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Show 7UI: XITH F'JNKSAL OF THE F.Z-PDBLICAN F.Z-PDBLICAN PASTY. Tb.c closing proceedings o: Hio re- j ' l-mWican convention will be found in! this morning's ItiiKiLD, inchnling the platform. After the nnuuifuc-lured nnuuifuc-lured mftrity h:ut purgvd '.he convention con-vention of the prmciiJ.iI portion of the nctivo working members of tho party in tho territory, they proceeded to elect Judge MeKcanand Secretary Lhck as delegates to the national republican convention. Our readers ftre aware of the grossly irrc-strtar method by which the delegates ot the successful wing of the party were chosen from S.iit Lako county, ard there is reason to believe that several of the delegates from the outside counties were equally irregular, soma of them being unable to count a constituency con-stituency of half a dozen-republican voters. But there is an old adage that everything is fair in politics, and the MeKeanites have certainly played their hand, feeble as it is, to the best advantage. It is of very little consequence to either wiug of tho republican party in Utah, to the country, or to any man or body of men, who represents this territory in the repubiican" convention. con-vention. According to present appearances ap-pearances there will ba a doleful funeral at Cincinnati on the 17th of June next. iiabcockism and Bel-knapism Bel-knapism have proved too much for Grant, who at one time eeemed to hold ah the chances for the succession. succes-sion. Tii democratic investigators, wherever they have probed, have brought to light sickening, revelations of official iniquity, fraud and corruption, corrup-tion, sufficient to doran any political party, no matter how valuable its services may hare been to the nation. Nothing so vile and rotten has been disclosed in any party or in any. country since the dawn i irt-.e in-, stitutiuns. It will be universally felt that Belknap could not have flourished flour-ished in a pure and patriotic administration admin-istration of the national government, and that the official air of Washington Washing-ton is tainted with the miasma of corruption. What a picture ! Bab-cock Bab-cock at the "White house where sat Washington and Jefferson, hob-nob-ing with whisky conspirators! Belknap Bel-knap in the war department, selling po.-t traderships to enable his family to shine as queens of shoddy! This j'cm3 to be going a little too far even in tin's mild-mannered and easy-going age, "We do not gauge the political conscience very high up in the moral scale, hut there is a certain point at which mere selfish shamo usually becomes abashed and hesitates in its downward career. If there be anything deader than the republican party, there id nothing from which average people turn with greater loathing. It is a stench in the no-arils of the country. The' senate of the United States on Tuea-1 day made a supreme eflort to animate- the corpse by admitting the, bogus Pinchbaek as o senator from Louiaima. Only a party in the r throes of mortal agony could have j in ide a mistake of this kind. The; effort iaiteJ, and the democratic undertaker, if ho places himself iu the prop-,-r position to do his duty, cannot miss his opportunity. Ho may bury the rotten republican party so deep that there will bo no resurrection resur-rection for it. The Utah territorial convention therefore chose fitting representatives to go to Cincinn iti. Judge .McKean, repudiated by President Grant, by the senate of the United States, and by the conservative press and people of the country, a mau who claims to have been twenty-two years a republican, repub-lican, is entitled to be in at tho death and funeml of the mo.it destructive, revolutionary and corrupt political orgim.ition tint ewr din:':d fie ro-.mtry. -S-cretary v-',: wc'l, ho is living in the last years or his oJlioial life, and hivinzeo long fed from the public crib, gratitudo to the corTMe for p-u-.t favors sh-j'.ilJ cn'.iile him to a po-itioii as mourner. Su one in Utah will ever forget Black as a grr.vt nroclama'.or, a man who tried W do all th it he could to make hi:ne!f olnoti'.H, but signally failed to hurt a:iyhMy. We shall not ,ut mpt to review tho fcsjlulioiw pa.vi-d by the McKcau cunvcnlion. They differ from republican re-publican expre.-.iions in othc-r states only as they call upon the national or:vcii':un for a platform, and upon congrc.-s fur legislation to pruhibit the majority of the people of Utah from havhur a voice in their own government. govern-ment. They endorse B.iakiti as a democrat of whom f.i.-y arc proud, throw aweet sop to Governor Kmery, and devote a n solution to the endorsement endorse-ment of President Grant. Sub-s.'iiu-.:.tly they pa.-iLd a-resolution, slating "that it is not de.sned to maintain a di.-ainftively republican party in Utah," which we can only interpret as in harmony with our id.-a that they recognio that party as dead, and that the Utah convention was held to send proper representatives representa-tives to assist in the funeral exercises. |