The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-30
MORGAN DEALS OUT
WARM ONE TO HAY
Says He "Sneaked Our of the
Nicarauga Negotiations
REPLIES TO LATE SPEECH
Says Soft Step and Big Stick of the
President Threatened DR..
Herran Into Conn.,
plance.

Neshlngton.. October 99.-sSenator Nor
gan of Alabama in an open letter to
Secretary Hay made public tonight, ac-
cuses that official Of drawing an imper-
feet treaty with Panama. and of having
"sneaked out of negotiations for the
Nlcaraguan route.
The letter is intended as a reply to the
secretarys recent speech in New York.
After stating that no apology is due
from any senator who voted for ratiflca-
ton of the Hay -Bunau Varilla treaty for
addressing the secretary through the
press, because of the fact that the sec
rotary in mis- speech had assailed such
senators, Senator Morgan says:
ut is not the sneaking out from Pam
anna that disturbs the country; 1t Is
snealsing into Panama after having first
snealted under the wing of the Panama
Canal company to find an excuse for an
act that the county deplores."
He charges that Minister Silvia of CO.
lombia refused to sign the Hay-Herran
treaty because it was in violation OF the
laws and constitution of Colombia. and
that DR. Herran was designated as charge
d'affaires to conclude 1t.
Then the senator says, 1.-The soft
step and big stick of the President was
resorted to, and DR.. Herran was threat
ened into compliance"
The letter of Secretary Hay to DR..
Herran referred to in the speech OF SEN
ator Culberson, Senator Morgan declares,
was the Feather that broke the camefs
back"
The President, he says, has commits
stoned an ambassador to treat with PAN
anna "n order to cure radical defects
in that hasty negotiation" and the sena-
tor protests that Secretary Hay should
have completed that work to meet the
demands of both countries before he in
dulged in unbecoming criticisms, censures
and epithets against democratic sena-
tors
The letter concludes:
Before you charged the democratic
senators with the crime of not believing
a word they say in their criticism OF
your conduct, and that of the President
and with the meanness of being willing to
partake of the feast while decrying the
alleged robbers who prepared it, would 1t
not have been more in keeping with your
exalted attitude toward them that you
should have explained your hastey deal
ings with Bunau-V arilla, that you had
cleansed your robes from the contact
with the cuprits of the Panama canal
company, and should have delivered the
country from that body of death that
France has so long struggled to unload
upon the United States?'
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with the young men of the south not to
follow in the footsteps Of their fathers
politically, but to do their own political
thinking.
He commended that policies and not men
are the issues, and that democratic poll
cy has always resulted and will continue
to result In disaster. He reviewed the his
tory of the parties and ridiculed demo-
cratic charges. lie discussed the Philip
pine question at some length, and gave
the trusts a few words. The main topic
of his speech was the tariff Probably the
most striking feature of the address was
the failure which met Mr.. Shaw's efforts
to have his audience sing America
The band played the air but the audience
did not take to his earnest suggestion and
made no effort to join in the song.