Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
WEDNESDAY. MAY 2a, 1900.
]. (. MARTIN, Editor and Proprietor
EDITORIAL NOTES.

chamber or commerce 10 attend re- ception and banquet June 15.
 All the abuses they heaped upon Gov ernor Pingree for years has been for gotten by the democrats in their eager ness to jolly him on his having become a sorehead-
 Rev. P. A Baker. of Columbus. Ohio, has found out what was well known to all who have tried the trick. that Senator Foraker is not a safe man to abuse
 In the absence of Governor Smith, of Montana, Acting Governor Spriggs appointed W. A. Clark as United States senator immediately on receiv- ing his resignation.
 Bryan's acceptance of the Sioux Falls nomination and platform will in dicate that he is giving more thought to the populist ticket of 1904 than to leading the fOrlorn hope in the present r.-Globe-Democrat
 Albuquerque people are protesting vigorously against the passage of the Stevens bill in congress for the reason that it would deprive New Mexico ranchers from the use of the water in the Rio Grande for irrigation purposes.
 If Wharton Barker really things, as he says he does. that the middle-of-the- road pOpulists have a fighting chance to elect the president. this year, he has the oldest thinking apparatus on earth.
 Farmers as well as manufacturers are beneftting by the republican good times. During the last three years our sales of agricultural products to foreign countries were S5OO.OOOOOO greater than during the three years previous. '94-'96 inclusive.
 Editorials in certain metropolitan newspapers indicate that the sultan has money to use for other purposes if not to pay for American missionary property. But President Mckinley is determined that he shall also find money for the latter purpose and he will have to do it.
 The second assistant pOstmaster-gen- eral has sent q letter to the house post office committee saying that the allega- tiOn of an eX-emplOye that the govern ment was swindled out of S10.O00, ,O0O a year by fraudulent weighing of mail carried by the railroads was extrava- gant and entirely groundlesS.
 Humph, It is significant that the populists should publicly announce the necessity for holding a club over the democrats to make sure that the Kan sas City convention will readopt the Chicago platform.
 Since Webster Davis has been mak- ing BOer speeches, repeated attempts have been made to get him to abuse President Mckinley. To the last one of those attempts, Mir. Davis replied: .'4IcKinley's all right He is a patriot. one of the common people, like Lin coin"
 A Washington telegram says that Senators are practically unanimous in the opinion that the appointment of Clark by Acting Governor Spriggs to fill the Montana vacancy in the senate. is entirely legal The announcement Of his appointment created almost as much surprise as his resignation. Senator Clark has been busy today re- ceiving congratulations, and his friends are confident that he will be elected by the next Montana legislature to finish The term.
 The Chicago Record says that Ha- waii and Porto Rico will send dele gates to the democratic national con vention Each island will be accorded six delegates if the wishes of the lead CTS of the democratic party are carried out With the position which the dem ocratic party talks Of taking on the question of expansion. would it not be somewhat inconsistent to admit . delegates from these expansion terri Eories.
 Democrats are dissatisfied with the populist nominee for vice-president and aFr Dr,-,-,-s N-1,,..,..I-,, ---io,,l. ,,.o ;,,e+ now vigorously denying that the apos- 1le of populistic democracy was re sponsible for his nomination. They hope also that Mir Towne may be in- dueed to withdraw to permit the dem oerats the privilege of naming the tail end of the ticket The populists having the honor of naming the president can didate, it would seem the proper thing to concede the vice-president to the democrats.
 The Pretoria correspondent of the New York Herald is authority for the statement that the Transvaal peace commission" is authorized to ask the government of the United States to establish a protectorate over the Transvaal and Free State govern ments. Of course our friends, the aunties. will oppose such a proposition tooth and nail According to their oft reiterated theories. it is the duty Of the United States government to leave the inhabitants of South Africa, the inhabitants of the Philippines. and the inhabitants of all other parts of the world, to work out their own des- tinE in their own way. If our govern meat should entertain the thought of 2 prectorate over South Africa. our good friends, the aunties, would at once. as a matter of course, raise their EbeneZars against so pernicious an exLioition of imperialism"