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Show Strong Endorsement of Senator Smoot BY HIS COLLEAGUE' SENATOR SUTHERLAND Services in Sonate Needed to Safeguard State's Welfare and Are an Asset to Commonwealth. At the Republican state convention, held at Salt Lake City, September 1, 1914, after tho speech of Ben L. Rich dominating Senator Reed Smoot, Senator Sutherland, chairman of tho convention, yielded the gravel to vice chairman W. D. Lewis, and in a short address paid the following fol-lowing strong tribute to tho worth and industry of his col-league: col-league: "It is ordinnrly the business of the clininnan of a convention con-vention to prcsitlo over, rathi'i than to pnitit-ipatc in, its 'IHibi'iutions. CireuinstaiicoH, liowcvtT, soiiit'tiincs jnstil'v a depart nrc from tho 'cuoral rulo. 1 have sucpcc'ilcd ij, lHTsiuuiiiitf niM'lf that those cireuinstani'os mv, vs f But whether uu.y io or not, 1 am not content that the pending question bttlisposed of without a WordrTtBp which 1 fool myself to bo in h peculiarly favorable sih tion to say. a'H B Mi' INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE , "I cannot hope to add nny thing to the brilliant I lf forceful nominating speech to which you have jUst ii,( ed, but 1 can spenk of the value of Senator Snioot'8il! Mr vices to the state from a rather more intimate knowy!B'r of what he has done. For ten years out of the twdf "' since he was first elected we have together represented tb! H mi-State mi-State of Utah in the Senate of tho United States. If 0! Bar, man by close association over a long period of time 1 1 ever know or be able justly to measure the worth of SWv other man, I have come to know and able to measure tlj Bsm worth of Reed Smoot. Bttt "And among other things 1 have come to know nndV I preciate the essential loyalty of his character, not onlytBbe the sense of that term as implying devotion to onewH"'1 and country and Hag which after all, thank God, isM" common attribute of all our citizenship but in the broad-H Th or sense as meaning unwavering fidelity to the principaB( Jl which one conceives to be right. During these years 1?IT have seen with increasing satisfaction the constant aijH"" steady development of his intellectual breadth and graHMr of public questions, until he stnnds today one of the rtjMorV forces in the Senate. m RIGHT TO RE-ELECTION "If it be possible for faithful and efficient service, fcjR1"3 devotion to duty, for untiring work which has never coWBf ',! ed the cost in personal inconvenience or in threatened loaB" of health or strength, to entitle any man to re-election tl L, the hands of an appreciative constituency Senator SmocW ;, is the man. Ij "But 1 have not risen for the purpose of urging liitH nomination and re-election as a reward for anything bli has done, lie would, I am sure, be amoung the first tol! say that the honor which his state has already conierredB""1 on him is reward enough for that. I do not insist thatiuH should be nominated and re-elected for his sake, butldtlj, insist that it should be done for the sake of the State cAosi Utah. Hn "In the first place his defeat would be regarded everj-H e where as a distinct repudiation of Republican pvincipleMHic and particularly of the principle of protection on tliepartB of a state which has for so many years stood unswerving!"1 for these principles through every political vicissitudtH It is no exaggeration but a simple statement of fact to utl t that Senator Smoot 's detailed knowledge of tariff qu&H' tions is not excelled by that of any member of either lton5cH,,ec of Congress. " WILL NEED SERVICES u" "On the fourth day of March, 1917, the Republioalcn party will return to power in the nation. Immediate Mri thereafter a revision of the tariff will be entered upon. bBMn that revision the peoplo of Utah and of the whole WeaH are profoundly concerned and consequently the people oB Utah and of the whole West will stand in vital needoftlB efficient services of Senator Smoot. In other words hiB twelve year's experience in the Senate has made himoafl of the most valuable political assets of the state, in tbl same .sense that a faithful, efficient and experienced en ploye of a business concern becomes a valuable asset that institution. "And so my appeal to you is in the main a selfish !H peal, just as the desire of the business concern to relaiiH the services of an efficient employe is in the main a selfiiB desire, and to make it to you and through you to thevotB ers of the state, not on the ground that a failure to nm elect Sonntor Smoot would be unjust to him, but on tM ground that it would bo greatly injurious to you mulfcH them. "I utter no idle platitude, but speak the words of soberS ness and truth when I say to you that in my deliberaliB judgement the defeat of my distinguished colleague In thifl election would be a mistake so grave as to fall little iboifl of a public misfortune." I |