The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-16
Vice President Fairbanks, Senators, Congressman, Governor Conner,
 Supreme Court Justices and Fed eral Officers Attend Solemn Ceremony in Live Oak Cemetery
People Come From All Oyer Ala bama ts Honor Man They Loved. Simple Services at Methodist Church and Body Escorted to Grave by Imposing Parade.
BY WILL T. STEPHAN.


 Selma, June 15.--(Special. )--In the soil he fought for, among the scenes he loved, by the people he defended, John Tyler Morgan was laid to rest at noon today in Live Oak Cemetery. It is noble spot and a noble company sleeps with him beneath the trees and flowers which make 1t one of the fair est spots in all Alabama.
 The State and the nation paid to him every tribute that could go to a gifted and faithful son. When they laid him to rest whole State mourned and a nation looked on in affectionate sym pathy They laid him to rest where that other distinguished Aiabamian has been sleeping for more than half a cen tury. He sleeps close by the marble tomb of William R. King. who died as vice-President of the United States, but who was held in no higher esteem and who left no greater impress upon his time than did John T. Morgan.
 TWO vIcE-PREsIDENTs.
 As the somber casket sank into the flower decked grave, Charles Warren Fairbanks, Vice. President of the Unit ed States in the good year of 1907. stood reverently with bowed head be- hind the minister who read the burial service over Alabama's great son. And almost within touch of the. tall and stately Viee-President was the marble tomb which holds all that is mortal of William Rufus King. who preceded him to that high office and whose abil- ity and splendid service first brought fame and distinction to the name of Alabama in the American Congress. Close by, as the words were read, were Braxton Bragg Conner, Governor of the State which gave to American people such men as William R. King and John T. Morgan. With him were John R. Tyson. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, other members of Speaker of the House of Representa- lives.
 Tn the solemn and reverential group which gathered under the canvas pa viiion that covered the grave there was the Senator from Tennessee. James S. Frazier. tall. austere, and handsome; Lee Oyerman, the Senator from North Carolina, sturdy, forceful and well poised; Augustus O. Bacon. the Senator from Georgia. impressive. intellectual and strong; Stephen R. Mallory, small in body, but great in intellect, a dyna- mo of power and energy, and Edmund Winston Pettus, 'the noblest Roman of them all," the friend, associate and companion of the great dead the single survivor in the United. States Senate of that great class of statesmen which came down from the old South into a new generation, and which taught the new the austere integrity of the old. John T. Morgan was the most typical representative of that class of states men, but death had closed that bril- liant career, and Pettus stood by the mourn.
 CoNGREssMEN PRESENT.
 About the grave there stood the Con. gressmen who must have reflected upon the splendid example that John T Morgan had set in public life-that example which taught as nothing else could teach, the splendor of a stain less life and the reward 1t brought the undying love of a grateful people These Congressman were George w. Taylor. A. A. Wiley, Henry D. Clayton. J. Thomas Hefiin, William B. Craig. William Richardson and Oscar Under- wood, all of Alabama. And with them were John H. Bankhead who, for eigh- teen years, served in the American Congress with Alabama's great Sena- tor, and who is fated to take the seat that is left vacant in the greatest law making body of the world. Sidney J. Bowie, another distinguished son of the State, who retired voluntarily from the Congress and who learned to ad- mire more ardently the splendid abili- ties of the dead Senator with whom he served, stood by his side With them
 
 nessee, who represents the Tennessee county of McMinn, in which Senator Morgan was born; Gillespie of Texas, Webb of North Carolina and Bartlett.
 A splendid company paid tribute to splendid life.
 But Senator Morgan belonged to Ala bama and to Selma and Alabama and Selma paid the fullest tribute of sor- row to that great memory he left.
 AcRES OF PEOPLE.
 The thousands who assembled in that green and beautiful cemetery on a perfect day in June, could not be estimated. There were acres of peo- pie. One could stand upon the stone coping that marked the limits of the King square and he could hardly see the limits of the vast crowd. Per haps in all Its history Selma never be- fore had such a crowd. Perhaps in all the history of Alabama, Alabama had never had such funeral.
 From the farthest recessess of the State they came to pay tribute of af- lection to the memory of the loved dead Mobile. Birmingham. Montgom- cry, other cities and towns gathered to see the final act that consigned John T. Morgan to the rest he had earned and they saw his body laid to the rest in the grief and affection of a grate- full people.
 He was Dallas County's honored son and Dallas County sent her sons end daughters to honor his memory as TO other son had ever been honored. Sell ma claimed him-Selma, that city so rsoreser tative of the old South and so prosperous in her latter days, claimed hir,. for with that distinguished Sol- dIcr and statesmen, Edmund W. Pettns, he had carried the fame or Selma to all the world as being the only Ameri-