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Show The campaign which the Tribune made to en- H compass the defeat of Mr. Sutherland for the fl senatorship was about the worst exhibition of WM vindictive yellow journalism with which the local iH public has ever been regaled. It began with coarse H and base Inuendoes, soared into wild und pathetic SI appeals, for his withdrawal from the race, and M finished, when his election was assured, with H the final spiteful snarl of a well-whipped canine, H No proof Is available regarding the authorship H of the story in eastern papers alleging a family M relationship between Mr. Sutherland and the no- H torious John D. Lee, but it does not require the M services of either a magician or a medium to con- M vince the public that the story was evolved in j this city. It had all the thumb marks of an un- jH healthy and unreliable medium of dissemination, j and the story would have looked perfectly nat- M ural on the Tribune editorial page." jH |