The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-01-11
STANDS BY HIM.
Texas Senator Speaks on the
Foraker Resolution as to
COLORED SOLDIERS

Performance In the Brownsville Affair.
After a Brief Response the Ohio.
an Agress to Allow Matter
to Go Over Until hon.
day.
Soon after tho senate met today
Senator Foraker's resolution provid-
Ing for an inquiry by the senate into
the discharge Of the negro troops of
the Twenty. fifth infantry on account
Of the Brownsville, Tex, episode was
laid before the enate and Senator
Culberson made an address on the
subject. He said that he would have
kept quiet but for the fact that great
injustice had been done tho people of
Brownsville.
NJ. Ouibergon said thai the eonduot
Of the negro soldiers had been very
Irritating to tho Brownsville people
and especially 80 to the women. He
related that on Aug. 4, last, the day
before the shooting up" of the town
D criminal assault had been commit
ted by one Of the soldiers on the wife
OF o reputable cit zen and said that no
arrests had been made for the crime.
Mr.. Culborson defended Oapt. MoDon-
aid OF tho Texas Rangers, to whom
Mr.. Foraker had referred because OF
Maj. Blooksom's referonoe to him az
q man who was $50 brave that he
would not hesitate to charge hell with
q bucket Of water" Mr.. Oulberson
gaia that he knew Maj. Blocksom to
be q gentleman.
DEFENDED TEDDY's COURSE.
In defending President Roosevelt
for his dismissal If the troops Mr..
Oulberson said the fact that the troops
were negroes had nothing to do with
their discharge. Confusion as to the
legal questions involved was, no said,
responsible for tho statement that the
president had nc authority to mako
tine discharge. The Presidents consti.
tutional authority and the authority
given him by the article of war clear.
ly covered tho case and made his ao.
tion legal, tie declared. He contanded
that discharges for criminal offenses
are also discharges made to effect pun
ishment.
Mr.. Culberson said that there was
q diatinctlon between discharge
without honor" and % dishonorable
discharge" In the former case the
president could exercise his discretion
az he had done In this instance, while
q dishonorable diBchare could only be
M do ou tho rao,t1t ~ n no,,~k,-, , ,tSol
He instanced several caaes to sustain
his position.
To estab ish the motive actuatinR
the negro soldiers in creating the al
legged disturbances, Mr.. Oulberaon read
resolutions recently adopted by negro
citizens Of Boston, which admitted
that the soldiers ''shot up" the town
and aaid they were determined to do
for themselves what the uniform of
their country would not do-proteot
thom from inaults and punish at the
aamo time the authors Of their mig
cry"
CAUSED WAVE OF MERRIMENT.
Disolaiming any p%artizanBhip for
the president, Mr.. Oulberson created
. wave Of merrimenb by saying: II
have nothing to d. with the presi
dent In this matter. I care nothing
about him. My personal relations with
him are about as cordial % those OF
the senator from Ohio" (Mr. Foraker)
In all fairness, Mr. Oulboraon said,
the country ought to know that the
report made to bhe president was re-
liable.
After reading much of the testi.
mony taken before the Brownsville
grand jury, Mr.. Oulberson drew the
conclusion that the fact that no In.
dictme at was returned was not an CIV.
tdence Of the weakness of the case,
but rather Of tho fairneas Of the PEG,
pie OF Brownsville, who did not wish
to do injustice to the innocent. The
evidence, he commended, proved be-
yond doubt that the shooting was
done by the negro soldiers, but failed
to identify the guilty ones.
He concluded his speech by o brief
reference to the negro question In
general, saying 1t had existed from
the early history Of the country down
to the present time and still oontinu.
ed to be the most important and the
hAObu uobSoAOdh GuCbBlOu WulOu COn-
fronts the American people. He refer.
ed to the growth Of this question lead.
ing TO the OWL war wherein nearly q
million white man losb their lives.
Wednesday, he said, the condition OF
the black race with It's ages OF slav.
cry, It's ignorance and poverty, excited
70 deepest sympathy OF the great
~cdy Of the white people of the South.
STILL H GREATEST PROBLEM.
But" he continued, lin spite Of
the past, with It's conflicts and saorih
ces, sorrows and destruction of life
and property, this problem Is still the
gr0Atest with which we have TO deal
1t involves labor, education, suffrage
gooial order, civil liberty self-govern.
meat and the integrity of the white
race. The end no man oan see. South.
erners feel deeply and profoundly Oh
this race problem and Its ultimate so
luton.
Senator Foraker at once took the
floor, remark .ng that IL belittled the
present question TO make 1t q vehicle
for discussing the race question. He
did not propose to djacuss that aues.
tion or the merits Of tho Brownsville
affair. He wanted his resolution adop.
ted, which would insure further In.
Quiry, and his present puYpope WAC