Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-16
SUPPORTS PRESIDENT
Senator Carmack Discusses
the Discharge of Soldiers.
RIGHTS OF THE EXECUTIVE
Declares Colored People Generally
Have Been Ungrateful.
CAUSTIC REPLY TO FORAKER
Holds That the Case Against Color
ed Infantry1nen Eas Been Prepared
With Care and Deliberation.

Addressing the Senate today OH the
Brownsville ARRAY, Senator Carmack of
Tennessee announced that he heartily sup
ported the President in his action discharg-
Ing the negro soldiers The action Of the
legislature Of his state taking the same
position met his personal views.
Mr.. Carmack then paid his respects to the
President as follows:
Il think it proper to say that any report
that senators may have heard that the
President personally solicited my support
In this matter, that he urged me to forgive
and forget certain energetic personal re-
marks and begged me to stand between
him and those twin enemies of his admin
istraton, the senators from South Caro-
lima and Ohio, is a gross exaggeration
will not say that it is an infamous false
hood, because such language belongs to
the voca bulary of presidential controversy
rather than to that of senatorial debate.
His Estimate Of the President
Nor is it true, as senator's may have
heard. that l have been moved to undertake
the President defense because of my in
fatCated devotion to the man. l have a
great admiration for that strong, brave,
large-minded gentleman, the Secretary of
War, My admiration for the President is
more temperate and subdued In the Ian
guage of Hamlet, 1T waits upon the judg-
ment.' Seriously, suppose there is no
senator always with the exception of my
friend from South Carolina (Mr. Tilman),
who is less likely than myself to be sus-
pected of excessive Partially for our pres
ent chief executive. The President once said
that he would see certain member of the
Tennessee delegation in hades before he
would do anything for him-a remark en-
tirey gratuitous in view Of the fact that
to had never asked favor at his hands,
but with supreme Indifference to his good
opinion had criticised him when he was
wrong and with like Indifference to his
good opinion can support him when he is
right. l care SO little for the hasty ebulli-
tons of that remarkable man that l can
see-what he himself could never see in any
man who expressed an opin on contrary to
his own-I can see the good as well as the
bad in his pubic conduct, and judge both
without passion or prejudice.
I'm this case it seems to me that he has
acted with remarkable freedom from i'm
pulse, with unusually careful elaboration,
and with anxious effort to do nothing more
nor less than complete justice to all con-
cerned. Indeed, l am haunted by the sus-
pcon that the President was the more
careful to ascertain the facts and to keep
within the limits of the law because the
offenders were colored than he would have
been if they were white.
Alleged Negro Ingratitude.
$50 far as the negro race is concerned
the only charge that can be justly made
against the President is that he has loved
the negro not wisely but too well. There Is
something pathetic in the Presidents pSsie-
tive recital of all that he has done ana at
tempted for the negro race Yet there is
no man in this country today, not even the
senator from South Carolina who is so
universally and SO bitterly hated by the
tl,n mo-. hp hn1f claA In
dianola post Office and dined with Booker
Washington. All tina. he has done for the
negro. all the evidences of friendship he
has shown in the past have been utterly
forgotten simply because he has not shown
that sympathy with the criminal negro
which pervades the negro population of this
country from one end of it to the other"
Quoting the resolutions Of . Boston negro