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Show THE POLITICAL RIGHTS OF THE TERRITORIES. TER-RITORIES. Editors JJerald : Would you be kind enough to explain through your columns, if practicable, what appears to jour correspondent a tlrigrant inconsistency? Why is it that the republican party, which repudiates tbo rights of territorial sovereignty, invites territorial delegates and allows them the voting privilege at lhf;ir conventions; while the democratic demo-cratic party, which claims as a feature fea-ture in its platform that territories hold inherent rights to 6elf-government,'.doei not even i3sue an invitation to tho territories terri-tories (eicepiiDg Colorado) lo send delegates, dele-gates, and admits such as are sent only by mere courtesy? it would seem tbat tho democratic party should endeavor to make it a point in their practical workings work-ings to show to thiMa American people who have boon territorially disfranchised, disfran-chised, that the spirit and genius of tho constitution will be strictly maintained , with regard to self-government, this being a very important matter, ard one that has helped to bring tho republican administration into such disrepute. What have tho territories to look forward for-ward to in a change of administration, if thU feature of ibo platform is to be nothing only in name, and what better . will be the corning demicratic party if I its theories are to ha practically ignored as those- of iU predoccsor have be:n for nearly sixteen ycarj. Yours, |