The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
AND THIS SEEMS LIKELY
KENTUCKY AIR Is ATHROB
WITH SPECULATION.
THE CONTEST PROCEEDINGS ILLEGAL
So TayIor's Attorneys Claim, and Say That if
the Legislatures Decision is Adverse
to Him it Should Not be
-. p;rJ,ro
Binding.

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 extravaganza speculation. If
the adherents of the contesteeS, the Re
publican incumbents of the State offices,
carry out the line of procedure they now
threaten by refusing to yacatc even i'll
case the Legislature decides in favor of
the DmOcratic contestants. the situa-
tion will be serious. and if the statements
of some, of the men high in the councils
of the State are to be creiiited. this is
what they propose to do. X. j. Hamp-
ton, Secretary of the Republican State
Central Committee, said today that the
talk of holding an anti-Goebel convention
here next week was purely an invention,
hut he predicted that several thousand
anti-Goebel men from all parts OF the
State would be here to protest by their
presence against unseating 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 GCebel Democrats. James Ans
drew Scott one of the attorneys for the
contestants in minor State contests, said
tonight:
The importation of soldiers and
thugs here for the purpose of intimidat-
ing the Legislature will not work. They
are huffing and no trouble Will occur.
As for their threats that they will hOld
on in spite of the decision by the Legisla-
ture they may do this for a few days,
but the courts would recognize the regu-
lar State government, and if Mr.. Taylor
does not then give in, he viii subject
himself to prosecution and all the pen
aities against usurpation which | have
no idea he will want to encounter"
Most Of the Democratic leaders COIN
eide with Mr.. Scott. Ex-Governor
Bradley and all of the Republican lead
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 binding ON him.
They file bill of specifications as TO
their objections to the trial of contests
dUu the EedSOtiS WHY luc pIOttculISS dIc
all illegal. .The sum total of these, ac-
cording to Governor Taylor's attorneys,
brings the case within some of the in
hibitions of the fourteenth amendment
to the Federal Constitution.
The Republican State Committee,
through it's officers and the organization
formed by disaffected Democrats during
the recent campaign, has issued state
ments reviewing the political campaign
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 public
peace and menace to popular instltu-
tions with Il record of unparalleled out
RACES during the past year. We are
about to enter upon a national campaign
and the probable leder in this campaign
has made himself the associate and the
supporter of the men who were repu-
dated at the polls. He is to return next
week to Kentucky to aid the c0nspira-
tors i'll driving from office men who have
been elected. The future is dark with
threatened danger of the gravcst char
aCter.