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Show SUTHERLAND ' S DEBASEMENT. Tho flood of bitter bile and gall which issued from Senator Sutherland's system sys-tem yesterday in his speech opening the "Republican" city convention will no doubt relieve his feelings, and allow him to proceed in his stolid and lonely way, without further asseveration assevera-tion until anoiher accumulation has to find vent. There is no particular significance in anything that Sutherland said, except as it relates to himself. His attacks upon The Tribune meroly fix his position posi-tion as an anti-Tribune man, first and foremost, without reference to any party whatever. He is against The Tribune just as anarchists arc against the Government, and against all governments. gov-ernments. So far as his speech is concerned, he does not appear to belong to any party, nor to have any friends. Ho has only enmities and hatred toward mankind. He is in the class of Joseph F. Smith considering everybody who does not bow to him to be his "enemy." Mr. Sutherland is in hard case. He understands fully that Apostle Smoot is about dono with him. Smoot haB paid his debt to him, met his engagements to Sutherland, and now the jig is up. Sutherland knows that when Smoot is done with him, the "Republican" party of Utah is also done with him; that being distinctively and especially the church party. And when Smoot is done with him. that signifies that the church is done with him, and also tho church party. With that, of course, Sutherland is done for throughout; he has no stake with the American party, and with tba Democratic party no standing. He is a political outlaw; he sees tho shadow of this outlawry stealing upon him, and gnashes hia teeth in frenzy because he is not able to escapo that shadow. His assaults upon The Tribune will hurt no one, unless it may be himself. His assaults upon others, especially upon ex-Mayor Thompson, are despicable. despic-able. He must be a maniac or ho would never go to such lengths as he did in that speech. If he ever had any political sagacity he has lost it. If ho ever had any qualities that would endear him to his fellows, any great traits that would win him friends, he has pnrted with them, and has entered upon the narrow, barren way of universal uni-versal suspicion and malevolence. In his reference to the McWhirter case and The Tribune, he was so utterly shameless and indecent that it is a marvel that a man occupying tho position po-sition he does would descend so low; but it merely shows that that position is so far above him that he is an utter misfit in it. As to that case, The Tribune bad just as much to do with it aB Senator Suthorland had to do with it, and no more; nnd whatever abuse is to bo showered upon The Tribune with regard to that case, Senator Sen-ator Sutherland ia equally deserving of tho same. That is to say, we assume that Senator Sutherland had no connection con-nection whatever with that case, no real knowledge of it, no ulterior motives to subsorvc with respect to it; and that is precisely the position of The Tribune. Senator Sutherland may exult in the opportunity to deliver such degrading words as he used in that address, but when tho public Beo the?e words they will revise any good estimate that they ever had of Mr. Sutherland, and his discerning friends will hang their heads in shame. I |