The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-27
CARMhCK FLAYS
FUNSTON ALIVE
JayhaWksr Brigadier of the
Wind Swept Plains.
Tue NAlHuTlCCT CAMDC OM
The MIGHTIEST SAMPSON
That Ever Welded the Jaw Bone
of an Ass.
WOULD you HANG MEN FOR sPEAKING2
Then Let His Heroic Outlet be the First 10 Fee
the Rope. A Red Hot Speech In Op-
position to The Philippine
Bill.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, d. c.. April 25.--Two ex-
tended speeches occupied the attention
of the Senate today during it's entire
session. Mr.. McCumber, of North Da-
kota, discussed a bill introduced by
him to prevent the misbranding and mis-
representation of food products which
enter into Interstate commerce. The
intent of the trainers of the measure
was to prevent so far as possible these
lmCositions upon the public.
Mr.. Carmack, of Tennessee, one of the
minority members of the Philippines
Committee spoke in opposition to the
Philippine Government bill now pend
ing. His address attracted to the cnam-
ber not only many Senators, but d con-
siderable number of his former col
leagues in the House. He sharply crit
icised the President. He quoted from
Mr.. Roosevelt charges that treason
able talk had melted the Filpinos TO in
surrection and said that we must not
judge the President in his moments of
oratorical ferocity or when the
iiShHy VI odllle was III Ills DlOOu. LIE
President was not vindictive but
but simply strenuous and resembled
in his habits of speech a certain Ten
nesseean horse, of which it was said
that running away was his natural gait
Mr.. Roosevelt had habitually spoken Of
the Filipinos as "savages' and "barba-
rians" and 'Apaches" and these denun-
Citations had been scattered broadcast
throughout the island to inf1ame the
people against the United States. The
effect OF the Presidents language had
been to harden and intensity Filipino
opposition to American rule.
Some of our military heroes had been
guilty of a like offense. He referred to
recent speech of General Funston
whom he described as the ''jayhawker
brigadier from the wind swept plains,
the ndghtiest Sampson that ever WELD
ed the jawbone of an ass as a weapon
OF war" Mr.. Carmack said death had
cheated Funston of some illustrious
victims like ex-senator Sherman and
eX-President Harrison, but there were
still enough to keep him busy. The pa
pers had quoted Funston as saying that
the President entirely approved his gal
lows speech and wanted him to accept
an invitation from the junior Senator
from Massachusetts, to go to Boston and
talk to the people there about hanging
the senior Senator from Massachusetts,
but the plain truth was that Funston
could not hang anybody. Funston should
20 back to tho Philippines-to land
where there was plenty of hemp and no
constitution
IF men are to be hanged without re-
gard to law for speaking words calcu-
lated to incite Instruction, he said.
"the first neck to feel the strangling
clutch of the soaped rope should be
the heroic gullet of Funston
Ever since he had been in the Philip
pines he had been pouring forth TRADES
of frdiscriminate insult against the Whole
people and had outrageously insulted
the very men upon whom the commits
sion was relying fer aid in pacifyins the
country. He also had it on the very
highest authority that speech made by
the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bever-
idge) had been circulated broadcast
throughout the country with an exceed
ingly pernicious effect upon the natives
The dominant idea of the bill now be-
fore the Senate, said he, was to exploit
the Philippines. The whole bill was a
pitiful evasion of plain duty. We had
a right to demand and the Filipinos
have a right to demand that the admin
istration shall at last define its policy
in the Philippines.
Upon what fact or experience" he
asked did they base their belief in
the purity of carpet bag governments"
He spoke Of "the horrors of carpet bag
government in the South, and said that
the Republicans gave no heed to the cry