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Show Suhheriand May Get High Federal Post Prediction was contained In a telegraph tele-graph dispatch from Washington, which reached i;d n today, that, in 1 the event Sfnntor Harding Is elected Oresident, the, appointment of former nited States Senator George Sutherland Suther-land of Utah, either a a n einber of the cabinet or as a new member of the United Stat-s supreme court, can be looked for. In advance of the election, the mes-stated, mes-stated, Harding is not promising i offices to .ndfcyone. nor is he making tentative appointments, and no statement state-ment has been forthcoming from the i Republican nominee as regards Sena- , lor Sutherland. Hut men recently bak from Marion hrlng the word that Senator Suther 1 md for more than month, has been a constant adviser r the Republican ' 'presidential nominee lb"! b- has been tailed Inio consultation more fre-Iquently fre-Iquently than a:-y other man. and that he has ii -ii.-i li Eceempanled Mr. Harding Hard-ing rn his campaign tours and been 'present with him on important occasions occa-sions on the front porch " Through-,'out Through-,'out all this Senator Sutherland has ! not forced hlmsell Into the limelight; ho has not figured In the press dispatches dis-patches from Mat Ion or from the Harding special train but he has been ever present, and the deduction that . he mutf ko either Into the cabinet or on the supreme bench is based largelv on the fact that Senator Hard-Ine Hard-Ine has made Senator Sutherland his chief reliance when he has sought advice. ad-vice. It is not unreasonable to presume that If Senator Harding a randldute, has thought so highly of the advice ol former Senator - Sutherland, he would thin!: m. b- hU'lily of that advice after he became president Since his retirement from tho senate Mr Sutherland has been practicing law In Washington, and his practice has been important though not of., u character to bring him publicity, nor has his disposition been such as to ! seek to keep himself in the limelight. 1 In fact, his inherent modesty Is said by returned visitors from Marion to i be responsible for the general lack 1 r.t nnrlnllnn nf the f:.et Ihnt SoiJ.-ilnr Sutherland s relations with Senator i Harding have been for many weeks ' so intimate and as Important If Mr. Harding looks upon Senator ' Sutherland as best suited for cabinet ! duty, he will undoubtedly consider him , either for attorney general or for secretary sec-retary of the interior ; if he decides to connect Senator Sutherland with the judiciary', he will be compelled, of I necessity, to await a vacancy on the i supreme bench. |