Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1920 — Popular Alabama Statesman. [ARTICLE]

Popular Alabama Statesman.

In very recent years Alabama was represented in the senate by two Confederate generals, John T. Morgan and Edmund W. Pettus. Morgan’s great reputation as an orator and statesman had long eclipsed his reputation as a soldier. Pettus was one of the most original and delightful patriarch who ever sat in the senate. He had fought in the Mexican war as well as in the Civil war, and didn’t come to Washington until he was seventy-six years old. Pugh, his predecessor, had refused to Indorse him for appointment as a federal judge, on the ground that he was “too old." “If I’m too old to be a judge,” said Pettus, “I’m not too old to be a senator.” So he made a (Ampaign for Pugh’s seat and won it. —New York Tribune.