The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-16
Tributes to Senator Morgan
Some of the Warm Words of the Northern Press About
Alabama 3 Distinguished Son.

bore II that the opposed might beware
Of him .Eonsound OLD Morgan r,s sr,
asoasS 'S Sp p ms SSs ssSa 0 he
HE knows perfectly that be can have
anything he wants from the State De-
But he w Sra hsye e cut that af
me on the moor OF the Senate"
That was . portrait painting phrase
Senator Morgan did undoubtedly pre-
oesx e Sut 81 Ills nss He
ceeded to the place which IN a previous
Senatorial generation had been held
by Garrett Davis Of Kentucky, and to
vantage Of the Courtesy Of the Senate"
to talk an Objectionable bill to death.
In one Of the Obituaries of Senator
Morgan II is recorded that after he had
in talking one bill to death. senator
Aldrich. in the closing hours OF the
session thought the occasion opportune
for ringing In" a small bill of his
from Alabama had talked himself to a
standstill. ana that there was no other
formidable opposition. Whereupon SEN
ator Morgan rose in bis place and an
Senate briefly" a. he humorously add
ed, upon the pending bill. The Senator
from Rhode. island. seeing his fate.
abandoned the measure:
AL VI WHICH Things W Hot, uhuVI
stood. detract from the public useful
ness OF Senator Morgan. Contrari-
wise. they enhance IT. Here was a
Senator for four terms of whom no
ton ton on q Measure Before congress was
dictated by anything else than the pub
Tic bearings 81 that measure, ON the
contrary. he Mas been known to refuse
and such like. on the ground that his
time belonged to the United States, and
was paid for by them. Perhaps this
kind of Senator, this one OF Plu-
old-fashioned Southern constituencies
than anywhere else in the Union. At
any rate, Senator Morgan was a faith
ful public servant. in the old-fashioned
sense of the term.
The Boston Globe (Dem.S
In the death of Senator Morgan OF
Alabama, the South loses one OF her
one of its ablest members. His De-
mocracy was of the old school which
chung tenaciously to the strict con-
struotion of the constitution, upheld
and ss opposed the tendency to CENTRAL:
cation of government. He was one OF
the most powerful opponents OF this
political faith, to the defense of which
and debate and wide learning.
Perhaps no man in the country was
better versed in matters concerning the
foreign relations Of the United States,
ton OF international affairs. He rem
dered invaluable service by his careful
and efficient scrutiny and criticism of
proposed legislation.
The New York Mail (Rep.)
The vacant seat of Morgan in the
poorer by the loss of the nobility of q
past era which fingered incarnate in
his person. Half-tender, half-humor-
GUS but wholly reverent has been the
feeling of all Americans. regardless OF
party. toward the aged Senator from
Alabama the true elder statssma .ns.
and the manners Of men were cast in a
finer mold than In our day.
He was as archaic as would be Ed
mund Burke upon the opposition bench
orator whose fearless \hghting for his
beliefs, whse lofty eloquepce, pure die
ton and ,prolixity. based upon all-em-
cussedr made him Morgan's true pro-
totype. But to complete parallel 1t
would be necessary to add the amazing
erudition and the dusty winter" OF
of Fox, who spoke every night but two
was always sorry for those two
nights"
n SOlulcT WHO TOSc 1EOIn pElNdLc 10
brigadier general and then resigned to
become colonel of his old men: scholar
lawyer. orator and statesman OF the
first rank; Senator for thirty years.
the fee for his commission; inflexible
in his convictions. disdainful of expe-
diency.. poor In money but rich IN all
else, his epitaph should be Alabama"
an American ms COMMONWEALTH ever
earned sweeter and more honored re-
pose than Alabama's grand old man.
The Washington Post (Ind.)
A type of the highest development of
American craftsmanship, John Tyler
Morgan stood for years in the front
rank of not only his party in the SEN
political opinion. Though elected to
Congress as a. Democrat, and embody-
ing all the PRINCIPLES Of his organiza-
ton. standing. in short. for the best
sentiment. Senator Morgan was. never.
theless, above all man beyond party
and beyond section, whose view of all
questions MAS broad and patriotic and
whose conception Of his duty was linn
tied by no geographical or partisan
lines.
Senator Morgan's ardent and far-see-
ing Americanism was demonstrated in
perhaps the most striking manner NJ
his entire career by the stand he took
upon the question of Hawaii Reject
ing the policy adopted by the head OF
his party, President Cleveland, when
the chief executive undertook to undo
the work that had been done at Homo
lulu in the interest of civilization and
progress, Senator Morgan stood stead
lastly in opposition to the efforts to
restore the overthrown monarchy, and
rendered valuable service to the Uni
ted States thereby, as events soon dem
onstrated. Had 1t not been for the In
telligent zeal displayed by Senator
Morgan in that fight this country
might have made the monumental blum
der of handing the successful revolu-
tionists in Hawaii over to a blood
thirsty queen to be butchered in re-
venge. = 1t would have learned its err
needed by this government as half
way station in the Pacific during the
war with Spain.
In the Hawaiian arrair Senator Nor
gan was actuated by the sincerest of
patriotic motives and by that high
sense of justice which always ruled his
course in public as we'll as in private
life. No man ever had occasion to
Question his motives or to doubt the
genuineness of his beliefs. He lacked
the politicians finesse, but he had what
was Infinitely better. the statesman
directness and honesty; These quail
ties were amply proved in the course
of his numerous campaigns for what
he unwaveringly believed to be the
right. For instance. never was a bet
ter fight waged than that which Sena-
tor Morgan conducted AGAINST the re-
funding grabs OF the Pacinc railroad
corporations. In his Tits in committee
room examinations with Coils p.
Huntington Senator Morgan proved his
exceptional ability as lawyer and as
a man of affairs,
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