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Show The Herald shows plainly that at the rate now maintained by the convention, con-vention, that all hopes that they wL'l complete the constitution within tie allotted time must be given up. Tl e body is republican and there are so many republicans hostile to statehood, that the inference grows tolerably plain that this is but one of the ways chosen to beat it. The Tribune grows I . " eloquent and forcible whenever anyj -A" V one intimates that it is "forniest" statehood. state-hood. If one will note the fact that it never has a word urging the convention conven-tion to greater diligence, and put this with the whiteheat of its present republicanism, re-publicanism, one may arrive at a pretty fair conclusion as its to enthusiasm for statehood. |