Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-01-03

Aguinaldo missedra number of Christmas presents by keeping his address from his Boston friends.
 Delegate Wilson has introduced a bill in congress providing for an ad- ditional associate justice of the ter ritory,
 HWe don't understand why the Hon. Champ Clark should fight dead men when there are so many live ones in sight.
 Ifthis weather keeps up, that old song, "How Would You Like to Be the Ice Man." will have to run its course through another season.
 The Hon. Brigham H. Robert continues to chafe under the Taylor made investigation.
 As long as democratic victories in Nebraska continue to put populists into the offices, the country will be disposed to smile.
 The United States supreme court put some of its critics to sleep when it rendered that decision against the cast iron pipe trust.
 The appearance of the Hon. Wm. V. Allen in their ranks will enable the senate minority to talk almost l any old proposition to finish.
 It is rumored in Washington that the Republicans will issue as a cam paign document next year "The Con fessions of Hon. Joseph c. Sibley."
 The command "move on" must jar on the sensitive feelings of Agui- naldo as he resumes his tiresome task of hot-footing it across the is- land.
 If it be true that the Hon. Moses Wetmore is building another to- bacco factory, the octopus will soon be compelled to do a little more Wetmore chasing.
 The populist party is no place for the young man. It is merely an asylum for those politicians who have outlived their usefulness in the two older organizations.
 A Connecticut preacher is earn estly advocating the whipping post as punishment for drunks, but the idea is not likely, for many reasons, to become a law anywhere.
 The announcement is made that Hon. w. M. Stewart of Nevada, has returned to the republican party.
 The navy department wants 5000 ( men to enlist for service on the battleships and cruisers now being { built.
 The speciality of the North Caro- lima Penitentiary appears to be al lowing big. criminals to escape, which is somewhat suspicious. AIt vas entirely 6qting that the city of brotherly love should be chosen for holding the national con Yention of a party that is perfectly harmonious. .
 Since he emerged from the wilds of Texas, MT. Bryan has kept up his usual practice and has had consid- erable to say, but his silence on the situation in Kentucky is becoming oppressive.
 The fate of the North Carolina |, colored parson who purloined hog and then was choked to death in trying to get the animal over high fence, ought to furnish a multitude of texts.
 MT. Roberts pointblank refusal to testify before the e1house investigat- ing committee has all the earmarks 7 of guilt. Innocent men are not apt f to reject sn opportunity for answer ing their accusers.
 We credit Ex- Senator Blackburn t as being sincere in his desire to see C the Hon. Bill Goebel firmly I anchored in the gubernational office. i Gosbel at large makes the outcome c of the Kentucky Senatorship rather t uncertain. Congressman Joe Sibley of Penn sylvania, has repudisted the demo e cratic party and free silver, but he has not become a republican; he is I Jus: now Joe Sibley man. Those a who know hIm best say he has never t been anything else. C The reputation of the English is V not that of men who lose their nerve 2 when they get licked. We predict i that the only result of the Boer sue D cesses in South Afnca will be to g make the English realize the full | size of the. task they have under | taken and to go ahead and finish it. t The grain and lumber shippers of the Pacific coast are hampered by h lack of ships, and the wave of pros a perity still rolls on, and will con t uue to grow as long as republicans q HStrol all branches of the govern Y ment. That's why Uncle Sam en- h joyed one of the merriest Christmas of his life. u It might be we'll to remind those P democratic editors who are worry fC ing about Senator Depew's ability c to pay that $5O,OOO annual rent for Y hls house ins Washington, that his h salary as chairman of the executive er committee of the Central-Hudson railroad represents just that figure. e The 5000 he gets from the national - - treasury as senator may be sufficient f, A. |