Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-07-11

Innocent byStanderS are always get | ting hit. Note Roosevelt al the Phila- delphia convention.
 Populist and ex-Republicqn Towne announces his fealty to the Kansas | City nominees.
 1 NIT. Teller's party nominated Bryan and Stevenson as it's candidates for president and vice-president.
 Bryan. Jones and Stevenson are comforting in Lincoln in reference to the plans of the campaign. 1 With the aid and influence of Web ster Davis, who recently lit in the democratic party, the democrats have hopes of carrying Missouri for Bryan.
 When a republican politician gets to the end of his. rope in his own party he joins the democrats. When a dem Ocrat gets played out he goes over to the anarchists.
 The news from South Africa is get ting scarce and far between these days. Whether this is because there isn't any or because it is crowded out by other events. is somewhat doubt full
 In their support of Hill from start to finish those New Workers saw the importance of having New York man on the ticket. The failure to nominate MT. Hill leaves that state safely in the republican column. We denOunce," we oppose" i've condemn" are the principal features of the democratic platform. Of course each expression and each repetition of it is followed by something done by the republican party.
 No vice-president has become presi- dent for years, because none of them were big enough for the job. But Roosevelt is different.
 In a recent speech Kaiser Wilhelm stated that he would dictate terms of peace to China. from the palace of Pekin.
 An odd strike is that of the Cuban laborers employed by the Havana Electric Light company. Their griev- ance is that Americans working for the company receive more wages than they do.
 And now comes the Florence Fri bune and accuses the present admins traitor with being responsible for the condition of affairs in China. The democratic convention somehow over looked this.
 The real danger in China is not so much that Europeans and Americans will he murdered there. or that for eign trade will be mOnOpOlized by some one power that may get control It is that China may come under the lead of some power that can teach it its enormous strength and make it a menace to the world.
 The telegraphic report of the Kansas city convention led to the belief that Bryan dictated that 16 to l plank in the democratic platform. It turns out that Judge J. NJ. Murphy. of King man, was the man who did, according  to the Mineral Wealth, which says: Delegate Murphy talked Is to from the call of time until it was put in the platform
 Governor Beckham has taken the first steps toward the modification of the infamous Goebel law in Kentucky. He has called special elections to be held August 6 to elect members of the legislature to fill vacancies in that body. He is expected to call a special session of the legislature for early in September. By this political move the democrats hope to be able to carry Kentucky at the next election.
 The morning before the nomination of q candidate for vice-president at Kansas City the Los Angeles Times predicted the nomination of Stevenson in the following paragraph: "The ac- tiOn of the Illinois delegation in giving to Adlai F. Stevenson it's unanimous indOrsement has launched bOomlet which may possibly carry off the all legged prize" The Times was the only paper in the United States that called the turn on that convention.
 The silver republican platform op- poses the use of force in government and favors a government only with the consent of the governed. As the reports of this convention state that there were about two hundred men in the convention who voted for Lincoln and who served in the Union army during the civil war in the United States, these men must have under gone a change of sentiment since that period. Lincoln and the Union army did not stand for such doctrine dur ing the period of 1S61-65.