The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18
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ident in his action in discharging the
negro soldiers. The action OF the Leg
islature of his State. taking the same
position. met his personal views.
Mr.. Carmack then paid his respects
to the President as follows:
81 think it proper to say that In any
report that Senators may have heard
that the President personally solicit
ed my support in this matter, that he
urged me to forgive and forget certain
energetic personal remarks and beg
ged me to stand between him and
those twin enemies of his administra-
ton. the Senators from South Caro-
lima and Ohio, is a gross exaggeration
will not say that it is an infamous
falsehood, because Nuch language be-
J longs to the vocabulary of Presiden-
tial controversy rather than that or
Senatorial debate.
"Nor is it true, as Senators may
have heard that I have been moved
to undertake the Presidents defense
because of my infatuated devotion to
the man. have a great admiration for
that strong, brave, !arge-minded gen.
tleman, the Secretary of War Any
admiration for the President is more
temperate and subdued. In the Ian
guage of Hamlet 1T waits on the judg-
ment.'
Indifference to Opinion.
seriously, | suppose there Is no
Senator, always with the exception OF
my friend from South Carolina (Mr.
Tillman), who is less likely than my
self to be suspected of excessive par
tiality for our present Chief Executive.
The President once said that he would
see a certain member of the Tennes-
see delegation in hades before he
would do anything for him-a remark
entirely gratuitous, in view of the fact
that the person supposed to have been
referred to had never asked a favor
at his hands, but, with supreme indif-
ference to his good opinion, had crit
icised him when he was wrong, and,
with like indifference to his good opin-
ion, can support him when he Is right.
care so little for the hasty ebullitions
of that remarkable man that I can
seeAwhat he himself could never see
in any man who expressed an opin-
ion contrary to his own can see the.
good as we'll as the bad In his pub
lie conduct and Judge both without
passion or prejudice.
I'm this case 1t seems to me that
he has acted with remarkably freedom
from Impulse, with unusually careful
deliberation and with anxious efforts
to do no more nor no less than COM
plete justice to all concerned.
Has Suspicion.
Indeed, am haunted by the sus-
ricion that the President was the more
careful to ascertain the facts and to
keep within the limits of the law be-
cause the offenders were colored than
he would have been If they were white.
so far as the negro race is con-
cerned, the only charge that can be
justly made against the President is
that he has loved the negro not wisely
but too we'll There Is something pa
thetic in the Presidents plaintive re-
cital of all that he has done and at
tempted for the uegro race. Yet
there is no man in this country to-
day, not even the Senator from South
Carolina, who is so universally and so
bitterly hated by the negroes as the
man who abolished the Indianolo post
Office and dined with Booker Wash
ington. All that 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 sympathy with the
criminal negro which pervades the
negro population Of the country from
one end Of 1t to the other
Quoting the resolution OF Bos-
ton negro meeting, iustifying the ac-
tion of the negro troops. Mr. Carmack
said no more damaging indictment of
a race could be secured than this one,
written by itself.
As to Foraker.
He then turned his attention to ?
Senator Foraker's criticism OF Major q
Blocksom, which, he said, was due to
the fact that his father was a DEM
ocrat" He declared that "the Sem a
ator from Ohio may be God Almighty \
to the Republican party of Ohio, but a
not for the universe"
Continuing, he said; =
81 can remember with what frantic u
energy he used to wave the bloody
shlrt--a shirt dyed with the crimson q
OF his own rhetoric; remem. a