The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-23
ANOTHER SENSATIONAL DEBATE
BETWEEN MORO n ARE JOHNSTON
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ing; you are too DID, and we don't want to
hurt you"
Hurt, hurt?" said the senator. II am
not afraid, and il l am nUrt it will not be
by you: you won't hurt anybody
Several passages were made back ana
forth between the doctor and the senator,
both of whom occupied seats upon the
s.age. Finally the governor said to uhe
senator that he wished ne would not talk;
he was trying to speak.
Senator Morgan said: well, make your
friend hush and there will be no more Of
it. No man can talk at me without being
talked back at"
The governor turned to mis- friend and
asked him to subside. The governor then
said that he had great respect for the
senator, his age, and talent, but he had
dog to learn new tricks. II hope to be fair.
There is another peculiar thing besides
the Washington interview" said the gov
ernor. You will find all the goldbug
papers supporting him. In Limestone they
| were also In his column.
| Name the gold-bug papers," said the
| senator.
| Every paper that bolted the ticket in
| 1885, The governor said this was a critical
| time The eyes were now upon Limestone
and Marshall, for if these two counties,
first to act in this great struggle, should
turn down a man who had always stood
for Bryan and vote for man who is sat
isfied with any man for president who
would not veto silver measure If passed
by democratic congress, what effect
would such action have on Mr.. Bryan
and the national democracy? Here he read
the Pettus argument against the internal
tional exchange bank.
Expansion and ImueriaIism
"On the question of expansion and impe-
rialism do not agree with the senator. l
was utterly opposed to the war with SPAIN
My friend here voted for it,
Eyes, as did every man in the two houses
| of congress- replied the senator
81 don't care if they all did, l would not
had 1 been there" said the governor. He
| said after the Spanish had been whipped
and driven from Cuba, that the recommen-
dations of congress were not being carried
out. We are opposing these people who
have so long struggled for liberty. Then
| we have gone to the Philippine islands and
are trying to claim them.
do you deny that we have a title to the
| Philippines?" asked the senator.
YES" replied the governor. Because
we bought them from a robber, that was
| not in possession of them when the title
| was made
The governor said that no democratic
| government could be established where the
| people were governed without their con-
| sent
i government, governed without their con-
| sent" asked the senator.
mo- the women govern the men and the
| men the government" replied the cover
| nor.
| This unholy war will leave a burden for
| us for the next fifty or hundred years. And
for what? A lot of negroes. We already
have pension list of one million federal
| soldiers, and this war will add $50 900 to
| that we are now paying out annually for
pensions.
He said that it had been charged by the
papers opposing him that he stood too near
| the populites.
| His Epitaph
He had rather have it written his
| monument when he slept his last sleep in
| his beloved Alabama that: Here Lies a
| Man Who Helped to Bring the White Men
| Together" than have inscribed upon his
| monument, Here Lies a Governor, Sena-
| tor
Since 1865. he had been in every cam
| paign in the state, on the stump and every.
| where else that he could do something fol
| the advancement of the great democratic
| party-the party that he believed was the
| salvation of the country. great hue and
cry had gone up about the populists sup
| porting him. He stated that only shor
| time ago when the men who favored tn,
| constitutional convention and who hat
| bolted the democratic ticket for the golt
standard were negotiating with members o
the legislature who were populists and of
| fering to divide offices with them If the,
would favor the bill.
| Senator Morgan's Reply
Senator Morgan was introduced to thu
audience by Mr.. Legg, and as the old mai
arose he was greeted with loud and pro
longed applause, demonstrating plainly tn
sentiment of the crowd.
The senator said that in the early sum
mer, for the first time in his life, he an
nounced for senator and invited all candi
| dates to a joint discussion. The governo
had from his innate modesty refused to an
nounce his candidacy, but contented him
self with his underground wire-working.
For many years, even since my boyhoo'
days, the relations existing between tn
governor and myself" said the senator
shave not been only amicable but affection
able. Then, IL he was intending to run TO
the senate and did not announce 1t was I'm
gentlemanly."
In all his thirty-eight speeches he did no