The age-herald., 1900-01-17
Cause for Indignation

Cause for Indignation
 You mistake the honest indignation of one whom you have defamed in official messages and letters for irritability. To be chided with having supported vou for gov erhor, as you chide me for that sin is irri- tatang, l confess; but it is greatly appra Vated by the assault made upon me and my coileague, as senators, in your message to tho extra session of the Legislature in May lS99. You then made the following state ments:
 Scandalous attacks have been made
 upon The chief executive of the state
 lot TOT acting on his own judgment, but
 Tor asking and accepting and acting on
 the advice given him by a decided ma
 1or1ty of the senators and representa-
 tlves or the general assembly. No more
 pitter attacks could have been made
 had ne called on those proposed to be
 uiSIfuhchsed, or on some dsreputabe
 and worthless character for advice
 The supreme method in this novel
 method of warfare is to be had tonight.
 For the first time in the history of Ala
 bama mnss meeting has been called
 chairmen of county committees and
 others summoned to attend, and under
 the direction of the state committee a
 final effort is to be made to intimidate
 and coerce the judgment of members of
 the general assembly in the gravest mat
 ter possible for them to consider. It is
 proclaimed that senator's from this state,
 the creatures of the general assembly,
 are to instruct the members in their du-
 ties, and the members of congress are to
 join dn this gratuitous advice
 You invented the predicate and followed it with false and defamatory statement against the senators from Alabama, in message to the legislature. I charged you wi.h the outrage in my letter of December g. and you did not deny or excuse it. You did thds and berated and slandered the democratic state convention in the same message, in order to produce discord in the party and to establish a foundation on which you could appeal to the enemies of the party to come to your support, as candidate for the senate.
 You charge me with supporting great trust in voting for bill, which failed to pass to charter the American International bank, with a capital of $2oO0o,o00, ana you quote Senator Pettus as denouncing that measure in severe language. He did so de- nounce it, before amendments were adopted that changed my opinion of its merits, so that having been opposed to 1t, voted TOT the bill and would do so again. If you had added to your statement the fact that no man in Alabama more earnestly supports me than my colleague dn the senate you would have done him and yourself greater justice than you do in quoting him 10 ois. narage me. If you would quote some or his stern denunciations of your course as democrat vour career in the light of truth from whlch even you would shrink - "I differ with him as to that measure oe- ,,eving it to be of great benefit to the soutn, and especially to the growers or cotton. will state some of my reasons Tor support- ing that bill.
 "First. It is recommended by every gov ern,nent on this hemisphere, except Cana da.
 "Second, It's purpose and effect would De to bring money from American countries 10 the United States and to facilitate direct trade with them. "Third This capital Is needed to enaple us to handle our cotton crop, instead or borrowing money in Liverpool for that pur- nose. whereby they are enabled to price our cotton crops as they have always done to our disadvantage With a branch at Mo- bile we would gain immense facilities in establishing trade with Cuba, Porto Rico and all Central and South America.
 "Fourth, It would be the only competition with the national banks. in which you still hold a large interest, and would enable land owners to borrow money on mortgages of real estate. which privileges are refused to them in the national banks, notwith- standing the fact that their credit is based entirely on government bonds to pay which and the interest, all the people, except the holders of bonds are taxed.
 Plan of Proposed Bank
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