The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-11-02
AN INFAnoUs PROJECT.

A Democratic snd Mormon Plot to capture
the United Stasee Congress and Install
Western Territories.
Especial Correspondents of The Chicago
SALT LAKE, Utah, Oct. n-Recently there
has come to light scheme Of the Mormon
priesthood and some OF the Democratic
leaders In Congress to colonize New Mexico
and Arizona with Mormons, and admit them
with Utah and Idaho into the Union as
Democratic States. Large numbers Of
Mormons have been quietly ordered by their
leaders to emigrate to Arizona and New
Mexico this fall and winter. Many Of them
have already gone from Utah, and all the new
States, were there are several hundred
Latter-Day- Saint missionaries engaged in
PROSECUTING, are emigrated to one or other of
these Territories. The plan, rs reported to
your correspondent from reliable sources
high up In the Mormon Church, shows that
J. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, Ben Frank
lin, Of Missouri, and several other leaders,
cratic party matured the scheme in connec-
ton with George @. Cannon, the Mormon
Delegate to Congress from Utah, and Dele
gate Fem, of Idaho. My Mormon informant
here says j. X. Luttrell, Democratic mem.
Der Of Congress from California, who was
consulted in the matter by Knott, opposed
the scheme, because it would clothe the Nor
mon hierarchy with too much power, and
decisive action was then delayed in anticipa-
ton of an increase Of Democratic members
in the House, who would not oppose it, and
the possible chance of the Senate also being
Democratic. The Hon. Ben Franklin
Chairman Of the House Committee on Ter
ritories, in one of his conversations with
George Q. Cannon on this subject, SO Can.
Aov. tall h hat <I,a nnx
ment's Territorial system is all wrong. No
true Democrat, he said, believes in Terri
torial vassalage, which is utterly foreign to
the genius and spirit of our Constitution,
and, just as soon as we can get matters our
own way in the Senate, it is our intention to
cut up Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and
Wyoming into about six smaller Territories,
and then admit each of them into the Union,
with two Democratic senators.
"Why, Mr.. Cannon" said he, there is
no reason why Idaho should not have two
Senators and an equal representation in
Congress with Rhode Island. That Terri
tory certainly has magnificent natural re.
sources, and, with large population of your
people, is as capable of sustaining State
Government as Utah or any other of the
Territories. rt
GAS to the complaint of polygamy made
against your people, that will adjust itself in
time, and aside from that there is no earthly
objection to you Mormons; you are all good
Democrats. Your people, you assure us,
are to emigrate to Arizona and New Mexico
in large numbers, and the fulfillment Of your
obligations made with the Democratic Cen.
trail Committee whereby you agreed to send
5000 Democratic voters to each of these
Territories for election purposes, will insure
us q permanent Democratic majority in the
Senate for a number of years, and possibly
the Government ITSELF"
Delegates Cannon and Fem, who had fire.
quent consultations with the Democratic
leaders on the subject last winter. but
chiefly with Knott and Franklin, and have
since their return been secretly at work car
rying out the programme laid down last
winter by the Democratic leaders, are over
sanguine of their success.
Now, any one familiar with Mormonism
knows that all the church-leaders have to
do is to order certain number of emigrants
to any part of the country, and it matters
not whether it is at all agreeable, they have
to go, as well as vote as directed.
Each Bishop is ordered to furnish so
many, and he selects the number from his
flock, and they are on the march in short
order.
Late movements indicate that the Church
is executing its promises, and, should the
House remain Democratic, and they secure
q majority in the Senate, the Territories
named will be admitted with Mormon Sem
atOrs and Representatives, and thus the
MormOns will hold the balance of power,
and dictate to Congress their own laws,
which the Democratic party dare not OPP
pose.
When the bill to prohibit and punish
polygamy fell into the hands Of j. Proctor
Knott, the Chairman of the Judiciary Com
mittee, he quietly pocketed the document,
and, when urged by the Liberal Delegate
from Utah to act on the bill, he turned it
off, saying that if the Mormon men and
women see proper to prostitute themselves
as polygamists, he did not see as it concern
ed him.
The facts now show he did not dare to Of
fend his Mormon friends and co -schemers.
The Mormons of Utah so largely outnum-.
Der the Gentiles that they could spare 10000
voters to colonize Territories desired, and
yet retain control of Utah, SO the matter of
creating ten or twelve new Democratic Sem
ators, and as many Representatives, is a
mere question whether the mass of the peo-
pie of the United States will send men to
Congress that will favor such diabolical
plot to saddle MormOnism and polygamy on
the United States for the sake Of party
power.