The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-26
Senator Sutherland Pays Heat
ed Attention to Leaders
of the New Party.
OPPOSED SMOOT ELECTION
DOES NOT BELIEVE AN APOSTLE
SHOULD GO TO SENATE.

Littlefeld was concerned. Senator
George Sutherland, however, hurled
himself into the breach and INDUCED
in some mighty plain speaking on To-
cal topics. Senator Sutherland seemed
TO be thoroughly in earnest. AT times
he was eloquent, and always the au-
dience, which comfortably filled the
hrst floor and fringed the family cir
Gle. was with him
Senator Sutherland followed Con-
gresham Howell. After the ponder
Gus, prosy platitudes of Howell. in
Guiding modest reference to the pres
ent Utah congressional delegat ton "a
the best that ever represented the
state at Washington, Mr.. Sutherland
was positive relief. The senator an
nounced at the outset that he proposed
to confine himself to local issues. and
mis- hearers at once sat Up and BEGAN
to notice.
Lies That Cling.
Independent people who are inteili-
gent cannot all think alike said the
senator. I'VE must have our differ
ences. There is wisdom i'm multitude
of counsel. But | like fair counsel. /
like honest counsel. The petty lies of
petty men and petty newspapers some
despair 10 great souls
L could not if 1 would. and L would
not If | couid, influence your free ac-
| ton at the polls. But your Judgment
should be intelligent as well as indie
pendent. L will gladly follow good ad-
vice from anybody. be he Mormon.
Jew or Gentle, priest or layman.
Will not tolerate dictation from any
| body, be he Mormon, Jew or Gentle.
churchman or layman. l freely concede
to the Democratic party and the
American party, the absolute right
the absolute duty of acting I'm this cleo
| ton as their judgment shall dictate.
| Issues. however, have been injected
| into this campaign that are of such
character that we are not in doubt 2S
to when honesty of purpose ends ana
appeals to passion and prejudice be-
| gin.
Disease, Not Political Party.
"The American ticket was named
by an organization that is not so much
political Organization as It is a dis
| ease, with short but acute history
of unpleasant symptoms I have no
| quarrel with the ann and file of the
| American party. They are honest and
| patriotic men and women The same
| thing is true of the other parties, be
/ cause all parties are taken from the
American people. and the American
people are always honest and patrio-
| tic.
so l believe the men and women Of
| the American party are honest, but
mistaken. They sometimes accept cpl
/ thets as arguments. YOU addressing
/ himself directly to the Americans
| believe from what your organ has
told you that a hieraTch is walking up
and down the land blasting the crops.
causing high winds, bringing On detec-
| rives from Scotland Yard and causing
sickness among the cattle
At this point. Mr.. Sutherland told a
| humorous story of a Kansas farmer
who was picked up by a cyclone. and
! who said 'Well. I've started but I
don't know where Tn going or when
I'm going TO get there" He likened
the attitude of the farmer to that of
the American party, and suggested
| that If he were an American he
would ask VINO started the cyclone.
Leadership Is Dishonest.
This party of yours" he vent on,
was conceived in disappointed person.
al political ambition. Your leadership
is q dishonest leadership. The real
/ grievance of your leaders is not that
the Mormon church is in politics, but
that it is not in politics for them" AT
! this point Mr. Sutherland was inter-
rupted by man who asked:
us the church in politics."
I'll get around TO that in plenty of
time rep,ied the speaker. Continuing,
he said: There are highminded men
in the American party, men whom ]
honor and respect, men who honestly
| believe there are evils N this state
| that can only be corrected through the
| American party. But those men are
not your leaders, the men you have
been following along path of cal-
umny and abuse are the men who are
owred by the Salt Lake Tribune. FoI
two years the men who run that paper
have been ordered to pour out the walls
of their malignity upon the head OF
! every man who could not be bought
or bulIied into subserviency.
! ''The state of Utah, thank God, die
| not hold men vile enough for THEN
purpose, so they went abroad and i'm
ported them. 1t was not an expensive
| proceeding. A blackguard is not .
| costly proposition. On the ground OF
economy. as well as of personal desire
they knew what they wanted and got
| II And every individual who has N
anv way offended the paper has been
Indignantly pursued
Attack on DR.. Beatty.
'Take the case of DR.. T. b. Beatty
a man clean of life. pure in thought
lofty i'm purpose, a hish-minded. splen-
did American gentleman" here Sena-
tor Sutherland was interrupted by d
burst of applause. DIR. Beatty incur
red the enmity of this paper and al
once it turned its mud batteries upon
him. Let any man renew his allegiance
to the Republican party or do any
thing else OF which the Tribune's own
ers do not approve, and he is de-
nounced as a Jack Mormon. church
sycophant and other epithets of an in