Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-29
VINnICATEs MORGAN.

every power hl the COnIndIu ol tic president of the United States to force the unconditional repeal of the purchas- ing clause of the sherman law, and such democrats as Sena tors Morgan and Pugh were resisting the repeal and stating in justifica tion of such resistance that un- coditional repeal meant the doom of sil- yer as money in this country and would clinch upon us the wicked single gold standard policy, the Montgomery Adver" tiser and those leading and those follow ing it scorned the idea that unconditional repeal was against bimetallism and would result in clinehing upon the United States the single gold standard Day after day, as can be verified by perusal of its files, Senators Pugh and Morgan were ar raigned and abused for taking the stand they took. The charge that the Adver User and MT. Cleveland were in favor of the single gold standard was always hurled back with defiant denial. supple mented by the statement that such fos- sls as Morgan and Pugh were retarding the return to bimetallism.
 That was in 1893 and 1894. At that time the Advertiser was engaged in the unholy war against the people and the democrat
 
 advantage by misrepresentation. Now, let's see if we cannot prove by the Adver tiser that Senators Morgan and all those who stood by him in his fight against un- conditional repeal was correct in this statement, yea the oft-repeated state ment, that unconditional repeal meant the clinching of the single gold standard on this country. Read carefully the fol- lowing, taken from last Sundays issue of the Advertiser:
 ''The Scottsboro Banner (populite) re- ports Judge Richardson as saying there that the establishment of a single gold standard In this country would be more powerful to suppress the people than swords and muskets.' Inasmuch as the gold standard has already been in force many years, and as the democratic party in 1894 put the finishing touch to the work, Judge Richardson tells the people they are already slaves and that the party whose standard he waves Is largely responsible for it."
 Tn the language of the Advertiser, the finishing touch to the work begun in 1873 by old John Sherman was put on in 1894 Did mortal man ever speak with more truth and with more prophetic vision than did Senator John T. Morgan in his
 
 ditional repeal when he stood in his place in face of the frownlng minions of the money power and told the world that the professions of friendship for silver made by those pressing the measure then pending were false, and that the passage of that measure meant the fasting of the single gold standard upon this country and by 1t the financial enslavement of it's people?
 Who will gainsay the proposition that the Advertiser has come to the rescue of Senator Morgan in it's free and open ad- mittance now that it was untrue to Sena- tor Morgan and the people in 1894?
 If the bill passed in 1894 put the finish ing touch on the single gold standard as the Advertiser says it did and as Sena- tor Morgan said it would, is not that pa- per due Senator Morgan an apology?
 The fact that the Advertiser did not take issue with Senator Morgan on his statements regarding the effects of the gold standard should be borne in mind Ostensibly at that time that paper agreed with Senator Morgan on the proposition that the gold standard was detrimental to the best interests of the masses. It took issue on what were the purposes of those pressing unconditional repeal and what It's passage would result in. That paper. and. in fact. all those advocating unconditional repeal. dared not admit a that time that the move was in the in- terest of the single gold standard, and those, like Senator Morgan, who saw and knew what was intended and had the manhood and courage to so inform the npnnlP hxy abuse and ridicule.
 He who fires from behind truth and jus tice as breastworks always lives to see his enemy dead or shown up in a true light. Like the murderer who escapes and finally wanders back to the scene of his crime, now comes the paper which sought to destroy Alabamas beloved senator. and takes the witness stand in his Vindication and to it's own disgrace
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