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Show outside this large class, in order to pick Gummeres and Sutherlands, is to give ammunition to his enemies and helpless disappointment to his friends." SIZING UP SUTHERLAND The Denver News has not an exalted opinion of George Sutherland Suther-land of Utah, In a long editorial comment on the "stocking up of the supreme court," the Denver paper says: "William S. Gummere has been chief justice of the supreme court of New Jersey for seven years, and during that time the state ha3 been both the incubator and the refuge of the illegal trusts and combines. com-bines. They have incorporated there so that they might come under the solicitous protection of New Jersey courts. "George Sutherland is senator from Utah by grace of the Mormon Mor-mon church and its partners of the sugar, smelting, transportation and other trusts. As senator, not once did he vote against Aldrich in the long battle over the tariff law. He has never held judicial position; but as a lawyer his practice has been as counsel and advocate ad-vocate of the big corporations, in several of which he was a stockholder. stock-holder. Personally he is the mildest mannered and most agreeable gentleman that ever scuttled a ship of tariff revision or any other bark carrying a reform cargo. The interests which are procuring his nomination will find him their responsive devotee. "The views and inclinations of both Gummere and Sutherland also the influences which would affect them were no doubt subjected sub-jected to antecedent test by the interests which recommended them. Being satisfactory, they are pressed with such force that the president presi-dent intends to appoint them. 4 "It is intensely regrettable that President Taft should have smothered his reverence for the supreme tribunal under a demand . from the reactionary element of his party. There were thousands of men from whom he might have selected, with honor to himself and with general satisfaction to the country. To go deliberately |