Show DELEGATIONS Dispatches this morning tell us that delegations from all the Territories called upon the President in relation to offices in the Territories and Cleveland informed all that appointees would be selected from the locality in which they are to act ThJfe is an official confirmation of what many thought would not be done The same dispatch informs us that the recommendations of Territorial Democratic Committees will be duly considered con-sidered This also partly settles a point The question still is how shall the endorsement en-dorsement of applicants position be determined de-termined We suggest the method of a Territorial Convention in which all candidates can-didates shall be considered and their merits and fitness be canvassed as in a nominating convention to select a candidate candi-date for Delegate to Congress We recommend rec-ommend this as to appointive offices and not to the competitive ones for we must remember that Cleveland is the successor of Tilden and that Civil Service Reform brought us into power |