The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-14
Republicans Try to Intimidate
pKentucky Legislators.
WILL REFUSE TO YACATE
TAYLOR WILL HOLD ON EVEN
IF DECIDED AGAINST.
Democrats Declare They Do Not Fear
Soldiers and Thugs Being
Brought Into Frankfort, and VIII
Look to tie Courts to Sustain
Them IF They Win Contest.

Frankfort, KY, Jan. 13.-The situa-
ton 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 speculation.
If the adherents of the cOntestees, the
Republican incumbents of the state Of
fees, carry out the line of procedure
they now threaten by refusing to va
cate, even in case the legislature de-
cides in favor of the Democratic con-
testants the situation win be serious.
and if the statement of some OF the
men high in the councils of the state
are to be credited, this Is what they
propose to dc.
X J. Hampton, secretary of the Re-
publican state central committee, pre-
dicted tonight that several thousand
anti-Goebel men from all parts of the
state would be here to protest by
their presence against unseating Tay-
Tor and Marshal and to sustain them if
the legislature voted to turn them out.
He denied that any of those now here
are soldiers in citizens clothing as
charged by the Goebel Democrats.
James Andrew Scott, one Of the attor-
neys for the contestants, in the minor
state contests said tonight:
Soldiers and Thugs.
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 &C.
cur. AS for their threats that they viii
hold on in spite of the decision of the
legislature, they may do this for few
days, but the courts would recognize
the regular state government, and If
Mr.. Taylor does not then give IN. he
will subject himself to prosecution and
all of the penalties against usurpation.
which l have no idea he viii want to
encounter
Most of the Democratic leaders coin
eide with Judge Scott. Ex-Governor
Bradley and all of the Republican cad
ers hold 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 bind
ing on him. They file a bill of speci-
ficatiOns as to their objections to the
trial of the contests and the reasons
why the proceedings are Illegal These
are.
Had Minds Made Up.
THAT the Democratic members Of the
legislature with a few exceptions had
their minds made up, and were COM
mitted in advance of the filing of the
contests to vote to seat GOebel and
Beckham; that the committees trying
the contests are fraudulently consti-
tuted and can have no just powers, be
cause of the fraudulent manner in
which they were drawn, as charged by
the Republicans. and not denied by
Clerk Leigh; that the time allowed for
introducing evidence IS so short as to
practically to amount to denial to the
contestants Of the right to prove their
cases, and that the refusal to accept de-
positions as evidence operates in the
same manner
The sum total of all these, according
TO Governor Taylor's attorneys, brings
the case within some of the inhibitions
Of the fourteenth amendment to the
federal constitution.