The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28

something has been said as te the advisa- Afltty of the Democratic party seeking . xandidate for President at the South. About the last opinion expressed by the late Sen ator Morgan of Alabama. was that the Democratic National Convention of 1908 would determine whether there would be . Democratic party in this country after the November election of 1908. MT. Morgan was . very wise man. q Democrat from skin to core and from core to skin" and he declared that it is much more important 70 preserve the Democratic party that 1t is to elect . Democratic candidate It was prec- ious little John Tyler Morgan cared for practical politics: but 1t is impossible 10 measure his devotion to pure politics. He the last of the old South in our politics Pettus made his career at the bar in the field. and on the bench before he came to the Senate. fine old Southerner that he is. Senator Money was lad of sev- en. and Senator Daniel child of three. when Morgan was already a conspicuous fig ure at the South. When Morgan died he left incomplete an address to the people of the South. and its loss is a calamity to that section and to the entire Union.
 John Warwick Daniel has been suggest cd the Democratic standard bearer in 1903 His nomination might not and would probably not. bring victory. but 1t would bring salvation. His defeat would leave us . Democratic party. l do not believe that
 
 ever be President of the United States That is not all. No man who was Confederate soldier is fit to be President or Senator If he were willing to blot from his life one hour he gave to the Lost Cause. though the recantation sufficed to purchase for him the Presidency of the United States for life. There is no mistake about that North erner and Southerner are in hearty accord to that, Senator Daniel would not surrender his Confederate record for all tho honors the twentieth century could heap up on him.
 But Daniel Is of the stuff of which a great President could be made. He is not only an American. but a gentleman. He is statesman, . jurist. and an orator. He re- calls those generations of Virginians from which came earlier Presidents. He un- derstands the principles of the American system and would not surrender . single one of them to cant or to clamor. He joined the ''Stonewalr' Brigade in 1881. and continued in the service until wounds compelled him to retire after the battle of the Wilderness in 1864. He finished his legal education at the University of Virginia in 1866. He was repeatedly returned to the Virginia house of delegates and to the State Senate. In the midst of his practice at the bar he found time to write two commentaries on the law-"Daniel Attachments" and Daniel on Negotiable lnstru- m00tB In8t AIe QuOteQ AS A0tuotty "hcA- ever English jurisprudence prevails in both hsnispheres. He was chosen Presidential Dlector in 1876 on the Tilden ticket. and has yat in every Democratic National Conven- kion as . delegate from Virginia since and including that of 1880. He was the Demo- cratic nominee for Governor in 1881 and was beaten by the Malone ticket He fell before the cohorts of repudiation in league with a Republican administration at Washington.
 In 1884 John W. Daniel became a national figure. AS . member of the Forty-ninth Congress he greatly distinguished himself .es an orator and debater. In the schism of his party. created by the tariff. he followed the majority. headed by Carlisle in the Speakers chair and led by Morrison on the floor Not only was he orator, but he was . student, and he Is that higher cast of orator-his speeches read even better than they sound."Did he make the dobbin stick ?" asked Felix Grundy of a celebrated speech delivered by Joe Holt. meaning did he say something for the memory as we'll as for the ear. That is a characteristic of Dan- 1eis speeches and it is a great thing in an orator, and all too rare in aur country If we could swap some of takers for thinkers, this country would make mighty good trade.
 In 1887 MT. Daniel entered the Senate as