Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-17

the smallest the party mas cast Tor many years,
 Same old story. Maricopa demo crats had a bitter fight at their primaries on Wednesday over the sheriff delegates.
 Field Marshal Wolseley sticks to his statement that the United States army surpasses that of any other nation in the world.
 The democrats are building upon a hope that prosperity will soon come to an end. Two years ago they were insisting that it was not here.
 The overshadowing fact of the coal strike is that it brings large profits to some operators, and heavy losses to all miners and consumers. The public schools of this city are crowded with pupils, clearly showing the rapid growth of the community. More school houses must be built in the near future.
 Congressman Cannon believes in Uncle Sam building instead of rent ing postofices. It keeps the flag fly ing, saves money and pleases every patriotic American, locally and nationally.
 The raid on a joint" in Kansas City, Kas., Thursday night by a dozen church men, during winch one man was shot and stabbed and an other seriously hurt, has aroused a bitter war between the churches and the joints"
 This is flag day in Yavapai.
 Col. Wilson was at McCabe the other night. Well, we wonder if he wasn't.
 Seven week from next Tuesday, Yavapaians wiil have chance to de- eide whether or not they want the same old kin,i oi game played on them for two years more.
 Sam SmalP5 last temperance lee ture in Vermont, when he was re- moved from the stage helplessly drunk proba!ly was as effective as any that he la, delivered.
 The reSi nation of Justice Gray re- moves one element in the color line frequently drawn in the United States supreme court between Gray, Brown and White, in close cases.
 The platform adopted by the terri torial democratic convention will prove the undoing of that party in this territory. Labor won't stand for it, neither will capital. Yet the democratic bosses will try to keep up their courage by "swatting. abusing, assaulfing and damning the republi- can candidates. ."-Bisbee Miner.
 Yavapai taxpayers are groaning hard under the burdens of additional expense, while the tax roll grows higher every year, so do their pockets get leaner and leaner. Put men into office who for once in the history ef Yavapai will relieve the people of a burden that is getting heavier and heavier.
 Maricopa county is safe for another year. Tbe following is from the Gazette: Billy Williams, the deputy sheriff, returned yesterday morning from Buckeye and states that the town is on a big boom. The Valley Pride creamery has just established a skimming station there which will be in operation within few days.
 Monte Carlo will be reproduced at the St. Louis fair. The visitors will be given stage money to play, as the St. Louis hotel keepers will douhtlcsS attend to getting the real moLty. Arizonans will find not much of an attraction in this respect, as any lhing but the genuine article will make them tired.
 The refusal of.the Wisconsin demo- crats to indorse Bryanism merely re- fleets the general discord and de- moralization in their party through out the country. Ohio's democrats say they are just as orthodox as are those of any other state, and they have just endorsed the Kansas City platform and have praised the can didate who stood upon it.
 Editor Hattich Of the Tombstone Prospector, while in Tucson recently, informed the democratic newspaper men there that a democratic conyen- tion in Cochise was equivalent to an election. That is just what a great many in this section stated after the democratic convention got through with robbing tactics in trying 10 jam down the throats Of people a dose of medicine that will be gulped up Tn November with evidences of unmis- takable disgust.
 It is due to the county's taxpayers that candidates be selected for their fitness and qualifications, and not through the motives of sympathy and personal friendship. It is better that one man be compelled to look elsewhere fer a livelihood, than that the whole county should be made to suffer. Yuma Sun. Here, too. The republican convention that meets in Prescott on Monday next will have this motto before it, and no candi- date will by them be selected who has anything else to consider than that of a public duty instead Of a big graft on the treasury to make, fnan-