Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1900 — TAYLOR IS DEFEATED. [ARTICLE]

TAYLOR IS DEFEATED.

Supreme Court’s Decision Rendered in Beckham’s Favor. The Kentucky governorship case was Monday decided by the United States Supreme Court in the interest of Beckham, affirming the decision of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. The opinion in the Kentucky case xvas not unanimous, one of the justices dissenting. The opinion was handed down by Chief Justice Fuller, and the case was dismissed for want of jurisdiction. lie said thq court should be the last to overstep thq bounds limiting its own jurisdiction, and that the determination of cases of this character, contests for State office must necessarily be settled by. the political branch of the Government. That branch had acted in the Kentucky case when thq General Assembly took jurisdiction, There was no appeal from the Assembly’s decision, which was favorable to Goebel and Beckham, except to the .tribunal of the people, which tribunal the chief justice said, was always in session. He also said the case was purely a State casethat Kentucky was In the full possession of its faculties as a member of the Union, and that there was no emergency at this time calling for interference.