Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-06


and the information he collects is most
valuable. if accurate.
The Cubans have little reason to wax
sarcastic over the frauds in their is
land. Had it been left to Spanish or
Cuban hands. they would have gone
on indefinitely.
The Paris exposition will not permit
any prize fighting exhibitions. A lit
tie harmless dueling now and then
they do not object to. but they will
not put up with such bloody sports as
fisticuffs are likely TO be
Sensible Americans can see no use in
interfering in the South African musS
Unless the United States is prepared 10
back up its words by going To war with
Great Britain-which it isn't-the less
said the better.
kentucky is trying to arrange things
50 that Beckham can stay in office for
four years. instead of having to run
again this fall. This should be easy
enough for a state that has done what
Kentucky has done in the past few
months.
Paying United States bonds is re
publican specially The treasury de
partment has called for So, 100000 in
old = per cent bonds and given notice
that interest Oh them will cease Sep
tember l.
Lecturing the students of Princeton
didn't satisfy Hon. Grover Cleveland.
and he has taken to writing magazine
articles. The seedlings of his presi-
Dental term were the most marked
things he did.
Mr.. Towne, it seems, played a con
fidence game on the pops when he Sc
cured the nomination for vice-presi-
dent He has now announced that he
only wanted it TO trade with Bryan
for the promise of a cabinet job if the
latter got in. However, his chances
for one are as good as they are for
the other
Senator Hale has always been a pes
simist and his latest outbreak is only
in the line with former ones. Accord
ing to him. the country is going to the
dogs. not because of the administra-
ton but in spite of it. American char
acter is degenerating and there is no
hope in the future. But the country
will know what estimate to put on this
bOsh.
The democrats who are claiming the
election of Bryan very discreetly fail
TO mention the states they expect him
to carry that he failed to carryin 80.
As a matter of fact, it is absolutely
certain that President Mckinley will
carry every state he carried in 90, and
probable that he will carry a number
that voted for Bryan four years ago.
In story written for boys, Governor
Roosevelt gives the following rule for
success, which he has himself closely
followed: In life, as in a foot ball
game, the principle to follow is, hit
the line hard; don't foul and don't
shirk, but hit the line hard" Its
good rule for anybody.
1t is farcial in the extreme to read
of such a notorious money king as Jim
Keene talking of money being in the
saddle and running down the institu-
tons of the country. Wonder what in
stitution Jim tried to run down and
got knocked out? Jim's wealth is
quoted at $2O.OOOOOO. Perhaps he
thinks of buying second place on the
Bryan ticket.
II is worth remembering NJ this
juncture that it was Senator Hale who
was so bitterly opposed to war with
Spain, and who approved of all of the
horrors Of Spanish rule in Cuba. The
fact that his action in that respect was
generally credited to the influence of
lady connected with the Spanish le-
CATION does not affect he facts.
Senator Blackburns proposition to
repeal the GOebel law is merely 2
game of bunco. as he advocates repeal
ing the letter and retaining the spirit
Of the law. There is not the faintest
chance that kentucky will permit the
Republicans to select the Republican
Judges who are 10 watch proceedings
at the polls.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, has tried
10 make little cheap political capital
out of the national abasement by in
Producing a resolution for a congress
siOnal inquiry into the Cuban post Of
flee scandal. Such action would be al
most as bad as the original defalca-
ton for it would cast disrepute on our
own courts. Congress should leave
judicial functions TO the judiciary and
confne itself TO its true legislative
functions.
Hon. W. L. Chambers, ex-chief jus
tice of Samoa, who is 4 democrat, said
in a recent address in 4 Washington
church: The flag of our country rep
resents freedom wherever it flies, and
he is a faint-hearted believer in all
that it stands for who would haul it
down because some blunders have been
made in starting the new machinery in
our lately acquired possessions and a
few thieves have smuggled themselves
into office" That is the right-the pa
triOtic idea
\ Washington telegram says that the
house democrats will hold caucus
to consider the antitrust legislation
the republicans propose to adopt this
week. The democrats say the purpose
of the republicans is to put the demo
Gratis in hole. If the democrats are
sincere i'll their antitrust protestations
there need he no danger of their being