Show from clr illy mirth X THE OrT CULS abe near approach ol 01 inauguration dy caules an unwonted activity iu that circle of politicians whose faith and hopes were all with the winning ide in the late campaign even the territories which contributed to the general result but the moral support which accompanies sympathy leavo their giosta of chosa chief desire in this hour of count rys peril ia to serve her in an official and capacity utah has not escaped the contagion though the liberal boast lieen aliat here baa no drawing of party lines between and democrats no other political alian that alich believers and non believers in the suit lake papers teem with as to the dunces of this or that mans securing an office already occupied until through the multitude atif poles hobbled about every tree the occasional persimmon ts visible at all the scramble baa bbown an unexpected amoun of available material and as the candidates keep springing up all over the field the longer the awarding of prizes is deferred the more interesting the competition will be becent experience in this territory has cast much doubt upon the view that a change in national administration means a change in all the offices within its gift abere eliu aits upon lie supreme bench an associate justice before president Clevel acda it is only a few mouths since a new chief justice was appointed his predecessor although a Ke publican served mo abi eo ears under a demo ciacio administration olber instances of a similar character might be cited all going to that a change at headquarters lias heretofore been a long time in making felt at tho remote outposts whether this is the true spirit of civil reform is not now the question at issue it has seemed either that judicial officers in which class we may include judges attorneys and marshal were not subject to removal or that in the excitement of affairs nearer home the distant doings of old appointees were overlooked altogether the came conditions may ex et aga iu either from principle or from inability to reach tha case our present democratic officials may be permitted to serve their full terra under the new Ile publican regime of the gentlemen now occupy ing appointive poin tive positions in this territory it may bo said that aliey have generally performed their duties with circumspection spec tion and credit aliey are none of them above tho errors to which mortality id subject and some of them lave at one time or another committed grievous blunders in comparison with the record of their predecessors however theirs with a grateful lustre the improved feeling at home and abroad and tho condition of trade sufficiently attest this fact without further argument the governor for instance choso whoso aim when at home has been calculated to restore harmony in the of business welfare has made a number oterious of erious mistakes when in the hast which have neither promoted the well being of the territory nor added to his own prestige yet he has never ventured to veto the gan era appropriation bill of tho legislature and disarrange alio whole territorial machinery nor telegraphed abroad that united staica troops needed to pot down an imaginary mormon uprising the narwhal lima hunted out offenders against the jaw with rig ceroua diligence bat lie has avoided the stupid blunder of surrendering derine hia authority in arresting a prisoner to federal soldiery the judges and attorneys have put strict constructions upon the laws but they havo cot as the authority of punishing men for crimes never committed nor created fantastic interpretations for taws already severe enough chuh were in the beoka wa repeat ihen that on the whole the dignity and power of the federal government has been well maintained by the which the present administration hs bent out in the natural course of events a change will sooner or later come the rule of politics demands it and that rule in this enlightened age though it may now and then be bent ia never broken A Ue publican choose agents and representatives from its own party of there ia no apparent dearth already on the ground is material out of which to malto a good selection and who are themselves in securing the changa should see to it that only the best are chosen the reappointment of eccli rheu as were named in these columns last evening cannot be en domed by any who dem re the continuance ti nuance and improvement of business stability it would moan arc turn to the chaos which overtook the commercial situation four years ago it would mean death to he hopes which animate the bona fide resident and the fulfillment of which is now all but accomplished it would mean neither increased respect for the general government nor the hastening of the day which the malcontents affect to desire it would simply mean rulo or them ruin for everybody else let the men record chows these results a the past remain in the which Is fir anoro becoming to them every chiango blikh it is shall hereafter be found to malca should be an improvement instead of a retrogression and no one in possession of his senses rn doubt which it bo were zine or or ireland again to LX foisted agori the territory A nor recently won n wager in san francisco by running eight and a half miles in an hour As anual be left bis alj employ the bortt of deve B boys |