The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-16

can city which furnished two mem bers of the United States Senate. And Selma suspended its cares. its labors. that man, woman and child might go and see Senator Morgan buried.
 CEMETERY FILLED.
 A mass of humanity surrounded the grave-a mass that overflowed one side and ran out the gate and which almost reached the other side of the cemetery, old and young. white and black men and women, the youth and the maiden, the child in arms. gather ed under those splendid oaks in Selma's cemetery and saw the last kindness that could be paid to John T. Morgan. Nobly he had served his people and nobly they .gave. him of, love and. of affection. Selma's historic cemetery never before held such crowd, for no Alabamian has ever received such a funeral tribute.
 The stone gate of the Selma cemetery bears a tablet with this inscription: "They are not dead who live in the hearts of those, they. loved" The in scription was chosen in a moment of inspiration It gives assurance of in- mortality to the memory of John T .y Morgan. He will not die-he cannot die for he lives in the hearts of those he loved.
 STATUES OF. MORGAN.
 Before his body was laid in the grave, before the final words were said. before dust was consigned to dust, the movement to- erect monument to have his memory honored as thememory of William R. King Is honored. was started. The Ladies Memorial Associa- ton of Selma had already decided that the movement. should be started. The ladies had already decided that they fv. hat the monument should and would be built. They expect and they will re- ceive the co-operation of the people of Alabama. -af ~
 But before the grave of John T. Nor gan was closed another movement was started---a movement which would per petuate his name to the nation as a monument in Selma would perpetuate it to the State and it had support of the men of Selma. They would place the statue of John T. Morgan in the statuary Hall of the American Capitol. the hall that lies midway between the House of Representatives and the Sen ate of the United States. Each State has the right to select two of it's most distinguished citizens whose statues will be given niches in the American Hall of Fame. Alabama has made one seIaction The Alaabma Legislature hQ Curry should occupy one of those niohes. The second and last. niche is vacant.
 The Alabama Legislature will be asked to place the statue of John Tyler Morgan in the vacant niche as one of the two represen.atives of the great ness of Alabama. The request will in all probability be made at the July ses- sion of the Alabama Legislature. His old comrades of the Confectionery. his political friends of his later years. his neighbors will ask that Senator Nor gan be given this great honor. They expect that Alabama will unite with them in this request. They expect 1t, believing that Alabama considers him her greatest son. They expect 1t be- cause they believe the statue of John Tyler Morgan will bear witness to the world of Alabama's splendid ideals, her devotion to integrity and purity in public life no less than to brilliance and eloquence. They will ask 1t. feel ing that not only will the fame of John T. Morgan, but the fame of Ala bama as we'll be preserved.
 SIMPLE SERVICES.
 IFhe religious service which accom- panied the final consignment of the body of John T. Morgan to the tomb were of the simplest nature There were no eulogies. What eulogies were needed over the body of John T. Nor gan? What words could be added to his already great fame?
 The churches of Selma united in the simple but impressive service at the Church Street Methodist Church, Rabbi E. s. Levy read psalm, Rev. W. P.