Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-09-27

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 Kansas is celebrating over her 4O0,0O0,000 bushel corn crop. It would be difficult for the calamity howlers to convince the Kansan that prosperity Is not abroad in the land As the general prosperity which eI- ists will enable the Kansas farmer to obtain good prices for his corn he is doubly thankful.
 When people look back three years and remember the condition of bus mess at the time that President Me Kinley was elected, it is surprising that the democrats should again at tempt 10 play on the credulous by asking the country to give them au- other trial.
 Ia MT. Bryan's home county the democrats nominated a soldier just returned from the Philippines for sheriff, but when he saw the demo cratic platform he declined to run on the ticket, as his views on expan- sion and his opinion of Aguinaldo W gre slightly different from what be was expected to advocate.
 The suggestion made in the JoUR- SAL-MINER that a drilling contest be held here in November, has already borne fruit in the calling of meet ing for next Monday evening to con- sider the proposition. Let all who take an interest iu the welfare of the town attend.
 The JouKNAL-MINER's "write-up" of Spruce mountain as pleasure re- sort has already attracted the atten- tion of a party with capital who Is interested in such a proposition, and who has promised to visit the place soon. Should he do so he will find that the conditions there have not been overstated.
 The war revenue tax, and the in- heritauce tax to the state of New York on the will of the late Cornel- jus Vanderbilt. it is estimated will cost about S5,OOO,O00 on the reported valuation of Sl5O,OOO,OOO. Of this the general government will get S3,- 100000 aud the state Of New York about S2,OOO,OOO.
 It is fayorite statement of op- ponents of the administration that If the president had offered self-gov- ernment under the protection of the United States to the Filipinos, the present insurrection would never have occurred. Such critics ignore the fact that just such an offer was made by the president. but was re- iected by the Filipino congress, the details of which reply have now be- come public. After all. it looks as if the French government IS all right. fl its mili- tary courts are of color. It has granted a pardon to Dreyfus and right on the heels of this 1t has dis missed NJ. Renard from the position of clerk of a court, position which he has held for thirty-one years, Tor giving alleged information detri- mental to Dreyfus. Major Hart mann, who gave favorable testimony to Drevfus has also been promoted.
 The suspense and worry ot our contemporary on behalf ot tue re- publican party Is something affect ing in the extreme. Although the nominating convention Is still months in the future, 1t Is fearful lest il cannot dictate the names of delegates to the next national con vention apparently from the tenor of an item in it this morning II has our most profound fraternal sympathy.
 Admiral Schley will shortly be sent to Csdiz, Spain, with his South 1 Atlantic squadron to pay the re spects of this nation to Spain. and at . about the same time one of Spans finest ships will visit New York and ! Hampton Roads. The respects which the admiral assisted in paying to some of Spain's finest ships, on July 3, 1898. will deter that govern ! ment from sending her former crack war ships to this country.
 ''The Las Vegas Optic is wasting many tears over the republican situ- ation in New Mexico. The Optic is a democratic paper and its object IS to create divisions in the republican ranks. It IS wasting it's time and space.-Albuquerque Citizen. There is at least one democratic paper in Arizona which is in line with the Optic on this same question. It cannot sleep nights on account ot its worry over the genuine, honest republicans"
 Opposition by public men of more or less prominence to a war that the government may be engaged in is not a new thing in the history of the republic. Such opposition was en- countered in the Rev olutionsry war, the war of 1872, the Mexican war, the Civil war and more recently the { Spanish war, but tt is significant fact that as rule there is but one result of the opposition-the kickers : have been retired to restful political obscurity as soon as the voters of { the country got the first chance at , them.