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Show UTAH'S DISHWASHER. Not long ago the Salt Lake Herald-Republican bintcd strongly at tho prospective nomination of Senator Sutherland to the circuit court. Now that paper is making wry faces at any one who says the corporation senator aspires, or hopes, or desires, to a judgeship on the circuit bench. Since Sutherland was ignominiously eliminated, after much diligent dili-gent boosting, from consideration as material for the supreme bench, he has hastened to deny that he is a candidate for anything. His colleagues col-leagues in the senate placed an effective block-to his aspirations when they let it be known that they would not confirm him for anything, any-thing, and that, had they the power to do so, they would send him back to Utah, stripped of his senatorial toga. One of the progressive senators is reported to have said that Sutherland had made an excellent scullion for Senator Aldrich, but now that the boss is to retire to private life, instead of leaving Sutherland Suth-erland to inflict his presence on self-respecting senators, Aldrich should take the Utah senator to his Rhode Island home, there to continue con-tinue him in his employment as a dishwasher. It is somewhat humiliating for a proud state like Utah to be forced to take up Taft's discard and Aldrich's menial and make of such a man a senator. What ails the people of Utah, that they quietly and supinely submit to this imposition? If this disregard of the state 's high honor continues, Utah will become known as a rotten borough, where the tricky, unscrupulous and mercenary completely dominate in politics and dictate the election of men to office. |