Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-10-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

presidential boom at one and the same time.
 An interesting problem is whether Mir. Bryan is running his farm on the proceeds of his paper, or running his paper on the proceeds of his farm, or running both on the proceeds of his talk-tours7
 The expansion that requires thou sand school teachers to begin with can well afford to challenge the pop ular verdict as between itself and democratic criticism.
 The democrats are describing the qualifications their candidate for president will have, but strangely enough they do not prophecy that he will have the one essential-the most votes.
 California was treated to refreshing rain showers with her equinoctial storm.
 Mir. German is popularly regarded as the Foxy Grandpa" of the Mary land democracy.
 Mir. Bryan still bobs up serenely on every available occasion. Obvious ly the democracy "can't lose him."
 Ben Tillman says lynching is a good thing. With little more rope Ben may yet succeed in lynching himself, and so contribute to the gen. eral welfare.
 It almost goes without saying that man boasting the name of Czolgosz is capable of any other atrocity.
 Croker is coming over to visit his Tammany stables, but it will take more than his lavender kids to give them tolerable odor.
 The American Bar association has not yet revealed who it was that struck Senator Tommy Patterson nor why?
 Joaquin Miller has struck oil in Texas and now his poetry machine should run that much the smoother.
 An Italian newspaper advises Italy to ''tweak the nose of Uncle Sam" For full particulars how to do it Italy should first apply to the King of Spain.
 The democratic Micawbers ara hopefully waiting for something to turn up. But one can't get blood;out of turn-up.
 Judge Jeremiah Wilson, the senior consel for Admiral Schley, died sud denly Tuesday morning at the Shore ham hotel, Washington. His death will not occasion any delay in the in vestigation.
 A water spout has visited Old Ken lucky and the democrats are disposed to regard it as ''an evil omen," or republican freshet.
 The Alabama democrats have made constitution that strikes ''the nig- ger" below the belt, and will proceed to adopt the document with the usual and humorous black belt democratic majorities.
 It is funny how frequently demo- cratic cities require police shake-up. Chicago and New York are now hot rivals in their copper-polishing re- forms.
 Col. Watterson denies that he ever tread Mir. Cleveland out of the party" This leaves it clear enough that Cleveland tread the party out" so that it is still out.
 Carter Harrison wants Senator Mason's seat, but he ought to be told that in the game of political euchre no one can take the joker and Billie Mason is a famous joker, as every body knows.
 A telegram from Helena, Montana, says that assessed value of property in Montana this year is over Sl4,000,- 600 more than in 1900. It would pay Arizona to hire corps of assessors and boards of equalization in Mon tana to come down and show us how they do things up there.
 i, Albuquerque has determined to se- cure line of railroad to connect the Rock Island system and is putting forth every effort to accomplish it.
 Father Gay, the Episcopal minis ter of Sante Fe, is in his 93d year and his host of friends hope that he may round out a century in good health.--Albuquerque Citizen.
 The Albuquerque Citizen says it is opposed to the indictment of demo cratic editors in New Mexico. They are having rocky road to travel without being subjected to legal troubles.
 According to the assessment re- turns most of the people of New Mexico are tax dodgers. que Citizen. They say that misery loves company. If it will afford New Mexico any consolation we can assure it that Arizona is in the same tax lodging boat.
 Having once protected Venezuela from a foreign enemy it is plainly ovr duty now to protect her from herself.
 The ratio of the democracy's hopes to its prospects is still sixteen to one, m spite of Mir. Bryan's retirement.
 Reciprocity is the doctrine of fair exchanges in trade, and by its very fairness is differentiated from the democratic free trade idea.
 Senator Hanna has politely taken possession of the presidential boom