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Senator Carmack of Tennessee has

Senator Carmack of Tennessee has
been vindicated and endorsed by the
Democratic Congressional Committee
in the Campaign Text Book which
has just been made public. The para
mount issue now is, as it was in 1900
when the Kansas City Platform de-
clared Imperialism to be "tle para
mount issue of the campaign" Senator
Carmack is the boldest and most
aggressive opponent of the Admistra-
tration's Philippine policy in Congress.
In the debate on the Philippines Civil
Government Bill he made no conces-
sions but attacked the Republicans at
every point in the PHILIPPINES. He
opposed expansion and he attacked
the Army His arraigment of the
Army was so severe that his party
associates persuaded him to withdraw
some of his language and apologize to
the Senate. not for assa ling the Army
but for using improper language in
the Senate Chamber.
Some of the more conservative
Democrats, fearing the effect of Car
mack's attacks on the Army. advised
the Democratic Congressional Com
mittee to drop the Philippines as an
issue because the American people
would not countenance iudiscriminate
war on our soldiers who went from
every part of the country to the
Philippines to defend the flag. The
Democratic Committee carefully con-
sidered this advice and sought to raise
up new issue Or revive an old one
that would enable them to fight the
Administration without fighting the
soldiers in the field who are defending
the flag. But Senator Carmack. as a
man with positive convictions and no
lack of courage, has carried his point
SO far as the predominance of issues is
given in the Democratic Campaign
Book
Imperialism is apparently the para
mount issue in that Democratic Bible.
1t holds the most conspicuous place in
the book and receives more attention
than all other issues combined. This
chapter on Imperialism is the discus
sion of Democratic policies and it fills
nearly 125 pages. More than this,
the discussion of Imperialism is in line
with Senator Carmack's speeches in
the Senate.last session. There is no
compromise and no apology for the
attacks on the Army. These attacks
are renewed in the Democratic Text
Book and Democratic orators are ex-
pected to repeat them on the stump.
It is fortunate for the country that
man with positive convictions like
Senator Carmack has successfully
party to it's last National platform
instead of allowing it to follow the
advice of more timid Democrats who
wished to scuttle from their own party
policies in the face of the Indignation
of those who have friends in the Army
and who have a patriotic desire to de-
fend the flag without regard to polit-
cial affiliations. Senator Carmack is
a Southern Democrat and has no patti
ence with those who shy at the cry of
Copperheadism. Congressm an Griggs,
Chairman of the Democratic Congress-
ional Committee, is also a Southern
Democratic, from Georgia, and he no
doubt shares the feelings of Senator
Carmack and Senator Tillman.
Practically all the Democratic rep
resentation in Congress is from the
South, and why should not these
Southern Democrats define the para
mount issue now as they did at
Kansas City two years ago when Till
man made Imperialism the issue above
all others on which Mr.. Bryan, who
had been soldier, had to stand and
condemn his own act of urging the
ratification of the Treaty of Peace by
which the Philippines became the ter
ritory of the United States?
The Democratic Congressional Com