Show AN EXPLANATION The Tribune and its evening echo try to be funny over a few words of commendation com-mendation in relation to one Ireland when he emerged from obscurity to the position of United States Marshal for the Territory As the fellow was then an unknown quantity in the social atmosphere at-mosphere hereabout and looked as though he might be respectable and act accordingly Tm HERALD gave him the benefit which attaches to men accused ac-cused of a crime in courtthat is I it presumed him a good man If he has overturned the pedestal erected for him why should we be held responsible it being simply a case of misplaced confidence con-fidence 7 He had a chance to be one hing or the other we extended to him the benefit of supposing he would be one and he has shown himself to be the other The discredit according to all rules of fairness belongs on the side of the shelved and unrespected betrayer of confidence not to those who trusted him and were deceived Not that much was expected but that a little was hoped for in the ordinary course of human decency and that little even did not appear I ap-pear We can say of him as the poet I said of his yellow dog which after i being well fed and housed destroyed the clothing of the family and left them with not so much as a fresh egg in the nests and concluded its career in a ditch i Parted without the least regret Except that we had ever met I LILLIAN WUITNET tells the Boston Evening Traveller that Kate Field for the eighth time has delivered her political lecture on Mormonism Lillian thinks Gotham mut now be advised of the treason and iniquity of the Saints Lillian Lil-lian represents Kate as saying I know that he Cleveland desires that this Utah question snail be settled by his administration knowing this with grief in lay heart 1 regard the removal of gallant Governor Murray as a most unfortunate mistake Kates wailing cries over the fate of her Eli proclaims that she is dck 0 Sick |