The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-01
MORGAN TO HAY
SOME OF THE SENATOR'S HOT LET
 TER TO THE SECRETARY.
In an Open Letter He Brands the sec retaryss New York Speech as In- sulting and Mendacious. ~God Save Us from Your
 Contempt!" He
 Cries..
Washington Special.

Senator John T. Morgan, of Ala bama. has taken exceptions to state- ments made by Secretary Hay in his recent speech in New York. The lead CT of the fight against the Panama Sns isr n o Mr hs Ssnata aay n Mscs nss denounces the secretary's utterances as groundless.
 Secretary Hay devoted large part ministrafion in it's course toward ,Co- lombia at the time of the ruthless grabbing of the canal zone. In max ing that defense he attacked the Sena- fought the treaty to the last ditch.
 No apology Is due" says Senator Morgan in his letter to MT. Hay. from any Senator who voted against the your treaty with yarilla, for address ing you through the press. since you have assailed them in your recent will presently quote. cannot under stand the injustice and unseemly fury of your assault upon those Senators when know that they have always on frequent occasions with much for bearance because of the severe pres sure you have been subjected to in the condslct of your hign office since the death of President Mckinley.
 Too Strenuous.
 They did not count upon your abil- tty to resist such control, but have not expected that 1t would result in your captivity to it's strenuous force to the extent that is obvious in your speech. We also regarded the fact that you seem to have forgotten that you are now In position to succeed to the Pres sdency under the law, in which event your relations to the Senate would be most intimate and confidential.
 With these great powers and pos abilities added to the high office of Secretary of State, 1t is a very seri- 0us matter to the whole country that you have openly branded the political your treaty with varilla. with this in sulting and mendacious statement. Af- ter declain1ing against this opposition to your treaty with that French inter conclusion--they do not believe one word they say
 2 with such opinions as to the sena- SiS fSiiy wD understand that t%e soSerehsH hsn States they represent would soon sink Into subject provinces, through your disdain. and would be snuffed out as you and Varilla have, virtually. extin guished the Republic of Colombia-the cherished friend of the United States during all of Its existence.
 Hints at Smeaklng.
 "You put a question to the country by way of rebuke to the Senators you so unjnstly denounce, as follows: Do we want to sneak out of the Isthmus
  right there and baseIy surrender the hope and dream of centuries? Your hope and dream of d canal at Panama has no relation to centuries It has come to you since the death of Presi- dent Mckinley. Before that time yoEr hope and dream and your most earnest labors were hand in hand with that honest and great President in the work of locating our canal at Panama.
 Whether you abandoned or 'sneaked out of that hope and dream, to con form to the wishes of the new Admin . istration the country and posterity will not fail to decide.
 T can well understand how, under the direction of the President. you should enter upon a course of diplo- matic negotiations that was offensive to a people then engaged in civil war. in the effort to defeat the usurpations of San Clements and Maroquin for the benefit of the canal company, which was then working every possible scheme of advantage to defraud them and to escape justice. But I can see no lawful or just motive of the Presi- dent for this line of action.
 Did you then feel that the Presi- dent was forcing you to sneak out of the Mckinley compacts between Nica- ragua and Costa Rica and the United ! States. and so disappoint the hopes of all his predecessors in office since Lin- coin, and of the great engineers and commissioners who had most carefully examined the subject and had surveyed the canal line thoroughly. and reported in favor of the Nicaragua route?
 Tt is not the 'snealking out from Panama that disturbs the country, 1t IS the sneaking Into Panama, after having first sneaked under the wing of the Panama Canal Company to find an excuse for course that the coun- try deplores."