Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-03-14

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 MT. German has not been convert ed to Bryanism. He has merely de cided to take his medicine without making face over it.
 We haye.it straight from the cook that MT. Bryan IS now taking a erilled octopus every morning for his breakfast at trust prices.
 While republicans are supposed to be scarce in Texas there seems to be enough in Dallas to send two dele cations to their state convention.
 Those persons who insist that President Mckinley shall offer mt diation in the South African war, re- gardIess of the wishes of the con testants, need little instruction Tn international law.
 The protocol signed in Kentucky will cause a peaceable solution of the present difficulties there. But how about the Goebel law? Is 1t to remain on the books to aid the dem ocrats to steal another election7
 Russia is said to have taken ad- vantage of the war on England s hands to completely undermine and  overthrow English influence in Per sia. If true, this may have an i'm portant bearing upon matters in the far east.
 Helping 8 senator get elected is new reason for choosing the location of a national political convention but Senator Butler says it was be- cause the populists desired to help Senator Pettigrew that they choose Sioux Falls, South Dakota.:s
 The anti-imperialists may con tinus to rant about the constitution being violated, but the country will look to the supreme court to vindi- cate that instrument rather than to any number of long haired cranks.
 Representative Lentz, in arguing in favor of Milwaukee as meeting place for the democratic national convention, asserted that the Ger man newspapers cuuld be bought by the convention going there. How do you like that, German newspaP- ersi
 On whose authority did Senator Allen announce to the pOpulist con- vention that he had positive infor- nation that Judge Caldwell, if nom- mated, would be entirely satisfac- tory to the democratic convention? Has the democratic party boss, or was the statement authorized by Czar Bryani
 The industrial commission has labored and brought forth mouse. There is nothing in it's report which will reach the admitted evils of trust, and plenty of which will ham per honest corporations.
 If Porto Ricans have not yet heard of the advance agent of pros perity it will not be long before they will have an intimate acquaintance with that gentleman. That S2,0OO,- 900 appropriation ought to bring him in their midst.
 It is more than forty years since China has been as madly anti-foreign as now. All the forces of reaction have mustered for one last deter mined stand against western civiliza- tion. The result is inevitable, of course, but one cannot blame China very much. The European powers have treated her much as highway man treats defenseless traveller,
 That was magnificent act of gen. erosity, as-well as shrewd political move. whereby the president recom- mended and the house passed legis- lation returning to Porto Rico all the tariff duties collected and to be collected at both ends of the line. Naturally the democrats blundered and opposed. the measure, thereby forfeiting whatever they ha gained by the passage of the Porto Rican tariff bill.
 Nothing was said in regard to f. nance at the recent democratic Da- tional committee meeting in Wash ington. Despite democratic talk of immense republican campaign funds it is more than probable that the former will have more money this fall than the latter. The anti-impe- rialists are all rich and willing to contribute.
 MT. Bryan and his friends wanted an early convention and the demo- cratic committee decided to hold late one. He wanted it held in the east and they have decided to hold it in the west. And yet the demo- crats tell us that his hold is tighter than ever on the affections of his party.
 Admiral Watson has been relieved from the command Of the Asiatic squadron and authorized to proceed home on the cruiser Baltimore via the Suez canal. The reason of this ia on account of the admiraPs failing health. The Baltimore is to be de taehed from the above squadron. Admiral Geo. c. Ramsey will be as signed to the command vacated by Admiral Watson.
 Much is printed nowadays in the advertisements of attorneys as to the time required to obtain patent, bat the opinion of the commissioner of patents ought to be conclusive on this subject. In an interview he -L