fathers success in Chicago polite was achieved on these lines, an young Carter is evidently a chip c the old block. Mir. Harrison IS tn
 nominee of free silver democrat , aud populists. "Wash" Hesing l ex-postmaster of Chicago, also
 democrat, is in favor of hberality i , regard to saloons, but does not carr his views to the extremes that youn
 Harrison does. With this cOmplies ton of affairs, it is not difficult t guess as to the result of the cleo ] tiOn.