The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-26
Tennessee Senator Denounces Fun
ston n Jayhawker Brigadier
from the Windswept Plains.
THE MIGHTIEST SAMSON
HE SAID, "THAT EVER WELDED
THE JAwBONE OF AN ASS,
President Accused of OratOricaI Fee
rocity When the Frenzy of Bat
tie Was in His Veins.

WASH1NGION, April Zo.-IWO speeches
occupied the entire attention Of the Senate
to-day. Mr.. McCumber, Of North Dakota,
discussed his bill to prevent the misbrand-
ing and Misrepresentation of food products
which enter into interstate commerce. Mr..
Carmack, of Tennessee, one of the minority
members of the Philippine committee.
spoke in oppositin to the Philippine gov
eminent bill now pending. His address at
tracted to the chamber not only many
senator's, but a considerable number OF his
former colleagues in the House. He sharp
ly criticised the President, not only for
the policy he is pursuing in the Philippines,
but for utterances which, the senator de-
clared, tended to fan the flame of insurrec-
ton. He also denounced General Funston,
whom he characterized as the "Jayhawker
brigadier from the wind-swept plains-the
mightiest Sampson that ever welded the
jawbone Of an ass as a weapon of war"
Mr.. Carmack said that this BILL like the
Philippines tariff bill, only presented one
aspect of Imperialism. 1t not a ques-
ton only of framing just laws for the Fill
pinos. but a question of 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. and killed enough people to make
good their right The land is ours because
We have strewn it with the ashes of its
homes and drenched it with the blood of
its people
Further along he said: The idea that
you can transform the character of race
by teaching them to read is the widest,
craziest, the most fantastic dream that
ever fitted through a lunatics BRAIN" He
quoted utterances from Mr.. Roosevelt.
charging that Unreasonable utterances had
melted the Filipinos to instruction and
said that we must not judge the President
in his moments of oratorical ferocity or
when the frenzy of battle was in his blood
The President was not vindictive, but sim
ply strenuous, and resembled in his
habits of speech a certain Tennesseean's
horse of which il was said that running
away was his natural gait. Mr.. Roosevelt
mad habituaily spoken of the Fflipinos as
SaVageS and 'barbarianS and
"Apaches," and these denunications had
been scattered broadcast throughout the
Islands to infiame the people against the
United States. The effect of the Presi-
dents language had been to harden and in
tensify Filipino opposition 10 American
rule. Some of our military heroes had
been guilty of like offense.
MI Carmack said death had cheated
Funston of some illustrious victims like
ex-senator Sherman and ex-President Har-
him busy. Papers had quoted Funston as
saying that the President entirely approved
| his gallows speech and wanted him to &C
cept 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 go back
| to the 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 calculated
| to incite insurrection," said he, 1.-The first
| neck 10 feel the strangling clutch of the
soaped rope should be the heroic gullet of
| Funston" Ever since he has been in the
! Philippines he had been pouring fourth
/ TRADES of indiscriminate insult against the
whole people and had outrageously insult
| ed the very men upon whom the commits
/ sion relying for aid in pacifying the
| country. He also had it on the very high
est authority that the speech made by the
senator from Indiana tMr Beveridgel had
been circulated broadcast throughout the
| country with an exceedingly pern:cious eff
| feet upon the natives.
The dominant idea of the bill now before
| the Senate, said he was to exploit the
| Philippines. 1t was proposed to make a
| wholesale grant of franchises and conces-
/ sions and to dispose of the peoples lands
| to foreign syndicates and corporations
without giving the people themselves any
voice in the business. The whole bill was
| pitiful evasion of plain duty. We had a
| right to demand, and the Filipinos have a
right to demand, that the administration
| shall at least define its policy in the Phil
ippines.
| Upon what fact or experience" he asked.
| did they base their belief in the purity OF
! carpet-bag government
He spoke of the horrors of carpet-bag
| government in the South and said that
| 1.-The Republicans gave no heed to the cry
| of oppressed and plundered people,
! though they were their own people, of their
| own blood" He declared that from the
very first outbreak there had been a con-
! spiracy to suppress the truth and to white
wash every outrage in the Philippines.
| Desiring to continue his speech to-mor-
! row, Mr.. Carmack, at Ais p. m, yielded
! the floor. The Senate went into executive
session and five minutes later adjourned