Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-02-07

greSSmen, to stand Tor all tlIne'
 MiIwsukee's liquid claims for the democratic convention seem in a fair way. There are few democrats who can stand liquid temptation.
 If the killings which have been done in Kentucky the past month had been committed in Arizona what would not the eastern papers have said about it7
 It is now stated that the decision of the supreme court of the United States in the case of Coconino coun- ty vs. Yavspai county is practically a decision affirming the validity of the Yavapai railroad and redsmp- tion bonds, more commonly known as the P. & A. c. bonds.
 When Goebel was shot, the press reports state that he immediately started to draw his gun, but was un- able from weakness to do so. Ac- cording to these telegrams nearly every one there had a gun on his pelson. Fine state of affairs, this
 Our contemporary has discovered that the "tenor" of the JOURNAL MINER is in opposition to statehood. It is constantly on ths lookout to discover something in this paper which it can distort into meaning something else than that intended.
 Congressman "Buck" Hinrichsen has been appointed drummer-at- large for the democratic national committee, or as one man called it national pulse feeler." The atti- tude of the democratic party in1i- rates that it needs popular pulse feeler.
 The democrats are so hard up for political ammunition that a coterie of them in congress are actually try ing to utilize the very proper neu- trality of this government in the South African war to make some; and, strange to say, one or two re publican senators are helping them.
 The fanatic who charged that President Mckinley drank cham pagne in the capitol, at Washington has keen compelled to admit that he was mIsled into making the state ment by a woman who didn't know the difference between bottles con taining champagne and mineral water. That is the sort of found ation that most fanatical islander has.
 The bill which is pending in con gress to reclassify the railway postal clerks and to provide for an increase in the salaries of members of certain classes should become a law. At present the clerks are divided into five classes, and their salaries range from $500 to Sl400 a year. In case the bill referred to becomes a law there will be ten classes and the sal aries range from $500 to SIS00 year.
 Democratic papers ars deploring the act of the railroads in Kentucky in bringing armed men into Frank fort last week. They seem to forget that these are the same railroads which a few weeks ago brought a host of armed Goebelites in there to try to intimidate the election com from giving a fair count of the vote for governor. They also overlook the fact that IS brought out in the press reports, that of the armed mountaineers which appeared there last week many of them were of Goebel, although they were in the minority.
 A recent telegram from Louis 7ille says: "The whole state of is at the mercy of small oox. With the disease prevalent n about thirty five counties, the jtate board of health finds itself money to fight the disease" Loo ting at the situation from long -ange it IS pretty difficult to deter nine whether the above condition of affairs..Is more of a menace to the jafety of the people than is the hotgun, Winchester, sixshooter Bowie knife, which also seems cpl lemic there.
 Our contemporary objects to the .lleged use of the word liar by the IouRNAL-MINER. Well, the word is lsed reluctantly but it is never used xcept where it fits the case exactly nd where no other word would. When a wilful, vindictive, false tatement is made, it admits of no rgument. Lie, either in a modified IT unmodifed way is the only word hat fits the case. The JOURNAL LINER offered from $50 to S75 on
 certain occasion if it's contempo- ary would demonstrate that the Vord was misused, but its propOsi- ion was not accepted.
 The persistent and malignant eei-snapping in which certain Phe- ix papers indulge against Governor Iurphy certainly deserves the con- empt of all good people regardless f politics. Enough is enough of nything, and their never ending yelp is enough to disgust he whole territory. The facts in he case, could we get to the bot om, are that these shallow sheets are ot able to buy the governor, hence heir green-eyed hatred of the exec tive. In the meantime the goVer- or goes his way and pays about as luch attention to them as to a warm of green flies, for, like the .tter, those fellows while disgust
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