Show UTAH IN THE CORPORATIONS GRIP I It was a fact well known to this paper that the Honorable Parley L Williams general attorney of the Harriman lines located at Salt Lake City was the dictator of Utah great politics He is the one who insisted on making George Sutherland a United States senator because he h 11 1 trained the said George as a corporation lawyer in Parleys own office officer Sutherland had acted as a corporation lawyer for the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line railways and also for forthe forthe forthe the Denver Rio Grande Western railroad before his election to the senate When the interests wanted another senator in the United States congress they simply notified not the Hon Parley L Williams as to what was wanted and the Honorable Parley so arranged it in Utah The general public perhaps never were suspicions suspicious of the dic die dictatorship dictatorship tutorship of ot Parley L Williams in Utah affairs or that although he is a Democrat he wielded more influence in Republican politics than perhaps any Republican in the state of Utah I Among the paid agents of the various corporation interests in Utah are found Democrats Republicans Socialists Mormons and and all aU the Honorable Parley has had to do was to lay his wires and then pull them Being himself the of ofa ofa a Mormon bishop yet at the same time a strong anti Mormon he heI fie like no other man understood the Utah situation and with the com I backing hacking of both the Harriman Haniman and Gould interests this easily made Parley Williams the most powerful political factor in Utah excepting only the Mormon church leadership should the latter care to assert itself I True Williams did not favor Reed Smoot for senator but he lIe was entirely too shrewd to make his opposition too formidable for foru forr r w u l J a d ti f I V r r J r when whoa he saw that the church leaders gave Reed Smoot permission to enter the political field the Hon Parley L Williams reluctantly gave way in order to save his great eat prestige for the big interests he rep represented represented represented resented VIe We have been waiting for the Salt Lake Tribune to expose the power of Mr Williams and we wo were much surprised to find instead of the Tribune that the Salt Lake should tell the story Here Rere is what the says But the inquiry in the east shows that Utah people have not been given the credit of being reasonably conservative The Harriman interests which have known some peaceful I moments in m the state due to the conservatism of its people have not understood the reason In their opinion Parley L Williams general counsel in Utah for the Oregon Short Line has been keeping the state conservative It was the Williams hand fine and Italian which was regarded in New York as the controlling interest for business sanity in Utah In the minds eye of the Harriman interests in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Williams has stood like F r rock immovable sad gloomy and peculiar pushing back with both hands the rising tide radicalism in Utah Like Mother Partington who swept sw pt back the sea with a abroom abroom abroom broom Williams has bas waved his hand and the storm of Utah discontent has calmed the winds recede into a soft murmur like the summer zephyr and amI public sentiment has crept growling into its cavern for two more years Williams is in the now explaining to his employers the Utah statutes on the subject of trusts in general and coal trusts in particular posing before them as the proprietor of Utah while the managing director of the great Harriman system sits in speechless admiration a on for the great man who carries in his vest pocket the destinies of a sovereign state I Coming from a newspaper in which wl ch George Sutherland is a part owner the foregoing foro going reproduction proves conclusively that all is not harmony within the big interests Perhaps Sutherland feels big enough to throw off the yoke of his Dear Friend Parley Perhaps the is only trying to throw dust in the eyes of the people Perhaps well remember just when the same paper thundered aloud for prohibition and then switched to the other side without any explanation whatever that I you must draw thaw your own conclusion by reading between the lines Is it possible that Parley Williams is not supporting Senator Sutherland for the supreme court If not what is the trouble Utah may get got a square deal if the politicians fall out |