Show THE TRIBUNE A keply to KM stra iise article ri orning carr jan eoa RECORD the unfairness in which the salt like tubule in its editorial of tho dinst speaks of judge porter in connection with the guiteau anal ought not to be allowed to pas without comment it carnot be that the editor knows the nian of whom he writes or he would not be licely to make ne of such language as the following we do not believe that porter is a great lawyer porter is a great and is so recognized and considered by the american bar and that be had no abler lawyers to oppose him in the guiteau 1 was no fault of his nothing would have pleased porter better than to have met a man or a number of men in that anal worthy of his steel and had he been thus accommodated he would then have arisen to the necessities of the and not only have swept ah ay the flimsy defense set up in alie case but ho would hive demolished all the that could possibly have been brought to ita support cudse porter has met the ablest lawyers in this count i ind has invariably been a match for them as was shown in the celebrated leaber trial in that trial porter met V m M evarts a lawver who has but few peers and probably no superior on this continent and it i claimed b competent judges that porter who took the laboring oar in thit case got the better of evarts and kept it through the whole five months of the trial that judge porter became hat irritated as everybody did by the frequent and lan guage of guiteau there is but little doubt but there were no denunciations heaped upon the aile wretch by porter that were not justified by the evidence even to syphilitic monstrosity As insanity was sot up as the defence it would seem as if was entirely justified in cr that ahe murder wis ho culmination of guitrau s depravity trough life instead of inspiration as avas claimed by the defense the aboe is not written a defense of judge porter he needs none where he is knonk but simply to dis abuse the minds of some who ina be led astray by the remarks of the tribune judge has received does ie ceide and will continue to receive the thanks of the american people for the part he took in the guiteau arni the salt lake tribune to the contrary notwithstanding |