Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-03
DEMOCRATIC MOSES WANTED.

tue hesCue ulscuSslHS lne queStlOu, whether it will be better or worse for the democrats to carry. the next national house of representatives, the Louisville Courier Journal says:
 If the ''laymen" of the party, that is 'those members who do not pre- tend to be leaders" do not put on their thinking caps and consider the situation from stem to stern precisely as it is, another generation will have to come upon the scene before there shall be serious amendments.
 The Democratic party grew SC strong by long tenure that it was able to make its exit from power the signal for a long and bloody sec, tional war.
 In a government like ours if the COW of political eccentricity indulges the propensity for jumping over the moon too often, the rascally dish will surely run away with the spoon. The democratic party has reached the limit of tOmfooling. 1t tomfooled eight years with Grover Cleveland It set out to tomfool another eight years with William Jennings Bryan All the while it was egregiously de ceiving itself, heroising to very sell fish, self-assertive, mediocre profes. sional politicians.
 The transition from Cleveland to Bryan was merely somersault from dung heap into bottomless pit Neither was worth the pans and the cost. The unspeakable mugwump still worships at the shrine of Cleve- land and there are those who still pique themselves on their fidelity to MT. Bryan as though it embodied some attribute of virtue and duty 'Tl never desert Mir. Micawber,' T these severally exclaim, quite forget ting alike the absence of a marriage VOW and any progeny to speak of.
 In 1881 the democrats passed by such trained and worthy statesmen as Thurman au'l McDonald-not to mention Bayar!-to take up an un- known and tried man, mainly be- cause he had happened through a republican schism 10 carry the state of New York by a phenomenal ma jority. Aided by Conkling, Bur- chard and Providence, they pulled him through bv the skin of his teeth and the hair ni his head. He proved very bull ia d china shop. Losing his reelection in 1888 by his own fatuiiy, he was nominated a third time in 1892, and by the miracle of the homestead riots, he was again re- elected. Getting back into the White house he made fingers and thumbs of Democratic ideas and hopes, in point of fact quite wreck ing the party, which had so trusted and honored him. Emancipated from Cleveland, the party takes up a strong, attractive young fellow by the name of Bryan, because of a single speech, and has been making a fool of itself about this young fellow up to very recent period.
 Now that the old love has revisited the glimpses of the moon to try con clusions with the new love, it becomes relevant for democrats to bethink themselves what else but another slip up can come of it.
 It might be well for the democrats to first be sure of an ability to elect members enough to control the next house before passing on the question of whether it would be wise or un- wise to control it.
 To men bent upon self-deception these things may be unpleasing. But they are facts nevertheless. Touch ing the self-elect, a murrain on both their houses say we. When taken by the throat and asked Under which king, Bezonian, speak or die" the democratic party should exclaim: Under neither, please your wor- ships" There were Boy Craiuis before Bryan and Stuffed Prophets before Cleveland. If some Tilden in some one of the determinate states comes not to the rescue! But, he will.