Show MORGAX ALABAMA I Down in Alabama Where Populism is taking root Senator Morgan has been dilating on pure Democracy a full growth of which is sure to crowd out the rank political weed the seeds of I Which are being scattered over the country There is some dissatisfaction on the patronage question in that state The President perhaps is too slow in turning the rascals out and the Senator has had to meet the discontent discon-tent which exists < In reference to this the remarked There are higher considerations con-siderations which appeal to statesmanship statesman-ship and love of party than mere personal per-sonal gain We should not endorse an I administration my fellow citizens simply i sim-ply to make fair weather for a postof ficeThe I The Senators position in reference to I the issues of the hour are summed up I in four chief points as follows I FirstTne field for presidential candidates can-didates must no longer be confined to New York I SecondThe income tax is not sectional I sec-tional and is quite as fair as the cotton tax j I taxThird I Third She state bank should be the I rival of the national bank With 1 honest men to control and with a gap ing penitentiary to receive lawbreakers I i lawbreak-ers enough good banks would spring I up to consume all the gold and silver mined You would find that all the repressive measures against silver enacted I en-acted by the Republicans would be I nullified Then men would not go to I New York but to one of these banks when they needed money Fourth The constitution contemplates contem-plates the Increase of the volume p It true money from the coinage of both gold and silver and Jthe laws following have contemplated that whosoever shall dig gold sliver and bring it to the mint shall have it coined without charge I Mr Morgan clinched his silver point by declaring The right to coin is inherent in the constitution and they may call me whatthey please but I will die in my tracks before I give up a I single right That will commend itself I self to the people of this region as well as those in the South and it will be a good thing when the Democratic party becomes united on this vital question I The Republican party need not be looked to for the rehabilitation of silver because it has been its persistent enemy ene-my for a quarter of a century On this point the Denver Nejvs says 1 The people of Colorado ought not to vote with or for a party that has made as straight and as persistent a record against silver as has the Republican party It was the Republican party that swindled the silver men with the Sherman purchasing law and both Senator Sherman and exPresident Harrison have positively stated one of them at least over his own signature that the passage of the law was secured se-cured to prevent the adoption of a free coinage bill It was President Harri sons secretary of the treasury who ordered or-dered silver coinage to cease under the I act of July 14 1890 It was the same j secretary who ordered the treasury notes issued in payment for silver bullion bul-lion and which the act expressly provided provi-ded should be redeemed in gold or silver coin to he redeemed in gold only It was John Sherman who first introduced intro-duced a bill to stop the purchase of silver sil-ver and who with Tom Reed and other Republican leaders in both houses of Congress has persistently championed every measure for the degradation of silver The vote on every bill affecting silver in Congress shows that the larger lar-ger proportion of Republican senators and representatives are hostile to silver and devoted to the gold power Senator Morgan has the courage of his convictions and is thoroughly honest hon-est in them He wields strong influence as a legislator and while he represents the State of Alabama in the Senate of the United States the south and the west may count upon him as a sturdy and stalwart champion of silver |