The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-07
USURPS ALL POWERS
Taylor Backed by Militia Carries
Through Plans Of Force.
REPUBLICAN RIFLES RULES.
Legislature Ordered and Com.
PEELED to Adjourn Before ooe-
bel Could be Declared
Elected Governor.

Elected Governor.
A dispatch from Frankfort, Ky,
says Taylor, the defeated Republican
candidate for governor, adjourned the
Legislature Wednesday to meet at Loa-
don, Ky, Feb s. Militia ia the city
prevented the Democrats from assemt.-
ing and members were threatened with
arrest. Never was there more COM
plicated political situation than that
which confronts the politicians of Ken
lucky, and never was there one Of
which it seemed so difficult to form an
accurate guess of the outcome.
All day long the Democracy has been
groping around trying to find some way
in which it could seat in the guberna-
torial chair its leader, William Goebel,
who lies slowly dying of the wound in
ficted by the bullet of an assassin.
No matter which way the Democrats
turned they were confronted by the
same prospect line of blue ed ed
with steel-snd it was fully understt cd
by both parties that the line and he
steel were there for business purposes
only. There was no bluff, no false
alarm about it.
The Democrats have not said they
would not go to London, but their
legal advisers have counselled them
that Taylor had no right to adjourn
the legislature from Frankfort and it is
likely the matter will be tested in the
courts before any circumstance can
arise which would call for the arrest of
the members. The Democrats have
not, in fact, decided what they will do.
Ali day through the streets Of Frank
fort soldiers marched and counter
marched. Drills in the estreet were fre-
quently held in order that the men
might be warmed by exercise, after
they had remained in the biting wind.
Around the penitentiary was line OF
troops, in the opcra house was guard,
three companies stood at rest in the
open space front Of the Capitol hotel,
sentries patro!Ied every side Of the
building in which ex Governor Bradley
resides, and detachment Of infantry
held the court house against the posi-
Die coming Of the members Of the legis-
ature with the intention of declaring
that not the living William S. Taylor
but the dying William Goebel vas the
lawful head and chief executive Of the
com mnonWealth Of Kentucky.
The Republicans laid their plans well
aud secretly. They carried them
through vigorously and triumphantly.
The proclamation declaring that state
OF insurrection existed in the State and
warrants for the arrest Of every Demo
cratic member Of the legislature were
prepared Tuesday night. 1t was the
intention of Gov. Taylor and his ad-
visers that 10 meeting Of the legisla-
ture should be held Wednesday, even
though it proved necessary to arrest
and dctain in custody all those who
persisted in holding meetings. Once
adopted, the policy was carried out to
the letter. Compelled to retire from
the capitol building, they went to the
opera house; held back from the opera
house, they went to the court house;
prevented from entering the court
house, they went to the Capitol hotel.
only to be told that any meeting they
might attempt to hold in that building
would be suppressed, all found taking
part in it would be arrested and the
hotel Itself seized by the soldiers. La
ter in the day officers entered the hotel
and told the Democrats that no confer
ences must be held, and they attempted
to hold none
There is much doubt among the
members of the Legislature as to whesh-
J er or not they will go to Louiou at all.
Some of the Republicans left Frankfort
during the day, declaring that they
were goiog direct to London, but no
Democrat so declared himself. The
words London, Laurel county," are
not words that please Democratic ears.
In fact, many of them declared that
their lives would not be safe after they
reached the town It is a place OF
about 1000 Inhabitants, situated in
what is known as the "feud county" :"
The inhabitants are mostly noun
taineers, and largely Of a most enthusi-
astic Republican filth. The county is
one Of the greatest Republican strong
holds in the State. The people of Lau-
rel county are intensely for Taylor and
intensely against Goebel and all his
works. 1t is this latter feeling that
causes the Deneeratie members OF
the legislature to feel hesitaucy about
venturing at the present time within
the confines of Laurel county or into
the neighborhood Of London, where
party feeling runs so high and bitter
from end to end of the State.
Adjt Gen. Collier declared Wednes-
day th at if they did not attend the leg
islative meeting, which is called to
meet on Feb. 6, he would arrest them
individually, provided he received the
necessary orders from Gov. Taylor to
convey them to London.