The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-25
PRESS AGENTS PROMISE.
THE ClanSman.'

Here is in brief the story of The
CianSman." the celebrated white su-
premacy' play. which will be given
next Thursday. Friday and Saturday
evenings and Saturday matinee at the
Salt Lake theatre:
The first act is laid in front OF the
home of DR.. Cameron. a white aristo-
crat. in Piedmont s. c.. in 1867. The
scene is alive with picturesque crowds
of a typical southern town. among
which two parties are strongly defined
the carpetbaggers and their negro
tools. who have set up a reconstruction
government. and the southern whites
who are deprived of the right to vote
and ave the mercy of their former serfs.
DR.. CamerOn's son Ben has been nursed
to health by q northern girl. Elsie
Stoneman. and has fallen in love with
her Austin Stoneman. stern old rad
ical. agrees to allow Ben to marry Ell
sic if the young man will take sides
against his friends and neighbors; Ben
Cameron refuses. Instead. he tears
down the proclamation of the federal
general commanding social equality and
permitting the intermarriag of blacks
and whites.
In the second act the Cameron home
stead is auctioned off for unpaid taxes.
and Elsie SLOVENIAN buys il in The
Bedford Forrest. the great Confederate
cavalry commander. who advises the
organization of the secret Ku KIuy
Klan. The scalawag white governor
of the state comes on the scene and
starts high-handed proceedings, arrest
ing both the doctor and Ben.
The first scene of the third act shows
the garden Of the Cameron place near
sunset Elsie learns that Ben is the
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denounced bV her father. and the lovers
part sorrOwfully. The scene ends with
the alarm over the absence of Little
Flora. Ben's sister. who has been hav-
ing birthday party and the finding
of her drowned body in the river.
THE Clansmen." mounted and armed.
dash across the scene at full gallon
10 help the Camerons and if possible
discover and punish the little FIora's
murderer. In the next scene these
ghostlv horsemen assemble at midnight
in their mountain cave. where they per-
form their weird rites. and after ex-
tOrting hypnotic confession from the
murderer sentence him TO death
The last act of The CIansman'' takes
DIaca in the library of Silas Lynch. tn
nuIatto lieutenant governor of the
state. Lynch has forced the scalawa 2
governor. William Pitt shrimp. 10 dele
gate his authority 10 MN. and WITH
Austin Stoneman out Of the way he
causes Ben Cameron to be condemne@
10 he shot bv drumhead court-IlartiaI
Then Elsie StOneTan. who has refuSeS
to testify against Ben and has avoweE
her love for him. begs Lynch to sav
the hoy. With hellish ingenuity n
says he will do so only on condition
thar she will marry him lynch. Tho
girJ faints. Returning. Austin Stone
man enters and learns of Lvnch's pro-
nosaI Msd6ened. he tries first to kill
the mulatto and then himself. Lynch
sends for negro chaplain to Derforrl
tba ceremony OF marriage At this mo-
mont the Ku KIuX burst in the door
and headed by Ben Cameron. whom
they have rescued from the military
oct the droD on Silas Lyncn and save
The old man ard his daughter EIs's
fails into Ben Csmeron-s arms. Stone
man renents of his effort to con. -e~f
the south into q Hayti or Santo Do
minso and goes back 10 Washington to
undo the terrible mischief he has
wrought
A company of seyenty-five people