The age-herald., 1900-01-17

appoint them, they simply violate the law
 and wI4h your knowledge and consent Such an answer you give to this usurpa-
 tion of power sticks in the bark and If 1t is sincerely true the law has either been evaded or ignored or violated by you. This would be a convenient place for one of your irsinus'lons, but l for9ear to follow your example. Your attitude on the race question and the negro ln pol3eics and on the question of the Filipino insIrreetioa are enigmas to me, wnicl l have tried to get you 70 explain in our joint discussions dn Limestone county. You appealed to une negroes in a speech at Athens, and asked them, DO you not vote much as you
 want to-? They replied with enthusiasm
 that they did. 1 said to them, I am op- posed to your exercising the privilege of suffeage, and you afterwards in discussion took Issue with me. That was clear enough; but you insisted that we had
 white supremacy, and that was enough took the ground shat white supremacy, held under constant accusations of fraud and rs-.bery made against the white race,
 was too dear r-ice to pay for that which is ours by the gist of God.
 ''I have no experience to fortify my opin- ton to election frauds, except the pro test frequently hear from fathers that tthey abhor the idea of having their sons educated in such Q school of morals. If you nave IOulu al necessary as d pOlftlCdl manager to assist in such efforts to restore
 'WlIte supremacy, l jua.ify you on the groUld that !. WAS then necessary under
 the laws of sclf-defense; but cannot agree
 with you either that it Is | wise or safe oasis of political action, CT taat it is better to temporize with this dangerous question : by keeping up the deceptive methods, CT by hattering |he negro into a pre,ended ae-
 quiescence by giving him equivalent milf tary honors or powers, or by purchasing his vote
 If we will deal honestly by ourselves we will sl4n 'he powet' needed to restore the white race to it's r!.ghtful authority. Tn our Joint discussion I called your att tention to the fact that in organizing .he Third Al&Dam1 negro reg.meEt you aad
 placed the neeco on the highest plane of equality wiGl the white man by accepting him fn that highest and noIolest pos:,ion an American can assume-as a volunteer sol dior under the flag of his country. No man has ever done more than this,
 or for less reason, to confer upon the negro false and dangerous attitude, or to de- grade the white volunteer to equality
 with the negro, enforced by military power.
 When the Alabama regiments were being disbando1, you teegraphed me and urged
 me to insist that the Third Alabama negro regiment should be retained in the service.
 refused to assist in your plan, and after
 that you forgot that ever had been your friend.
 ln Inconsis;ency Tn your speeches in Limestone county on the sLl1jeu. of the war in the Philippines you followed very closely tho language of your letter to the people, dated October :,
 1S99i from Which I make the following ex- tract:
 "'The beauties of the civilizing and 5Chf.stnr:zng process ought to be ap- parent to the Philippines. They are first to submit to a fraudulent sale. and then to an armed invasion, the complete over throw of their liberties, and subjecaon to a commanding general and his subor- dinates, who cannot speak their Ian guage, and whose manners and customs are contrary to Sheir ncinatons. Re- sisting, they are to be shot into the king dom of heaven. A civilization that is in 'troduced with sword. and religion backed by powder and shot is not Eahle to be eagerly adopted by a peopte worth saving
 "In replying to this part of your speech asked you why you had, as governor, noul- in1ted your son to a caps2-ncy tn the army to do these terrible things to the Filpinos. You denied having done so, and told you I had a telegram that proved it. and pro- duced it-a telegram from the secretary or wac informing me that you, as governor, had nominated number Of gensemen TOT officers In the army then bsing organized for service III llle 1llllippiiits, "ihNhe "A,@-- your son was nominated for captaincy. endorsed that nomination heartily, because was informed that your son was good soldier and worthy and patriotic man. l made no further comment on your attitude in connection with these facts, ana make none now. At Athens I read from the Huntsville
 Mercury an extract printed in the Athens Democrat, as follows:
 JOHNSTON ON SILVER. .rovernor Johnston's favorite pose Is
 that of .the original free silver man, and
 some of his friends in Limestone are
 wont to prate ofathe governors love TOT
 silver. The following tipping utteriy re
 flutes such claim: If we couio get iiee
 coinage through the success or tne
 nublican or populist party would @ no.
 bayaj ii, Johnston's letter to Huntsville
 Mercury in 1S96 ,..o,
 .You denied that you had ever W'it'ei the letter. Both editors were present. anu
 I turned the matter over to you ana ,nehi. The next day you voluntarily admitted tnat YOU had written the letter, ana mace soihe exnlana tiot, that did not compreneno
 s.your Journal had quoted me as haVlns criticized the populist as being nara .o sa' isfy and I quoted you as being bitter 'o ward them until you found 1t necessary to throw yourself into their arms in the nope of gaining their support in democratic pri- mar:es for the senate of the United States. You will get some of them whose only re- sentiment towards me Is that have al ways been true ito my party; but those who arc trne to silver and the white mans
 marty will treat me with justice
 "'Old, feeble and irritable as you assert that I am, I still have some recollection or
 men in better days who were governors Of
 Alabama, that were honored and loved by
 our people: and it Is a cause of irritation
 to me that many of our people are distress
 ed because that great office is no longer
 filled by such a man. Very respectfully. "JOTIN T. MORGAN"