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Show A QUESTION UNANSWERED. The Provo Herald is puzzled. Geo, Sutherland is being boosted for re-election and the Herald says: "Why should the voters of Utah tear their clothes in mad efforts ef-forts to re-elect George Sutherland to the United States senate? What has he done for the state in the past six years to cause a general gen-eral uprising in his favor? "Senator Sutherland is remembered for three things he voted Tvith Aldrich every time he was required to so vote in the fixing up of the tariff bill; he fought for Ballinger as no other member of the investigating committee fought, in spite of the fact that it is generally general-ly held that Ballinger was in a conspiracy to loot the coal and timber of Alaska and the Northwest in the interest of the Guggenheims; he played the part of a railroad attorney at all times in the preparation of the railroad rate bill, and was consistently against every provision pro-vision in the interest of the people. "This is the part of Senator Sutherland's record that stand? out clear and distinct as his term of office draws to a close. HL subserviency to the senior senator in all things is taken for granted Among thinking men he h looked upon as a mere cog in the machine." The people in all states of the union are beginning to closely examine into the records of men in the halls of Congress who, like Sutherland, have been open to the suspicion of being slaves to special interests. Is Utah willing to remain lethargic, while the citizens of other commonwealths are aroused in the work of purification, in the hope of attaining a purer, better government, or will Utah simply rub her eyes, stretch an arm and, succumbing, lazily drawl out, "Oh, what's the use?" |