Show THE UTAH conspiracy 6 A week or more ago private intelligence from salt lake led us to predict impend ing serious trouble between the federal authorities and the people of the territory that prediction was repeated yesterday in a paragraph which was printed before we I 1 had seen the telegram confirming it that brigham young and other mormon lea iea lead ders dera had been indicted and arrested not merely for the crime of polygamy but also for the higher crime of murder it was a knowledge of what waa was coming that led us to anticipate what ia Is no longer a secret sitting upon the utah bench beuch ia is a man by the name of mckean like nike most other territorial judges this man Is a new york export of a broken down and disappointed man whose lire life has been hitherto devoted to gratifying inordinate lusts for public station and power his appointment as chief justice of utah was in the nature of a miraculous resurrection from the dead fired by the re lighted embers of almost extinguished hopes mckan began to study the way and conjure up the means of regaining in jn utah what had been so hopelessly lost in new now voi yoi boiko k his chrono was the bench and his weapon the law he was waa scar scarcely cely culy warm in his seat peat before he was the recognized head of a conspiracy to destroy the peace raze the institutions and if possible take the lives of selected victims in the mormon leadership judicial decisions and sectarian orations were delivered from the bench with equal frequency when they did not excite the contempt they provoked the ridicule of the press and end people of the country the dragnet drag net of religious bate hate and political ambition was spread BP readout out ont lor those who parties to former schisms and conflicts conflict a in the mormon church confessed murderers and desperadoes whose homes and prey were in the mountains and similar wretches who to save their own lives or to wreak long cherished revenges could be induced to swear away the lives of the best liest men whom we have ever known the notorious bill hickman a self belt confessed murderer whose hands are said eaid to be red with the blood of many innocent victims is the boon companion as well as the atooli tool of these utah conspirators it is presumed to be on hir his hi and kindred testimony that brigham young and other leading mormons cormons Mor mons have been beed indicted for murder but til all the hickman hell heli hounds bounds and morrial morrisine morrn Morri site te outlaws which mckean and buskin h hia hla Is attorney can fish up from the lawer lower depths of of infamy cannot convince tens of thousands thoua thona ands who know those men that they are really guilty of buch such crimes this conspiracy began with the advent of the existing herd hend of federal mercenaries to utah it crystallized under the agi tation of the cullom bill which was drawn in salt lake the object was to break down the political power of the people who had conquered utah from a desert waste into a beautiful garden this was feces ary to enable these malig nants to occupy gs possess aud control it with the fall tall of the mormon 0 power mckean woods co w were ere ene to bring utah into hito the union as a state and become Sena hena senators of the united states and heroes in a land laud already buffering suffering from a surfeit of such the cullom bill failed farfetched afar fetched edicts of the law promulgated through stump speeches from the bench likewise failed the sceptre tre not yet jet grasped was depari ing something must be done criminal statutes sta tates must muse be invoked proofs of erime crimes other than thag thai of polygamy must be secured secure but before this is permitted in pursuance of a deliberate plan decisions must be promulgated whereby under a thiu thin di mormons cormons Mor mons on account of their religious religions beliefs and practices muse must be excluded from juries which would be thu necessarily c constituted of their deadliest enette zen men who would do the ibe known wibb if thy aby did not obey the actual behesta behests beh ests of their desperate masters and this is but a brief outline of or a conspiracy piracy which aimis aluia at whatever cost to destroy men antl anil institutions in a territory whose civilizing and industrial i achi achl achieved achievements evem euta enta ar are ere 0 the ad ae ot raulon ration of mankind omaha JS TeraM oct t 4 |