The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-13
COL KIMBALL's NIGHTMARE.

SOL KIMBALL'S NIGHTMARE.
In its Saturday issue the Deseret
News gave front-page position to a
communication from Solomon Kimball,
in which the aforesaid Kimball tells
of a horrible oath-bound plot organ
lied by certain non Mormons, the pur-
pose of which is to drive the Latter
day Saints out of Utah. In its intro
duction to this weird tale the News
says most naively: The story told by
Mr.. Kinball almost passes belief in
this enlightened century" We would
go much further and say that none but
a hopeless imbecile would believe it,
particularly when Mr.. Kimbalrs posi-
ton and connections are known.
To begin with. Solomon F. Kimban
is bailiff in the United States court
by the grace of William Spry, United
States marshal, candidate for governor
ard main whangdOodle of the Smoot
federal bunch. KimbaIIs chief occupa-
ton in campaign times is to circulate
fairy tales for the benefit of Brother
Smoot ct al, and one of his favorite
diversions has been to whisper advice
b. To his brethren and sisters in the Lord
in behalf of the Republican party. Be
fore he got his job as bailiff, Solomon
was city jailer. and as such won great
fame for his dope" for the treatment
of delirium tremens cases. In this
present instance he appears To be in a
condition where his old dope" might
properly be applied.
The gist of Kimballs story is that
"a prominent Gentle" attended a num-
her Of meetings held by anti Mormons
several years ago" at which the plot
to drive the MOrmons out OF Utah was
concocted. Very naturally this wicked
Gentle was taken sick soon after"
and two or three days before his death
sent for Solomon. Repentant and
grieved. this Gentle friend of SoIomon's
confessed the details OF the diabolical
plot into which he had been led.
Divested Of Solomon's rhetorical en-
Refreshments, this dead and gone Cen
tiles tale revealed how the conspira-
tors were to capture Salt Lake first
then Ogden and Weber county, then
Provo. including Reed Smoot and Tn
Gle Jesse Knight; then Beaver county.
These strongholds once captured" said
Solomon's dead clairvoyant. they
would have the state. Disfranchisement
of the Mormons was to come next. then
confiscation of their church property
The Salt Lake temple was to be turned
inf he "a, o,.ga
into a dance hall"
This wasn't all of Solomon's dream.
while this cruel warfare was going
on" says he in the Deseret News, the
Saints were to be burdehed with high
taxes and heavy public improvements.
The cities, counties and state were 10
be bonded to the limit, and these bold
robbers who were instrumental in
bringing about these conditions were
to receive as their reward the homes
of the Saints and high-salaried posi-
tons"
Note particularly that the Saints We're
TO be burdened with high taxes, while
everybody else was to get off easy
The cities. counties and state were to
be bonded to the limit, although the
Mormons have an overwhelming ma
jority in the state and in a majority
OF the counties. To hear Solomon tell
it, no Mormon was to have any vote.
no courts were TO have any Jurisdictions
the wicked plotters were just going TO
levy taxes. issue bonds and confiscate
property as they pleased And all this
in a state where the Mormons have the
governor. all the state executive Off
Gals, command of the military forces.
control of the sheriffs office in nearly
every county, and certainly a fair
chance for protection in the state and
federal courtsl
kimbalrs narrative is, of course.
sheer invention. No such Gentle as
his dead friend ever existed. though
doubtless Solomon would produce the
corTse if necessary TO prove his cred
Utility. No. such conspiracy ever ex-
listed unless possibly in the Provo in
sane asylum. The tale evidently had
| its origin with the fertile literary bu-