Show HERS OF GREAT judge J R mcbride deals heavy blows ON THE TRIBUNES EDITOR wing him will in an unenviable lacht A consistent prohibition letter barton against statehood Ts to the of utah I 1 have been in no haste baste to reply to the vaults of the editor of the bait salt lake I 1 a upon myself which beginning in a secret and cowardly attack upon ma me bia big paper lost last november have 1 been continued in ita its columns with with malignity tince since I 1 allowed he lie 0 it statements which blazed in algoet gery ery sentence be has written about my w ear to pass unanswered because while it atia Is exasperating to be wilfully wil lully roen relented ted personal discussion though olen oten piquant is generally unprofitable and nd its interest ia is limited to a narrow ercla even when it IB is related to subjects of public importance tho the intrusion 11 of the personal element la 13 offensive to good and ia Is to be avoided when these attacks first began at the close of last year after the meeting of the national al lonal republican committee at wAa washington hington I 1 hastily penned a somewhat bat intemperate response and fori warded it from boise city to salt lake for publication my son to whom it iras was enclosed wag was absent when it armed arrived and the delay though accidental ws aw buth h that it would have seemed if it then published to be an attempt on in my pt part to revive a mere perfo personal rial matter tf if the T atine had not recently renewed lie former attacks and reinforced them with others ot of like temper and kind I 1 should hate have been content to allow the public to lodge judge between us without any reply but it is the de delusion luelon of como editors that forbearance on the part of the man whom they they attack ia is inspired by fear and to eo they feel they can indulge their malice with imp impunity anity whether this is the incentive to the more recent tulo made upon me or whether it is the indulgence oi ol a soured by its own disappointments I 1 care not being now released from all official relations to my party and a tree free citizen ree responsible risible to the public for all that I 1 owe oe to git it I 1 am at liberty to defend myself and expose the man who has bag assailed me and I 1 propose to do both I 1 shall open the blinds and let in some light on thia this business post the books and square accounts between us the task Is not an agreeable one in common with many citizens of utah who strove for or many years to accomplish accomplish reforms in its local government until success was attained I 1 have felt that the editor j of me ilia tribune bad had bien blen a useful instrument in the cause to which we bad had devoted so much effort and while I 1 was conscious of his many grave defects I 1 permitted myself to ignore them out oi of respell for services rendered in the past so 60 long aa evil qualities do not make ua us victims we aro are inclined to be lenient and BO so have I 1 been to the tribune editor I 1 have given up the man reluctantly and gradually his hypocrisy want of manhood and of principle plo hia his insensibility to all the nobler attributes came to my understanding by each such decrees degrees as these qualities were developed that I 1 have yielded only step by step as my convictions compelled me in spite of my sympathies pa thies I 1 have been restrained by mother another consideration I 1 am a republican from early manhood I 1 have been a lover of its principles and a soldier fighting tinder under its banner anything likely to injure it I 1 seek to avoid all that I 1 can do to aid it I 1 esteem a duty if it a personal controversy is 13 likely to injure its prospects in utah whatever the provocation to myself t L feel it my duty rather to suffer personally for the time being than to have vindication by introducing discord every personal contest among members of the party is an element of discord which I 1 strive to avoid this withheld me from the task I 1 now undertake in an editorial article on the of jane last I 1 find fidd that the editor said it is 19 not at all material whether utah shall be eventually a republican ordema or amo cratic state having at last repudiated directly all interest in the success of the republican allican party in utah and manifested in n many ways recently his purpose to sacrifice it to 10 hia big personal I 1 have no farther further incentive to refrain from that whim duty to the public and my own telf fell respect demand and I 1 pr proceed to t the he discussion rell relieved eved of all doubts as to I 1 ita its ti timeliness meline ss and propriety the editor in november last when the republican national committee at washington fcc gazed abe new republican of utah as legitimate at onca once denounced me ing as a traitor tomy to my parly party and its principle and as having in favorin uvonne thia this action betrayed both in teg toe the I interest lest of the mormons cormons Mor mons this charge took on various forms of statement in to several editorials but they may be bummed summed up as charging tae us with treachery I 1 have stated it ill in the moat most direct form in order that I 1 may meet it in like manner A brief statement of facts is required in ill jane 1891 1 left salt lake citrona chiy on a partial e engagement 13 ga gement to enter n apon car lain professional baties in mo idaho b and eastern washington Wa abington whether these would be perfected I 1 did not know nor wd did I 1 know how much of my time would be 08 employed in cage case they were I 1 was then a member of the national republican committee and the chairman of the republican Rt publican territorial committee of utah but as the last named committee performed pert ormed no nonofficial official duty except once in four W years to call a convention to choose delegates legates to the national convention knew of nothing in that inconsistent lith any duty I 1 might enter upon As the aa rational local committee in the long jong int to the ne next at presidential campaign bould d not demand attention I 1 knew know of login in that not perfectly consistent with 0 o ay iny contemplated absence 1 I a few weeks after leaving home I 1 Is disabled by a railway accident so Eo year lelou wu I 1 sfa in its character that for nearly a as practically confined to my room n an all invalid unable to either reach in utah or discharge the en menta upon which I 1 had bad entered first journey orney alter after I 1 had so far re as to be able to be oat out of my room wm v was to return home in april 1891 ind I 1 made my y entrance into that thai after nely a year ut absence and tuf ferina CO RUM it be understood that 1 I after the loss ot of a years time with its ito financial drain upon me ime as soon as I 1 was able to resume even in a limited degree my labors I 1 was compelled to do BO so so after a brief stay at borne home I 1 returned to these duties in idaho the interest of my clients during the summer and autumn of 1891 were eo fo exacting in their nature and drew EO so heavily on my time and strength in ray disable condition that I 1 had bad no leisure for even a brief return home and I 1 found myself in november last in boise city with my time eo so employed that it seemed extremely doubtful if I 1 could attend the meeting of the national corn com cittee which was then called to fix a date for holding the next national convention ven tion unter under the circumstance circumstances therefore I 1 forwarded to mr arthur brown of salt lake cita authority to attend that meeting and represent me if I 1 should not be able to be present in per son mr brown waa war a member of the territorial republican committee and with myself mr goodwin of the tribune and mr dooley constituted the membership of salt lake county on that committee he was m my y personal friend who if not a man of the most amiable ways at all times and to all people was one whom I 1 knew to possess perfect integrity personally and politically and would faithfully represent me at tho the meeting awaa I 1 waa aware that some differences existed between him and the tribune ari un a remark gip applicable to a good many respectable gentlemen in utah but I 1 knew of no reason why that should influence my choice ol 01 a proxy I 1 knew know also t that hat mr brown had ad advocated the propriety of dropping the old local issues in utah and henceforward conducting political contests on the same lines which divided parties elsewhere but as I 1 bad reached the same conclusion after the declarations of the october conference of the mormon church of that year these thee a views of his were no objection to my making him my proxy when intelligence ot of this action on my part reached the editor of the tribune this man of such exalted political virtue that he assumes to sit in judgment on my tiny motives as well as my acts proceeded to discipline me at once the meeting of the territorial committee was called at salt sait lake city although I 1 was its chairman and could have been reached at boise city in half an hour i by telegram and it notified could have been at ite its meeting in twenty four hours bours it suited the purpose of those who called it to give me no notice whatever nor did the committee after it bad had done the was called to perform have even the decency to inform me of its action by recognizing proxies that did not reside in the counties of their principals principal in violation of a positive rule of the committee or ard d the device of having one in man n represent two or three others a nominal quorum of the committee was cot got together by what process or authority two mem berkof acra of that committee from salt lake county could induce the members from other counties to sit in judgment upon their two associates mr brown and ind myself and decide that we be deposed i I 1 know not a more lawless and absurd performance never took place the territorial rit orial convention of 1883 placed our names on that committee and we bad had as much right to declare t the he places of dooly and goodwin vacant as they bad had to declare ours oura vacant Good goodwin wha ia at least was not fool enough to believe this action valid but be bad had no care about bat habif if he be might procure it to be done brown was deposed as a heretic beretic but as that charge would not work upon me it was necessary to invent another and this man of lofty virtue and irreproachable integrity as guardian guara guardian ian saint of the party having called his committee to perform his work rose to the demands of the hour asi As I 1 learn be he informed the committee that I 1 bad had removed from utah more than two years before an and a I 1 was a citizen of the state of washington and procured the committee to declare my place vacant term should be applied to a man who knowing that my actual absence was from june 1890 1800 and that more than half of that was caused by my inability to travel homeward who knew know that iroy engagements outside of utah were entirely professional and that my homo home and family were precisely where they bad had been for yeara years before within a block ot of hia his own and on the same street that my two little boys passed his door on every school day in in the week in attendance upon the public schools of bait salt lake like city and that my absence had no more a affected d my residence than that of president harri 6 ons at washington bad had affected his residence in bis his indiana home and in order to stab me in this secret cowardly sneaking way he rose before his associates on that committee who suppose supposed him incapable of a false statement and deliberately stated what be he knew was not true and caused that statement to be endorsed by tham and forwarded to the national committee with his name to it with that of others who relied upon him the action of the committee so far as declaring coy my place vacant was published but the other proceeding to supercede supersede super cede me on the national committee was not and it was only when I 1 arrived in washington that I 1 was confronted with it and a man who bad hat been chosen as my successor who I 1 now believe acted in good faith and with the papera which bad had been prepared to enable the plot to succeed then it waa was that the perfidy of the prime mover in all this wag as revealed to me and this man engaged in this cowardly trickery practicing euch such treachery that he lie dared not publish it procuring action to ba be taken on a pretext which he knew know tobe to be false this man fresh from this secret and berdd ious fous treatment of another was within less than a fortnight denouncing that other for treachery ill borne some thousands of years ago the decalogue contained the command thou not bear false witness against thy neighbor and the world has sanctioned its inspiration but the man who was guilty of the treachery I 1 have described was the one whose soul was shocked at roy my treachery because aa as a member of the republican committee I 1 did not try to protect an organization I 1 in n utah that had juat just spurned me from ita its door that bad had never claimed anything but a nominal anything existence and bad t by baita its late conduct chown itself unworthy of being recognized by any one who had any respect for truth or honor when these facts came to the knowledge of the national committee and it was forced upon their attention by the editors attempt to oust me from my position on it it ceases to ba be a wonder that that committees ee decided with promptness and without argument th that at this organization was unfit to be the repository tory of orre or represent republicanism in utah I 1 M am among politicians it c 1 ans who are worthy the name T good mol moli faith i t h and honor are prime qualities while falsehood and treachery may by some seem allowable in furtherance of their designs they eoon soon discover their error mr assailant nesa llant in this case at least leaah has tried it and he be is perhaps a wi wiser serit it not a better man tor for hia his experiment my treachery consisted in my refusing to submit to his committe committee which bad had declared me no longer connected with it and in favoring the recognition afan of an organization which proposed to work to make utah republican and to labor to extend and diffuse republican principles in the territory hereafter in support of this charge that I 1 was a traitor to my party the editor undertook to supply the motives for my action and to this ibis I 1 reply that when be he asserted that because the 11 president two or three y tears ears before did not appoint me to a position that I 1 signified my willingness to accept in revenge I 1 had concluded to turn traitor to my utah friends be stated a falsehood as foolish as it was untrue and only showed to what a corrupt and depraved heart may resort in extremity when be he further stated that prompted by an embittered son annl I 1 11 soured by Luf buffering tuu erine fering from my physical injury in the accident to which I 1 have already referred I 1 had bad been induced to betray the confidence of my friends he be gave currency to an imputation on my personal pars onal honor which if credited would do me far more hurt than the injury referred to the ill effects of which I 1 shall carry probably probably through life A man who under any provocation is capable ot assigning a motive which is gained by an invasion of an fa invalids room shows himself as depraved deprave d in thought as be he is brutal in utterance this style of conducting an attack is only an illustration of 0 he the thorough depravity of his natura nature and the unscrupulous methods be pursues in discussion there was nothing upon which to base such inferences except that at inner consciousness w which ich attributing all conduct with which it differs i ere to base age motives bra brutally tally utters what malice |