The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-13
CURRY|NG Down
OF SUTHERLAND
Veterans of the War Express
Opinion Regarding the
Junior Senator.
WHY UTAH DELEGATION
DISLIKES BOY IN BLUE
One Old Soldier Cites the Vet
Grams in Federal Office
in Zion.


Sutherland, the side partner OF Smoot,
hard this morning." said prominent
Grand Army man to The Tribune sun
day. "He just picked up the JUNIOR
Senator, threw him down, sat upon MIN
and jolted the life out Of him. Ii vas
the greatest shaking up this Jack NOR
mon has ever recelved. Old soldlers
everywhere will indorse Judge McCarty.
Many people in Salt Lake know. that
this Senatorial adjunct to the church
has no love for the old soldier. Suther"
land g ancestors have little use for an
American soldier The trouncing which
the Americans give the British in liIo
still sticks in the craw OF many an
Englishman, and the Sutherland tribe
Hobbs was battling for his country
George Sutherland, now Senator from
Utah, was born, in Buckinghamshire,
England When the war for the Union
was ended Sutherland was years old.
No wonder he has no love for the Union
soldier"
"And speaking of Union soldiers, "
said another gray bearded veteran In the
party, 'fwbat has Smoot ever done for
The Union soldier7 Like his Jack Nor
mon colleague, Smoot has no use for the
Union soldier The men who wore the
blue Of the United States army either
in the regular service or as volunteers,
are distasteful to Smoot. Only nine
months to a day after the apostolic Sen
ator was born in Salt Lake City, that
veteran soldier, Gen. Pat. Connor with
his boys in blue marched into Salt Lake
and established the post at Fort Doug
las And for years, the blue-coated men
at Fort Douglas held the hierarchy, OF
which Smoot is now u part, IN subJec"
tion, and made them respect Old Glory.
Smoot is member Of the Senate Com
mittee on Pensions. Can any one cite
single measure that that representa-
tive Of q law-defying and law-breaking
band of twenty-six men has ever ad-
vanced for the men who wore the bluef
True, he has called at the pension Of
flee and called the commissioner at
tention to the fact that some veteran
should receive pension, but it was be-
cause that veteran had filed the proof
necessary to secure the pension 1t was
not due to Smoot that it was granted,
but to the evidence in the form OF docu~
ments fled In the archives of the pen
sion bureau. Save me from such friends
of the soldier as Smoot and Suther-
landi'
"Great array of veterans of the war
who hold Office in the Federal service In
Salt Lake, chimed In third man.
Look at the list:
Spry, William, q. s. Marshal, veteran
in the Mormon church, fought va
iantly in Land board
Callister, ICurley, U. S. Collector of In
ternal Revenue, veteran in the
Mormon church.
Thomas, Arthur, postmaster at Salt
Lake, Jack Mormon, veteran III
civil service, began work as page
in Congress; has pulled public test
ever since, but never In defense of
his country.
Booth, Hyrum E., United States District
Attorney, Jack Mormon, testified
in behalf of the hierarch and his
apostolic supporter before Senate
Committee On Privileges and Elec
Anderson, James H, chief deputy col
lector internal revenue, Mormon,
sometimes known rs 'Fussy jim
N.Y. and "Navajo Jimmy" for
mcr County Commissioner, standby
dier except in Zion and at Wash
ington, and he never saw soldier
but to hate him.
"Grizzled veterans these, great lovers
Of Union soldiers, these appointees of
Uncle Sam in Salt Lake. All fast
friends of the apostolic Senator and his
Jack Mormon colleague. A veteran of
either the Civil or Spanish war, it will
be seen, has strong pull with the HE
rarch g delegation in the Senate.
The Republican State central com
mittee is called to meet at the Land
office in the joint building on Tuesday,
August 21. At this meeting William
Spry will tender his resignation. Per
nicious activity by Federal official in
politics will not be tolerated by the
Government, hence spry will step out.
There is no let-up in the war between
the church Democrats and the GENTLE
Democrats. Chairman Martineau still
holds the whip hand. There has been
no change in the place for the pow
wow, Saltair. In the meanwhile the
Gentle Democrats are swearing ven
geance against the church crowd for the
reason that State Chairman Bamberger
was ignored in the matter and that his
resort, the Lagoon, was not selected as
the place for Democratic day.