Show LOCAL PBEFEBEHCES The preference of Ufah or any ether territory in the matter of presidential candidates amounts to very little < and particularly so with reference to democrats In tho national republican republi-can conventions the territories have a voice in nominating for president and vicepresident though they cannot vote at the electon Democrats do not permit the territories to bo heard in the convention However people in these dependencies depend-encies have political opinion as well as their more favored fellow citizens of the republic in the states and are quite as free to express them There has been eome discussion during the past few days called forth by the action of the territorial republican central committee last Saturday as to the choice of Utah republicans or president The committee designated as delegates to the Chicago convention conven-tion two Elaine men and while no instructions were given as to how the delegates should vote a resolution was adopted expressing the belief of the committee that Elaine is the first choice of Utah republicans for the presidency we think the republicans will prove in their coming territorial convention that Elaine is not their first choice nor their second even as he certainly is not Elaine is the choice of a few party managers and especially those who were ardent admirers ad-mirers of the late Judge McKean but not of the rank and file Grant elands first with four fifths of the Utah republicanswith aU of them in fact who were not sa completely wrapped up in McKean that they could not see thai the president presi-dent did a wise and proper thing in summarily removing the lots chief justice from office McKean was the cause of constant irritation and trouble here and instead of accomplishing I accom-plishing any of the things that be laid out for himself to do bo made j matters worse all the time driving w farther away the final settlement of perplexing social and political questions that he assumed to be his special mission to arrange and determine deter-mine When Grant obtained accurate ac-curate kuolV ledge of the facts he acted S with characteristic promptness and did what ho deemed was beat and what certainly proved the correctness of his judgment McKeanis removal was a blessing to Utah which was acknowledged by business men capitalists and society I generally But this one act of S i Grants brought him the enmity of a 5 little coterie of politicians who have S ever since lost no opportunity to fay bad things concerning the expreai S dent They have tried to commit S the republican party to an endorsement I 0 S endorse-ment of their petty spite and par tally succeeded four years ago thou b it cost a breach in the party that has not yet bean closed On tne 20th S inst two delegates to the Chicago convention will be chosen by the republican re-publican party and not by half a V Dozen ui mo ami urant soreheads S The delegates will not be Elaine men and if the local convention shall instruct in-struct them we undertake to say the instructions will be for Grant first and Washburne second who are the I real choice of Utah republicans I Among Utah democrats there are some remarkably shrewd and deeply interested politicians and these with wonderfully few exceptions are not only in favor of Tildens renomina tion but believe the party will have to again make him its standard I bearer If this territory had a voice in the national democratic convention there would be no question as to its choice BO long as Tilden has not been vindicated and if the territory could i make itself heard through the polls the fourfifths majority would be for the sage of Gramercy Park for the next president |