Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-02-27 | Page 4 | Plot to Kill President

PLOT TO I KILL PRESIDENT I In the autobiography ot or tb the late lale labor leader Samuel Gompers all ap appears pears a 11 chapter comes come aa as a surprise e to the American people porle p orle Mr Gompers relate in m his book bok that alter after the outbreak of tho the war he received Information from Irom rom a amai aman mai named Garland wh who was In the secret service that a plot had ad beEn formed by extreme s cue ece of the republic to assa President Wilson Wilton Mr Gompers Gomper conveyed the word to t the president at a meeting meeting and next day was wa In conference with ith police and government gov government officials and following the meeting extra precautions t ere cre cret t ken to guard the president 1 be statement of ot the occurrence 5 1 s Garland later disappeared t while trying to uncover the tha German spy system In this countr country It ns ens v a ato to have been expected that plots would bale hae been formed to assas the tho president The enemy might hal ha haie e justIfied such uch a course on the acce accepted philosophy that thai all allIs allis Is fair In war and th the killing of lre Wilson might Americas America's entrance Into the tho war When treaties became scraps of I paper all 1111 lI conventionalities and at ac accepted rule of ot conduct could be disregarded But why did the secret service serviceman man go to Gompers Instead ot of Isis his superiors to disclose isis his hl Important discovery What happened to Garland Has the secret service persistently labored la labored bored since then to trace the yuan man The country should have ao an an anI answer iwer to those questions u I