Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-07-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Freeman Rowland and Sarah Ann Cutter of New Brunswick, New Jer- sey started in counting thirty years ago, when the couple were between thirty and forty years old each. They have now, at the ages of over sixty. just reached point where the invita- ytions for the marriage have been is sued. While not being acquainted with the couple, the Journal-Miner cannot refrain from extending con gratulaticns to them for taking the bun in the matter of long courtships.
 George Gould's private yacht, the Sybarite, leaves New York every night with the family aboard, and goes out to sea to "keep cool" If his sister Helen owned the boat the probahil- ities are that she would crowd it to the gunwales with poor little sufferers from the heat who never get a sniff of ocean air.-L. A. Times.
 eff some idiot did stamp upon the picture of Bryan in the recent Ohio state convention, that is no index of how Bryan stands with the true dem ocracy of Ohio. Courier. The in ference of the above is that the demo cratic convention which recently met in Ohio was not composed of the true democracy of that state. It was not ''some" one idiot" that Jumped on Bryan, but Bryan recognition was Overwhelmingly defeated, according to the report of that convention.
 True democracy as defined by Bry- an and his followers are those only who are willing to bow down to the silver idol set up by him and worship it. The Bryan worshippers, on the other hand, are designated as popu- lists, anarchists, socialists and every other kind of list" almost by the con- servative business wing of democracy.
 The announcement comes from Bellemont that six year child was drowned there recently. While not disputing this piece of news, it was not generally supposed that there was a pool of water in Arizona big enough to drown six year old child.
 A telegram from Denver says that the ministers of that city are consid- ering the advisability of organizing vigilance committee. The idea is to overthrow thug rule. They say they will work in conjunction with the police department, but it is possible that the police force may be an en- tirely superfuous contingent.
 New York editors seem disposed to trade Chief Moore of the weather bureau of for couple of second hand thermometers.
 Why can't the stamp redemption of the government be simplifed? What difference does it make where the stamps were bought7 They were sold by the government and that's 1 enough.
 There are old time Jeffersonian democrats who look upon William J. | Bryan as the Judas Iscariot of demo | cracy. It was silver that tempted | Judas to betray his master.
 When the Bryanites in Ohio hold their convention, We will proba- ply hear from the true democrats. "
 "The Hannite press is at present in the business of spreading dissatis- faction among democrats over that platform. Let them pub fish that platform section by sec tion, and show its undemocratic fea- lures. ."-Courier.-The press of the country has published that platform section by section and has remarked very forcibly not only about its omis- sion of all mention of Bryan but of its Overwhelmingly defeating" an en- dorsement of him and his pet plat forms. In doing this did the conven- tion prove false to true democracy" or did they represent true demo cracy" and refuse to endorse a demo cratic Judas9 Certainly they must represent one or the other. Which?
 The strike of steel workers hrs caused quite decline in stocks.
 A resolution has been introduced in the Virginia constitutional convention which aims to prevent lynching. It provides that the governor shall offer a reward of $500 for the. arrest and conviction of every person who shall l engage in the offense; that the crime . shall be murder in the first degree, where the hanging or lynching is ac f complished, and the governor shall pay Sl, 900 to the heirs of any person f lynched, the money to be charged to the city in which the crime was com mitted.
 The Enni,yeer