Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-10-10

jealous, and the authorities are al
 ways to take advantage of this fact
 But when election day is over, they too, often, receive the Klondike face
 It seems most probable that Ger many will be obliged to announce that, owing to circumstances over which she has no control, she will be compelled to postpone the hanging of the Boxer leaders until after she has caught them.
 Hobson has put his foot in it again. In explaining that he meant no dis respect to Admiral Dewey when he said that the Spaniards at Manila sank their own ships, he took occasion to call attention to the fact that Samp- son didn't sink the ships at Santiago, either. Now wait and hear the Schley men ululate. Some one will come along and say that Hobson did not sink the Merrimac.
 The United States is about the only power that has pursued an entirely consistent and unchanging course in China from the very first up to date. Owing to the illness of Secretary Hay, President Mckinley has been practi- cally his own secretary of state and has managed affairs with rare sense and discretion.
 The census office announces that the actual city increase of the United States in the past decade was very nearly as great as that in the previous one, although the percentage of in crease was a good deal less. This re- suits, of course, from the fact that the percentage for the latter period was based on larger number.
 Uncle Sam's trump card is a poser for the other players in the Chinese game.
 Perhaps it was Tom Watson who persuaded Wharton Barker to put in a claim for the electoral votes of Geor- gia.
 Eugene Debs, socialist candidate has refused to withdraw in favor of Bryan, although the latter is recog nized as a good socialist.
 It is too had! The Boers actually quit without waiting to hear the re- suit of the election. In this they differ from the Filipinos.
 Colonel Bryan says that he will not ask for a second term in the white house. If the voters of the country do their duty, he will never be in a position to ask for a second one.
 If the claim. of the democratic ma tional committee, that it has no money is true, it is buncoing a lot of men into furnishing it large quantities of campaign literature for nothing.
 Democratic oratory at present zig gags amongst the issues to such an extent that it can only be described as rag-time eloquence.
 Senator Wellington says that he is a Bryan republican. We have heard of popocrats and other parlous beasts but Bryan republicans are new ones to us.
 The Taft commission is spending a million dollars on improving the roads in the islands This is evidently fiendish plot to enable the presidents myrmidons to move faster and cap ture the treacherous amigo.
 One reason why the Chinaman is so inferior as a soldier is the fact that he is so poorly shod. His thin paper shoes cannot stand snow, flood and ice. The result is that well shod Flu ropean troops have more than once won by default in expected battles.
 The democrats are now rejoicing over their recent victory in Luzon. Oom Paul probably feels hurt be- cause he got too much sympathy from the United States to permit time for advice when to drop out of the game.
 O. F. Williams, who was United States consul general at Manila, when the Philippines belonged to Spain, is doing effective stamping for McKin ley and Roosevelt. He calls Mir. Bryan ''the only begotten son of pes simism."
 Noother nation on earth supports so few soldiers. Notwithstanding the rebellion on Lzon, the troubles in China and the temporary intervention in Cuba, less than one person in every thousand of our population wears a uniform or carries a gun, a record without parallel in the history of any people, ancient or modern.
 To get majority in the electoral college Bryan would have to carry ill addition to the states conceded to him, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Ken lucky, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, New York and Utah, which everybody with any knowledge of existing politi cal conditions knows to be an impos sibility. At least four of these states will certainly go republican, and it will not be surprising if every one of them does.
 There is no doubt of the reelection of President Mckinley, although there is some about the election of a of the house. But there is time enough to remove the doubt, if every individual republican will real ize the danger and go to work to help get out the full party vote. Chairman Babcock, of the cOngres sional committee, who knows, says