| Show SUTHERLAND IS FLAYED Irate It If te Judge Reviews P Political al His History HIst tory toty t fy of o Utah March f 20 30 Hon lion GeOrge Oe rge Suther Sutherland Sutherland land Washington D 1 C Dear Senator YoUr letter in reference refer nc to the th appoint appointment ment of f register of jC the United States Stales land laud office in Itt this city was duly received I t infer from its tone toM that you are some somewhat somewhat somewhat what irritated if it hot fiat Indignant at thE thO friends of Captain Hobbs because of their persistency In demanding that flint he lie be re retained tallied as register After reading rea your letter I decided to ij say nothing fUrther In Ih regal regard d to the matter as S I had ho desire to increase your y displeasure te by b a further f discussion of a subject h lats to tobe tobe tobe be distasteful to you and run the risk of having you vent your resentment upon Captain Hobbs for something I might Say s and nd thereby further jeopardize his chances for reappointment As the matler m is I now oW disposed of ot and andIn in view of jf some things that Have recent recently ly l occurred In connection with this con eon controversy controversy and nd to which my attention has been invited I J have decided to make sortie some further observations along the tM lines already dismissed by Inc file in Itt my former for n r communications to td you ou in reference e to td Captain da tain Hobbs H bbs and nr 1 Invite your attention to sortie matters and hd Incidents In not hereto heretofore li ret fore for adverted to by the hie us Party laty Policy llcy I regard your our treatment of ot CaptaIn Hobbs in this matter as the legitimate outgrowth of tJI a ruinous policy which ap up appears pears p to have h ve been inaugurated by py sOme of ot those In iii control of the machinery of the Republican party patty which if persisted in iii will ultimately result r sult in the complete and Of f what wh t is left of df the organization You say day in n your letter that evidently there ther is Js mis misunderstanding misunderstanding understanding un oil my part with reference to your attitude toward Captain C Hobbs otherwise you cannot c understand the Hid way ay in lh which I discuss it itIn ItIn HIn In reply to thus this will say that t 1 thor thoroughly Understand the situation True when I first wrote to you in behalf of at Captain Caplain Hobbs I 1 understood that th t he was to be sidetracked ck d entirely lY and tind relegated to private lifE I learned le sUb how however however however ever that he was w S slated sl ted for the office of receiver Therefore whatever misunderstanding misunderstanding standing I way Have had related only to toUte the Ute degree in iii which Captain Hobbs Bobbs would w uld have been affected by the change had hadit it boon been made anti and nd not to the tha principle in involved Involved It bel being admitted that he is a man of t sterling stet ling integrity possessing the confidence confIdence dence thence and respect of all who know him him and recognized by IJ practically all who are afe interested In this matter maUer including a large majority of or Ute tile leading members df Of l lUte Ute tile bar of this state to t be by far nt this the best equipped ped and amid qualified applicant nt for forthe forthE the thiC position J besides being a El lOyal Id and Consistent Republican an and ami one ofle who has never bolted or deserted his partY I I contend as liS I 1 have done all nil along lil ng that his claims from purely a party stand standpoint point wore were w te equAl to if It riot not t frieri tri rl than thail of f any arty other oth r candi candidate e date for tor the tIlE office of fICO But notwithstanding these th M claims J hi to party runty recognition t I fully appreciate e i te that if ir the friends of pf the captain ca had lied no po other reasons to urge why he h should be b reap td tO t 1 tile Ol he hO h now flow h holds that th t according to party rules rufes and customs fh hey thOy would have no Just ground for or com cotti complaint om plaint If fc he lie mid had hll boon been b tt ignored d entirely l and alid the office given gi rJ to some other Republican can possessing the necessary qualifications But as h I t have repeatedly t Mf urged In my former communications to the Utah Ut H delegation d on Ill tilts this m matter the ills case easO of tt Captain C presented tres Ires ht hied on ly different li tH t i I foti om I v In Involved involved in iii n f I n Il fur for Of party p H for services s fi x C sl to In Inthe inthe the office Wee In question does not depend d p nd al hi U f p iF tilO Ui f hull aim t t of his ills endorsements nor or does doe U It depend Upon tipOn the the political l servIces or aid that he may have r derea the th Republican party in I the past but jut his bis claims 1 are based upon the services he rendered and the sacrifices he made Ion for his country in the darkest hour of ot its existence And as I have heretofore observed it has been beert the settled policy as well welt as the pride of the theR Republican publican R party from 1863 1862 down to and andl including l the present n th that t whenever It could ouId be b done without laJus injustice InjUstice tice tico to others old war w r veterans shall be favored and not discriminated against In the matter of appointment to public of office rice fice fl as was attempted to be done in the case of ot Captain Hobbs Sutherland as a Bolter You say in your our letter that the atti attl attitude attitude tude of Captain Capt ln Hobbs and his friends in demanding that he be retained as regis register register register ter is disappointing if not unfair In answer to this somewhat remarkable but not unusual argument for some Republicans cans of this state to make when a square deal is insisted upon by those who have always been be n true to the party I shall invite your attention to the fact f ct that the Republican Re party since Is made fiad up of two classes one of which wh ch has always been eIt true to the party organ organization It H aAd has hris insisted and now in insists insists slats that tb t whatever dissensions and dif differences differ differences fer may exist in the party should be settled and adjusted by and within the fhe th party The other part Is composed Of bf f two factions Whenever either of the factions is disappointed in the re res s dult of a convention or dissatisfied with the tJ personnel of a ticket it bolts and does all ll in its power to defeat the Re n ticket lAs As you will remember in 1896 thousands th including yourself under the leadership of Hon Thomas Kearns and Frank J Can Cannon Cannon Cannon non Bolted d the Republican an ticket which resulted In turning the state oVer Ver to the Democratic party arty and whenever the Republicans t s Who have remained true to t the party p and who were known as McKinley Republic Republicans ans arms remonstrated rem ed against the ac action action action tion of at the th they th y were In ef el effect eff cOt f t fold t ld that their attitude was both disappointing and nd unfair in 1890 1 99 tHere were but members of o t the fhe tate state st te legislature ture who were Republicans and arid in order to create cr ate harmony in the Republican household and as an inducement for those Republicans who voted v t d for Mr Bryan to again affiliate with those Who had advocated the election of President McKinley the McKinley Republican Waived all claims of party recognition rec and id In order td r to be neither disappointing inting nor unfair worked for and supported a certain free silver silv r Republican for the United States senate senate not because of any special service he had rendered the party but for the tile reason that he was the least objectionable of the batters of 1896 not having been beena a leader but only a follower in the revolt Accordingly the Republican members ebers of the legislature as a you will no doubt remember after aft r giving givIng ing lag a few other Republicans each a complimentary vote voted solidly for far forthe forthe the gentleman referred to during the entire Democratic deadlock which continued until the close of the ses session session session sion At the Republican state conven convention convention tion held h ld at Ogden in 1902 a large number humber of the delegates were In fa favor l f vor of f a plank pl in the th plat piat platform lat form containing cont ah an emphatic en endorsement endorsement endorsement of President Roosevelt and his administration making special special special cial mention of some s me of his most Im Important imp p measures s including his Gu Cu C Cub ban b n policy but as it had h d become so s unpopular with some Republicans in Utah of whom their congressman Was one to endorse a Republican ad objections Were made madet to t the Hi adoption d pU n of f a plank pl hk of f this character hara fer and tind the ds of the ad administration ministration Uon were In terms told fold that their attitude was disappointing and unfair lr and In the interest Inter st of party p h arid Hd to prevent a abolt abolt abolt bolt they again lay doWn and tad con on f that a plank be b inserted which h contained an endorsement endors ment only in general geHer l terms of f the tl H Sutherlands Dolt S lt of Knox the municipal al campaign in hi this city cHy In iii Teas 1903 the Republicans ns nominated a city ticket tick t with Frank Knox for fr mayor major who was w S eveh even by his political p opponents to be a n man In tn every ever respect for lor thy the office in fact fa t no fault was found at all with tho th personnel l lof of the t e ticket and the th candidates as S a 9 whole were regarded as a superior lot tot lotof of jf men 5 nor wits was there any question of principle Involved l III the campaign such sucha a tie as caused a n in the Republican party patty in 1890 But It Was cl ci imd that Mr Mu KnOx l l Y and other candidates on OIt the ticket might be less le s t to the thet candidacy t Y of a certain cerl ln gentleman who Wiio was dt at the time an aspirant for sena setta tonal honors than some of the Republicans cans ans who were defeated in tn the conven thoU tion f t therefore the th senatorial candidate t mentioned together t g with some soth of his friends again bolted the ticket And later when art nil appeal a was M made e by the tha party organization to its old td campaign campaigners camp ers era including those who hoB ball been the re recipients r recipients of f favors and honors at the hands bands of the party to aSSist iii hi the th cam catti campaign camp p ft ii few responded but not enough to st m the th tide df Of r II Where where was Roderick One blast from his Were Worth a thousand Ut thos Us nd men Notwithstanding this Roderick of ot the Republicans was at the time a candidate for r united Stafe States senator he was WitS as no lID doubt you wIlt will remember much I U 11 in evidence in the hotel corridors on ort the street corners cotners and occasionally in the saloons giving aid and comfort to tilO tU enemy nemy by declaring that thai worse things could co l happen h the Republican Re party of or Utah than n a Democratic vic vIO victory vl tory and that the party needed a spanking and expressions of like character Anti And when those hose who whore re remained remained with the Republican party p rt re remonstrated ted they th the t were in effect arrett told again that th t their th lt attitude was disappointing disappointing pointing ng and nd unfair un lair When Wh n the Hon Hen H n Reed R ed Smoot Si ot an ri h himself lf as s a candidate for f r United d States St t s senator s nat r no Hd man in the th state Gt t of Utah was more pronounced in fri hie opposition ri to t the apostle than thin tHany you y lJ appeared to be Time and again ad as you y li will W re e lj r you y u declared ol f d that th t the th election of Mr Smoot Would be accepted as proof pr of positive of oi church hUf h influence e and anti church Iii Iri Utah ut h politics pol and would riOt not n t only jeopardize je the Very v r existence S f e of the Republican party partS of o 0 this state st f fC I but would be In other ocher I respects most m st detrimental id to t the interests In rests of the state and her hem people that the Amer American Amerlean leap lean people pe in general g ner l and his is brother senators in particular would regard reg rd him not in the light of a RV R publican and a representative of a sovereign state but as an apostle and agent of f the Mormon church and nd that he would w uld be politically and so socially socially daily ostracized at t the tRe cap capital capItal capItal ital and as asa a result would be with without without without out influence and arid thereby handicap handicapped ped to such an extent that it would be impossible for him to accomplish anything for the state Almost the entire Gentile contin contingent contingent gent g nt of the R pUbU rip party of Cf f Utah viewed the situation d nin In lh th the same light and belieVing b U you u to be sin sincere sincere cere stood firmly by you yo and advocated advocated your electron eleCtiOn ele t to the United States St t senate Thousands rids df of the members rs of the Mormon church who wh are Republicans and d who ho believed that th t it Was w s heltH r wise nor horth the th right thing to send s sO d ah an apostle ap to the United States senate seri te gave you yol their heir loyal and active support How H w have h Ve the fallen faU l Sutherland a Camp amp follower r From Prom the proud and dignified position tion tJ 11 of a it leader te der of ot men inCh IiI and iId women who belong to thE highest type of ot American citizenship and amid Ute tile champion of or a principle prin ciple Upon the vindication Uon of ot which you claimed the continued political freedom of if the tM people p of d this thin sPite slate st tc disenthralled and anti unhampered by ly o church l influence InflUence ence you descended and became a camp follower of the other Republican candi candidate date to liOn Hon Reed Re d whom you OU had so 0 often tuften Vehemently denounced ed be le and by Inti if hat fiat directly Charged as being unfit because b us Of ol his environments lo to represent Utah and her fler people p ople in our national legislature and arid when any of the he old old guard who had carriel and amid forced you Ou to thO th lt pt and nd In It possible for you to be thought of as a senatorial candidate c remonstrated t d against your action you in the injured and reproachful tone of a spoiled child chUd who Is Js being reproved d gave gae them to fo 0 understand understand un On that their attitude was disappointing pointing and hd unfair HAnd And later late on when promoted to a seat s f fIn in the iho band wagon you acting under nailer undercover undercover cover sent your our lieutenants throughout this state slate who Wi to saved sied SJ d notice nolice on all aU Re En Republicans R Rp publicans p who had failed to signify their approval of the alliance you ou had made to get In line or they would thereafter be politically ostracized Whenever a re republican republican publican resented d or dr disapproved of this method of campaigning he ho was not only given to that Ills attitude was Disappointing and unfair un lr but was de do denounced denounced flounced as a Kearns man hireling henchman etc eta et and antI so far as the ma machine machine machine chine and an Its ita weekly subsidized sub Demo cr Uc Organ Were w tc able to do Was read readout out alit of the tile Republican ah party epithets and arid threats Which hace liace ha e long since lost their terror coercive power and influence Me ex ox except Capt c Pt to 0 drive men out of the tim party And senator sen tor by way ita of digression n permit me to invite your attention to lo the fact that while the treatment thus meet d out to many lade |
