Show USING THE BOGUS BISHOP WEST SERMON WE learned yesterday afternoon over the wires that powers and his big gang were using for campaign pur hosep at Chica gothe notorious bishop west red hot address accepting this as a fact we are not now in a position to refute the doctrine of total depravity in special individual caws we were not prepared prepa for proof that even powers was wag so BO lost to every principle of manhood and add justice eta as to re sort to such unmitigated vil abny in order to attain an object you ye we credited him with ability to stoop a low for that purpose as any man of whom we ever bad any knowledge in resorting to this base subterfuge the tuscarora Tuso Tusca arora trickster relies upon the impracticability of his political opponents covering his slimy trail in on en deavor lug to break the force of the calumny he is spreading he trusts to abort shortness new of time to counteract the effect affect of his work hoping thus to gain a point were it otherwise the bishop west business would prove a boomer ang that would rebound upon him and his motley crowd the very means by which he to is seeking to carry a point can be bloused used to exhibit his own boundless rascality and the perfidy of the leading workers of the clique with which he to is connected the so called bishop west red bed hot address was wag first published in the bait lake Iri tribune bunts of march 15 1884 it purported to have been delivered by a mormon bishop named west in the little town of juab in the southern ou thern portion of this territory this obscure hamlet was evidently selected 99 the scene of the delivery of the alleged sermon in order to prevent the too early discovery of the fraud as aa it was waa intended that governor murray should hould take copies ot of the tribune containing it out east with him on a trip to washington to secure anti mormon legislation legi elation by which he be would have obtained the power to fill all every office in the territory by appointment the address recommended the auas nation si i of those who opposed the Mor mormon monN community one of the objects of the wrath of bishop west was waa governor Gover tor eli H murray the speaker told his big audience that it was their duty to else his excellency and trend tread him down until his bowels gushed out upon the streets and that those who should succeed him should be similarly treated if they did cot comport themselves properly toward the eatn saints te this clumsy and diabolical forgery was quickly and easily exposed there was not at the timp time neither had their been for many years year any bishop in the mormon church named west there was no meeting held at juab on the day on which the tribune said the address was delivered no address 01 that kind was delivered at any time or place in the whole history of the community when the salt lake tribune was confronted with the proofs of its perfidy it said that it had been deceived by one of its friends who had supplied it with the manufactured report on a subsequent that paper used this language in reference to the scandalous ca forgery the case of the red hot Addre sabas been cited which was waa corrected as soon aa 48 the managers of this journal found they hd been imposed upon this bogus sermon jormon evidently manufactured in the office of the salt lake tribune was circulated over the united states and especially in the south where numbers of missionaries were laboring it so BO inflamed the winds minds of the populace of lewis co tennessee that in that part of the country an armed and masked mob broke into a house where a number of elders were preparing to hold bold divine service and cruelly murdered ered four per sons two elders from utah brothers gibbs gabbs and berry and two young men who were residents of the locality mrs condor wife of the proprietor of the house where the bloody tragedy occurred was also shot and mahmed for life it RI appears that the murder murde of four innocent men and the wounding and maiming for life of an unoffending woman was not enough villainy fur for this manufactured fiendishly concocted red bed hot address 11 to produce the forgery must be resurrected ind and do additional service for those who depend upon the refuge of lies for purposes of attack and defense perfidious powers knows that the bishop west address was bogus and its use at chicago for purposes shows shown that he be is ambitious to fully duplicate in utah the scandalous record he be made in michigan some of the features of the U utah tab con test at chicago seem to be a sort of parallel to incidents incident that occurred during the contention at minneapolis the editor of the paper which furnished to the world the vile concoction now known as a the bogus red hot address with unblushing effrontery stated staled to a committee that if the Mor mons had not been afraid to attack him he be would have been killed because of his hii opposition to them he knew when he made the slanderous statement tat ement that it was as an false as an the bishop west address 12 which was manufactured to prejudice the nation against the mormon people for political purposes it would be the crowning act of I 1 injustice ioe in his an anti ti Mormon tf cai career eer were he now to defend the present use by perfidious powers of the tribune bogus sermon one would suppose that every liberal having the slightest degree of self respect would withdraw forever from a party which has baa recourse to such infamous methods to accomplish its ends |