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Show "; m " WE NOMINATED SUTHERLAND. - ?: "c , The Herald-Republican is delighted because Senator Sutherland's '" ''"'" name is mentioned in connection with the naming of a successor to j -A Justice Harlan of the supreme cojirt of the United States. ffct The Standard, some weeks ago, proposed Sutherland for the jpK . 'supreme bench and the nomination, strange to relate, seems to have ' Ijeen taken, seriously. Having produced joy in the inner circle of $$ the federal bunch, the Standard by its proposal has served to make idTO a few souls happy. If nothing more results, so much the better, 1 Sutherland is a corporation lawyer and would be congenial com- pany in a supreme court made up principally of corporation lawyers law-yers placed there by President Taft, To promote harmony, Sutherland Suth-erland should be made a justice. To place another Harlan bright, brilliant, judicial with the Taft justices would be equivalent to promoting pro-moting discord Sutherland started his career by being arailroad attorney. By the constant boost of the railroad interests, he has reached his present pres-ent eminence. Now would it not be a most fitting climax, and would it not make an inspiring story to tell children, to have the subservient creature of "the interests" honored by being lifted to the highest position of dignity within the reach of an American law- |