Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-11-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

An agitation is being made in Col orado to restore capital punishment tC the statute books of that state.
 Democratic papers, of this county are just now trying to find out whc one of their recently elected legisla tors is.
 Jerry Simpson say he's disgusted with the populists, but didn't they get disgusted with Jerry frst7
 Democrats who bet their good money on the word of Boss Crokel would shed no tears if he would make his coming visit to England a per manent one.
 There is no possibility that Mir Bryan will have to break his promise not to go to the senate from Nebraska The state will have two republican senators.
 That traitorous utterances are pun ished by the public was shown by the defeat of Senator Pettigrew and Rep. resentatIve Lentz.
 Senator Scott made a center shot when he said: "We have protected almost everything except our ship ping, and now it seems to me the time has come to protect that"
 In view of the emphatic voice of the people, the democrats in congress will hardly feel justified in opposing at the coming session legislation for the proper increase of our regular army.
 X single industry-the Great Northern Paper company, the largest plant of its kind in the world-has made a thriving town of Millinocket. Me, of 2,000 inhabitants in what was a barren wilderness two years ago.
 Admiral Crowninshield, chief of the navigation bureau, gives congress some pointers in his annual report. which shows that while we have the ships to fight first class naval power we have only about one-fourth of the officers and men that would be needed to fight them effectively.
 Senator Mason has announced his intention to push the project for pre- liminary legislation, at the coming session of congress, to enlarge the Chicago drainage canal into a ship canal and extend it, so as to connect the great lakes, the Mississippi and St. Lawrence rivers and the Gulf of Mexico. This is a big project. but this is a big country and able to carry it out.
 Senator Hanna is excusable for having said: If I find the man who started the report that I was candi- date for the republican presidential nomination in 1904, I will kill him. It Is too absurd to be discussed. g Senator Hanna has done great work for the republican party, but it is just that which makes his nomination for the presidency an impossibility.
 The Tucson Star takes a philo- sophical view of the result of the election.
 Democracy has only had one sue cessful presidential aspirant in forty years.
 The superstition that New York and Indiana reverse their political vote every four years, and upon which CO., incident the democrats based their faith in carrying these states, failed to coincide this year.-Ex.
 Do not waste all your sympathy on Bryan on account of the result of the recent election. There were eight other presidential aspirant victims of that republican landslide.
 President Mckinley has invited every member of his cabinet to re- main with him during his next term. He has the same amount of conf dence in his cabinet that the people have in him.
 ~Hanna endorsed" is one way in which the democrats are pleased to refer to the reelection of Mckinley. As they made their fight largely on NIT. Hanna, they are certainly iusti- fled in making such reference now. That western girl who bet a kiss for every state that Bryan carried against a box of candy for every one that Me Kinley carried, has set an example that good many young men may be glad to propose to their girls at the next election. It's the only bet We have heard of in which both sides won.
 In making the new apportionment. Congress should not fail to cut down the representation of the south in proportion to its suppressed negro vote. This should be done, not in anger toward the south, but as a measure of ordinary justice towards 1. the north.
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