Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-08-09

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 So long as General Otis retains th confidence of President Mckinley he can afford Co ignore objecting rround robins"
 The most striking thing about the Iowa Sate convention were enth- siasm and unanimity in support oi the republican administrations, state and national.
 As we understand the position O the democrats, they are willing for inc pops to vote with them, but moi to give the pops any places on their ticket.
 The repairs needed by an auto mobile on long trip are so numer- ous and expensive that its general use for rough road travelling IS as vet entirely out of the question.
 The New York Herald added m suit to injury when 1t expressed re gret because of the publication m its own columns of a private con versation with Admiral Dewey as an authentic interview.
 Joe" Blackburn admits that the republicans may elect the next sen ator from Kentucky. A little later and sJoe" will be willing to substi- ute twill" for may
 When the London Saturday Re- view seriously speaks of the United States as the greatest nation on earth" as it did recently, Uncle Sam cannot be blamed for stepping little higher and having his hat stretched.
 Dewey's troubles with the yellow journals will not really begin unti be gets back home. Nothing can stop the scourge of yellow journal ism as long as the people will buy the papers.
 IL begins Co look as though GoeOei might be sorry he succeeded in gob bling that democratic nomination - for governor of Kentucky, as 1t IS likely to turn out to be 8 case of gobbling trouble instead of office.
 4 notorious character of Los An peles was shot a few days ago with a 22-calibre pistol. The bullet barelv imbedded itself in the mans flesh. and while the wound was be- ing dressed policeman faceuously remarked that there should be law prohibiting the carrying of a pistol of a less caliber than fl.
 Agitation in Cuba is not likely to hasten the establishment of an lnde- pendent Cuban government. When the Tubans have shown their ability to properly conduct the municipal governments, which they will be given an opportunity to elect as soon as a census of the island has been taken. 1t will toe time enough Co consider the next step.
 Senator Teller is in the state of Washington discussing national pol itics. He said Mckinley and Bryan would be the opposing candidates in 1900, and the money question would be the paramount issue. As to the Philippine question, he said he thought the United States should maintain control over them.
 Ifitis true that a cell studded with spikes has been put into the Jerome city jail we suggest to the authorities of that town that thumb screws, brain presses and other in human instruments of torture went out of fashion long years ago. Yet when we come to remember that it is only few months since Jerome sent Adams to the legislature we should not be surprised at the spiked cell.-Gazette.
 General Niles has buckled on his beef armor agaln and is going to buck up against Secretary Root. A dispatch states he will ask Secretary Root for speedy decision as to the relations existing between the gen eral commanding the army and the secretary of war. The condition which has existed in the war depart ment since the campaign in Porto Rico is revived, showing that Gen. Miles, while the major general com handing the army, has little or no voice in the management Of the af- fairs of the army, it IS stated that with the incoming secretary he hopes the present conditions will change.
 W. A. McGinnis, aged 4S years, died yesterday afternoon al 2:l5 o'clock at the territorial asylum Tor the insane, to which he had been committed June 22, 1898. He held office in Msricopa county as county surveyor and under the administra- tion of Governor Franklin he was the territorial architect, accomplish tug good work both on the normal school at Tempe and the reform school. Mir NcGiuuis' death may be put down as another horrible il lustration of political knocking in Pheniz. It Is enough ;o make any one insane to hold down a political job in that tropical zone. Inside of week after an appointment one is knocked either out of bis job or his senses. None but the strong an fea,less hold on as q rule.
 During the absence of the editor of this paper our contemporary remark ed that 'the Journal Murphy has 8 fight with the Murphy newspaper syndicate on ,ts hands, as the syndi- cate would like tO run il of the