Show 1NOlIlT ND THEIR NOMINATION NOMIN-ATION There is much speculation about the manner in i whirh itisfactory names may be l liad < for presents on rfor nomination to the President to fil federal offices here From the first the Dr CHAT has been in fa orof the < t t r 43 Territorial con ntion A ccm iii tian in our last night issue on the ub ect indicates a favorable reception of the Mggestion and on that account and especially because various parties including Democrats Republicans Re-publicans Peoples Par + v men and non descripts are each urging a special method of doing and the great con demnation of each is that it is secret Secret slates in any party are obnoxious and should be rejected no matter what names may grace and adorn them Many old time Democrats still have the Jack bonian idea that to the victors belong the spoils In the present Administration there will be no spoils and no patronage their day is gone The plum which hangs highest on the political upas tree of Utah is the U S Marshalship and for it more have reached than for any other and so serene and calm in their reaching have many been and so certain of the thing for which they reach that post offices judgeships and things of lesser worth have been distributed distri-buted as gratuities among those who had some worth and no claims Remember I gentlemen that even in political trading it is never safe to sell short The name j of a well known gentleman in this city has been proposed as a candidate for the judgeship of the First Judicial District II I and he declined to be a candidate The I gentleman is fit for the office and an influential in-fluential friend of his was waited upon to get him to allow his name to be used but the gentleman waited upon said no I 1 want him to have the District Attorney ship But what if the United States nay we dont well he wont So far the Xew has offered the best method and we quote part of it But while it is to be expected that the President Presi-dent will give due weight to the recommendations I mendations of local Democrats in making I appointments in the Territories the preponderance pre-ponderance of influence should rest with I j f the Representative in Congress of the I people How new how just how clear j I j is this Of the working of Sanatoria patronage we know something and know that it was on this patronage that Mr t Conkling and me too got left Territorial Terri-torial Representative patronage is quite new and startling and but for its newness new-ness should be at once unanimously I adopted But when we remember tho preponderating influence of the Delegate t from this Territory in this Territory wo 11 hesitate to recommend the method Because Be-cause Pompey refused the crown is no reason for offering it to Ciesar I Wyoming successfully tried the convention y con-vention method and why not Utah Men and methods who cannot stand tho light should wither and no mans single lights light-s as good as the collected light of all I II |