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Show HOWARD AND HIS DEAR BOY. A Mui'moii Refutes tho District Attorney's Charges. Salt Lakk City, April 13, 1877. Editors Herald: As a Mormon I wish to enter my protest against tho statement that is made by Attorney Howard, that the Mormons are in collusion with Ed. Oilman iu making allidavils against him. This I deny. The 'Mormons have no use for that kind ot men and weuld not give five r.tnta lor one hundred of his ulftiUviLs llj h.u been employed by United SutM offi cials, and what is known here as the ring, for the last six or seven years, and if, when ho came here, he lacked any of the qualfficntions of a grand rascal, which may be doubted, the school that he has boen in during that Lime, as the ayonl and tool of the ring, haa eminently qualified him to fill just ouch a position as he fays, iu the New York Herald, Howard engaged en-gaged him to fill, viz., to extort from Lee, under promise of reprice, a confession that would iinplivuto Uri-ham Uri-ham Young and other leading Mormons Mor-mons in the massacre. TnU same Gilman has been petted and employed by United States officials and the rine in diQ'tireut canacities for vearB past. Ho was hailifTot that notorious McKoau grand jury picked and packed ou purpose lo indict Mormons, Mor-mons, and did ht not serve them faithfully? He was prominently associated asso-ciated with the notorious Gilson-Butterwood-Baker affidavits on which prominent Mormon citizens were deprived de-prived of their liberty. And has he not been almost constantly in the employ of the eame unscrupulous ring up to the time when At orney Howard engaged the "dear boy" to perform service for him service that was d earned to bt worth a good government gov-ernment position? Vh:it was the ! service performed? Gilman tells the New York Herald whtt it Howard denies it. Thorn in evidently a reward promised by Howard to Gil-man Gil-man fsr bo Hie kind of service and thn I endoriemcat of Oilman by Howard to a pood friend in Washington, as shown ia his letter to Gilman, to wit, "See the p master general and if he om get the appointment for Ed. Gilman, a reliable, competent and good friend of mine, to do bo." Tuis letter ia dated Salt Lake city, March 3, 1S77. Mark the change; April 9, 1877: "If one Gilman has made a statement regarding me I inform you it is false. The Mormons have used aud oon-eealed oon-eealed him." How strange that in one month after having endorsed Oilman for a government position as "a reliable, competent, good friend," lie becomes so notorious that "if he has made a statement regarding me, I inform you that it ia false." Here is aaotber statement: "Not ten men would take his oa'.h or word." How sudden the change! The question ariBes in the minds of many, could Howard have been thus deceived by a man in his own employ and he be as notorious as he U now represented to be? My own opinion is that in Gilman Howard made a wise and judicious ju-dicious selection lor just such service. He having been trained by the ring for several years in the ways that are dark, we outsider him emiuenlly qualified for the service he says he was engaged to perform. If Gilmin oould not prevail on Lee to Btate that Brigham Young ordered the maua-cru, maua-cru, and that was the only condition on which Lee could be reprieved and en which he (Gilman) could get his office, having failed to fulfill his part of the contract, of course Lee was , executed and Oilman did not got his otli'-e. It appoara from the Tribune of Wednesday la-U, that Oilman did perform ioiiu servise for the attorney 'by putting up a job on one Rose, who, it is now suddenly discovered, was in- . nocent. In conclusion, how dues this matter aland? Gilman charges Howard with suppressing certain facts implicating im-plicating prominent Mormons; Howard How-ard Buys Die Mormons are iu collusion with Gilman. Is this consistent ? If the charge bad beim that Howard had a Idinl aomathms' t r.no'n Kt:t mpnt implicating the Mormons, then there might have boon cause lor the Mor uions to got him to make an affidavit to that ellect. Wd deny that the Motmnna are iu collusiuu with Oilman Oil-man or have anything to do with nim. No, gentlomcu ! fie belongs to yourselves. You have petted, employed em-ployed and paid him, and it lie has made any progress in rascality since Le eame here, we attribute it to the training that he has received in your employ. The Mormons have no use f jr him. A Mormon. |