The age-herald., 1900-01-26
MOBILE AUDIENCE WELCOMED MORGAN Discussion of the Great Resources Oi
 Alabama. NO MENTION OF OPPONENTS The Great Advantages Of a NiCaraSuan
 Canal. BELIEVED THE BILL WOULD PASS The Senator Said He Would Merely Touch on the National Ques-
 tions to Show They Were
 Not Forgotten
NO MENTION OF OPPONENTS
BELIEVED THE BILL WOULD PASS

Mobile, Ala, January 25.-Senator Mor- gan arrived here today from Selma, and tonight addressed very large assembly in the Princess theater.
 In opening the meeting, Chairman T. M. Stevens of the county campaign committee announced the Morgan candidates for the legislature, Joel w. Goldsby for the senate, John Craft, Leslie E. Crooks and Richard H. Clarke for the house. Clarke is former congressman from the First Alabama dis trict.
 Mayer Bush introduced the senator and welcomed him to Mobile.
 Senator Morgan took for his subject the ,"Material Benefit of Alabama and the South" Very little of his speech was po- tofial opponent, brief but pointed, relating to ithe criticism of his work in behalf of the Nicaragua canal
 After modest reference to his long service in the senate, he proceeded to de- soribe the material wealth of the state, showing what are its great resources; then the relation the port of Mobile bears to the development of those resources.
 This led, naturally, to the consideration of the fact that the gulf into which the Mobile river and bay opens is a cul-de-sac, so far as the worlds commerce is con- corned.
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 The problem of the modern era has been to provide a second outlet, so that the gulf e{heuld be a thoroug.hfare. The Nicaragua canal would be such an outlet It was ans engineering work presenting no insur- mountable difficulties; in fact, while the project has been under discussion several canals costing more than this one and re- quiring greater engineering skill ,have been successfully constructed.
 "Obstacdes have been placed in its path, however, he said. No one knows how many and how great, but finally the Ameri- can people have come to knowledge what this great work means, and they have de- manded its construction. Congress Is ia vonaIbly disposed, the HepDurn-Morgan bill has a majority in both houses and it will soon be passed. Then we shall nave the mouth of the Alabama river opening into the Pacific ocean,"
 The senator continued describing the inn mense advantages to the port, to the state and ito the Mississippi valley to be derived from the existence of this canal line be- tween Chicago ard all the rich countries of South America, bordering on the Pacific and which also places the commerce of China and the east at the commnad of all this central country offering new markets to southern cotton iron, steel, coal and manufactured products
 Merely Touched National Questions
 line national questions were merely touched upon in passing, in order. as the senator said, to show that they Were not forgotten.
 He dwelt but moment upon tine suf- frage question, declaring he believed the white men of the nation would say to the congress of the United States: Let Louis jana and South Carolina alone;" ne had made his speech on that subject i1 the senate, and no human and no newspaper in tine country had tried to answer it. It could not be answered.
 The speech was well received. At the be- ginning and the end the audience seemed determined to show the senator that Mo bile was glad to welcome him, and fre- uuently dn the course of his speech he was applauded.
 Senator Morgan leaves tonight for Cren- shaw county, after which, at the end of the week, ne will return to Washington. .t- = = - -