The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-24
MORGAN FOR
 PRESIDENT Will Aid Him in the
 Fight. SENATOR IS INTERVIEWED Declares No Comradeship Can Exist With Negro Troops. Believes That Col RooseyeIt Has The Backbone To stand By His Cams
 Despite Forai<ss And
 Others.
SENATOR IS INTERVIEWER

Washington, Dec. Especial. 1@4 Senator Morgan has pronounced visWe on the position of the President 10 dismisstng i, the negro soldiers ~ Brownsvilla Texas. and says without qualification that he was right
 The motive of the outbreak of the negro soldiers the senator assertss w4s unquestionably race aversion. The ok- fense was against the military laws oS the government and the commander@ in-chief of the army. in the opinion ek Senator Morgan, was pound to adopt any measures that would preserve ths discipline of the army.
 It is conceded generally shera thMt when Congress meets again thero 10 going to be animated talk on the aueg@ ton of the dismissal or tiese neRro1A
 Those In a position to know. think that President Roosevelt IS not gosn& to back down. Some of his admirers even so so far as Co state that # h1 were in danger of Impeachment. pfu~ vided that a sufficient number of Rs< pubiicans looking for the negro vote had the power to bring that situation about, he would not finch.
 Tn standing by the President SenatpK Morgan tonight make the following a6s ditional statements:
 "If race aversion leads to such deA-
  part of the army towards the people the same cause will leaa to the destruas tion of the discipline or the army if nus to continued acts of mueIny.
 T do not believe that even the poxg~ erfuI blow dealt by the President 9a his discharge of the negroes will moaf fly the evil of race averpion in th& army. where it asserts Itself in the unls form and with the arms of the UntkeA States to the extent vE riot and murs ders.
 Ills lawful and just order at orl1a stirred the negro race almost en maNHa into violent defamatory and threaten ing denunciation. and. the white poll tlcIans took up the nne and cry and are assaillng the President with nlt@ ter approaches Ender such conditse44 1t wlIi require the dlsbandsng og all gro regiments If the action of tha Rr4A ident ls not sustained
 In his statement that came out tNs night Senator Morgan also made point that the white American soldteF should not be chased as the comrade of the black soldier of America
 NO army of white mea" he says "can endure this sort of degre6atiea of it's volunteer soldiers by the en- forcement of personal anI military equality to an inferior race with tho splendid men who comprise the right arm of power of the republic.
 If they are put into separate reHtH ments 1t only establishes the fact that the white soldiers can got be made e submit to personal contact or equality of association with the negro soldiers even while lighting unoer the same T There is nc comradesnip among th4sa and nevev can be because Of their raclA4 aversioi-.'
 Some months ago Secretary wilsna of the Agricultural Department VNs marked to q ualler that he was smo&< ing a cigar made of Alabama t0haeco he cons dered as delicious as HavanA product. and predicted that on account of It's soil Alabama would eVentnAtsE be a great tobacco growing State.
 The Department caused investigatleaS to be made and has prepared eesAl bulletin on experiments In growtu& Cuban seed tobacco in Alabamm ThAaa bulletins can he had on application 70 4he Department and they win dourts less prove very interesting co AIas bamians who may possess iaidu on which a superior class of "the wee0~ can be produced
 Ex-Congressman W. F. Aidrfeh nf Alabama. Tn a statement made heFe since his arrival says that Re ublicana of Alabama re~ret very much that President Roosevelt will not be cane dtdate in 1908. Next to him Mr Ald- rich says that Senator Fo"axer ana ice-PFesident Fairbanks are the fas vorites arrong the Alabama Republi~ cans Then he makes this cnmment which will dnuhtless be read with much interest by his party asPociates in tho States:
 "Tha party in Alabama is suffer'ng from the excessive donination of of- fee holders througl their control of the state Co~rrrlttee. The plan of aI- lowing the D@mon~ata to elect their state tic'et bv defa~r was aNonea, a~aInst the better fudVnent of thaust anda of loyal PAnuhIieanR who wanted to mt un a fulI ticket srd work for it as snthuslrst'csllv as if su~rezs were rar+a'n A party that follows a sys- tAr,afIr policy. ot surrender can never amount to any horo."
 Alfred J. stofcr.