Show AN OLD DODGE Go GOVERNOR VERNoia WEST ha has 8 p placed jac ed in ID the hands of an antl mormon journal of this city two valen valentines tints V which he alleges he fate has received since his return from washington they are specimens of literary filth the language in which th eyAre couched is such that a respectable newspaper would not admit tham into its columns but there Is 1 object in view in their publication they purport to come from febi two W J mormons cormons Mor mons one purpose of mr west weist is evidently to create sympathy 1 for himself under the circumstances the giving of the letters to adb lie hc journal in order that they bosy le be placed before the public is to ia efty the least in questionable tok taste wd tb t consideration that will be attracted towards him in consequence win not be of an appreciable character or quantity this additional evidence of the wk of wisdom on the part of this leads one to wonder if 40 W ean can do anything now with which tae th element of dignity is associated K is certainly not an ingredient of hac latest public transaction we do not believe that mr west na b got so low down as to be capable of manufacturing those valentines with ith ilia his own hand it is a matter beyond question with us however wt tat some of his friends belonging to 0 we the clique of active politicians w th which he has seen lit fit to con act himself are the authors authorson of these Af productions the reasons for his opinion are plain no lat aday saint would in the first be P be guilty of so indecent and wable able an act as to pen and send w communications to the gov anor or anyone else any sensible kwil ason identified with that class clam understands also that to do such a bag ang would be an injury to his own ele atle he alleged valentines smell ugly of the source from which notorious bishop bests red abot addres emanated and which erectly led to a bloody massacre ik w tho the state of tennessee where fabricated discourse embodying against federal officials was widely circulated and as might aUy be expected aroused the of the people of that sec wn against the mormons cormons Mor mons this density of feeling created in that way aty led up to one of the foulest adais tt deasi of innocent people on an the cords of that state 71 that red hot address was proved ft falsehood manufactured out f whole cloth there was no by the name of west in the at afe the time the address aft MW to have been delivered oft le was no meeting held at sae named on the day b the speech was assert d to have been made no such auch ser no was ever enunciated en with ate trifling it exceptions was of ue etrue true the T of belligerent bening te ning and filthy letters pur ng t to emanate from latte rd Js fa an alk old and stale game of it has been too of toba to be received with nice by any class in this comat least no matter how any the of the 1 people may J pretend v to Otta these two missives addressed to governor west form a pedestal of such slender mould that their summit affords not the slightest particle of a base abase upon which a martyr can place his feet try something else we have received at different times letters couched in blasphemous and blackguardly language threatening our life when they have come to hand baud we have simply torn them up thrown them in the waste basket and given the matter no further attention we would have been ashamed to give them publicity through these columns and much more ashamed still to flaunt them as expressions of the gentile sentiment they were valued at their worth as emanating from cowardly cranks crank s who simply represented their own depraved and craven natures to have sought personal persona notoriety or cheap martyrdom by placing them before the public in the columns of a newspaper would have exhibited a species of of which no manly person will be guilty to have used them as a means of creating public sentiment against any class of the community would have been simply perfidious prom from this explanation of our own experience a fair estimate may be formed of the way we look at the use to which mr bests valentine incident has been put I 1 |