The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-10
SUTHERLAND IS
TO MAKE FIGHT
Friends Say He Will Not Yield
MeekIy to New Smoot-
Salisbury Alliance.
LOOKS FOUR YEARS AHEAD
SEES HANDWRITING ON THE
WALL AS TO SENATORSHlP.

AS A result Of the alliance recently
formed between Apostle-Senator Reed
Smoot and Ex-senator Orange
j. Salisbury. Senator George Sutherland
is being showed to the rear in Republican
party councils.
sutherland is preparing to fight to re-
tain his prestige, and there is a new fac
tiOnal alignment in the Republican party.
SmOot and Salisbury lead one faction
and are in control, as first told by The
Herald, while Sutherland is trying to raj
" a band of followers and remain fac
tor
The first conspicuous development was
the row over the Ogden poStoffice and
the open opposition of George NJ. Hanson,
SutherlandS private secretary, to L. w.
Shurtliff. the Smoot candidate for the
state senator nomination in Weber coun-
ty. Sutherland 'disavOWed." and Han
son said he was fighting Shurtliff. and
not SmoOt. But the war on Shurtliff con-
tinued, and f. T. Hulaniski, rated as a
Sutherland man, was nominated. This
was made possible because the Smoot ma
chine took on the notorious Bib
Glasmann as postmaster in Ogden in the
face of Sutherldnd'S opposition.
Smoot on the Aggressive.
Following this skirmish. Smoot made
the next aggressive move. He promised
Salisbury the senatorship when the next
vacancy occurred, in case he himself was
not candidate Although Smoot would
like TO remain senator, it is not believed
the quorum of apostles will give its con-
sent to him becoming a candidate again. Sc
Salisbury thinks the chances are good for
man bearing the initials go. ]. s. to
I'LL the next vacancy and he accepted the
state Craftsmanship and began dumping
his money into the campaign.
The meeting of independent Republi-
cans, which terminated in what Judge O.
w. Powers called a young ladies' GRO
quet party is credited with having been
IN Sutherland's interest 1t failed 10
make any Roadway
Just to show Sutherland where he was
at, the Smoot-Salisbury alliance pushed
him entirely aside in making the ar
rangements for the county convention al
the Salt Palace last Monday. Suther-
land wanted to have something to say
about the slate. but he was pushed rude
ly aside No man suspected of being
more friendly to Sutherland than to The
new combine was allowed to show his
head in the convention
Clesson S. Kinney. selected by Salisbur,
for the state senatorship, refused ia
pledge his vote for Salisbury for United
States senator two years hence and he
was taken off the slate at the eleventh
hour, Benner X Smith being nomina ted
instead.
Bitter Fight in Sight.
The situation is becoming more and
more gloomy for Sutherland, and his
friends declare he will make a bitter
fight before he viii yield. His term does
not expire for four years. but he is look
ing ahead II Salisbury is elected. there
Will be two Gentiles in the senate from
Utah. Sutherland fears the machine. il
1t is still in control. will rule that there
must be at least one Mormon and that
would mean Sutherland'S farewell To
Washington.
Sutherland for several months has
shown symptoms of preparing for a break
with Smoot- There are some who have
predicted that he would flop to the
American party. and take back all he
mas said about Kearns, even as he sUaI-
lowed all he had said about Smoot when
he clambered into the political bed with
the apostle under promise OF receiving a
senatorship in return. But his friends
say that is not his program They de
clare he Will make the fight in the Re
publican ranks as an anti-machine leader
While he cannot now control his own
county. they aver that he has strength
throughout the state, and will organize
it thoroughly.
Many observers believe his struggles
Will avail him naught. and that the first
chapter has been written in the political
obituary of George Sutherland.
Many Changes in Alliances.
-Four years have seen many changes in
the factional alignment within the Repub-
mean party. In 1902 Thomas Kearns. then
senator, was fighting side by side with
Reed SmOOt, then an apostle but nor vet