Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-08-31

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 of Mark Smith. Behold how pleas ant if is for brethren to dwell to- getber in unity" It would be a huge democratic joke. though Il Mark Smith were to outgeneral them both.
 The more that is learned of the individual action of our army anu navy during recent engagements the prouder one can be of shis cour- try. It is doubtful whether there IS another nation on earth that could muster an army and navy where every man is an individual hero Not a single case has been reported of anyone shirking duty, even under circumstances where death seemed inevitable. If individual heroes have grown out of the war, it has been because some men were placed in positions which produced such results. but there have hcen thousands of others who were ready and willing to have taken the same places.
 The question of fusion of demo- crats and republicans on a legisls- tive ticket is being agitated. and seems to meet with great favor on the part of very many citizens. This county is entitled to three members in the assembly and one member in the council, making four in all. The proposition IS to g've each party two candidates and then all work for the election of the four nominees. The object ln wanting to fuse in this way is in the hopes of securing good men for the position, as there are very few men who are willing to make the canvass for election. While the fusion prInci- pie is a good one in some respects, there are several objections raised to it.
 Some Of the best, the truest, and most thrilling accounts of the Gu ban campaign have been written by the soldiers themselves-those who participated in the battles. The newspaper correspondents, in order to compete with others in the same business, in the amount of space de- voted to the various scenes enacted there, embellished their reports 10 the extent of losing sight of the truth. The most forcible way ol telling or describing thrilling eFent is to tell the story in the most sim- ole manner. The events around Santiago, from the time of the land of the American troops to the final surrender of the city, were all of a thrilling nature, and no better re- ports of them have been published than the letters written by soldiers to their friends-letters written. 100 without thought that they would ever be published.
 OUK contemporary affects the sympathetic and then grows face tious, finally winding up with being vindictive in an article concerning the calling of a republican con7en- tion. Neither its affected sympathy, its attempt al facetiousness, or it's natural vindictiveness will have any influence on the territorial commit tee and. as sto the use" of calling a republican convention this year that can best be demonstrated when the yots are counted. If the republi- cans can not select a man who will serve the territory better than the oft elected delegate put up by the democrats, then there would indeed be little use of calling a convention or electiDg a delegate. Arizona might just as well not have a dele gate as to have the one who is now serving his fifth term, as all that has been accomplished during these ten years has been done by other par ties than the delegate.
 A telegram from Chester. Illinois says that Victor J. Adsmi. a promi- nent democratic politician of that county, has authorized the public announcement of the fact that he has entered. into the folds of the republican party. He has been a life long democrat, a free silver champion, and a leading delegate to all the conventions of bis party for many years. Mir. Adami is a great admirer of President Mckinley and the republican administration. We do not know Mir. Adami, but he seems to be a pretty level headed gentleman, hence We hasten to con gratulate him on the wisdom dis played by hlm in his change of political front. MT. Adami's joining the republican party in Illinois IS specially gratifying at this time, as we have been led to believe by our friends, that Is, if we be lieve them, that the republican party of Illinois was on the eve of dis ruption, owing to the defection of one, Stephen A. Douglass, son of a statesman. It is sincerely hoped that MT. Adami can fill the vacuum caused by Mir. Douglass defection, and thus avert possible disaster to the republican party in that state.
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