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Show SOL. KIMBALL, SPRY'S MAN. A good many peoplo have been asking ask-ing for tho last week or so who this Sol. Kimball is that has mado himself so prominently ridiculous by conjuring up pipe dreams about what the American Ameri-can party is going to do to ecclesiasts of the Mormon church, to tho Mormon church itself, and by way of confiscating confiscat-ing church property, in case of American Ameri-can triumph at tho coming election. Of course, all that twaddle that Kimball Kim-ball has been gettiug off in that direction direc-tion is tho more3t bosh. It is of a piece with the Smoot "Mouth's" great scare over the claim that Messrs.. Sam King, Thomas Kearns, and Frank Sefrit, lunched together at tho Chesapeake restaurant, res-taurant, and the assumption that some dark and damnable plot was hatched up during that lunch. The fact that Mr. Sefrit was, not there, and that the supposition of anybody hatching up a deep and dark political conspiracy at a merorcaauaI meeting :tt lunch iu a public pub-lic restaurant, there enteriug into such a conspiracy, is a puerile notion that is worthy only of the silly rubbish that j the opposition is putting forth constant- j 1' during this campaign. But who is Sol Kimball? He is in his very small way, as .Tames Buchanan was in tho broad field of Xational political po-litical activities, an "old public functionary;" func-tionary;" that is, he has lived off public pub-lic money nearly all his life. Ho was discharged for tho good of tho service from tho police department, and was instantly put on tho United States mar-6hal's mar-6hal's payroll by Mr. Spry. In making this chango. Marshal Spry displaced an old and worthy soldier, Mr. John Alves, a man who was thoroughly competent in every way, and with whom no possi ble- fault- could bo found. He was ousted oust-ed merely to make place for this man Kimball who, it appears, must feed from the public crib Or starve Marshal Spry, in ousting an old soldier sol-dier to make pluco for this man Kimball, Kim-ball, committed u contempt against the j civil service laws, and set at naught J the laws aud tho regulations which require re-quire that preference should be given to old soldiers, where those soldiers arc worthy am) capable. The law was transgressed and the regulations reversed re-versed iu this case. Marshal Spry not only did not give nn old soldier the preference, but ho gave htm tho grand I bounco in order to give employment to this pipo droamor, Kimball, who is now seeking to oarn his reward for that illegal ille-gal preference by getting up nonsensical nonsensi-cal and impossible stories about what the American party intends to do. This Kimball, besides being found uuworthy in the police department and ousted because be-cause of that unworthincss, has implicated impli-cated a uuinbcr of porcons by inference and some directly in his lurid story of oath-bound secret meetings whereby tho confiscation of Mormon" church property and tho banishment of leading Mormons aro alleged to have been tho topics of discussion. In so far as anybody any-body was .referred to who could be identified as connected by Kimball with any of these matters, thoso porsoDS have omphatically and peremptorily denied de-nied his story and pronounced him as wholly lacking in truth in telling it, a base aud spectacular liar. However, Kimball is tho protege of Spry, aud Spry is bounrl to take caro of him. The presumption is that Kimball Kim-ball would not. havo given out any such story except in consultation with Spry, aud with his permission. So that tho only responsible connection to which thoso Kimball stories can bo traced is that Spry connection.. He is the man, undoubtedly, from whom and by whose permission thoso Kimball stories reached tho public. And theso 6torics, together with Spry's discharge of the old soldier to make room for Sol Kimball, arc not going to help Spry in tho least in his gubernatorial candidacy candi-dacy this year. |
