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Show THE PRESIDENTIAL EECEPTION. The Salt Lake Tribune is evidently nonplussed in regard to the Grant reception re-ception in this city, and for want of anything senatblo to say, utters its ordinary miscellaneous growl. The municipal authorities simply did their duty, nothing moro, nothing lees. In accordance with the usage and precedent pre-cedent in such cases, they tendered tho president of the United States the hospitalities of the city, and took what measures they deemed proper to make bis stay here ogreeahle. He was, according to all official etiquette, the guest of the city, and the authorities authori-ties could not have avoided regarding him as such. The citizens would have had a valid ground of complaint against them had they failed in these ordinary courtesies towards the chief mneislrate. The city recognized all classes and officials who had a right to be represented on the occasion, even it appears, including the Tribune editors in its invitations. Yet that journal insists that this action was simply a ruse of tho "Mormons" to capture tte president, and it goes off in ita usual crazy stylo of abuse of the city official?, who arc only responsible for their own action, and had no right to complain that the president saw fit to accept the invitation of Governor Emery. The president certainly displayed no discourtesy towards the municipal committee, or the leading "Mormon" gentlemen who called upon him, and outside of the Tribune office there has beon no show of ill-feeling ill-feeling that we know of in regard to the reception. Perhaps the entire people will by and by come to the conclusion con-clusion that nothing is to be gained by such trifling exclusivcneBS and party feeling.and that these influences should be ignored altogether rfhen tho city and territory are honored ns they bavo been this week, by the presence of the chief magistrate of the nation. |