Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-08-31 | Page 6 | Sutherland and Smith Rivals

Ioo SUTHERLAND AND MTHR1VALS 'Spirited Campaign for Presi-; Presi-; dency Develops in Bar Association As-sociation Convention. Chicago, Aug. 31. A spirited campaign cam-paign for the presidency of the American Amer-ican Bar association was launched today to-day between United States Senator Sutherland of Utah and Walter George Smith of Philadelphia. The election is to be held tomorrow. , Political lines have been drawn and the Republicans are supporting Senator Sen-ator Sutherland while "the Democrats are behind iMr. Smith. Former United Unit-ed States Senator Ellhu Root of New York is active in the campaign for Sutherland. Supporters of Mr. Sutherland point out that the far west has not had a president of the association. Recommendation that the duty of maintaining neutral rights in international inter-national difficulties fallS'prlmarily on the United States was made today in resolutions presented to the American Bar association by the committee on international law, headed by Charles Nobel Gregory.