Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-10
PLOT To. DRIVE ALL
SAINTS FROM UTAH
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Solomon F. KimbalI, Bailiff of
U. S. Court, Tells Of the
Scheme.
FORTY POLITICIANS IN IT
Taxes to Be Raised and Nor
mons to Be DISTINGUISHED
Part of Conspiracy.
Temple to BE Turned Into State
House and Tabernacle Into
Dance Hall.


Solomon T. Ilimball. bailiff of the
United States court and who resides at
274 Sixth avenue, in communication
addressed to the editor Of the Deseret
News, states on what he claims to
be indisputable authority, that a coterie
or politicians responsible for the
launching OF the american" party
are organized for the cath bound pur-
pose of driving the Latter-day saints
out of Utah. Mir. Kimball sets forth
that he was informed of the plot by a
gentleman who was at the initial meet
| ing According to Mr.. Kimball's state
,nent, this gentleman told him of tho
| scheme when he knew that he was "
| ing on his deathbed. Mr.. Kimball has
made an affidavit and sworn to a copy
| of the deathbed confession which he
| emphatically declares he received in
| toto from a we'll known prominent non
| Mormon.
| The story told by MI. Kimbal al
| most passes belief in this enlightened
| twentieth century 1t is herewith re-
| produced in full so that the reader can
| draw his own conclusions. The lengths
4
| go in order to further their own ends
are apparently without bounds:
Editor Deseret News-Several years
| ago, the anti Mormons of Salt Lake or
| ganiZed for the purpose of driving the
/ Latter-day Saints from their homesS a
I, prominent gentle and close friend OF
/ mine attended number OF their meet
\ ings. He was taken sick soon after,
4 and remained in that condition for sew
jSeral months. Two or three days pre-
Vious to his death, his wife telephonsd,
ITO me that her husband desired to see
me on important business. When Il
reached his bedside he was very low.
I but able to communicate his thoughts
to me, inteligently
4 The following is a brief account of a
1 statement made by the dying MANI He
began by saying that he could not die
until he had divulged a damnable plot
which had been laid by a gang of anti
Mormons. to drive the Latter-day
Saints from their homes. He declared
/ that he knew the Mornons to be hon
est and upright. Among them were
| many of his dearest friends. He had
/ allowed himself, through curiosity and
/ prejudice to attend some of their secret
! meetings. but was not long in discover
ing that he was in the midst of a band
| of oath bound anarchists.
SCHEMES PROPOSED.
u. de wills uStO1llSlleu ma
| honorable citizens of the United States.
entering into diabolical scheme of this
! kind. He said that their chief argu
| ment in justification of this movement,
| was that the Mormons We're a COM
| munity of fanatics. who could not live
| in peace with their neighbors. Having
| been driven from their homes several
| times. the time had now arrived when
| they must be driven again. This was
| to be accomplished in the following
! manner They We're To employ talented
| journalists to write all manner of false
hoods aaginst the saints; publish these
| lies in their anti Mormon sheets and
scatter them broadcast over the land.
| While this work was going on other
| hired tools were to spend their time
sowing discord among the saints. and
! in this way keep them divided against
/; one another. He told me that special
| provision was made to keep Democrats
| who are Church members in line while
| this scheme was being carried out
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The gentiles of Salt Lake, he said
were to form a new party. slide in be-
tween the two old parties, and capture
Salt Lake City. This accomplished.
they would take Salt Lake county; then
double their forces shifting a part OF
their hired tools TO Ogden. and keep up
| the turmoil until Weber county was IN
their grasp Proves turn was to come
next: then Beaver These stronghoids
once captured. they would have the
state, Disfranchisemsnt Of the Nor
mons was TO come next, then contisca
ton of their Church property. The
Salt Lake temple was to be turned into
state house and the tabernacle into
a dance hail.
HIGH TANEs.
While this cruel warfare WAS going
? ba c.,it, .t,,h 80 h1lf,1
| high taxes and heavy public improve
lnentS. The cities, counties and state
We're to lie bonded to tho limit, and
these bold robbers who We're instru-
| mental in bringing about these condi-
lions. We're to receive as their reward
the homes Of the saints and high ssila
| ried positions.
| The principal cities were TO be colo
nized with thousands of strangers that
were to be brought from far and near,
| These We're to take the places of the
| poor Mormonsy who would be compelled
| 10 sell their homes for a song,
My dying friend urged ME most earn
| estly, to not treat lightly what he had
| divulged. as the Mormon people. he
| said would surely be driven from their
| possessions, unless they become thor
! oughly united Several times he ex-
/ acted q promise from me, that I would
J make public these facts. He was in his
! right mind. though it was hard for me
/ TO believe that an Intelligent body OF
I United States citizens could be so de-
! PRAYED as to enter into q conspiracy Of
| this nature.
! Soon after, I related to number of
] my acduaintances what my friend had
! told me. but did not feel justified in
1 publishing these facts until | had
/ found out from other sources that what
! he had told ME was true Some time
/ after this conversation took place. /
! went before n gentle notary public,
| and swore 10 the above statement. and
I placed the document in the hands of
! an influential friend OF mine
| Now that the death-bed confession
/ has been verified to an alarming eX-