The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-05-05
THE TRIUMPH OF MORGAN.
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reminds one of that elder day when |
a seat in the United States Senate |
was a badge of intellectual nobility |
and exalted character. No other
public man, produced by Alabama,
has attained the lofty place in
American craftsmanship held by
Morgan. He is above William r
King, and above William l.. Yam
cey. And then the manner OF his
victory is as gratifying as the fac
of it. He absolutely refused to
scramble for it. He remained at
his post aud let the other man wait
asslduously on the primaries. One
day somebody approached cold
Roman" Thurman and asked him If
he was a candidate for Preside' cy
His answer. in effect, was that he
was a candidate only in this: "The
Democratic party knows where l
live" which was interpreted to
mean that if he was nominated he
could be found by the Committee
of Notification. That was the sense
in which Morgan was a candidate
| for Senator five times he has already
been chosen to that dignity, as we'll
as the sixth time when he will
again be chosen next winter.
| Alabama has taught the country a
lesson, lesson that should be
needed. She has taken both her
United States Senators from the
same town, and small town at
that. When Morgan came to the
Senate, nearly quarter of a cen
fury ago, he found the two New
York Senators of that date-Conk-
town, Utica, and what is another
coincidence, Herman had been
Conkling's Preceptor in the study
of the law. I have heard that Nor
gan and Pettus were once partners
in the paactice of the law. This
thing of geogr Apply in such things is
generally the demagogue's plea.
A State should send its best two
sheltered under the same roof anc
had been nourished at the same
breast. Alabama has d,ne we'll
She is grandly represented in the
. Senate, and may her example be
come epidemic in the South.
Morgan and Hoar entered th'
Senate together. We shall see i
Massachusetts, loves her grand ole
man and honors him as Alabam;
f loves and honors Morgan. In 1877.
the paramount question was con
tinuance of the reconstruction bust
) ness--that is, it was the contested
. presidential election, an issue tn
!, Democrats threw away, as did tn
base Indian the pearl richer than al
; his tribe. Morgan was a disciple
of Calhoun; Hoar had gained hi
> inspiration from Webster. AM
, rarely has there been Il bette
5 matched pair.
Al I do not suppose that anybod
f but hopeless fanatic, or a hope
less fool, could remain in the Senat
even two terms without changln
, his opinions upon some questions
. In 1877 Morgan did not believe tn
. Federal Government had the swee
it was then assuming. Hoar, o.
t the other hand, did not have yer
= great respect for the doctrine @
5 States rights as it was laid down i
the Senate. Now Morgan is 70
5 expansion and finds warrant for
. in the Constitution, and Hoar
, against il, and not only quotes tn
, Constitution to that effect, but re
enforces it with the Declaration c
s Independence.
t Morgan is the father Of expansion
r as that term has been employed tn
last two years. Years ago he be
, gan to advocate the construction {
e an isthmian canal to connect tn
{ Atlantic and the Pacific. No NOR
Il persistent man ever held a seat i
. the United States Senate; no NOR