The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-26
Thousand Armed Men Visit the
Kentucky Capital.
IN INTEREST OF TAYLOR
TOOK UP POSITION ABOUT THE
STATE HOUSE.
Petition Drawn Up For Presentation
to the Legislature-Gang Of Ruff
fans Employed By the Republi-
cans Who Amused Themselves By
Dischacging Their Guns.

Frankfort, KY, Jan. ga special
train bearing more than 1000 men
carrying Winchester rifles arrived in
Frankfort at $3.50 o clock this morning.
The men hail from the counties of
Bell, Allen. Knox. Harlan. WhitIs-.
Metcalf and Edmondson. Frankfort is
overlooking with visitors. but none ex-
ceDt those arriving today carry arms.
Governor Taylor stated to an AssO-
clated Press representative that the
men We're not soldiers. He disclaimed
any knowledge of the identity or pur-
pose Of the armed visitors
The men marched to the state house,
stacked their guTs and took I'D posi-
tons in groups about the buildings.
They were all provided with badges
bearing portrait of Governor Taylor
which they pinned on their breasts.
Adjutant General Collier states that
he had no knowledge that the men
were coming. Many Of the visitors are
members of the state guard
The total number arrived on the
special train cannot be stated ex-
actly. The train had seventeen cars.
Ex-SecretaTy of State Finley ad-
dressed the visitors from the steps of
the state house. He said the object of
the gathering was to see justice done
a committee was appointed to draft
resolutions. Stephen Sharp of Lexing-
ton was chosen chairman. The reso-
lutions committee drafted the following
TO be presented to the legislature:
Petition to Legislature.
I'VE Kentuckians, here assembled in
token Of all the free and equal men
OF Kentucky, do reassert the great
and essential principles of liberty and
free government proclaimed in the
bill of rights not as derived to US there
from but as inherent
Our property we may ALLEVIATE from
ourselves and our children, but our
liberty is a heritage to US in trust for
all generations and we may neither
surrender nor cucumber it. We de-
clare again the pTerOgative right of
freely communicating our thoughts
and opinions and to assemble together
in peaceful manner for our common
good and the good of our fellow men
of Kentucky
More especially do declare our
right and authority conferred on US by
power, and not otherwise of
to those invested with the
power OF government by either petition
or remOnstrance and we represent to
them, our brethren Of Kentucky. our
agents IN the legislature convened, that
the government Of Kentucky is found
ed or our authority and instituted for
our peace, safety and happiness and
the protection Of property. our own
and theirs as we'll as that Of the
stranger within our gates.
Peril lowering Over All.
we petition them. our proxies in the
general assembly. to hesd that there
Il peril hC-eriug over all those things
so dear to Us and them and that calm
ndsc and prudence and wisdom need
be invoked in order that truth and
justice may prevail: and we exercise
our right Of 'remOnstTance' against
their suffering themselves TO be led
into the temptations of partisan pride
in the crisis which is on US We be-
oaoch them to remember that their
own Just powers were loaned them by
US at the polls and that among these
was the jurisdiction to decide iudici-
ally and by due process Of law and not
otherwise what was lhen our ex-
pressed viii, not their present political
preference.
we im9lore them that they do not, /
IN slight or technical pretextS nor
iiE-sy or trivial causes. permit the sub /
version of that supreme law Of the land. /
the VIII of the 1eocle-
We bee of them that they receive J
rom the hands Of our messengers and
consider. and do not sQurn or despise
his, our earnest address, petition and /
remembrance, and that they, by their
;Onsiderate action. protect promote the I
safety and welfare, and, above all. the I
lOncr Of Kentucky committed to their /
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'(SignedD
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