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Show Senator Caret, regarding the proposed visit of the senate committee on territoriea to Utah. The last letter is dated September 28. Since the Herald swears that it never, no, never, prints any fake dispatches, it ought to investigate somebody in order to see why a news item of September 2S takes ten days to come over the wires from Washington. "There were, of course, no religious services," ser-vices," says a cable dispatch relating to Rexax's funeral. Why "of course." lie believed in a hereafter and therefore in an overruling Providence, or God. There are Christian ministers in this country who perform per-form religious services over the remains of j greater infidels than was Eksbst Ren ax. This is what a Pennsylvania paper says about McVeagh: He supported Jonx Stewakt in 1S32 for governor against General Gen-eral Beaver, the soldier candidate. He did not support Blaine m 1S1. He was not heard of iu the campaigns of 1S-S0 and 1SSS, and in 1890 he was found shouting in a very ladylike way for Pattisox and the Democracy. Democ-racy. No one can have any objection to Mr. Watxe McVeaoh voting to suit himself provided he is legally qualified but he cannot can-not pose as a disgusted Republican. The disgust is on the other side, nearly everybody every-body being disgusted with Mr. McVeagh and his notion that he is an influential politician poli-tician something he never was at any stage of his career. EDITORIAL NOTES. Candidate Rawlins is the Roger Q. Mills of Utah. Fraxz Sigel, fight mit Cleveland, but the veteran Sickle is implacable. Councilman Wantland essays to be a bigger man than his size warrants. Thus far no rival of Nancy Hanks has appeared on the Salt Lake race track. The more Judge Henderson looks upon it the more convinced is he that his head is level. The Provo convention evidently held, with Bob Acres, that discretion is the better bet-ter part of valor. Pkof. Corbett is anxious to meet Mitchell. Mitch-ell. We hope he may. According to last advices Mitchell was in jail in England. Judging from all accounts a Keelev institute in-stitute would do a land office business among the English aristocracy. The Fourth district court of Idaho pronounced pro-nounced the test oath bill unconstitutional. Once more Kentucky Smith stands repudiated. repu-diated. The action of the schoolboard in refusing the use of schoolhouses for political purposes pur-poses is rigrhL Last year they were so used and the janitors can tell the rest. Silver has started on the upward grade. thanks to Mr. Harrison's efforts to brine about an international agreement. This will be wormwood for the calamity howlers. The burning question now is will Canxox withdraw. with-draw. Herald. W'e did not think the heartburning would begin so soon with you. Ir the Democrats depended upon the fair, conference and race for a large attendance at their ratification meeting last night, they counted without their host. The host wasn't there. ' The Kansas anti-fusion Democratic convention con-vention was a fizzle. No doubt. In a presidential presi-dential year the citizens who vote anything but the straight Republican ticket are scarce in Kansas. Democratic mathematicians estimate a majority for Rawlins of 30JO. Two weeks ago it was 5000; a month ago 7000. Their figures decline with the days, and ths days are getting shorter very fast. Bishop Nichols expressed his surprise in the P. E. convention at Baltimore yesterday "that the young men of the West had not forgotten their God." We have never yet seen the man who, visiting the West, did not return surprised. But does Bishop Nichols not read the church statistics? It took Democratic headquarters just a week to instruct the organs whether to rejoice re-joice or not rejoice over the "conversion" of Judge Gresham. In the Omaba couvention the Populists came very near nominating him instead of Weaver, but as they didn't do it any more than the Republicans did in 1S88, the Great Disappointed had but one alternative left, and he took it. The Herald publishes a special from Washington containing two letters, one from Senator Platt and the other from |