Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-09-07


 twelve years.-Tucson Star.
 Colonel Henry, the Judas of the French army, initiated the original Judas by killing himself. There are few more FTenchmen in high off cials position who have been mixed up with thls outrageous affair, who might, with equal propriety, commit suicide.
 While affecting to believe that there is DO possible show for the election of a Republican delegate this fall, the Democratic press seem to be very solicitous about the ac- tions of Republicans. The Repub- cans will nominate candidate Sep tember 20 and, what is more, will elect him in November.
 Roosevelt's regiment has formed social organization, to be known as @Roosevelt's Rough Riders" Its object is for the purpose of keeping the members in touch with each other after being mustered out Lieut.. Col. Brodie has been elected president of the organization.
 at is a peculiarity of democratic politics this year that the demo crats of the different states are de- claring that they forced the war on Mckinley If that be true, the party immediately and shamefully stulti6ed itself, as we'll as disgraced the nation, by an attempt in Con gress to refuse the funds to carry on the ewar."-Herald.
 Representative Oyerstreet, of In diana, secretary of the republican congressional campaign committee who has just returned from a tour of the western states, says: "The glorious achievements of the war will give the republican party a good advantage in the campaign. In Indiana the party was never in better condition to carry the state There the fight will be entirely on national issues" MT. Overstreet thinks the republican will make de .1ed gains all through the west
 4 very peculiar condition of af- fairs prevails just now in the east, when the United States treasury aud the New York banks refuse to exchange legal tender notes for gold and are shipping gold to the in- terior wherever it will be accepted in lieu of the currency; this is be- cause gold is very plentiful in the banks and their currency has been reduced to comparatively small amounts. The result IS that the matter of the reissue of gold cer- tl6cstes, which was suspended ln 1893, is being agitsted.-Ex
 Ausiria's official newspaper says tbe peace terms between the United States and Spain will be settled by these two countries without any outside interference. This is what every newspaper in the United States has been saying all along. No meddling on the part of any Euro pean power will be permitted. Spain understands this as we'll as does the United States. The nations which coerced Japan after her victorious war against China four years ago, would doubtless be glad to play the role of dictator in this case, but they are deterred by the circum- stance that their interference would be resisted by all the power of the United States.
 It begins to look as though jus tice would triumph yet in France iu the Dreyfus case. Col. Henry, 8 Frerch officer, who has been one of the most vindictive prosecutors of Dreyfus, has confessed to commit ting forgery in order to convict him. The French press has turned from its course of condemning the exile and now urge his release and eulo- gize Zola. Members of the cabinet say they will order a new trial for Dreyfus, which will put Esterhazy in his place. It is a serious refec- ton on the intelligence of the French people to realize, only when the guilty party cOnfesses his crime, what has been apparent to the rest of the world from the inception of this persecution, that Dreyfuss was an innocent man. The persecution Of Dreyfus and Zola will remain as 8 dark blot on the escutcheor of that nation.
 The citizens of the country mani tested their patriotism in an unmis- takable manner during the recent war with Spain. Germany, or at least the citizens of that country, n4 -ested just as plainly their sym pathies for our enemies. While no overt act was committed ou the part of the German government against l the United States, the position taken by her naval officers at Manila was, to say the least, aggravating and provoking, as all the sId possible {. was given to the Spanish. even to the extent of taking the governor general of on a German war ship. The tone of the German press, too, has been particularly bitter against