Show 6 A VERY LAME EXCUSE THE publication in the tribune ot of a P private private letter from franklin to mr alfred best of this city which that ge geideman ieman never received remains unexplained notwithstanding the excuses that have been offer offeree etl by the postmaster and the paper mr lynch states to the herald that the letter was waa not lost through the fault fiealt of his office the tribune says the blame was not with the postoffice Post office nor the clerks it claims that the letter was brought to the tribune office without an envelope and with the address then off alithia all this is a ve very ry th thin in way of crawling nut t of f the responsibility of g a private letter that came into other hands than those for which it was wa intended taking the explanation as though it were true which few people who know the depths of ariane trickery and mendacity will belt believe eire the whole business bu ainess was dastardly and without excuse both the sneak who found the letter and took it to a newspaper office for publication instead of to the post office or the owner and the double sneak who spread it before the country countr yare are entitled to the contempt t of eve every civilized being the tribune at seibe riz e pretends re that thai by publishing the letter lette ft t wits was brought to the notice of the e person to whom it was written As if that could not have been done in an honorable manner b by y announcing the possession of the letter lette r and the name naffie and address of the person who wrote it supposing the name and address of the person to whom it was written had been torn off and if the discovery of the owner was the object in view why was the finder not interrogated in regard top to the name etc that he tore off the letter werngard we regard this dirty acton act 0 the tribune creatures as ad even lower and viler than the manufacture of the bishop west I 1 letter and other of their similar blackguard fabrications if this had been even alleged to be the work of mormons cormons Mor mons would not the prosecuting attorn attorney and the e grand jury have been dill diligently genty at 1 work ork before this to discover the caos in the case we think so but who believes that either mr dickson or any one else authorized authorised to move bior or an investigation will take a step under the circumstances all the same every decent man and woman in the community will reckon up the status of the low lived beings wito have thus exhibited their own degradation |