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Show SEES NO INSURGENCY IN UTAH. Parley P. ' Christensen was in Ogden Saturday last and stated that insurgency is sweeping the state and will control the Republican party. Senator George Sutherland, at a luncheon in the Weber Club yesterday, boo-hooed the suggestion of insurgency in Utah and declared de-clared he had met with no evidence of differences within the Republican Republi-can party. Has Mr. Christensen told the truth and Senator Sutherland misrepresented the political situation, or is the contrary true? Here in Ogden nine-tenths of the Republicans are in sympathy with Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Dolliver and the other leaders of the Insurgents. We do not know of a prominent Republican, other than an office holder, who is not openly advocating the policies of Roosevelt Roose-velt and supporting insurgency, and, were we to venture a guess, we would say that the same conditions within the Republican party prevail pre-vail throughout the state. Senator Sutherland is not a reliable source of information on this subjtct. He is aspiring to re-election and prefers to deviate somewhat some-what from the truth, rather than admit that there is danger of his political career being brought to an inglorious end by the protests of those within his own party who have wearied of misrepresentation and smug complacency on the part of Mr. Sutherland. If George Sutherland has failed to discover any evidence of a revolt it is because he has kept himself aloof lrom the plain people and has gone into the private offices of the officials of large corporations corpor-ations for inspiration and cheering words of commendation. Sutherland Suth-erland always has been tarred by the corporation interests; he belongs be-longs to that class. The man's greatest prominence in Congress was obtained through his willingness to debase himself for the Guggenheim Gug-genheim and others who, seeking to steal the wealth of Alaska's coal, timber and mineral, had selected Utah's frail senator as a buffer buf-fer in the famous Ballinger hearing. Of course, Sutherland will say there is no insurgency in Utah. He is too small to take note of a public sentiment which i3 not in accord with the promptings which come to him from his masters, the men,, who demand special privileges and are prepared to resort to extreme means to attain their ends. . But this fall the voice of the people will be heard and it will silence si-lence forever this special pleader of the false and vicious in public affairs. |