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Show THINNESS. Tho Liberal Convention. The "liberals" held their territorial eouventioii in the I iu,litut; yitfUiday, and u "dick" atr.tir it w-u, considered in a prjSiiic-il sense. Il muni be posi lively painful to tho leaders of the "ring" t i witness the falling to pieces of tho organization. Evory succeeding succeed-ing meeting shows how the "liberal" party is growing weaker. At tho appointed ap-pointed hour for the gambling of the convention yoterday there were Ies than a dozen delegate) present, and fewer spectators. After the appointment ap-pointment of a committee on credentials creden-tials u reecsj was taken till 2 o'clock, and at that hour the committee was not ready to report, the cliurman otatiiig that only four counties hail been heard from, and the credentials of delegatus from three of thoJe were irrogular. Another recess for half an hour, and the committee reported list of delegates entitled to seats about fifteen in all. There were thirty-ouc votes represented, tho delegates dele-gates present hoViing proxies or acting act-ing as alternates for the absentees. Tno four ounties represented woro Weber, Tu3?!e, Braver and Salt Lake, though noue of the Beaver delegation was presont, J. B. Mc-Kcan Mc-Kcan was elected eh air man, and presided pre-sided with all the grace aud dignity he could havo commanded were bo president of a rousing political meeting meet-ing instead oi being tho chief man in 1 an unimportant and practiciUy de- j luuct organization. The convention , adopted the usual "platform," which, has only one plant anti-Mormon; I and then proceeded to take an informal in-formal ballot for dclogato to congress. ( The ballot resulted in Raskin, Ben-j nett, N. J. Sharp and McKean oacb j recjving one or more votes, and there was also one v-jte for "Patton, which j 'is Oliver A " Alter Sir. Sharp, McKean Mc-Kean aud Patton had declined to I act as candidates a formal ballot ! was tasen which resulted in R. N. , Buskin receiving tweuly-twj votes and C. W. Bennett eight. The i nomination was then made uuni-mous. uuni-mous. The Weber delegation went i 'solid for Judge Bennett, and a couple of the Tooele delegates also voted for I him. Tho convention appeared more like "playing meeting" than j anything elde. The chief men in it wore evidently ashamed of the affair. It was a noticeable fact that none of the government officials, or, as they were denominated last spring, the "bread and butter brigade" were present, pres-ent, either as delegates or spectators, which shows that they haven't gone arouud yet to sail in the radical boat. |