Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-12-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

adopting the declaration oi inde- psndence as its platform. The party seems in sore straits for sn issue.
 Boss Croker has gone to Europe to spend some of the New York city taxpayers money in horse racing and other sports.
 The republican leaders hope for adjournment of this session of con gress before the national convention is held.
 So many good men are available for the republican vice presidential nomination that it would be i'm possible to make a mistake.
 Democratic bowling will not pre- vent a congress, republican in both branches, enscting laws in accord with the policy of a republican president.
 The democratic managers would do well to call in an expert horse trainer, when the effort IS made to hitch the Maryland democratic nsg to the Chicago platform.
 The good old family parrot, be- longing to the Dewey family, could say some awful things, if it were permitted to talk for publication just at the present time
 Senator Morgan, of Alabama, places the situation in a very strik- ing manner befose the country, when he says that expansion Is &C., complisbed, and imperialism is Im- possible.
 Apropos of the Dewey home ex- citsment, there is clear evidence that the admiral possessed sufficient presence of mind 10 retain the night key.
 Congressman Richardson, of Ten nessee, the democratic leader m the house, is not brilliant man, but he is likely to lead the minority into fewer humiliations than Bailey, of Texas, did.
 The prediction given out by a contemporary is that if MT. Bryan can carry New York and Ohio, his chances for the presidency will be very bright. To this prediction we are disposed to give an unqualified assent
 A railroad conductor is credited with saying that platforms are not to stand on but to get in on. In this respect they resemble democratic platforms which are manufactured solely to get into office on.
 Lucky Baldwin has sold his hotel site in San Francisco to James L. Flood for q .425.OO0. It is said to be the largest single transaction in real estate ever made in that city.
 Now if those Mscabebes, in the | Philippines, should take a notion to set up an independent government, accordingto Edward Atkinson, ct al, logic the United States would be in duty bound 10 accept it.
 The sincerity of the antitrust democratic bowlers can now be put to the test. If they want to show their sincerity they will turn in and help to enact legislation as outlined by the presidents message.
 It was scarcely necessary for Rus sell Sage to deny that he had in tentions to quit business and retire on farm. Any one who knows of Mir. Sage's inordinste love for money knows that he will never quit trying to accumulate 1t until he dies. |,
 Taylor's plurality in Kentucky is 3,3S3, The Gobelites propose to contest the election With all the election machinery in the hands of his friends it can scarcely be under stood what grounds he can have for a contest.
 France has prohibited the sending of mourning envelopes through the mails. The order has created great dissatisfaction and the French postoffice is being deluged with let ters of complaint over its enforce | nent. iC
 If the democrats make an issue of trusts next year as they claim they propose to do, they wIll have to get on McKinley's platform. His mes [ sage rather anticipates the democ- | rscy on this issue, but they may } have a different way of doing things. : The Artzona Kicker in its palm { fest days could not have produced | more unfavorable impression of the [ people of Arizona, In the east, than ( the vulgar abuse of Governor Mur- ( phy, indulged in by our contem- II oorsry this morning, for his efforts g 10 uphold the honor, decency and W good name of our people. b When newspaper or individual VI las nothing better to offer in the " way oI expressing disapproval of an oa . official than the use Of vulgar cpl 0 hets, 1t shows the weakness of its position. Citizens of Prescott, dem | rats and republican alike, have ex- d pressed approval of the governors m action, ID rebuking the sheriff of is Navajo county, by granting respite si .o the murderer. ,t Senator ". A. Clark expresses ~ ', in his ability to disproEe ' -he bribery charges against him. In n l statement to the Associated Press ' le says that tha coy,-ast ;,,s+rf,,ta3 ''