The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-27
THE SECOND RIDDLES SOLO.


defense of the Republican machine Is
the first intimation the public has had
that he was seriously interested I'm the
campaign. Devoting himself entirely
TO local affairs, he made a plea for
fairness, for honesty of statement and
decency in general that is most COM
mendable. incidentally, he disclaimed
ever having been the beneficiary of
church influence, and declared with
some Vehemence that if he had profit
ed by it, he would go hang himself
rather than follow the course of those
American" leaders who sought such
influence and then whine about il.
But Senator Sutherland missed the
point entirely when he referred TO the
Nuggets of Truth" and other cam
Palsn literature of days gone by. In
ms talk he assumes that only Sone
man, Senator Cannon, benefited Z by
that, when as a matter of fact it was
Republican campaign document.
published by the Republican state
committee and distributed under the.
personal supervision of Charles Crane.
then state chairman of the Republican
party. Again, in his reference to the
election of Senator Kearns, he as
sumes that the senator was the ONLY
beneficiary of such influence as was
used in his behalf, whereas every citi
zen familiar with political history.
knows that the Republican party got
the benefit of Senator Kearns' candi-
dacy 1t accepted his campaign contri-
buttons and his personal support. if
nominated him I'm a regular caucus of
the. party and both Gentiles and Nor
mons voted for his nomination and
election. And the Republican Gentiles
were particularly pleased to have
him.
Whatever Senator Sutherland said Of
the two former senator's so acrinloni-
ously. applies directly and fully to
the Republican party of the state of
Utah; and the very things he attri-
butes to these men i'm criticism of them
have been the basis of the Democratic
charge that the Republican party has
been the cause. the sole cause of the
bitterness. the internal warfare. the
social feuds that have wrought such
injury to the state. Granting that
what Senator Sutherland says IS true
of past political events, the RESPONSE
bility for those events lies wholly with
the Republican party organization :
and there is no escape from that re-
sponslbility.
The speaker referred with pardon
able pride 20 the fact that he opposed
the election of Senator Smoot, but he
made no reference to the fact that he
later became a cog i'm the machine
which the Provo senator built up, and
which today is pursuing the same tao
tics, following the same course he.
Sutherland, fought until he became a
part of the machine. He makes 10 ex-
PLANTATION of the remarkable change of
heart which permitted him to become
United States senator by the grace Of
the Smoot machine, operat ting and
achieving results by exactly the same
system he had condemned so bitterly
when Smoot was elected.
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What he says about the rank and file
of the American" party is obviously
fair. and It is equally true, as he says,
that the leadership and motives IF the
party are discredited by the best of
the Americans; but he fails to note
that there would have been no Amer
cam offshoot of the Republican party
II he and the men who believe with
him had remained true to their con
yictions and fought for them wltnin
the ranks of the party. When he &C.
serted TO the machine. and when 1t De
came so strong and arrogant that none
but the Pussy Jimmys', the Callisters
and Sprys and Booths were permitted
a voice in it's affairs, the hope of sue
cessful reform within the party Was
gone, and With it the men who had
been content to remain regular so