The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-05
EIGHT GOVERNORS OF ALABAMA
 1S74-1901
No. 145-The Morga n-Johnston Campaign
 Joseph F. Johnston, Governor

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 We shall see the senator's animated repulse of these and other points made against him as the exigencies of tse op- position required presently.
 Tn MT. Clevelands first term, he soon learned to rely upon the capacity Of Sena- tor Morgan, and the two men became earnest personal friends. To attest his regard, the President presented to the senator a handsome walking cane, upon the gold head of which was an nppro- priste inscription. The second term 1T Mir. Cleveland reversed this earlier rela- ton. The President had no more indus trious and fesentful antagonist than the senior senator from Alabama
 The open breach came immediately after Mir. Cleveland took office in March, 1898. The United States minister. Stevens at Hawaii Islands loaned himself to a scheme of certain individuals to seize the government of those islands. On Mon day afternoon, January 16. 1899, the Uni ted Stated warship Boston. without any notice to the feeble government of Queen Lilioukalani landed on the wharf at Honolulu, the capital, some 400 troops, armed with rifles and bringing with them gattling guns.
 They marched to the government building, raised the United States flag and set up a provisional government composed of Americans only. This pro- visional government promptly dispatched to Washington the form of a treaty. President Harrison submitted it to the Senate. Mir. Cleveland came into the presidency before the Senate had time to act on the treaty. He immediately withdrew it. sent Hon. James H. Blount of Georgia to Honolulu to investigate and finally ordered the American flag pulled down.
 Senator Morgan took the deepest of fense at this action of President Cleye- land. He considered American possess sion of the Hawaii Islands necessary to the project of the Nicaragua canal which he then led.
 When President Mckinley. republican. came into office, 1897. the policy of Pres
 dent Cleveland democrat. was over thrown and Senator Morgan was ap- pointed on committee to go to those islands to draft form of government which would attach them to the United States territorial possessions. In this matter the senator separated himself from his party policy.
 It was common talk in 1898 that the re- publican majority in Congress was SC skeptcal of the good faith of the south ern people that it hestated to go to wal with Spain lest while the army should be thus engaged the Southern Confed- eracy might be reorganized. Senator Morgan warmly supported the war move ment which must result in American con- | trol of the islands of Cuba and Port Rico. necessary to the Nicaragua cana project, and which must result also r indefinite prolongation of the control oi the republican party over the govern ment. In this matter. the senator separ- ated himself from his party.
 In the last year of President Harri- sons republican administration he ap- pointed Senator Morgan on the commits sion to go to Paris to arbitrate the Alas kan seal fisheries qeustion
 Up to two years ago. Senator Pugh had been the colleague of Senator Morgan since 1SS0 They voted on opposite sides of many questions. Senator Pettus had been in his seat only year when Sena- tor Morgan brought in a bill to create the new American institution, an inter national bank, and argued it at length Pettus made elaborate reply denouncine the scheme as ''the most damnable meas ure ever brought into that body" In a speech of much length delivered on February 12, 1883. in the Senate or the protective tariff, measure then fay ored by many important citizens of the mineral region of Alabama, who were democrats. Senator Morgan referred tc the mining and manufacturing industries growing up rapidly there. He would con- cede nothing of a protective tariff rate to them. On the contrary, if the effect Of the mining and manufacturing de velopment was to raise negro cotton field Ia bcr above 50 cents a day he considered the arrival of those additional industrie. a bindrance.
 These were the points selected as mos liable to impress upon the pu ,ltc mint suspicion of the continuing importance o Senator Morgan as a representative o Alabama.
 Argument founded on any class of facts involving the senator's official action was met by certain insupremabe difficult ties He was the handsomest man in tn, state. of most lovable nature. The l'sI of his sweet voice had been heard tim after time on every stump from tn, mountains to the sea. He was brave ready, willing. unselfish in the publi l service. No Alabamian had even attaine, to so universal popularity as this one. Governor Johnston avowed his candi dacy, to succeed Senator Morgan. by fayo of the legislature to be chosen at tn
 ernor challenged the senator to come upol | the stump in Alabama and there mee l him. face to face
 A few meeting followed in northern Ala
 bama. The senator abruptly turned hi
 back and retired to Washington. Fron 1 his desk there he wrote letter fl pamphlet form to his friend and whiIon
 neighbor, MT. c. w. Hooper 3f Selma 1 It remains as autobiography of a1 extra ordinary value to the archives of tn
 state Few men have lived in the puhli
 service who were facile writers and read, and eloquent orators, in combination o
 powers, as John T. Morgan. He owe,
 nothing to scholastic training. unless tn | haf.t of his mother. requiring him to se l cite from standard poets at her knee amounted to teaching.
 The historic letter to Mir. Hooper mad tno defense on explanation of his v..tc on disputed party issues in the Senate
 As to the absenteeism charged agains him, he had been made chairman of ever, important committee charged with tn duty of visiting and examining the con l ditions that prevailed in the Indian res ervations. This work had consumed fou vacations of Congress and he had writer report of 600 pages on 1t. One vacation