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Show SECOND SKETCH. ; Some Things For McKean To , Explain. His Unfitness For Anytbiug. lo the Editor of the Herald: Sir; My brief pon sketches of Thursday morning laat, executed in honor of Messrs. McKean, Lockley, Lannan and Black, appear to have elicited the commendation of every Gentile iu town except some half-a-dozen notorious ringslere, whose ingratitude in-gratitude for favors rendered make il a thankless task to endeavor to please. However, with your gracious permission, permis-sion, Mr. Editor, I will mnlte a Becond attempt to secure the approbation of my hypocritical friends, taking this time as the subject of my sketch the Tribune's WINGLESS ANOBL OF BPOTLKS3 PURITY, whose other and earthly name is Judge James B. McKean. It may at first glance look a little prnnnuiuouH on my part, being but au orctrtional cootribuler to the press, to attempt in one Bnort article the dinproval ot what tor years the "ring" newspaper (McKean assistant editor) has been trying to impress upuii the niiuds of the people, viz: that McKean ia a representative re-presentative Gentile and a man ol uncommon un-common ability and unimpeachable integrity. But 1 deny all this, Mr. Editor, and positively assert that, while his ability is a sad myth and bis integrity very questionable, a dozen respectable Gentiles cannot be found in Salt Lake Oily who give him any following. These Btatementa I have facta and authorities to prove. I have stated that . MCKEAN 'd INTEQEUTY IS VERY QUESTIONABLE, QUESTION-ABLE, I will prove it. In a memorial to the senate and house of representatives, representa-tives, bearing date March 1, 1S76, : this man, McKean, swears that one Lyon, in the Fall of 1S70, brought a suit in his court against tbe owners of the Emma mine, and that to obtain a decision in hia favor said : Lyon "attempted to bribe him with $100,000," but failed. I say that this sworn statement of our ex ebief justice is without truth, and challenge the gentleman to an answer. Lyon did not attempt to bribe McKean, but on the other hand Lyon Btutes that McKean Mc-Kean made improper advances to bun. I am not prepared to back up Lyon's statement, but my own assertion, asser-tion, which places McKean before tbe public in the light of a prevaricator, L will atiok to until it ia Bbown tbat I am in error. So much for the gentleman's gen-tleman's veracity, integrity 'a first OB-ential. . BIB FANATICISM OK THE BESCII. Everybody in Utah, aa I have before be-fore stated, knows thia would-be reformer re-former and pet of- tbe ring to be fanatically crazy on the Mormon question, and . many mining men know it to their sorrow, as terra after term their cauBea were continued to allow the miseion-juriat to wreak vengeance on the Mormons in a judicial judi-cial capacity. When Senator Stewart came to Utah for tbe purpose of ap pearing in the Emma case, he grasped the difficulty at once and afterward reported: "On examining the condition con-dition of the courts, however, I found that U was almost useless to expect a trial in any reasonable leogth of timei Jodae , McKean was involved in contro venue with the Mormons, which impeded,business." Of course il did, hut our model jurist was- alter Mormon scalps, and such litUc tbinwj aa mining Buits had to give way. But ; I doubt not, Mr. Editor, you arcj as familiar with the judgw's extra judicial acts at that time aa I am. Suffice it to say, that hia career while on tha bench Wua tbat of a tyrannical fanatic, and a shallow-pate to boot. HIS ABnjTT AS A LAWYER. If Judge McKean had been an able lawyer he would never have turned hia territorial court into a United States court in defiance ol- the territorial practice and then expect thesuprcmc court . to confirm his decinons. The reversion ot his decisions by the supreme court showed plainly that he was not learned enough to interpret the laws aright, and to h:ive longer continued hun ou the bench alter hie ridiculous decihion in the Ailn EIiza citse would have been an insult to the Intelligence ot the commHuity. En jM.i.Tfir.f, Judge Hawley, formerly qdc of McKean 's associates on the bench, and who was equal y hitter in his Renunciations 61 the Mormons, gives : it as his opinion that the great jurist is now in a sphere (clerk in the district dis-trict attorney's otfice) far more fitted to bis abilities than when htt occupied the chair of chief justice of the territory ter-ritory a proposition I do not care to take any stand againat. I could further fur-ther illustrate the man's iguorance ol law by quoting a recent suit which he sought to bring before Judge Scbaeiler, and in which he waft nonsuited non-suited twice in four hours a fact in iisell sufficient to condemn him as a lawyer forever and ay. This sketch, Mr. Editor, is not to complete aa I could wibIi lor, but for the present, perhaps, it will sutfice. Wheu the great jurist goes to Washington Wash-ington he can taku it alocg as a "recommend," and tell the senators and representatives be may chance to meet that it is the production of one of his constituents, a Gentile resident of Salt Lake city. B;dore closing allow me to 6tate that my promise to notice other members of t lie iofamouB Tribune ring still holds eood, and will be redeemed at an early ri.iy. A GESTILE, |