Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-11-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Congress will meet next Monday.
 Flagstaff's village tax has been fixed at one-half of one per cent.
 Santa Fe, New Mexico, wants military fort and will have delega- gation in Washington next Monday to present her claims to that military board.
 A beet sugar concern has agreed to erect beet sugar factory in Phenix if the people there will guarantee them the sugar beets. This ought to be an easy matter.
 The Yuma Sentinel has just cele- brated its thirty-first birth day. The Sentinel is the second oldest paper in the territory, the Arizono Miner ante dating it in its establishment by near ly six years.
 Kean St. Charles should move for a change of venue for the trial of his libel suit against the Republican, from the territorial courts to court composed of the democratic editors of the territory, with the editor of the Courier as the presiding judge.
 A few eastern democratic papers have espoused the cause of statehood for Arizona, but in doing so they can not conceal their motives, which are strictly partisan. They want two democratic votes in the United States senate. Their zeal is likely to do more harm than good to the cause of admission,
 It has finally been decided by the Kentucky supreme court that the republicans elected their candidates to their offices which have since been filled by democrats. The decision was rendered in the case of the attor- ney general and Breckenridge will be removed and Clifton J. Pratt will be seated.
 Two passenger trains running into each other at high rate of speed is very expensive accident. The loss in equipment alone to the Santa Fe company by the wreck of last Wednesday is estimated at over S200,- GOO. Two of the engines are complete wrecks and the third will cost nearly as much to repair as to build new engine. Five cars in all were also destroyed byfire. Personal injury claims and loss of baggage will probably be considerable also, while the loss of traffic cannot be es- timated.
 Everything points to Admiral Win field Scott Schley as democratic can didate for the presidency in 1904. The public has rendered its verdict in the case brought against him by the navy department and it matters little what the official findings Of the judges may be. Schley is a demo- crat without record. The party is without platform and the leaders realize that their best hope is a popu- lar candidate. There is no question as to Schley's popularity. The Schley boom IS worth watching.-City of Mexico Anglo-American.
 The Knoxville, Tennessee, Sentinel sent telegram to Admiral Schley, asking him if he would not consent to a subscription being taken up to reimburse him for the money he has expended in the inquiry just held. The expense of this inquiry to him has been S20,000. The admiral de- clines the proposition and suggests that the matter is ''too delicate to dis cuss, and trusts that his friends will appreciate his position and respect it."
 Our contemporary says: 1t is the duty of the democratic newspapers of Arizona to stand by Hon. Kean St. Charles in the fight being made against him by the corporation press," meaning the Phenix Republican. The Journal-Miner was not aware that the fight between St. Charles and the Republican was a political one and did not intend to mix in with their "mix up." According to the above suggestion, however, it will be- come the duty of every republican paper to stand by the Republican. It was supposed that the parties in in terest, with the aid of the courts could be able to settle the matter between themselves.