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Show THE HERALD-REPUBLICAN ON SUTHERLAND'S DEFEAT. Senator Sutherland, in a special dispatch from Washington to tho Herald-Republican, his own paper, dwelling on the causes leading up to the senator's defeat, says: "The principal one of these was that Mr. Taft was aware of the political situation in Utah and was certain the senator would be returned for another term. Senator Sutherland has always been a strong supporter of the Taft administration and the President was averse to losing such an able adherent, . especially when the Republican margin will be so small as in the next Congress. It is known that this was a factor in making the selection of an associate justice. "Another factor was that the insurgent senators were not as friendly disposed towards Senator Sutherland as they would be towards Judge Vandcventer or some other man whose views upon public questions were not so well known. The senator has never hesitated to voice hi3 sentiments upon the great questions that come beforo Congress Con-gress "He is a conservative, a Republican of the old school, heartily in accord with the idea of progress, but there is nothing noth-ing of the radical about him. Consequently the senators of the Bristow and Lafollette stripe would not relish him upon the Supreme bench, and there is no doubt that , they took care to see that the President knew it." We wonder if Taft was really diplomatic enough to tell Corporation Corpora-tion Sutherland that he needed him in congress? Or did George wire that to his paper just to let himself down easy? ' |