Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-27
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Wa@6u4am. p Gz Nov & \ S=3aga supporter of Presjdcue H9ose- veH .u the stuld he has taken in re- gard 10 she dismissal of the negro troops implicated in the HruwnsHil1e Tex, Etots k Senator Jos ". Bailey. junior senator from the Lone Star state. The Spanish-Ameriean Wal veterans of the District of Columbia also indorse the action of the presi- dent
 Nr Bailey says he is confident peo- pie who have the good of the service at heart will commend the president for his action.
 Senator Bailey has just returned from Crystal Springs. Miss, where Ae attended the funeral of his mother, and would talk of nothing but the troops When asked for his opinion. Senator Bailey, assuming d calm, ju- dicial manner and speaking slowly. as if fearing to commit himself idly on a question of grave import dictated the following slatement:
 "I have not examined the question of the president $ power 10 discharge the troops according to his orders. but with secretary of war, who is q great 1 lawyer, and an attorne! general who is sufficiently great as an interpreter of the law to be appointed to the su- Roosevelt was fully and correctly ad- vised as to what he might lawfully do
 Assuming that he possessed the power, ] think all of the fair-minded men who desire to see the army and navy an orderly and abiding OF sanization will cordially indorse the positive manner in which the presi- dent has exercised his power.
 T have no doubt that the president would have applied the same heroic treatment if the offenders had been white troops, and certainly nobody would insist that negro troops shall be exempt from the same require ments of orderly behavior which rests upon and would have been enforced against white troops
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 It is particularly gratifying to tn, people of the south that the presi dent has resisted the political intiu ences which have sought to have hin roscind the order after he had issueo it. To have rescinded or even to havt modified the order after it was onc made would have demoralized thu army and produced incalcuable harm in all of he southern states.
 T have not talked with any of tht senators or representatives from th' south. but il is my opinion they vii all cordially support the action of th' president
 The senator refuses to discuss the possibilities of making political eapi tai out of the presidents action, or tht statements of representative ne2rOe! that they will support Secretary Taf for the presidential nomination il 1908 because he suspended the order discharging the negroes. Neither
 
 would he say anything about the For aker boom started by other colore( { men not in sympathy with Taft. He would say nothing of the government chances in prosecuting the Standard Oil company, and threw up his hand: in a gesture of resignation when ask ed if the refusal of a grand jury 1T Austin, Tex, to indict H. Clay Pierce would affect the federal case.
 The resolutions commenting tht president were adopted at smoker given by the John Jacob Astor Camp U. s. w. V. last night. The member ship is composed of men in the Sol diers' home, and all have been dis abled in active service.
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