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

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 Those so-called silver republicans have at last thrown off their masks and have joined the democratic party.
 The Rock Island Railroad company refuses to employ any one addicted to cigarette smoking. Cigarette smokers may retaliate by refusing to patrOnize the road.
 A Massachusetts court has decided that bicycle is not q vehicle. But then Massachusetts has other fossils besides its judges. There Is George Frisbie Hoar. for instance.
 The individual who can find any similarity between the constitution of the United States, the declaration of independence and that Kansas City platform is possessed of an imagina- ton vivid enough to distinguish him. self in the field of romance.
 Almost every time Roosevelt has ac- cepted a new job his friends have declared that he was going into Ob- security. but each time he has shown his ability to get q good deal of fame and fun out of the office. So will it probably be with the vice-presidency.
 Our democratic friends propose to in yoke the aid of the courts to undo the work of their legislators at the last session of the legislature, in the poll tax matter. The voters of the ter ritory may learn that republicans are safer as legislators and vote accord ingly.
 The delegates to the democratic con ventiOn were inclined to rclegate the 16 to l doctrine to the back ground in their platform, but when Dictator Bryan telephOned them from Lincoln his ultimatum that 1t had to go and be q prominent feature of Ih,, rlat- form, it went.
 Washington exercised the veto power twice. Monroe but one time. Lincoln three times. and Mckinley four times. Tolerance and confidence in the coordinate branches of the government have characterized the actions of our greatest presidents.
 Tho aounfrv YnaH- aS u-aIl faca tho fact that the wheat crop in the north west this year will be very short, and that the Bryanites will take advantage of the fact to raise a calamity howl This fact should really have no bear ing whatever upon the election, but, nevertheless. the attempt will certain ly be made to take advantage of it.
 Colonel Bryan has been q politician and military man, and now he is a farmer. He seems to be a regular Emperor William sort of fellow. Pos sihly he may also sope day desire to write q poem or he an emperor, just to show that he is as versatile as his prototype.
 Every important republican paper in the country has now boasted of the photographic work done by its special photographer at the convention. As a mat ter of fact. McKinley's and ROOsevelt's were about the only decent likenesses printed anywhere in this section. The rest of the photos were mostly al- most unrecOgniZabie.
 The last democratic president hauled down the American flag at Hawaii; il was restored to its place over the Pa cific by President Mckinley. If the democrats win this year by the elec- ton of Mir. Bryan. it is his avOwed purpose of hauling down the flag in the Philippines. and probably in Porto Rico.
 Commenting on the platform adopt ed at Kansas City, the New York World says that at least 90 per cent of it is clear. straight forward and but the remaining 10 per cent" says the World, referring par hcularly to the silver plank, lies the routed spot. The democratic plat form is like q superb diamond with q huge disfiguring flaw"
 The police of Berlin have notified the Chinese ambassador at that place that for his own personal safety he should remain off the streets of Der lin. Chinamen have been assaulted on the streets of the city. so strong is the feeling over the butchery of Baron von Ketteler.
 They have got a rarely intelligent city government in Washington. Last December a decree was issued that all dogs must toe mIzzled, and mug zled they were throughout the bliz- cards and sleets of the past six months. Now. the order has been re- scinded and the dogs will be free to bite as they choose until the summer Is over. Thus every dog will have his dOg-day.
 The London journals comment fav- lrably on the strong language used by Emperor William, of Germany, re- specting the necessity of placing the European flags over the walls of Pe kin so that peace caa be dictated, but they are not prepared to suggest the form which the vengeance of the powers ought to take if all the lega- ions are destroyed. The capital might be burned or Prince Tlan beheaded, put it would be impossible to secure conviction and punishment of the ac ual murderers.
 The Diarie de la Marina, a news | paper published at Havana, says that he result of the presidential campaign l!