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Show il I SENATOR SUTHERLAND I BM Ii if ir tr i Hon. George Sutherland is now the duly elected Junior senator from Utah. As Mr. Sutherland Is the only man who has made a hard, aggresslvo, clean and straightforward fight for this honor, his election was without contest. On Tuesday ho received, In accordanco with tho action of the previously pre-viously held caucus, tho full voto of his party In hoth senato and houso. His election was ratified by tho joint session held Wednesday noon. Senator Sutherland hears his well-deserved well-deserved honors becomingly and modestly. mod-estly. Ho Is not tho typo of man that will got his head swelled because ho has been given tho highest political position within tho gift of tho citizens of this state. Ho will go to Washington Washing-ton with every opportunity to make a splendid record for himself and ac complish great good for Utah. Ho Is tho unquestioned cholco of his party, his constituents will support him earnestly ear-nestly and faithfully, and this without regard to their religious views. Senator Sutherland made a splendid record when ho served as congressman; congress-man; ho possesses tho brains, tho character, tho education, tho Integrity and honor, and tho personal magnetism magne-tism that will make him a power in tho senato. Oratory In a western legislature is not always of a typo worth preserving, preserv-ing, or oven reading, but tho speech In which Representative F. W. Fish-burn Fish-burn of Box Elder, placed Mr. Sutherland Suth-erland In nomination, Is good. It Is. worth reproducing. Mr. Flshburn said: "Mr. Speaker: My fellow representatives, represent-atives, I arise to nominate a man to represent Utah In tho highest and grandest elective legislative body in the whole world, tho senate of tho United States, and knowing this to bo true, I sense the importance of placing plac-ing a man before you for your support sup-port who must of necessity possess very raro ability, and whose character charac-ter and manhood shall bo above reproach, re-proach, and I also fully realize that what a man can effect in this position depends on what ho Is, and if ho bo true and high, puro and kind, vigorous vigor-ous and forceful, his strokes will be broad, his work maslsve and his Influence In-fluence most powerful for good, not only for his state, but for his country. The one I hav3 In mind I feel suro has every attribute and qualification necessary to fill tho office with signal credit and justice to himself and with honor and satisfaction to his state and her people. Tho man-1 shall name Is ono of the very brightest and best of I our -citizens, a leader In his profession W 1 and one of tho foremost members of I ' the bar of Utah. Then, too. Jir 11 Speaker, and my friends, he iS a man II upon whom we can rely, as he ha fji filled many positions of honor an ill ' trust, and In such a manner as to gan I I the confidence and tho respect of all III good citizens; but when I tli.uk of the 111 mean, unscrupulous fight which has II been mado against my candidate It II makes mo fool that the higher walks II of lifo aro treacherous and dangerous If and the lower full of obstacles and 1m' II pediments, and If any ono would be K secure in either, it must bo by his I maintaining those principles which are I just, praiseworthy and pure, and I which inspire bravery in ono's-self and I confidence in others, and that my can- H didate has maintained his position so H manfully, has taught mo to love and M honor him tho more. And oh, how I H would that every citizens of Utah D had learned the lesson so well as he. D which is wrapped up in the folds of H that dear old flag, the red, the white, H tho blue, which says to us all "bo brave, bo pure, bo true." As I say, If H wo all could have learned these things H and mado them part of our very be- M lngs, as th man whom I shall name H has done, Utnh today would bo hnown W as she really Is and not as some would H have her known. I might go on, H bringing to your notice tho many, H many virtues of my choice, but 1 think H It absolutely unnecessary, but I would H have you know that ho Is one of the I truest types of American manhood to I bo found anywhere In this broad land I of ours, and his namo Is none other l than the Hon. George Sutherland." I |