The age-herald., 1900-11-16
SENATOR MORGAN
 AGAIN NOMINATED
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 this effort shall be abandoned and that the power of the states to select their voters shall be restored This decree will be eX ecuted at no distant day. This experiment may succeed in the Philippines, and 1t is the part of wisdom and of justice to the ne- gro race to wait for the natural and peace ful solution of this problem through the voluntary migration of the negro race to those islands,"
 National Finance System.
 Senator Morgan devoted much of his speech to discussion of our system of na- tional finance, foreseeing much danger to the country in an increased public debt and the system of national banks. Speaking of the national debt he said:
 Exemption from all taxation which Is a necessary feature of a national bond, is an exclusive privilege to the holder that should not be granted, except under circumstances of the greatest emergency, and should not be continued day longer than 1t is within the power of the government to prevent 1t. For this reason and for many others, a national debt is an evil that will grow into a curse, If 1t Is made perpetual, that will destroy the republic. The final declaration of the policy of perpetual national debt, by the Republican party, as made in the gold-standard act, marks line of cleavage between the monied classes and the indus trial classes, which will fasten upon our people the social and official distinctions that obtain in England and were the char acterstlcs of the Tory party in our revolu- tionary -Wapr. Thus the imperialistic pres sure forces us back to the conditions that made the war of the revolution a social, as well as political necessity When our na- tional debt again grows, by silent and stealthy aggregation to the sum of three billion dollars, as it will, the exemption of that vast sum will so increase the burdens upon the farmers and other industrial classes that they will be glad to escape from them by seeking serfdom under benev- olent landlords and corporations that can pay them wages. When the burdens of the interest bearing debt and all other taxes fall upon people, and are doubled by reason of the privileges of exemption from taxa ton secured 10 the holders of the bonds, the profits of all industry will be destroyed, and with them the essential liberties of the laboring classes. So with all true Demo- crats. I am in favor of the removal of this danger by the payment of the national debt with all convenient speed, and am op- posed to the perpetual debt policy of the Republican party.
 Nicaragua Canal.
 Senator Morgan said that there were many great questions demanding attention of Congress, but he found his creed in their treatment in the Democratic principles as laid down by Jefferson. He said: Congress had agreed to take up the |A Nicaragua bill December 10, but that 1t must not be assumed, with entire conn., dence that the vast powers arrayed to de- feat action on any canal bill will not delay this measure beyond the next session of congress. My faith in its early construc- ton IS firm, believing that nothing can de- feat 1t, or delay 1t for any considerable time
 "The advantages such a canal will give to cotton producers and manufacturers, to lumbermen and the miners of coal the quarrymen and producers of iron and steel will be beyond computations; but the his tory that will record these grand results. will be only a preface to that outpouring of wealth and power for the South. that will make it the land in which the twen- tieth century will gather its chief blessings for all mankind Concluding, Senator Morgan said:
 'In again accepting, at your hands, the duties and responsibilities of this high sta ton, I would feel less assured of meeting your expectations, If I were not supported | by my honored colleague, whose activity, age does not impair, whose zeal is not abated by defeat, whose abilities increase with experience and whose courage defes | diversity With such support, l will enter with confidence the vast and trying field | of labor and responsibility to which you 1 assign me, humbly asking the help and guidance of divine providence that I may serve the people faithfully and with satis- faction to them"
 The caucus nominated W. C.. Tunstall Jr, for election as solicitor of the City Court of Anniston and w. J. Martin for solicitor of the City Court of Gadsden. MT. Martin won on the third ballot, the vote standing Martin, 62; Carson, 39; Davis, Il.