The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-12-14
lAD|ANC0NSPRACY
FAILED TO MATURE

Great Plot. Hatched II San
francisco, Intended as a
trump Card In War,
Fooled BY British.
Simla, India, Oct. 2.-(by maii9-
n great Indian province 81 the Pun
yaD. with Its 81 .O80.00 Inhabitants, to-
Jay IS peacefully pursuing Its affairs;
the sturdy men OF this vast district, the
SparIanS among the many races Of III
peninsula. are either bearing arms
under the British flag or are carrying
on their agricultural work and business
at home. n there is ne outward sign
tnat they We're put to a crucial test Of
loyalty to Great Britain only a. few
months 3 as the result Of the elab-
orale revolutionary plot which had IT'S
inception among the tpaiuns on the
Iacirlc Of America.
This anti-BFitish conspiracy which is
SAID 70 nave been the mast pretentious
since the never to be forgotten mutiny
OF 1897, failed because Of lack OF sup
port IN India and many Of, the arch
scnemers have been punished. At
" AZ SlIludl.y
ennde of troops, which had been sent
70 the various theaters Ct war, the
PunJab ship of state, with Sir Michael
cDWyer, the British lieutenant COVER
nor, at the helm, safely Weathered a
Storm that might have swept all India
mad the conspirators met with the
sympathy which they had expected
among their people. The story of the
plan to revolt, which has hitherto been
told only In brief official paragraphs.
was related to a representative OF the
Associated Press by Sir Michael
ODwyer.
The history of this conspiracy is one
OF the most remarkable in the annals
OF India, and ito is a history with a
moral began Sir Michael. 1T dem.
o~nstraIes that while there are political
aspirations in India. as there are and
must be in n country which allows
freedom of thought and liberty OF ac-
ton. yet the vast majority Of the peo-
pie have no sympathy with revolutions
airy idsas. The. failure of the plot is ar
answer to the many stories which nave
bean published abroad to the effect that
a powder train was laid in India and
needed only the application of fire to
set it off.
"The conspiracy in question had as,
Its main centers San Francisco and
Vancouver, the former city ultimately
e.clipsing the latter. The plot goes back
w AAS y AAAll113 L VA VIM IA
BhagWan Singh, a notorious Indian
seditionist, went to Vancouver and be-
gan to lecture among the Indians there,
most Of them ignorant men who had
lost touch with their religion and tradi
tons and fell easy prey to specious
agitators and sedition mongers, against
the British government in India. The
grievances of the Indians, real or I'M
aginary, in regard to the immigration
regulations had prepared the ground.
After a short time Bhagwan Singh was
deported, but he had sown the seed Of
sedition before he left.
Hardiai Had Brains.
There also arrived in San Fran
cisco about the same time a seditionist
by the name Of Hardial. the real brains
OF the conspiracy which was developed;
1Iardial, who, by the way. is now be-
lieved to be in Germany, is a man of
great intellectual attainments and q
brilliant speaker, but unfortunately en-
tirely unscrupulous. He was educated at
Oxford as a state scholar by the gov
eminent Of India and appears while IN
England, and perhaps even earlier, to
have become imbued with q passionate
race hatred which developed into mon.
Omaha. After leaving Oxford he de-
voted, his energies to teaching his
countrymen the same race hatred
which he himself possessed. He eventu-
ally ran from the United States when
ppi ioee aa - n arohtst ana nraeaeded to
1880 - 90 a hit not until the conspiracy
Hhinh 10 had ~aneineered was .Derfected.
.Hardi.I first Iectlrea in San Fran
o,saa IN athaism Int the result Of his
n omasanna ihara mas 70 inoc,late his IN
99ien ho earara With aeditious political
i Id Thers we're numbers Of indian
ansi Nc IN ca,ifornia and Oregon and
tha f1a me ~ sedition heear to snread
thro,,gh these states. As I have al
raadv said The grnund had heen nre.
pared In YancouYer and this and neigh
boring places also proved fertile dis
tricts Tor al
During a visit to st. johns, ore, IN
1913, Hardial proposed to start a Y
lutionary. paper winch should pc called
the Ghadr (Mutiny.l n pan met
with approval and RECEIVED moral n
support IN 81. johns. bflda!
Veil, Linton, Portland. astoria ana
other places. There ALREADY existed IN
oregon a local ASSOCIATION when mao
m Nf ffCN nj Vfr1T IT