The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-26
MIGHT HAVE GONE FURTHER
A Severe Invective of the States
Chief Executive.
INDUCES In CUTTING SARCASM
Chnrges the Governor With Violation of
the Organic and Legislative Laws
to Further Pearsonal Aims
A Scathing Rebuke.

Washington, December 25.-(special)-
Senator Morgan has sent the following re-
ply to Governor Johnston, of Alabama,
who in letter given to the press stigma
tized certain remarks made by him in the
senate as untrue:
Washington, d. c., Dec. %, 1899.
To His Excellency, Joseph E. Johnston,
Governor of Alabama
Sir: The Birmingham News of December
goth states that you had sent me, by mail,
a letter of which the following is a copy;
i" Montgomery, Ala, December 20.
Governor Johnston has today mailed
the following letter to Senator Morgan:
! Montgomery, Ala, Dec. 20, 1899.
/ f'To Hon. John T. Morgan, United
States Senator, Washington, D. c.
''Sir You are quoted as having said on
{ the 1Sth in speech in the senate, that
"a monster monopoly had to leave Ala
bama and find home and shelter in
New Jersey, and large corporation, in
which the governor of Alabama has or
: had large amount of stock, and who
/ leads the procession
I "I regret that you did not make this
charge on the stump in Alabama where
! would have had a chance to reply, but
( waited until you found the shelter of
the senate.
fully demand that you shall retract the
same or find one reputable witness to
sustain it. JOSEPH f. JOHNSTON"
Not having received any letter from you,
assume that you have written me
through the newspapers. I find the letter
printed in the above form in your personal
organ, the Montgomery Journal, and sup
pose it Is what you intend to say to me.
Your card was printed in time for its effect
on the action-of the trustees of the Univer-
sity, but 1t seems to have failed of its pur-
pose Something has relaxed your majestic
rial attitude towards the University so
that you sUbsided into a willingness to be
heard, in YOUR own defense, by the board
of trustees, provided they would wait an
other day, after having secuted with af-
fected contempt, but with an ague of fear,
on the 18th of December, the polite request
of the committee of the Alumni that you
would give them a statement of your
dealings with the University lands. This
sudden thawing of the ice will give the
state some relief. On the 21st of December
you seem to have come around and to have
changed your imperious mood, when you
wrote Mr.. Sterling Wood, secretary, as fol-
nal of "Assumacy Rebuked," you say:
"In the first place, deny the right of
the committee the Society of the
Alumni to investigate the governor of
Alabama in regard to any action taken
by him in the official discharge of his
trust / am not responsible to them
: but to the people of Alabama. and shall
respectfully decline to be interrogated
by them"
Did Not Alarm the Alumni
This display of ''assumacy" on your part
did not alarm the Alumni or the trustees,
and you quite hastily concluded to dis
mount and seek audience of the board of
trustees, on foot, If not in sackcloth and
ashes, when the voting commenced.
find the same letter in the Washington
Post of the Goth, which says: Governor
Johnston, who is a candidate for Senator
Morgan's seat, today publishes the follow
dng card" so, suppose, that have cor
rect copy of the letter that you say you
sent me. You say that l am quoted" as
having said what you undertake to say "is
not true"
You omit to give your author for "the
charge that you say is untrue, and as
sumo that I charged you with being, or
having been, the owner of a large amount
of stock in large corporation in New Jer-
sey. Either you have perverted and mis-
stated what I said in the senate, touching
This subject or your informant has msled
you, and 1 respectfully ask you to state
who is the falsifier.
You have attempted to put my statement
In false and garbled way, so that you
could make a denial of what you either in
vented or profess to have heard that had
said in the senate. knowing that you could
not deny what did say.
copy from the Record what I said about
pou. l wrote 1t out and read it from manu-
script to the senate, having shown it to a
friend before began my speech. 1t is as
follows:
Neither Tennessee nor Alabama ever
intended that their mines of coal and
iron should be operated and worked by
corporations of New Jersey.
"If that is ever done, 1t will only De
done with the consent of the legislatures
of those states, not otherwise They
have not consented, and they will never
consent, to such foreign control of their
most vital interests
Before l read the decision of the su-
preme court touching this point. in the
case of the Central Transportation COM
pany VS.. the Pullman Car company,
will point out another recent combina-
tion in Alabama of the same kind to