Show SUTHERLAND CALLS UP JUDAS BY WAY OF GENTLE COMPARISON In his hi opening address at the convention Senator Sutherland said in part It is a very Yer great honor as well as 1111 r a avery very verr great pleasure to be permitted to preside over oer this representative I Ican can convention I read In the American organ a few days das ago that 1 I was to be bethe bethe bethe the temporary tempora chairman of the conven convention convention tion and you OU will therefore readily under understand understand understand stand how entirely unprepared I was wu for forthe forthe forthe the notification which came to me mt latr latT from certain truthful and reputable gen gentlemen gentlemen en that I had in fact been selected I for that distinguished honor I shall pre pro preserve serve sene that copy of the Tribune contain containing containing ing this perfectly truthful t statement con eon concerning II myself as a novel and unique sou souvenir souvenir ou I venir for all time to come The paper i however went on to say that If I 1 had any an ability at all which the journalist courte courteously courteously I seemed to doubt It was In the three direction tion of making bitter and vituperative i speeches and that I had hati probably been selected in order that I might indulge that I propensity I I II Judas Ananias the Devil and the Tribune However ono one on may tell unpleasant I I truths without being either bitter or vituperative vituperative For example I do not admire the character diameter of ot Ananias or of or Judas or of the devil but when I say that the first I was a notorious liar the second a pur purchased purchased purchased chased traitor and the third an undesirable undesirable I able associate as for tor a pious map I have stated some soma unpleasant facts fac but with without without J out vituperation or personal bitterness to toward toward ward either of these personages And so when hen I have made from time to time in inthe Inthe inthe the past pastas as I shall continue no doubt to tomake tomake tomako make mako from time to time ii to In the tite future some absolutely accurate but unflattering ing observations concerning this newspaper newspaper newspaper per and the tho purchased and purchasing gang of political pirates who direct its policies I 1 have done so in the tho same Im Impersonal Impersonal impersonal personal spirit with which I would speak of Ananias or of Judas or of the devil The Tribune is too sensitive and too self selfish selfIsh selfIsh ish It is willing to deliver unfair blows against people pe It does not like ilkI but cannot receive blows in return without whining If the Tribune had been published at the time of the adventure of Jonah and the whale I have hue no doubt In the world that its report of that interesting Incident would have declared that Jonah had swallowed swallowed swallowed lowed the whale and when Jonah with just natural indignation had lied the statement as false fal e and scurrilous the Tribune would not only have hae reiter reiterated reiterated reiterated its original story but would have haved denounced d Jonah as a Jack Mormon given gh given ghen en over to bitter and vituperative speech speechmaking sp speechmaking ech making and moreover would have Insist Insisted Insisted Insisted ed that he had probably swallowed the whale by b the command of or the hierarch I 1 believe that the leaders of the Amerlean Amer American lean ican party part are politically dishonest These leaders It ad rs declare that the tho th excuse for the th ex x tence o of the American party part Is la that both the old political parties are domi dominated dominated I and controlled by the Mormon church a statement which I believe bellee to be I outrageously false I am nm opposed and have always alwa 8 been Opposed to the Mormon ormon church or any an other church Interfering in I political matters Such interference Is contrary to the genius of our institutions and persisted in could only result in po political political political I I disaster If It some sonic of ot tho the people belong to a n achurch achurch church and permit themselves to be con controlled controlled controlled trolled in their political action by b their church superiors we have to that extent a government by b the church a theocracy and not A government by b the people If It they belong to n a political organization and yield the control of their political ac action action action tion to a few politicians we have hae to that extent a 1 government by the bosses and nIu not a government by the people Each of these things and all similar things arc are unDemocratic and un American If It the members of pf f the city council should pledge themselves to con confirm confirm confirm firm no person to tj an office unless he should first have a certificate from the church authorities of ot his good standing In the church and to remove from office any person who could not produce such sucha a certificate honest men everywhere would agree that such a council was un unfit unfit unfit fit to represent a free people Such a situation would be Intolerable because the themen themen themen men who had been ostensibly elected to represent the people not be bo the servants of the people as they should be but the tools toos ot or the church which they should not be Nor would the case be different In principle if they should pledge themselves to follow the commands of any other coterie of men Scorns American Resolution If for example tho the members of ot the council should pledge themselves to vote ote against the confirmation of or any an appointees appointee office any to office or to remove from who could not procure a certificate person of his Lila standing let us say for example from the precinct or ward bosses they would be surrendering the trust of the people who voted them Into office into the th hands of persons whom the people had never voted for and arni who perhaps the peo pro people people pIe would not want and an such a thing would ba bi profoundly shocking to every decent thinking man If the American ticket Is elected we shall have a set of councilmen pledged to act net upon nil all appointments not upon their own Judgment as to the fitness or orthe orthe orthe the Americanism even of o the appointee but tho the irresponsible Judgment of a aset aset aset upon set of ward and precinct bosses The councilman therefore becomes not the servant of the people who sitio elected him but the thu helpless agent of these political committeemen Any man who thus volun voluntarily voluntarilY voluntarily becomes the bond slave of a political cal cat boss Is a hypocrite when he assumes which to criticise or runs upon a platform criticises other men for following blindly the orders of ot a church The McWhirter Incident Two came to Salt Lake and were In the Ute most open and brazen manner robbed by b oa a gang of confidence men inen of So has been Judicially de determined determined e by a court and jury The p jice orce of ot the Am party part although of the robbery robber ry did nothing to bring these robbers robber to Justice Not only w Wei nr ro they thy p milled to depart In pe ce with their stolen spoils but tho the chief news newspaper n paper organ of or the party arty did al all It could to bring ridicule and reproach upon the th victims victim of tho the outrage No such elicit shame shameless shameless less le tI and anil despicable work orl was II eer done before by any newspaper In the lie history hl tory of American Ameri an Journalism It first t declared that the victims leUm never nar had IO to lose at all aU then that they the were a couple of suckers from front Scotland anyway anway and Liter later l ter when the proof of the loss became clear sneeringly insinuated that they the had ball been Imported from front Scotland by the authorities I of the Mormon lormon church for the purpose of or putting up a Job jolt on an Innocent and virtu virtuous ous Otis chief of police Every obstacle was thrown in the wn way of the th Republican county count officials in their efforts to dis discover discover cover the facts and to run down oWn and ap up apprehend a the criminals So strenuous were the efforts of this I newspaper in that direction that if It lied had been b en a person lon Instead In of a thing It could I almost have hae been indicted as an accessory after the fact I Against obstructions this ridicule I and abuse thrown in their way wa and heaped upon them th m the Republican sheriff and amI Re Republican Republican publican county attorney went and calmly about their work and one by h one laid their hands upon the criminals and wove such a web of or guilty circumstances about the faithless police polke department of the American party p that their chief of I police pollee and anil chief of detectives resigned r their places In shame and disgrace The party part of Mayor and Abe Abc Ruef Rue would not have the Ule to seek the Indorsement of the people of San Fran Francisco Francisco cisco but this party part o of disgraced officials and exposed corruption has the impudence to come before belore the citizens of Salt Snit Lake LakeI and demand a n vote of ot confidence I A Bit of Contrast I My I friends the of this city are arc not going goin to give gie it They The will contrast I the American administration in tho the city with the Republican administration In the county count they will see that flint the first has hasben II ben bi en characterized b by graft and corruption corruption corruption tion and Scandal and official unfaithful unfaithfulness I ness nebs by conduit steals and gross ross incompetence while against the a breath of scandal or word of ot suspicion I can an be truthfully breathed They will j see that the first has been either unwilling I or unable to prevent or punish crime while the other has hus enforced the law They The will know that if the Republican ticket Is elected and it will win be elected in inthis this city that the th law will be enforced I public improvements without ut extravagance extravagance extravagance gance will be made the of this magnificent city of ours will go on but I cease that graft and official corruption will witt |