Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-03

The first clash between the executive
and judiciary powers of the State oc-
Cured to-day. A still greater clash
is imminent tomorrow and beyond
the Possibilities of tomorrow lies sea
with skies SO lowering and OF SO
stormy an aspect that no politician Oh
either party can predict where it Will
carry the Kentucky ship OF State.
There is the chance that things will
as Congressman June Gayle expresses
it, drift around all right, but there
are other chances also, and If things
are to drift around all right" they
must strike counter current and
strike it soon.
There can no longer be any con-
cealment of the fact that affairs in this
State are bordering upon conflict IN
arms and the beginning of the crisis
is at hand. 1t may be that the pollt-
zeal difficulties will be settled by the
courts of law but the hearts of the
men are hot in Kentucky now, and
legal process may provide remedy
too dilatory to please a few of the
more impatient, and it is in the power
of these to create a world of woe at
almost any time.
The clash of to-day came when an
officer of the Circuit Court of Frank
lin county was arrested by the mill
tary while attempting to serve notice
of legal proceeding upon Governor
Taylor.
The clash Of tomorrow may come
when the officers of that court attempt
to force the rulings Of its presiding
judge.
Behind this Judge, the Democrats
will have tomorrow. for the first
time, an active executive head in the
person of Acting Governor Beckham,
and from the Democratic standpoint,
regularly appointed adjutant gen.
eral, whose orders the troops now en-
camped around the Capitol building
are bound to obey. II they decline to
obey, the new adjutant general will,
the Democrats claim, have the power
to organize military forces of his own
and proceed against all people who
defy the authority of his Office, and
that of the governor of the State,
L. nc On %hn ~ Ap
hand, the Republicans are fixed in
their attitude that there is an insur-
rection in the State, that Beckham
and his actions, his adjutant general
and his orders are those of people act
ing in opposition to law. They believe
that they alone are in the right, and
as there can be but one right and all
else wrong, those who show resistance
to the proclamations of Governor Tay-
lor are in rebellion against the COM
monwealth. They will resist any at
tempt of any kind to remove them
from their position around the Capt.
toll, meeting force with force, and that
means civil war.
The first clash of to-day came when
Alonzo Walker, stenographer en-
ployed by the Democratic attorneys,
was placed under arrest in the Capt.
toll grounds charged with conduct
tending to incite mutiny and riot The
conduct consisted in pinning to the
door of the private Office of Governor
Taylor a notice that tomorrow the
Democratic attorneys would appear
before Judge Cantrill of the Circuit
Court and ask for an injunction re-
straining Governor Taylor from all in
reference with the movements of the
Legislature and from his announced
attempt to remove it to London in this
State. Walker was at once taken into
custody by orders of Col. Roger Will
liams, the commanding officer of the
forces now gathered around the Capt.
toll.
Tomorrow the injunction will be
asked, and there is no doubt that it
will be granted. Judge Cantrill has the
reputation of being a man who will
attempt by all means In his power to
enforce the rulings handed down from
his bench. He will most certainly us
~ the power IN his hands to seq