Show IBELANDS S DEFENSE Sublime Gall of the Champion Apologizer CONFESSIONS OF THE TRUTH He Explain to nil Masters bnt BU Explanation trill Hardly Waih Witha debonair and devilmaycare expression which fits him so ill that it at once suggests that it is assumed to cover the shaking his dry bones experienced ex-perienced from THE HERALD exposures Marshal Ireland rushes to the Tribune with a statement intended to set him right in the eyes of the public That limited portion of the public which reads his frantic endeavor a defense will be apt to rise from the perusal hall amused and half astonished He takes up each affidayit and attempts in a I labored explanation to set some of the I charges asidebut after all he only seeks refuge in the most natural thing in the world for him to doand that which everyone expected him to don do-n simple denial Some things he leaves unnoticed and others he has the insufferable insuf-ferable gall to admit attempting this course to make them pass as things ono o-no moment He says with the most unblushing effrontery that he did make Lindsay divide his fees with him inconsideration in-consideration of his appointmemt as deputy marshal and interposes the unanswerable un-answerable argument in support of his unselfish policy that if my deputy works for me at 25 cents a day I make 25 out of his services that is simply a ot dt matter between him and me This will strike most people as having the charm of ingenuousness at least The horrible I system prevailing at the L N r gr r il Pen until THE HERALD look the matter up he passes over lightly as a mere bagatelle though some of the occurrences occur-rences of that infamous hole might have rivalled those under Haws regime in Never too Late To Mend The charges are in some measure true he complacently says The revolting cruelty practiced upon the prisoner Smith he says was caused by his having gotten into trouble with some of the other I prisoners We will ask the MarshaV whether this trouble consisted in Smiths refusal to sleep with a negro and whether the tortures he endured were inflicted on him in consequence of his persistence in refusing The pleasantry pleas-antry of Airds being hanged by the neck until he was black in the face the Marshal lightly leaves ignoredit was only a trilling matter and besides there was no way m which it could be satisfactorily explained The maggotty meat episode is also confessed because forsooth the government allowed him no refrigerator He very weakly at temps to make a point by mentioning the statements of Mr Nicholson Mr Clawson and others with reference to the present system at the Pen choosing choos-ing to entirely forget that their experience in his hotel aa he facetiously terms it took place after some sort of a reform had been entered upon in consequence of THE HERALD exposures and that anything these gentlemen have ever said or uttered has not in the least refuted fisted the charges TUE HERALD made against Ireland He explains the charge hat he seat articles of food oaiE Penitentiary to his own house by slating I slat-ing that he owned the cows giving the milk On this ground he satisfied his conscience for appropriating thegovern mentbrcad and sending the products of the government field and the convicts con-victs labor to the various Federal officials offi-cials in the ring Will he deny that amine a-mine he was working in the mountains back of the Penitentiary was supplied from the Penitentiary stores and that an old man named Bosch who managed the mine for him was regularly loaded with government supplies Will he deny that the milk he obtained from his cows was allowed to stand a week or ten days so that butter could be made and that the butter but-ter was then told to the more affluent prisoners on the inside all this for his own behoof Will he deny that he carried car-ried on a regular brokerage business in connection with his marshalship and that when the appropriation for expenses ex-penses ran out or was aid to have run i out he bought up his guards warrants I and those of others having claims against him at 13 to 16 cents discount He probably will deny it but that will noet W L tllh 1nentt ti t I not affect its truth in the least Ireland attempts to explain away Neepers II statement that potatoes were charged to the government at the rate of 75c I per bushel when they were selling at 35c oa the streetand potatoes too raised by government labor on the government gov-ernment farmby an affidavit from Neeper reciting hOle he came to male such a charge but not in the least denying that he had made it or that it vat any thing but true Neeper saw the bills in Irelands office charging potatoes at 75 cents per bushel and he told his fellow guards about it at the time stating stat-ing that he thought it looked crooked and he ran across the road to the grocers and asked what potatoes were on the street finding them 35 cents a bushel Let Mr Ireland look up that bill against the government and if THE HERALDS Home Markets for the same date do not show potatoes to have been selling at some 60 per cent less than his figures to the parent government we will admit that on this count at least he has been falsified The most palpably thin explana tion In Irelands lone jumble IS that charge which the Tribuue rightly terms aa apparently the most serious of aUtbe practice of having guards who bad only served fractions of mnnth t e 1 rolls This Ireland says wvuuwcpay and its gauzy hollowness will be Apparent to every business manoccurs by his paying oilmen oil-men discharged In the middle of the month out of his own pocket so that the guard working on the last dar of the month receipts for full time and he takes enouch out of that amount to reimburse himself Shades of Bryant and Stratton What would be thought of the snininc super ntendent who kept that sort of a record with his dis charged workmen The reflections which will steal over everyone on read lug Mr Irelands attenuated explana tion of this charge will be first how easy it would have been for the guards discharged to have signed the pay roll for the actual number of days they worked second how unfortunate that Irelands explanation ihould be unani ceptible of any other proof than his bare assertion Ireland ia hit and hit hard In a very tender place We have only to reiterate our suggestion to Mr pickson without with-out the slightest fear of his observing it that in the case of this exMarshal who came to the public crib with a purse so lean and gaunt ad who quits it with a purse so fat and plethoric he has very good material with which to sandwich in in his investigations of the family affairs of the Mormons |