The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-11
TExTNoF ADDRESS TO CAUCUS BY BANKHE ADJ

He locked his lips too close to speak lie. He washed his hands too white to touch a bribe." A great brain has ceased from it's toll, and . brave. true and noble heart has fallen into godiy
 Favers statue at washinstsa.
 T trust that this Legislature before. it's adjournment. will make an appro- afor Morgan to be erected in Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington, un- der whose dome for so many years and with such brilliancy he served his pso-
 Having paid our tribute to the H. lustrious dead, let us turn to the liv- ing and discuss briefly our duty to Ala bama. We can justly boast of having democracy of anx State in the Union. Here we go directly to the source of all
 power--the peopie--who are supreme and from whose verdict there is no ap-
 peal. Our laws are made and executed by those who are chosen by us, hence ours Is a government of majority and
 1t is the duty of thoso who represent
 us to put into operation and effect the
 platform of the party in the State or
 nation.
 we believe in the cardinal doctrines
 of the Democratic party because they
 are best suited for representative gov
 We are Democrats because We be-
 lieve in the greatest personal liberty
 consistent with the rights and privi- leges of others. As Democrats we be-
 lieve in home rule and the right of the
 State to regulate its own internal af-
 fairs without interference or dictation
 from the national government. We are Democrats because we be-
 lieve in equal and exact justice to all
 persons and interests.
 "As Democrats we are opposed to a
 high protective tariff because 1t is not
 a just and equal distribution of the
 blessings and burdens of government
 and because the protective tariff en-
 riches the few at the expense of the masses and Is the parent of trusts and
 monopolies against which the hand of
 the Democratic party is firmly set. Democrats are not free traders as some charge, but we stand for tariff for a
 revenue, equal and sufficient for the
 wants of the government. economically administered, and so adjusted as to give American capital and labor the benefit of that protection which all tariffs must necessarily produce. Protection is an incident to tarir for revenue to any way be avoided.
 'DemOcrats are opposed to milftar- ism. imperialism, 1ingoism and the ar- bitrary rule of alien races without their consent.
 "As a Senator from Alabama. I will stand for the principles and policies laid down in the last National Demo- cratic platform. As member of Con- gress from the Sixth Alabama Con- gressionai District. have for the last twenty years voted for every measure | looking to the suppression of trusts and unlawful combinations which re. strain trade and for all measures seek ing to control and regulate-ffterstate railroads and interstate traffic. shall | continue to so vote. I do not believe that the Federal government has any right or power to interfere in any way vvff FtRhfa n fn and regulate intra-state railroad rates and intra-state trafic./ An effort on the part of the Federal government to in- terfere with the internal affairs of State would be g. usurpation of power and an invasion of the rights of the | state such as would call for the most energetic denial on the part of the State
 "Congress alone can regulate inter- state commerce. The State alone has power to regulate intra-state railroads and traffic. This right of the State ! must be jealously guarded and defsnd- ed for concentration of power in the