The age-herald., 1900-02-05
LOUISVILLE THE
 DEMOCRATIC SEAT That City to be Used as Tem-
 porary Capital. LEGISLATORS ARE ARRIVING A Conference Was Held Yesterday and Plans Were Laid to Prevent In- terference on the Part of
 Governor Taylor
LEGISLATORS ARE ARRIVING

Louisville, Ky, February 4.-This city is to be the seat temporarily at least of the democratic state government. Governor Beckham. and several of his chief advisers reached here this morning. Tomorrow the democratic members of the legislature will meet here and 1t is proposed to make Louisville the headquarters of the executive and legislative branches of this state gov ernment as long as the presence of troops keeps them from Frankfort, or until the present conflict of authority in the state is settled
 The details of this plan were decided upon at conferences held by the democratic lead CTS at Selbachs hotel during the afternoon and evening.
 Governor Beckham quietly slipped into town early this morning. He was accom- panied by Speaker Trimble, of the house of representatives; Colonel Bennett H. Young, of Louisville who is one of the chief legal advisers of the democrats, and other lead CTS who have been at Frankfort conducting the party's affairs since Governor Goeoel was wounded last Tuesday. General Cas- tleman, the newly appointed adjutant gen. era1. and local leaders of prominence came in during the day, as well as a number of democratic members of the legislature.
 Newspaper men were carefully excluded from these councils, and every effort was made to keep the deliberations secret The plan to have the democratic members or the legislature meet here had already been well matured. Preliminary steps in this line had been taken at the meetings of those members held in the Capitol hotel at Frank fort since the state buildings have been sur rounded by soldiers.
 The democratic legislators there adopted a concurrent resolution for adjournment to Louisville and this fact was made known early in today's conference. It was stated by members of the legislature present that threats had been made at Frankfort by persons connected with Governor Taylor's s administration that democratic members of the legislature would be arrested if that step was necessary to secure their attend ance upon the session of the legislature called by the republican governor to meet at London, Ky, next Tuesday.
 warned ed Not to Return
 These members asserted they had been warned not to return to Frankfort. Enough of the democratic members or each house will be here tomorrow, it is asserted, to form a quorum No explanation will be attempted but an adjournment from day to day will be had pending settlement or the legal questions involved In the present dispute between the parties.
 These points having been determined the matter of protection against possible az gressive action by the republican adminis- tration was taken up. It was decided to be the purpose of the democrats to do noth- ing that would tend to provoke conflict or to indicate that it was their intention to forcibly antagonize Governor Taylor administra ton. Measures to protect tfe democratic legislators and state ohcers' however were thought to be necessary, General Castleman had already communi- cated to Governor Beckham his acceptance of the position of adjutant-general to which he was appointed last night by the democratic executive.
 The general took an active part in the discussion cf 'ttfs phase of the plans. and fiji ifs said ample arrangements were made to protect the members of the democratic ad- rnf1nis1tration from molestatton by Governor Tayoor's forces. Whether or met dMs IS ito be done through the organization Of an c'5her state guard has mot been made clear It as thought, however, that the main re- Nance of the democrats will be placed, at least for the present, in the police force Of the city and the constabulary of the county.
 The mayor and city officers and the sheriff of the county are democrats and will undoubtedly recognize Beckham as governor
 ConsIderable Number of Men
 The number of men at their command is considerable, and the ample arrangements mer,ti-ned as c.aving been made are be- lieyed to be in the direction of strengthen tng this force. This plan found favor be cause it was believed to be in Nine with The announcement that any measures looking to the use of any armed force were to be purely defensive. Ancther consideration in this connection was tfhe fear expressed by some of the democratic leaders That Gov erncT Taylcr might seek to Interfere with the sessions of the el5ase beard of election commissioners, which llas been set for next Tuesday at Frankfort This board has be fore 1t the contests for minor state offices. Tn the event of interference luhEs board would probably adjourn to meet fin Louis vtrle.
 If the decision of this board should be in favor of the democratic contestants it's ac- tion would have an important bearing on the conflict between the rival governors. About eighty-eighlt of the one hun dred and nineteen counties of the state have democratic officials who the democrats believe would recog- nize the democratic auditor and treas
  the republican incumbents of those offices at Frankfort.
 This would involve the control of the state revenues which come to the state offices through the sheriffS, the circuit clerks and the county clerks. This mat ter affects the disposal of thousands of dol lars of state funds and would bring into the already tangled state of affairs no end of new complications.
 The funeral of Governor Goebel may cause some delay in the proceedings of the contest board. but a decision from it Is expected before the end of the week. Senator-elect Blackburn did not take part in todays conferences in this city, having remained in Frankfort to look out for his party's interests there
 Governor Beckham tonight denied him. self to all callers save the closest adher- ents of his administration.
 Several republican leaders were in town today, among them some members of the legislature, but they knew nothing of what the democrats were doing and held no con- ferences among themselves so far as