Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-27

Saturdays session of the Senate was not
able not alone for its effectual disclosure of
the flibustering purposes of the handful of
anti-annexationists in that chamber. 1t
brought from one of the most prominent
democrats in the Senate solemn warning
to his party of the dangers that confront
those politicians who, in this hour OF the
governments need. forget their duties to
country and seek only to secure some tenn
'porary and questionable partisan advan-
tage by antagonizing the administration in
the conduct of the war. Senator Morgan
stands today of the truest types of
the southern American. In all his record
there is no stain of unprogressiveness.
In this matter of Hawaii he has every
right to speak as he spoke Saturday. No
man better understands the situatiou with
regard to those islands. He has studied
them from all points of view and is ardent
ly in favor of annexation. His motives can
not be questioned. The slurs cast upon
them are unworthy of the least consdera-
ton Senator Morgans uprightness and
sincerity are beyond question and when he
rises TO warn his colleagues of the folly of
persistent craftsmanship in the face of
public enemy he does his country service
that is entitled to enduring memory.
There is need for just such plain talking
GS liletl tdliie iIOIl the SeTalOT
Alabama Saturday. The democrats who act
ir opposition to the government In its efforts
to prosecute this war successfully are en-
danEering themselves in threatening their
country. They must be addressed with the
directness and pIainness of speech that
may not always be found in the congress
sional debates. The time has come for
straight speech and Senator Morgan is
one of the men of all men to deliver it.
His words cut through the veneer of sen
atorial courtesy and exposed the sham of
the hhbustering devices of the opposition
Aside from the immediate consequences
of this affair in the Senate, the warming
given by Senator Morgan to his democratic
and populistic colleagues Will have a far
reaching effect. The other day Senator
Teller, leader among the advocates of
free coinage, revealed the fact that there
is wide schism among them in regard to
this matter of the annexation of Hawaii
and the conduct of the war. The division
among democrats has already been indicat-
ed by the action on Hawaii and on the
soldiers'-vote bill in the House But il re-
manned Tor Senator Morgan. speaking with
all the prestige of an unbroken party record
as a democrat of the old school, as a leader
OF thought in the south and as one of the
ablest men in his party, to do for the
democracy what Senator Teller did for the
free silver forces.
There is more than mere rhetoric in the
words of the venerable Alabanlian. The
people of this country want this war con-
Quoted without the interv ention of political
factionalism. They want the Hawaiian Is
lands annexed promptly. They want the
administration upheld in its military enter
prises. and the men who permit partisan
prejudices or considerations of personal
comfort or questionable motives TO infiu-
ence them in opposing these ends will be
rebuked The democratic party is entering
upon the rockiest road in all its course if ii
fails to profit by the warning words of
John T. Morgan.