The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-09
HAVE FILED Big PETITIONS
ATTORNEYS ASSERT THEY DO NOT
APPLY TO GOVERNOR NOR LIEU
TENANT GOVERNOR
JUDGE TAFT TO HEAR THEM
ceed With the Formation of Their
Government at Louisville Unless
Gov. Taylor Acts ON Compromise
Matter Within Twenty-FOur
Hours.

| CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 8.-Judge Will
lam H Taft, who has just been appoint
| ed as president of the new Philippine
commission, today gave notice to counsel
| that on next Monday, at p. M, he would
| hear arguments on the petition Of the
| state officers of Kentucky, other than
| governor and lieutenant governor, for a
! restraining order against the three mem
| bers of the Kentucky state board Of elec.
| ton commissioners in the contests for
| state officers other than those Of gov
| ernor and lieutenant governor.
| The legislature in Kentucky hears and
tenant governor, but the contests for
| other state officers come before the state
board of election commissioners, sitting
as contest board, and in which said
board has final jurisdiction. This petit
ton for al injunction against the present
state board Of election commissioners
and the Democratic contestants for mi
nor state offices is, therefore. not one af-
fecting Gov. Taylor and Lieut.. Gov. Mar
| shall, and will not conflict with the con-
| ferences for an agreement that were
| begun at Louisville last Monday and
which are still in progress in that city and
| at Frankfort.
AS the petition prays that the incum-
| bents of these minor state offices shall
| not be interfered with in the discharge Of
| their duties, it Is readily seen that the
Republican secretary Of state might not
| attest the proclamation Of Gov. Beck
! ham, and that there might be some dis
pute as to the use of the seal Of the
| commonwealth. 1t is also pointed out
by those in the lobbies who are COM
| menting on the application Of the suit,
that the state auditor would indorse and
the state treasurer pay out funds for the
maintenance Of the militia under the
command of Adjt. Gen. Collier, etc.
ATTORNEYS ARE SILENT.
There is no end to the applications in
practice under the injunction, according
to the comment Of those who accompany
the attorneys, but the attorneys them
selves refuse to say anything. These at
torneys maintained absolute silence all
day and refused to state even the title
Of the case until tonight, when 1t was
ascertained that all the papers here and
elsewhere had published incorrect and
sensational reports regarding it.
Former Gov w. o. Bradley and Mr..
Sweeney, of Lebanon. KY. arrived in the
city early this afternoon, and were soon
| Joined by a large number of others from
! Kentucky. w. H. Mackoy, prominent
attorney whose office is in Cincinnati, and
! whose residence is iii Covington, KY,
| was soon called in as associate counsel.
| When Ellis and Pryor resigned, after
| issuing certificates of election to the Re-
| publican candidates on the state ticket,
| the third member of the state board Of
| election commissioners, Mr. Poyntz, ap
| pointed Judge Fulton and Morton ].
| Yonts as his colleagues. These comlnis
| sioners are in session now at Frankfort,
| and the injunction seeks to restrain them
| from seating the Democratic contestants.
| After the designations of Ellis and Pryor
| Gov. Taylor appointed Cochrane and
Mackoy as the successors of Ellis and
| Pryor, to serve with Poyntz.
| SENSATIONAL. STORIES.
Mr.. Mackoy, who has been working all
| day with Bradley, Sweeney and others, in
| drafting the petitions, was member OF
| the state board of election commissioners
under a proclamation by Gov. Taylor IN
til that board was declared Illegal by the
| Kentucky courts
Bradley and Mackoy were the only ones
Of counsel who called on Judge Taft