The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-16
BOTH SIDES To KENTUCKY POLITICAL
CONTEST DETERMINED.
THE DECISION TO Be RESISTED
By That Party Against Whom 1t is
Made - Republicans Charged With
Importing Soldiers in Citizens
Clothes to the Capital-COnsequen
of Taylor's Refusal to Submit to the
Finding of the Legislature-s'Ho
Democrats appeal to the People.
Frankfort, KY, January 13.-The Sit

Frankfort, KY, January lathe Sit
uation in the contests for governor
and the state offices and the question
Of what is going to happen when the
final result is declared, are tonight
fruitful of the most extravagant spec
ulation. Ii the adherents of the con-
testees, the republican incumbents Of
the state offices, carry out the line of
procedure they now threaten by re-
fusing to vacade even in case the legis-
lature decides in favor of the demo-
cratic contestants, the situation will
be serious, and if the statements of
some of the men high in councils of the
state are to be credited, this is what
they propose to do.
x. j. Hampton, secretary of the re-
publican state central committee, said
today that the talk of holding an anil
GOeDel state convention here next week
was purely an invention, but he pre-
dicted that several thousand anti
G0ebel men from all parts of the state
would be here to protest, by their pres
ence, against unseating of Taylor and
Marshall and to sustain them if the
legislature votes to turn them out. He
denied that any of those now here are
soldiers in citizens clothes as charged
by the Goebel democrats.
James Andrew Scott, one of the at
torneys for the contestants in minor
state contests said tonight:
THE importation of soldiers and
thugs here for the purpose of intimi-
dating the legislature will not work.
They are bluffing and no trouble will
occur. AS for their threats that they
| will hold on in spite of the decision by
the legislature, they may do this for a
few days, but the courts would recog-
nize the regular state government, and
if Mr.. Taylor does not then give in, he
will subject himself to prosecution and
all the penalties against usurpaition
which 1 have no idea he viii want to
| encounter"
Most of the democratic leaders COIN
eide with Scott. Ex-Governor Bradley
and all OF the republican leaders held
that the contest proceedings are being
conducted in an arbitrary manner
without regard to the law and that for
these reasons the decision, If adverse
| to Taylor, should not be binding on
him. They file a bill of specifications
| as Ito their objections to the trial OF
| contests and the reasons why the pro-
ceedings are all illegal. The sum total
! of these, according to Governor Taylor s
| attorenyS brings the case within some
| Of tine inhibitions of the fourteenth
amendment to the federal constitution
| The republican state committee,
| through its officers and the Organiza-
| ton formed by disaffected democrats
| during the recent campaign, has issued
statements reviewing the political cam
| paign and calling upon its constituents
| for their support.
The appeal issued by the honest
| democrats" says:
The democratic party has been put
| in the position of an enemy to the pub
lie peace and a menace to popular in
| stitutionS with a record OF unparalleled
| outrages during the past year. We
| are about to enter upon a national cam
| paign; the probable leader in this cam
| paign has made himself the associate
! and supporter of the men who were re-
pudiated at the polls. He is to return
| next week to Kentucky to aid the con-
| spiraJtors in driving from office mer
| who have been elected. The future Is
| dark with threatened danger OF the
| gravest character"