Show A LAST WORD in spite of all suggestions to the contrary both political parties in this gity city and county and probably in most molt of the other counties of the territory are determined to nominate party can dilates for the convention which meets next march to frame a state constitution the NEWS laments this into lor for the occasion occa aion was one into which politics nee need d not have entered at so all M in elections ot of school chool trustees tees there was no necessity neoe Mity to ask aak of the candidates any other qualifications than fitness breadth experience and patriot patriotism tern the fact that a man has been a busy party worker or manager should be in our opinion rather a d disqualification f cation than otherl otherwise rise for this would certainly have hare made him more or loss less objectionable to the voters of the other party but if he were a man m an of standing in the somal community sound clean and just and were nominated ted because of those qualities the be people as a whole would have cared little or nothing for his political leanings and ana would have supported him on big merits as a citizen there would have been room for only one ticket that chat ticket might perhaps have contained the names of men amen whom every body would like to see in the constitutional conventions convention but who will not run as candidates of either party and it would have been triumphantly and enthusiastically elected since this to Is not to be however lot let us in all mo soberness berness take the next best top step there are cavi capable lible honest fair men in great numbers in each party bad and in every precinct and county the makes this last ap peal pal to the various conventions that are on the eve of nominating we the respective candidates that such men as we have described and such only be placed before the people this Is if no time to put forward ring or rascals partisans and pelf seekers in snob noh a crisis are an insult and a stench political wire pullers bullers and bar pies bent on preferment and pap must be for once suppressed the voters are going to luok look less at the party device at the head bead of the ticket than at the names of the men that follow it there is absolutely no political issue bang at stake and hence no ground for accusations of party treachery it if the citizens demand for good candidates be conscientiously enforced by independent action at the polls of course each party wanta want to bold together its ito vote and and solidify it at the forthcoming election the amul ambition tion is IB laudable but it loan can only be realized so far as am the candidates candidate for the constitutional conven tion are concerned by the course we have indicated party leaders leaden on both sides eidee ought to sense the importance of the case and men who have lu fluence with their associates owe it no low lew to them selves than to their arty and their andi candidates dates that the latter be men against whom on the score of fitness there to no reproach it if there has been sharp practice to in the primaries it is not too late to stamp it with disapproval in the conven conventions tiow it if unworthy and ill considered pledges have been improperly secured loyalty ought to find finda a remedy for the injury that is in thus threatened A lofty sense of duty is in the demand of the hour and the side which bows the best befit embodiment of this in its nominations will start out in the race a goodly distance ahead |