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Show SUTHERLAND'S BASENESS. i Senator George Sutherland of .Utah, continuing his task of ser- ' ving his masters, made the notification speech at Utica, New York 1 when James S. Sherman was formally informed that he had profited' by the piracy practiced at the-Republican national convention in J& Chicago to the extent of being named vice president. j Sutherland, with a sneer, vented his hatreel for all things Pro- I f gressive. The platform was declared to be made up of impractical I S (Contlnuod on Page Six.) " ' fi li : ii SUTHERLAND'S BASENESS. '-jE I (Continued from Page Four.) jfl political -nostrums, the leaders of the party to be visionary and B frenzied and the whole movement hysterical. W$ We know Geo. Sutherland. He is the hiiedireprescntative of the pK railroads. He is a corporation senator and what he savs is nothing S more than that which his masters are pleased to have him say Dur KM ing all his public career he has been figbting reform measures and K .using the same catch phrases to heap odium upon the men who have tiS stood for those reforms. Long years ago be was opposed to the measure which gave birth to the interstate commerce commission. f g He said the bill was the creation of wild-eyed enemies of the rail 15 roads who, being without a dollar, sought to rob the railroads fe Later he denounced the measure which tookfrom the railroads M the right to plead to- fellow-servant act as to contributary negligence $B m accidents to employes. v ilS!l He opposed the pure food bills as the work of malcontents whose 1' minds were filled with suspicion. '2g ire opposed all the reforms advocated by Roosevelt, the enacting of winch has redounded to the good name of Roosevelt S 3g All reforms must meet with the same contemptuous flinw n, '! were uttered by Sutherlnad yesterday; ridicule is th. s ckt trad of those who. hke Sutherland, have no good argument to present M' Had Sutherland lived when the thirteen colonics were swJr :iS for independence he would have been a Tory, "oCX ' heroic founders of this government with his slippery tongue prat n. ,li about visionanes and wild-eyed champions of popularXCm M Sutherland has no conception of the spirit animating Te P Jg? gressrves. He quotes the song, "We will follow him anywj ere ev M erywbere, whicb served to express the f.,(h in Rooseve of the S members of the Progressive convention in Chicago To, a l tS maniacal idolatr of the Roosevelt men. & s7,hT ? fSS with knowledge of his own unfaithful career has 1 Snthlnnd' r u any man, and. therefore, is amared that t hoi T D faith !n fe watched Roosevelt's public Jtl 0v iR implicitly trust tho man they have learn 1 Z s Iot 1 " M' anywhere. The ditty is a song of faith that, though iihv stniction. served the purpose of voicing whit th, 7T f V Cn" I Roosevelt could be relied on to lead ar igh 1 : $R thusiasm and their love and their hoTf n fnthey shuLe their en- . W$ might have been expected of an v od.'of ' is what ''EJ principle. The enthusiasts proved til ZT' ' hMU fr ' exurberance which caused them tn h0"Sst.v of Purpose in the J2S even in a small degreeapp l V " that fe and the hypocrite "d the hypercritical WSl into the words a meaning foreign to ft ? rt to read ife But Suthcrland'is a born "1 T? , . nvPcnte and he plays, his part well. ffii |