The age-herald., 1900-01-14
Will Refuse to Get Out Regard
 less of Verdict.
DEMOCRATS BELIEVE IT A BLUFF
Attorney Scott Says the Importation of
 Soldiers and Thugs for Purpose of g, Intimidating Legislature s9+ Will Not Work

q. Frankfort, Ky, January 13.-The situation in. the contests for governor and the state .i officers and what Is going to happen when the final question is declared is tonight full of the most extravagant speculation.
 If the adherents of the contestees, the republican incumbents of ube state offices, carry out their line of procedure they now threaten, by refusing to vacate even in case the legislature decides in favor of the dem- ocratic contestants, the situation will be serious, and if the statements of some men high in the counsels of the state are to be credited, that is what they propose to do.
 K. J. Hampton, secretary of the repub- lcan state central committee, said this af- ternoon that the talk of holding an anti Goebel state convention here next week was purely an invention, but he predicted that several thousand anti-Goebel men from all parts of the state would be here to protest by their plNsence against un- seating 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 cltizens clothes, as charged by the Goebel democrats.
 |; James Andrew Scott, one of the attorneys for the contestants in the minor state con- tests, said tonight:
 I.lIne importation of soldiers ana thugs here for the purpose of intim1catlhg the Ieeislature will not work. They are oiuI- tinp. and no trouble will occur. As for tne1r threats that they will hold on in spite of the decision of the legislature, they may oo this for a few days, but the courts wouio recognize the regular state government and if Mir. Taylor does not then glVe h. he will subject himself to prosecution ana all of the penalties against usurpation, which I have no idea he will want to en- counter"
 Most of the democratic leaders coincide with Scott.
 Republican Leaders Protest
 Ex-Governor Bradley and all the republl- can leaders hold that the contest proceed ings are being conducted in an arbitrary manner, without regard to the law, and that for these reasons, the decision, II ad- verse to Taylor, should not be binding on him. They file bill of specifications as to their objections to the trial of tne con- tests and the reasons why the proceed ings are illegal.
 These are:
 "Tlhat the democratic members of the legislature, with few exceptions, had their minds made up and were committed in advance of the filing of tine contests to vote to seat Goebel and Beckham; that the commission trying the contests are fraudulently constituted and can have no just powers, because of the fraudulent manner in which they were drawn as obaroad hv tha ranil,licans and not denied by Clerk Leigh that the time allowed for taking evidence is so short as to practi- callys not permit any denial to the con- testees of the right to prove their cases, and that the refusal to accept dispositions 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 inhibitfons of the fourteenth amendment to the federal con- stitution.