Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-11-30

We believe that Yavapai is enti- lied to as much If not more political consideration than 'any subdivision of Arizona. Accordingly we believe the legislative contingent which we send to the capital city this winter IS so patriotic to democracy that It ,hould simply ask it's brethern else where to gives us anything asked for. If there is anything in fidelity to party, prison removal should oe accomplished without any ceremony or trouble whatever. If Arizona de- mocracy is so powerful on state hood and silver, what is the matter with it handling the penitentiary problem that is located in Califor- mia virtually. Is Yavapai to be political sucker" slwaysi
 Mortality in democratic leader ship in the senate will be one of the impres sive features of the new con- gress. On the democratic side of the chamber there will be only ten faces which were seen there six years ago, when the party assumed con trol Of that body. At the begin ming of the ffty-third congress fourty four democrats appeared ID the senatorial chamber, and the wonder was what would become of the republican party. After the 3d of March only ten ot the fourty-four will remain senators. hey with sixteen other democrats elected m the past SIX years, will constitute the smallest minority the democratic party has known in the senate since the reconstruction era.
 IT our legislators desire 10 build public institutions or remove them, l let the matter be submitted to Sote of the people of Arizona at the fol- lowing general election. then If nec- essary, our delegate to congress can push the matter along without stultifying his honest convictions or the Iemocracy.-COurier. If the above sh get will just'glance ov'r the territorial republican platform, It will be refreshed wonderfully over the above question. A plank in that platform calls for the initiative aud referendum. on those public or sim liar propos .tions. The democrats would not have that plank, when 1t was submitted 10 them in conven- tion assembled, hut now that 1t IS good thing, the Courier wants 1t. Consistency, thou art Jewel.'
 Elsewhere in tojay's issue is al extract from au article in the Phe- nix Enterprise, which unselhshly treats of territorial institutions, in so far as the summer school ques- tion goes. The article above refer red to carries the argument that the present reform school building at Flags' atf is neither adap' ed Tor the purposes intended, nor IS 1t neces- sary from a moral standpoint. The wreck that disgracrs the lair city oi the north should Oe utilized ln manner be6JtiDg is prominence. To behold a structure that IS rapidly decaving in uselesSness aud disre- gard, IS a reflection on Arizona, aud some official consideration should be given the matter by the incoming legislature. The disposition of the peoples money expended cn the re- form school should be zealously considered, and We Know of nothing more practicable to that end or a project more beneficial than the ere .tion Of summer shcool. Such a proposition, backed up and fostered in official duties, will serve to redeem the past folly of our law makers, and disoountenance in the future the slip shOd methods which are so often countenauced in leglsla- tive robbery and combinations. By giving Flagstaff what il is right fully entitled to, and needing what Yavapai will demand honestly and fearlessly in the loca'iOn of the pen itentiary, the welfare of Arizona at large will for once be zellously and intelIigently fulfilled.