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Show SUTHERLAND 'S VERY LATEST. Senator Sutherland is again performing the unclean work of tho reactionaries in Congress who oppose every measure which tends to more securely place the reins of government in the hands of the people as a whole. A special dispatch from Washington says: "The amendment which Senator Sutherland has proposed to the resolution providing for the popular election of senators will probably be adopted and will presage the death of the resolution. At least that is the view of the friends of the measure. Senators from the south will jiot vote for the resolution if it gives the federal government control over the elections, as proposed in the Sutherland amendment. "Senator Percy of Mississippi flatly told the senate tho south would not submit to the Sutherland amendment. "Supporters of the resolution believe that the amendment was put forward for the purpose of accomplishing the death of the measure, meas-ure, but Republican senators who are supporting the amendment avow that many states in the north would refuse to ratify the constitutional consti-tutional amendment if it permitted the disfranchisement of the negro voters of the south, which they declare would bo the effect if the resolution reso-lution were passed in the form reported by the committee on judioiary. ' ' This move on the part of Sutherland and his colleagues is but a poorly veiled effort to so couple with this measure an obnoxious form of federal interference in state elctions as to assure the death of the bill. This is done so that when Sutherland returns to Utah and is asked to explain why he opposed the popular election of senators, he can say: "Why, bless your soul, I was not opposed to the direct election of senators by the people. I added the features of the 'Force Bill' simply because my sense of justice is so highly developed that my conscience rebelled at the thought of any one being elected United States senator without first obtaining an expression from all those qualified to vote under the constitution of the United States." That is what he will say publicly, but privately he will boast of how cleverly he played his part in defeating the will oPthe' people by checkmating their overwhelming demand for the election of senators sen-ators by popular election. Measuring men in public life by the same rule of right conduct applied to men in private life, what must any one, who has Btudied Sutherland's course in congress, decide as to the character of the man? Would you say that he is candor and honor personified, or would you class him as a trickster? |