Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-02-05

be upheld. under the law. II possible
but the liberties OF the people must be
upheld. No partisan court has a right
TO tie the hands Of the chief executive
of the state. and any attempt to dc
so win be disregarded. The lives and
liberties Of the people are. in great
part, entrusted to the chief executive
inasmuch as it is his sworn duty to
protect this liberty against fraudulent
Judgments written to overthrow the
will of the people as II is to protect
them from an invasion Of a foreign
foe
The staement then makes an elab-
orate defense of the action of the gov
ernor adjourning the legislature.
Louisville. KY, Feb. 5.-Henry Wat
terson today gave out the following
statement: The head and front of our
present troubles in Kentucky, at once
the source and resource of revolu-
tionary proceedings by which repub-
lican government has been for the time
being, struck down and a military
dictatorship set up in its place. is the
Louisville & Nashville railway com
pany. In the recent state campaign IL
supplied the material resources in
such abundance as to draw out all the
dangerous elements of society and put
into activity all the forces of political
adventure. The two leading parties to
the contest were as nothing by COM
parison with its gigantic machinery
for corrupting elections Hordes of
desperate mountain men, who were
precipitated upon the state capital,
could never have got there except
through its agency. 1t is at this mo-
ment the backbone of the movement to
transfer the state capital from the
city of Frankfort, its lawful abode, to.
the little village of London, Laurel
county, situated upon one of it's
branches in the heart of the vendetta
region, whose turbulency has for years
disgraced the state. It is believed tho
of its support from the
de facto government, would stop these
dangerous and lawless proceedings"
Frankfort. KY, Feb. 5--A report was
circulated today that, acting under the |
'rders of Governor Taylor. a force of |
tate militia was to be sent to the
tate penitentiary and force the re-
ease of Doug Hayes, who is serving a
erm of five years for manslaughter,
nd who was pardoned by Governor
Taylor last week, but whose release
las been refused by the prison author
ties. Warden Lillard left here last |
light for Louisville, but the state |
board of penitentiary commissioners
was notified that such action was to
be taken. Commissioner FennelI tele-
phonsd the prison authorities to lock
the prison gates, but to offer no re-
sistance outside of that, even if the
militia undertook to batter down the
gates and take Hayes away by force.
London, KY, Feb. 5.-A company OF
state militia, numbering ninety men
under Captain Powers, arrived from
Barboursville, today.
Frankfort, KY, Feb. 5.-Alonzo
Walker, the stenographer who was
placed under arrest on the charge of
melting the state guard to mutiny,
while pinning notice of a proposed
application for an injunction upon the
door of the Office Of Governor Taylor.
was released. The release was not
made in response to a writ of habeas
corpus which Sheriff Sutter tried in
vain to serve upon Governor Taylor,
but the governor concluded that Walk
er had been sufficiently punished.