The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-17
Sen, MORGAN TALKS
Few in Congress For 18th and
18th Amendments.
The Republic can Party Has no Creed. The Party
OF Opportunity. The Canal Will
be Bull.
washington Post.

How do you analyze what is called the
new Republican movement in the South?"
Senator Morgan was asked
There have been many efforts to build
up white Republican party in the
South" came the response "AlI of them
have been futile. The Republican party
has no creed. 1t never had one. | could
easily write the creed of the Democratic
party. The Republicans have always been
opportunists. But there, are a number of
men In the South whose political SYM
pathles are with the Republicans. An
example is on the money question. John
Sherman took up the gold standard back
in resumption times. Although he did not
always hold his party to it, that was his
belief, and eventually the Republicans
were forced by circumstances to uphold
him.
RALLIED WITH CLEVELAND AND
PALMER.
cleveland in reality followed John
Sherman on the money question He had
support on that in the South, Sld per-
sisted till it shelved him. These same
men in the South were the Gold Demo-
Gratis who supported Palmer and Buckner
I Further the tariff views entertained by
the Republican party have a number OF
Esympathizers in the South.
THE negro is already sick of voting"
said Senator Morgan. There are 10 per
cent. of the race who can vote intell-
gently. The rest are for the most part
on the market; their votes can often be
had for a dollar and a drink. They have
already been thrown over by the people
We are, living under the fourteenth and
the fifteenth amendments to the Consti-
tuition, but if those amendments could
be proposed now to Congress they would
not command the support of sixth OF
the Senate and the House That is an in
dication of popular sentiment"
EXPECTS EARLY CANAL LEGISLA-
TION.
Senator Morgan, who is chairman of the
Interoceanic Canal Committee and for
many years the leading champion of
canal, is confident of final legislation this
winter and will introduce a bill early in
the session. England no longer dares
to oppose the canal for fear of arousing
the antagonism of the American people"
come-the opposition of the transconti-
mental railroads, who have been in COM
biratiOn with the French owners of the
railroad across the Isthmus of Panama
and with those representing the Panama
Canal But the overwhelming vote in the
House last session was, in fact a popular
expression of the undertaking. | have
already had favorable votes for it in the
Senate after every DOSSible means of os,-
struction had been exhausted 1t will be
very easy this winter added the SEN
ator cheerfully.
He talked further of the impossibility
of the Panama route, of the utter lack
of feasibility in digging a canal there, and
also of the folly of purchasing the canal
from the French government, even should
we wish, as 100000 stockholders would he
aroused to present claims, with which the
government would be inundated
Reciprocity treaties are simply free
trade exceptions to tariff laws" said
Senator Morgan, in answer to question
regarding his view on those conventions
which promise much agitation before the
approaching Congress. 1.-THE result of the
ratifica+' any treaties would be that
we should be left with tariff law on our
statute books and yet be open to bargains
with different nations as to our tariff
rates" The Senator made it plain that
he regarded such a policy as a sacrifice
of an important principle in legislation
which would lead to scrambling among
people of different sections to secure the
most favorable trade conditions possible
for their own localities