Show I HB PLUTTKBS i John RrtfcBride of odorous private and public reputation was selected as one of the antiMormons to stuff the visiting vis-iting G A B comrades last week He was picked l1pon because of his known disposition to abuse the people among whom he has lived and whoso bread he often eats while cursing those who bestow be-stow it upon him A portion of one of the campfires was given up McBride who undertook deliverin address his effort was a most dismal failure andthe visitors expressed surprise that such a boor should have been designated to entertain them The gentlemen and ladies did not uDderstaw hat the purpose pur-pose was not to entertain them but to i fireat them lies and all manner of vile abate of the Mormons with the expectation ex-pectation that it would take effect hereafter If the G A B comrades had bean familiar with the plot they might have regarded McBride as less of a boor than they did In the course of his harrangue McBride Mc-Bride among other things asserted that lying in Utah has reached the sublimity of a fine art and applied the art to the Mormons THE HERALDon Sunday suggested that McBride was mistaken in his application which should have been closer home ia view of the fact that several glaring mii etat meats were made by him Some of the latter were pointed out among others the assertion that Oentile asking ask-ing about the expenditure of taxes collected col-lected in Utah is told that it is none of his business It was also incidentally mentioned that this same McBride ought not to be so deeply exercised over the manner in which taxes are expended ex-pended inasmuch as be pays none I though he poses as one of the prosperous pros-perous men of the community Tar Haw pleasantry ruffled the feathers of McBride the hit bird fluttered In Wednesdays issue of the Tribune he voids himself over a column and a half and manages td completely varify THE HERALDS assertion that in his address he made a misapplication when he charged the profession of lying to the JUormojs instead of himself He denies but he does not disprove a single utterance of TUK HEBALD But what he lacks in the matter of demonstrating demon-strating that he is not a professor in the art of misrepresentation he makes up In perjonalabuse the editor of Tan HULD The latter has not lived on this earth as long as McBride but he has been hero long enough to know better than bandy words with a blackguard long enough to know that calling names is not argument and the hurling of vile abuse iJ not reasoning In this respect he has seemingly lived to better purpose than McBride As to the blackguardism blackguard-ism and base slanders aimed at the I editor of this paper they fall far short of the mark He has lived in vain if he can bs injured in name In this community commu-nity or disturbed in mind by anything that can be said by John R McBride or by any man who confesses bimse f a blackguard It is aid above that McBride in his Tribune article referred to THE HERALD HER-ALD assertion that he hid made a misapplication when he charged the profession perverting the truth fi tae Mormons instead of to himself With outat this time attempting to reply to some of his > malfc5on3chirges and eel dent misstatementsthe figures sad facts not being at hand at this I mment we will simply My f that when McBride says the i i J l editor of TH HERALD know bat the county officials as soon as the efforts to get at their accounts began closed the assessment and tax books and the journal of the County Court against the scrutiny of the defendants and their attorneys and that it was only after a writ commanding their production was issued by the District Court with the doors of the public prison open to receive re-ceive the parties holding them as the penalty for refusal tnat the books were brought reluctantly Into court and sub witted to inspection he lies When McBride says that this editor knows that pending the issuance of the order for inspection the books were altered by the parties holding them in custody errors were corrected and entries made to cover others and the the parties making such entries confessed con-fessed the same under oath in open courtn he lies When McBride says this editor bow sthat this investigation thus unwillingly un-willingly gone into by the officials resulted re-sulted in showing that in a single year over 30000 of the county funds had been expended without the slightest authority au-thority of law and in violation of law he lies When McBride says that the editor knows that the investigation further disclosed that while the sewing machines ma-chines and cooking staves of poor peo plewere being seized in this city for delinquent de-linquent taxes the present head of the Mormon church John Taylorpro cur d br his petition an order from the County Court remitting = 160 from his itFessment on valuable real estate he lieAnd And so with manyof HcBridea assertions as-sertions as to what this editor knows they are emphatically and unequivocally unequiv-ocally lies for he never heard of them until they were pointed out in He Bride communication This diversion baa been indulged not for the purpose of attempting a refutation refuta-tion of anything that McBrido alleges but merely to demonstrate the correctness correct-ness of what was alleged last Sunday that McBride knows low to exercise biirself in the fine artof lying But what could be expected of a man coming to us with a record lite that 01 John R McBride Only one Incident of that record will be mentioned this morning On February 9 18ia the United States Senate adopted a resolution resolu-tion calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a fatement of all balances due totbe United States from public officers and all anch balances due from other parties no longer in the public service Hon B H Bristow westhenSecretaryof the Treasury and on June 19th 1S7S be complied with the resolution by snbrnitlug the statement state-ment asked for That document is now on filein the Senate archives where it can be examined by anybody curious enough to learn the names of the federal officials of that day who owed the United States 550059593 which was the total sum of the showing In the list of balances due the United States from sundry public officers etc etc out of service from 1869 to June 19 8i6tt appears the following entry John R McBride Superintendent assav office Boise City Idaho 187172 3r9ZLF to It has been shown that McBride is a nice man to talc about truthfulness The above will go to show that he is equally a nice man to talk about honesty In a public officer |