The age-herald., 1902-01-05
SenatorL, T. Morgan of Alabama

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 Washington, January 5.-(speeial.)- Many years ago when John c. Calhoun was the apostle of the Cotton States and preaching a doctrine, which, If not the germ. was the baby plant. of one Of the most tremendous revolutions and one of the most gigantic wars, in the history of men. he visited Alabama where he found two ardent young disciples one William L. Yancey the other John T. Morgan. The first was, perhaps, the most brilliant public man of his day, greater Bryan as party leader and even more loved and trusted by the Great Nullifer than Hayne or McDunie or Jefferson Davis. He died heading fac tion in the revolutionary government his eloquence had contributed with so great potency to create.
 Morgan went to the field and bore him. self a stout soldier. Later he helped to rehabiltate the South that he had fought for so ganllantly and loved so devoted ly. and for more than two score years
 
 sovereign State of Alabama in the Sen ate of the United States" to employ his own definition. He has been a very con- spicuous member of that body-a pillar of American citizenship and examplar Of American statesmanship. Alabama has been represented in the Senate by King, Pickens; the Clays, Fitzpatrick, Clemens, Houston and Pugh. It is only candor to say that all of them dwarf before the name of John T. Morgan
 Dewitt Clinton who smote Tammany, and it withered, was the author of canal system which married the Atlantic slope to what is now the great middle west, and thus was that great valley populated with mighty people and that section cemented to the great American sisterhood.
 Thomas H. Benton, pointing westward, exclaimed, There lie the Indies" That was the idea whence were evolved our trans-continental railroad systems, which marry the Mississippi river to the Paci- fic ocean, the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific slope. lt
 The name of John T. Morgan will ever be as closely associated with the en- terprise to construct an Isthmian canal, connecting the two great oceans, as the name of Clinton is with the Erie canal or the name of Benton Is with the Paci- fic railroads. It was in 1877 that Morgan first entered the senate. Allison, Jones, of Nevada and Cockrell were there be- fore him. Stewart had been there be- fore him and eHoar came in with him. A man of unusual ability, he has the strength and the character that tenacity and indomitable courage give to the pub lie servant. While Hoar was reading Chaucer while Turpie was reading Plato, while Ingalls, was reading Victor Hugo. while Thurman was reading Mon taigne while Vest was reading Dickens, while Lodge was reading John Q. Adams. Morgan was reading the messages of the Presidents of the United tates, the treaties ratified by the United States Senate and musty documents from which even industry would shrink. In his cross- examination of c. P. Huntington, who swore he had iabored fourteen hours day devising schemes to promote the Pacifs roads, Morgan declared that he worked eighteen hours every day. No one who knew him doubted the state ment. There never was a more intrepid man, mentally morally and physically, and these are qualities as essential to the great debater as great intellect and eloquent tongue.
 Clay and Calhoun made the war of 1872. Calhoun and Douglas made the war with Mexico. And John T. Morgan, more than any other man, made the war with Spain. All the others only echoed him. He found the facts and the precedents and preached against Spain as Cato preached against Cafthage-Spain in America. His is far-seeing eye, and he will live in history as a. very great man. if his vision only prove clear, if his dream only be realized. He sees in the future possibilities for this people that are simply limitless. It was Morgan who annexed Hawaii. It was In that quarrel he adopted the word Cuckoo and en- grafted 1t on our political nomenclature. He made the case of Hawaii his quarrel and so he made Cubas case his quarrel. The most musty and ancient state paper or public document was his delight. and he waded through piles of them that would have put to flight any other sena- tor He dug out the facts and though the speeches of Cushman K. Davis and of Henry Cabot Lodge were more scholar ly, they never would have been the speeches they were had not Morgan sup piled the facts And this is no discredit to them Did not Burke do the same for the greatest parliamentary gladiator the world ever saw-even Charles James Fox. Morgan has no doubts. He is the very definition of optimism, intrepidity and tenacity. Stephen A. Douglas declared that we must be ''an oceanbound re- public" That is the doctrine of John T. Morgan.
 For twenty-four years Morgan has been a senator in Congress and 1t is not to be supposed that he has participated in that long parliamentary warfare and es- capped scars. Even Caesar had them. Da- vid Turpie was a senator from Indiana | for twelve years and he had the most | terrible tongue Siuca Iohn Rapdolpb of |