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Show HON. GEORGE SUTHERLAND. The Tribune has its periodical sneers at the Hon. George Sutherland! What for? Has not Mr. Sutherland's life been as pure in Utah where he has lived since boyhood, as that of any man's that Utah has so far sent to the Senate of the United States? Are not his attainments as great as those of any man Utah has thus far sent to the Senate? Would he not, in the Senate, come as near representing the manhood of Utah as did Mr. Gannon, Mr. Brown, Mr. Rawlins or as does Senator Kearns? Are there any stains on the record he has made? Has he not served Utah in the House of Representatives with honor to himself him-self and the State? Has he not by his own efforts, with but a limited start, forged out for himself an honorable name as a lawyer, an honorable place among his fellow men? Why should the baffled spite of one man e given space in a great public journal for no purpose pur-pose except to cast odium on a public man, and that for no purpose except to gratify that spite? Is that what tho public expects of a great newspaper? news-paper? Certainly Mr. Sutherland has reached his present pres-ent position without descending to any of tho usages which some modern politicians adopt. If he gains any new honors, it will not 9 because of his money. To the public at least he is guilty of nothing i that should bar him from making any honorable exertion in his power to climb higher. Ahfl he is too big a man to be killed by either sneers or inuendoes, and he is too good a man to be daily subjected to revengful private sneers made through a newspaper that claims it is honest hon-est and conducted on lofty ideals. |