Arizona weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1885-1903, 1900-05-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Why don't the pops favor public
ownership of newspapers?

Gus war governor. "Dick" Yates, has
been nominated for governor of Illi-
nOis.
\ new move has been made in the
CObre Grande mining middle, in the
application for a receiver.
Tom Watson says that he is politi-
cally dead. But the populist tail will
wag the democratic dog this fall. all
the same.
The report of General Pillars death
has undoubtedly been greatly exag
gerated. He has recently been killed
again
No doubt the sultan would prefer
to discuss the end of the century prob
lem if the United States would con-
sent.
The middle-of-the-road populists at
Cincinnati have nominated Wharton
Barker of Philadelphia. for president.
Who ever heard of Barker before?
From an opinion, born of experience,
we are led to remark that if Job
would ever have had occasion to run
gasoline engine, he would have lost
his reputation for patience.
albuquerque is making a big pull
to get a military post established at
that place. The scheme is to get Fort
Wingate. the only post IN New Mex
leo. abandoned and to have a post
established at Albuquerque.
In one item in the Phenix Repubn-
can. the JOurnal-NIiner is charged
with attempting to carry water on both
shoulders, while in another it is ac-
cused of being an organ" \ little in
consistent. Ell?
Thirty-one locomotives and tenders
were shipped to Russia from Philadel
phia last week. The cOnquests of
Uncle Sam in peace are fully as glori-
Gus as those in war.
There is not much likelihood that
the dinner pail will figure in Demo
cratic campaign speeches this year.
They are not so full of wind as they
We're four years ago.
After all the fret and worry about
running mate for Bryan the popu-
lists have named one for him. His
name is Towne and he halls from Du-
luth.
Dewey has decided to make a plat
fOrmless campaign for the nomination.
In other words. he will be satisfied TO
stand on any old thing if a chance
for the presidency goes along with it.
If it be true as alleged that David
B. Hill has succeeded in welding to-
gether the Bryanites. the Tammanyites
and the sound money democrats. the
country will speedily come to the con-
victiOn that he is really a new sort of
political fiux.
The action of the national democratic
convention will demonstrate the feel
ing of confidence or weakness of its
leaders by its nominee. Will it put
up democrat for president. or endorse
the populist candidate?
Kentucky officials were afraid to go
up in the mountains to arrest Jim
Howard. charged with the murder
of Senator Goebel, so James accom-
modatingIy went to Frankfort and
gave himself up.
Sultan Hamid has offered to buy a
war ship from Uncle Sam at an ex-
brilliant price, if he will call that
indemnity proposition square. The of
fer. of course. cannot even be consfd-
cred. but it is very interesting as show
ing the peculiar ideas of government
that obtain in Turkey. as well as in
certain other parts of the world.
Druggists in Ohio now give away
one of Representative Lentz' anti
imperialist speeches with every box
of insect powder. They add direc-
tons to read the speech to the bugs
if the powder fails, and say that there
is no doubt that one or the other will
prove fatal
Bryan has received the nomination
as president from the party to which
he really belongs. the populists Now
if the democratic convention only en-
dOrses him he viii be made happy.
The eyes of the country from now
till the Fourth of July will be upon
the democratic party, to see whether
it will nominate a candidate for presi-
dent or endorse the populist candidate
The telegraph tells of Chairman Tom
Patterson, of the populist convention,
eulogizing Bryan as a man, states
man and a soldier. One can readily
imagine what he might say of him as
a man and can even imagine nice
things to say of him as a statesman.
but the Imagination is all at sea when
it comes to picturing Bryan as a sol
der Mr.. Patterson alone IS equal TO
the performance of that task.
Our populistic brethren are adding
to the list of articles of which they
favor public ownership. They have
just added coal mines TO their cata-
lOgue- There is just as much sense in
this as there is to the other things
they want the public to own. FIGURING
mills. wooden mills, gold. silver and
copper mines will no doubt come in
later. under the populistic public own
ership wing.
The conference report on the Ha-
waiian government bill. which has
been agreed to, strikes out all property
and tax qualifications for the voters,
but leaves the educational test intact.
The result will be that about 10000
natives will vote, constituting a de-
cided majority over all the other citi-
zens of the island Whether the Amer
lean residents will yield to native DOM
ination or will resort to methods only
too well known in the southern states,
remains to be seen.
A hotel clerk of st. Louis has beeen
missing for several days and is sup
posed to have committed suicide, What
he called a mere rhapsody" was en-
closed in n letter to a friend, announc-