Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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 George Washington Peck. father of 'Peck's Bad Boy" has been nominated for congress by the democrats of the Fourth Wisconsin district
 | \ nfneteen-year-oId Indian youth is reported to have committed suicide from the effects of cigarette smoking and unreQuited love. It would be in- teresting to know just what proportion was love and what cigarette smoking
 If the democrats refuse to nominate the populist candidate for vice-preSi- dent at Kansas City. the populists threaten to get into the middle of the road with Wharton Barker and support him.
 The prosecution of Medley and his associates for the Cuban postal frauds is being vigorously continued by the administration. and will not cease till sentence has been pronounced on the guilty.
 Announcements are frequently seen of cigarette smokers becoming insane. Doctors now are divided in their opin- ion as to whether cigarette smoking produces insanity or whether it is a streak Of insanity in ones system that causes cigarette smoking.
 The United States now has q do main nearly three times greater in area than it possessed when it be came a nation. We have been expand ing all the time. and most of it was added by the party now opposing ex. pansion.
 The ways and means committed very properly sat down upon Repre- sentative RichardsOn's proposition to admit sugar and mOlasses free of duty from Cuba and Porto Rico Its !, effect would have been to make a present of S14.OOO.OOO to the sugar trust
 The Arbuckle sugar refining people have beaten the sugar trust in a legal battle in Ohio. Arbuckles held stock in the trusts coffe factory and want ed to inspect it's books. right to which they are entitled under a recent decision. Another blow for an octo, puS.
 If lying is ever eXcusable, the eX- traordinary efforts of the democrats to manufacture political capital out of nothing ought to be. Everybody knows that they arc lying. and that not a single vote will thereby be in- fuenced.
 According to a telegram from Texas, Salt River valley melon growers have permitted that state to carry off the r honors this year of having the first r ripe melons Arizona has heretofore , carried off this honor as well as that of the first apricots.
 The gold democrats don't ask much If Mir. Bryan in exchange for their support-only that he shall publicly disavow the Chicago platform and admit that the silver issue was a false one How many mems respect would Mir Bryan retain if he compli ed with such demand?
 If somebody isn't careful they will earn striped suits in trying to carry
 out the democratic program of mak
 ing the south solidly democratic 1T the next house by the same proces. that some of the southern states ar, locally controlled.
 The prosperity argument Is one tha comes home to every man in the coun try. and that cannot be lied away . Further. the country is waking up [, the possibilities of American commerc, 7 in the Pacific. This is already to, !, great for the carrying capacities o the Pacific fleet, and large orders fo : new ships have therefore been placed . \ recent telegram from Washington $ says that official dispatches received } at diplomatic quarters in Washington show that the rioting at Pekin ha, . reached an acute stage. It had occur } red 10 Us that the tenor of the dis ' patches for some considerable time in , dicated condition of acuteness il l, China.
 The Chicago Mining Review say. . that S4OO.OOO q day leaves the stat, of Colorado to help support the peopl, , of the east and Europe The produc of the mines and farms. earnings oi factories and railroads, and interest, on mortgages and bonds, with contri buttons to insurance companie: amounts to the enormous sum of S146. 100000 a year
 John k. Mclean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, has announced that othel engagements will prevent him iron attending the Kansas City convention He will sail with his family for Flu rope next Saturday. to be out of tn, country for an indefinite period. Thi. means that the Dewey presidential boom has been abandoned to it's fate
 Young W. R. Hearst is developing his political aspirations in the Gemo cratic party It has long been hi. fond ambition that his late father: l senatorial toga should fall upon hi: own shoulders. In New York ne has i, , many times been flattered with tn, prospect of a nomination for gover nor of that state. and it has ever l been hinted that he may be the vice presidential running mate of MT Bryan. on the democratic ticket.
 Admiral Dewey wants to be presi i dent or nothing. He is quoted as say . ing that he will not accept a nOmina . ton as vice-president. Inasmuch a' he has not been seriously mentioned ! conuaetion with this nl1cp his an