New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-26
GEN. FUNSTON UNDER FIRE
SENATOR CARMACK TURNS HIS b-AA
TERIES on THE JAYHAWhEh
BROADER FROM THE WIND
SWEPT PLAINS"
fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.l

Washington April 25-Mr Carmack. Of Ten
nessee. a newcomer in the Senate but airesuS e
of the active managers in the movement among
certain Democrats in Congress to revitaiize the
exploded anti-imperialism issue of 1900, continued
to-day the minority attack the Lodge Dill ioi
the establishment of scheme of civil goVerhihei'
in the Philippines. Mr. Carmack went OUT OF ms
way to defend and eulogize the leadership OF
William J. Bryan, of whose futile effort 10 SUI
stitute imperialism for free coinage as the issue
of his second campaign the Tennesseean seems
still lost In reverent admiration For the rest MI
Carmack found immense enjoyment in satirizne
the efforts of General Funston to enllghteh puoit0
opinion about the needs of civil and military au-
mfnstra ton In the Philippines. Many of Mr.. Car
mack's rhetorical shots at the Kansas warrior were
received with amusement. and he closed MS ai'ei
moons talk with the agreeable consciousness Vi
having at least enlivened by his sarcasm the
routine of a debate which had promised nothing
but dulness and ineptitude.
Mr. Carmaci said that this bill. like the Philip
pine Tariff bill, simply presented one aspect vi
Imperialism. 1t not question only or fraW-
ing just laws for the Fiipinos. but quee'ioh Oh
right TO make any laws whatever for that people
THE claim of the Republicans" said he us that
they had burned enough towns, wasted enough
country ard killed enough people to make good
their right The land Is ours because We have
it with the ashes OF its homes and drenched
1t with the blood of its people,
THE idea that you transform the character
of n race by teaching them to read" said he us
the widest, crazest. the most fantastic dream
that ever fitted through lunatics BRAIN He
quoted Mr. Roosevelts charges that reasonable
utterances had melted the FilipInos to :nsurrec-
ton and said that must not judge the Presi-
dent lin his moments of oratorical feroeity. or
when the frenzy of battle was in his blood The
President, ne said, not vindictive, but simply
strenuous" and resemblei In his habits of speech
a certain Tennesseeans horse. Of which it was
said that running away his natural gait. Mr.
had ha E1lfDnOS
as "savages'' and "barbarians'' and "Apaches."
he declared. and these denunciations had been
scattered broadcast throughout the islands to In
effect of the Presidents language had been to
harden and intensity Filipino opposition to Amer
lean rule
SHARP SHOTS AT FUNSTON.
Some of military heroes had been guilty Of
q like offence. He referred to a recent speech OF
General Funston. whom he described as the jay
hawker brigader from the wind swept plains. the
mightiest Samson that ever welded the jaw
bone of an ass as a weapon of war" Mr.. Carmack
said death had cheated Funston of some Illus
trious victims, like ex-senator Sherman and ex-
President Harrison, but there were still enough to
keep him busy. Papers had quoted Funston as
saying that the President approved his 'galows"
speech. and wanted him to accept invitation
from the Junior Senator from Massachusetts to go
to Boston and talk 10 the people there about hang
ing the senior Senator. but the plain truth was
that Funston couldn't hang anybody. Funston
should so back to the Phppines-to land where
there plenty OF hemp and no constitution
"If to be hanged without regard to law
for speaking words calculated to incte insur-
rection.' said Mr. Carmack tine first neck to
feel the stranglng clutch OF the soaped rope
should be the heroic outlet of Funston" Ever
since he had been in the Philippines he had been
pouring forth Trades of indiscriminate insult
against tho whole people. and had outrageousIy
insuted the very whom the commission
relying for aid in pacifyinF the country. He
also had It, on the highest authority. that speech
he for Ind ian ffpaA
had been circulated broadcast through the coun-
try. with an exceedingly pernicous effect on the
natives.