The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-05
WILL BE SAFE.
LONDON PEOPLE DENY THERE IS
LAWLESSNESs THERE.

The Town aS Peaceful and Trauouil
as n Country ViIIage-TaIk of Arm
cd MOuntaineers Is Denounced as
FaIsc-Only One Policeman There
No Feuds and No OutIaws-JudGe
Brown Says London Has Been SLAM
dered.
London. KY, Feb. 4.-The rumors that
have become current that armed noun
taineers have gathered in London to in
timidate Democratic legislators are with
out foundation
The town is as peaceful and tranquil as
country village in any other part of the
country, and there are no armed men
within its limits, or lurking in the ada,
cent country, as far as is known by the
London citizens.
There are tonight four senators and
nine representatives here, all Republi-
cans. They are Senators Jolly, White,
Miller and Huntsman; Representatives
Slack, Jarnigan. Robinson, William Lewis.
/ W. w. Lewis Read, Hazewell. Caron and
Rogers.
1t is expected that the early morning
train from Frankfort win bring an influx
of the state Lawmakers. The feeling pre-
walls in London that no trouble whatever
will ensue. Circuit Judge Brown Of the
| Circuit Court, said tonight:
ANY man, whatever may be his poll
| tics, is as safe in London as though he
| were in his own house. There is nothing
but emptiness to all these rumors regard
ing armed Intervention from the noun
| taineers when the Legislature convenes
| here.
This Is peaceable community and Il
is law-abiding. That I can assert. Not
since the war has there been any trouble
in London, except some time ago. when
the marshal shot an escaping prisoner
Only One Policeman.
I'VE have but one policeman and he Is
| the town marshal. We do not need any
more. If trouble were started. the citi-
zens would Immediately turn out and queil
it. They won't stand for 1t under any cir
cumstances. Let the Legislature come
here, there win be no trouble"
f. H. Hackney, chairman of the town
ship board of trustees and chairman of
the Township Democratic Committee. de-
| clared that there would be no extra Off
GERS sworn in during the coming session
Of the Legislature.
"The marshal is enough" he said, mo
more will be needed" This is the feeling
generally expressed"
MILITIA viii Go There.
A company of state militia under Capt.
Powell. is expected to arrive tomorrow
from Barboursville.
Arrangements have been about com
pleted for holding the Legislature in the
old Laurel County Seminary building 10
Gated in the southern part Of the town.
ana about a quarter of a mile from the
business center At present school is he
ing held in the old building. but to-mor-
row the pupils will be transferred to tile
Baptist Church and the seminary given
over to the Legislature. The building is
of brick and was erected in 1858 for educa-
tional purposes, 1t is two stories in
night and built on the old colonial sty;e.
The Senate viii occupy the upper room
and the House will take the ground floor
The building stands prominently on
knoll just off the main street
London is located in the mountain
Businesses in Southeastern Kentucky
about l25 miles from Frankfort 1t has |
population of LOO, and for twenty years
has not countenanced a saloon or the
selling of liquors. 1t is the seat of Laurel
county.
Denial of the RumOrs.
A signed statement, refuting the rum
ors that London Is arme d TO fight against |
the Legislature was written tonight bv
Circuit Judge Brown, and will be deliv- |
cred by him as a speech before the I.au-
rel County Circuit Court at the opening
OF its regular term tomorrow. The adj |
dress in part says
The papers of Northern and Eastern
cities have Nic6 with II,
efforts to slander our town and county.
while some of our own Kentucky papers
have so far forgotten the truth as to be
a party to these slanderous attacks
Among the infamous charges it has been
said that London is in the very mouth of
a he'll; that 1t is the center of the so
called feud district, and that the citizens
of this county are a band of outlaws
ready and anxious TO pounce down on the
Legislature and tear 1t to pieces, or upon
those members whose political affiliations
differ from the predominant party in the
county. I desire, in behalf of the people
Of my native county. in behalf of the
people whom l love and among whom l
was born and reared, 20 denounce all of
said charges as absolutely false
No Feud and No Outlaws.
"As to feuds, Laurel county has never in
her history known such a thing. As to
the charge that our citizens are outlaws
DDSSlDlV
fabricated. Ours is one of the mountain
Gus counties, but the mountains are the
glory of the earth, the home of liberty.
and the best nursery of good citizenship
our people have their convictions They
believe thoroughly what they believe. bnt
they are too honorable, TOO honest to re-
sort to dishonorable means TO force their
convictions on others.
In education. industry and moral
worth, the people of London will compare
most favorably with any city
or town in kentucky. The habit
has been formed outside Of Ken
lucky of judging the state as a
whole by the worst characters 10 be found
In the mountains or in the lower classes
of the city. The world does not seem 10
know that cultured Boston or metropol-
itan New York would fare even worse by
the selection OF such standards. / assert
that in no town Is good order appreciated
more fully, and in no county is the law
more vigorously enforced than in London