Show IJ r SIZING UP SUTHERLAND 11 11 i The Denver News has not an exalted opinion of George Suther Sutherland 11 i land of Utah In a long editorial comment on the I stocking up of oft t 1 the supreme court the Denver paper says It William S has been chief justice of the supreme court p of New Jersey for seven years and during that time the state has hasI I I I i been both the incubator and the I refuge of the illegal megal trusts and corn como combines i bines They have incorporated there so that they might come under I i the solicitous protection of New Jersey courts 0 i 4 I Georgo George Sutherland is senator from Utah by grace of the Mor Mormon i I tf mon church and its partners of the sugar smelting transportation It j and arid other trusts As senator not once did he vote against Aldrich 1 tl in the long battle over the tariff law He Ee has never held beld judicial I position but as a lawyer his practice has bas been as counsel and ad advocate 1 I vacate of the big corporations in several of which he be was a stock fl t f holder Personally he is tho the mildest mannered and most agreeable T 1 I gentleman that ever scuttled a ship of tariff revision or any other It II j bark carrying a reform cargo The interests which are procuring his I I U nomination will find him their responsive devotee I t i liThe The views and inclinations of both Gummere and Sutherland Cr t also the influences which would affect them were no doubt sub tJ rl T to antecedent test by the interests which recommended them themI I Being satisfactory they are pressed with such force that th t the president president president dent intends to appoint them It is 15 intensely regrettable that President Taft should sho d have smothered his reverence for tho the supreme tribunal under a demand from the reactionary clement element of his bis party There were thousands s of men from whom he might have selected with honor to himself and arni with general satisfaction to the country To go deliberately outside this large class in order to pick and Sutherlands is to give ammunition t on to his is enemies and helpless disappointment to his friends t |