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Show y I ' In I RE-ELECTION OF SUTHERLAND. lM ' sjjl 1 George Sutherland, corporation tool, was made the unanimous tj J j choice of the Republican members of the Utah legislature in caucus jk ' Thursday night. That he would receive a re-nomination as senator, Pjjl there was no doubt, as he had been a busy man for a year or more ' laying plans for re-election. During the last election few legislative candidates would admit they were obligated to, or would vote for, ( George Sutherland, but those who understood the methods of Suther- 11 land knew that nearly every one of the Republican legislative nom- 1 inees had been sounded before they were allowed to enter the fold ' and that those who attempted to conceal their allegiance to Suther land did so out of respect to a public sentiment which might, under proper leadership, have defeated the entire Sutherland camp. 1 What is now taking place in caucus and in the legislature is nothing more than the ratifying of the work of the Sutherland henchmen who, aided, by the corporation forces, canvassed the state months ago and later invaded the conventions of the Republican stand-patters and won their point. Utah should bow her head in shame in contemplation of the sad turn of affairs which forces this state to send back to the senate '., a non-progressive, a corporation-manacled slave, while nearly all : R other states in the Union are throwing off that which is vile and , ; highly offensive in politics and are selecting men such as Judge Works in California to represent them in the United States senate. j! Before Sutherland's term in the senate has expired, the Utah j man will be an outcast of that body. We make this prediction be- lieving that the American citizens have reached a turning point in j j their political affairs and that from now on, where the full meas- 1 ure of American manhood has an opportunity to assert itself, the I : George Sutherlands will be driven out of public office and kicked , 5 into obscurity by an indignant, yet long-suffering, people. - j? Sutherland, a sweet-scented swashbuckler in Utah but a crawl- . 1 ing sycophant in the presence of senators like Aldrich in Washing- I ton, is soon to lose the upholding hand of Aldrich and his ilk, and ; i then what? Why, the obsequious, patronizing little fellow will be 1 an object of pity by his self-respecting, superior fellow senators and, I if he has the saving grace of seeing himself as others see him, he i 1 will slink off and hide. f . We wish George Sutherland no greater misfortune than that he : jl j be re-elected and that, before his term ends, the purification of the i p United States senate shall progress so far that Sutherland shall be i I j the last representative of the corrupt forces which have besmirched !' ' jj the senatorial togas, and that the Utah man shall be made to realize j I j the difference between the high purpose of a senator wholly untranu ISfj nieled by base obligations, and his'' own nothingness. lu In the meantime let us pray that Utah will awaken to a better j understanding of the new conditions and do penance for foisting (1(3 j upn the United States senate a creature of those special interests I JC which have been despoiling the American people. |