The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-02-06

militia officers who wanted money Tor
their companies. When they were
presented ut the bank payment was
refused. President Rodman said that
he did not see how he could pay out
the money on orders signed by Gov.
Taylor until he knew for certain who
was the actual governor of Kentucky.
He had asked an opinion from the at
torney of the bank. he said. and when
it was received would act accordingly.
He declared that he would take no
chance of paying out money until he
was satisfied that he was acting under
proper authority.
The second instance was when Gov.
Taylor issued a pardon to- Douglas
Hayes, a convict in the Frankfort pen
itentiaPy who is serving a fve-year
term for manslaughter, having been
sentenced IN March, 1899. When the
pardon was sent to Warden Lillard he
decided that he could not turn the
man loose until he was satisfied re-
garding the legal status of the COVER
nOrship. He made no reply to Gov.
Taylor, but declined to honor the par
don, and informed the penitentiary
commissioners of his action.
Conflict of Authority.
Frankfort, KY, Feb. 3.-The first
clash between the executive and Judi
ciary powers of the state has occur
red, and still greater clash is immi-
nent, and beyond lies a sea with skies
so lowering, and so stormy an aspect
that no politician of either party can
predict where it viii carry the Ken
lucky ship of state. There is the
chance that things will, as Congress-
man June Gayle expresses it, drift
around all right" but there are other
chances also, and if things are to
drift around all right" they must
strike a counter current and strike it
soon. There can no longer be any
cOncealment of the fact that affairs in
this state are bordering upon conflict
in arms and the beginning OF the cri-
sis is at hand. 1t may be that political
difficulties viii be settled by the courts
of law, but the hearts of men are hot
in Kentucky now and legal process
may provide remedy too dilatory to
please a few of the more impatient
and it is in the power of these to ere
ate a world of woe at almost any
time
The clash came when an officer of
the circuit court of Franklin county
was arrested by the military while at
tempting to serve notice of a legal
proceeding upon Gov. Taylor. The
next clash may come when the officers
of that court attempt to enforce the
rulings of its presiding judge. Behind
this Judge the democrats will have for
the first time an active executive head
in the person of Acting Gov. Beckham,
and from the democratic standpoint
regularly appointed adiutant general,
whose orders the troops now en-
camped around the capitol building
are bound to obey. If they decline to
obey, the new adjutant general will,
/ the democrats claim, have the power
10 organize military forces of his own
and proceed against all people who
defy the authority of his office and
that of the governor of the state,
whom he represents.
OAl A4AE OLllCl lAduAls lllC IGDuDLCdlS
are fixed in their attitude that there
is an insurrection in the state; that
] Beckham and his actions, his adiutant
general and his orders, are those of
| people acting in opposition to law.
They believe that they alone are in
the right, and, as there Gamble but one
right and all else wrong, those who
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o. Gov. Taylor are in rebellion against
the commonwealth. They will resist
any attempt of any kind to remove
/ them from their position around the
/ capital, meeting force with force, and
/ that means civil war.
The first clash came when AlonZo
Walker, a stenOgrapher employed by
the democratic attorneys was placed
under arrest in the capital grounds
charged with conduct tending to in
cite mutiny and riot. The conduct
consisted in pinning to the door of the
private Office of Gov. Taylor a notice
that the democratic attorneys would
appear before Judge Cantrill, of the
circuit court, and ask for an injunc-
ton restraining Gov. Taylor from all
interference with the movements of
the legislature and from his announc-
ed attempt to remove it to London
in this state. Walker was at once ia
ken into custody by orders of Col.
Roger Williams, the commanding Off
Ger of the force now gathered around
the capital.
Injunction Against Taylor.
Frankfort, KY, Feb. 4.-Judge Can
trill, of the circuit court, Saturday
morning granted a temporary injunc-
ton restraining Gov. Taylor from in
terfering with the meetings of the
legislature, and from removing the
seat of the legislature to London, Ky.
The temporary injunction is to re-
main binding until February s, when
the hearing to make it permanent
viii be heard before Judge Cantril at
Georgetown, Ky.
Immediately after the issuance of