The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-17
DETHRONE
 ROOSEVELT. Carmack Makes Signifi- cant Statement. BROWNSVILLE FIGHTS CAUSE Republicans Want to Show Off Presidents Democracy. Tennesseean welcomes the Action, Saying that Present Executive is Only Saving Grace of Trust-
 Loving Party.

Washington, Jan. l.-AddreSslng the Senate today on the Brownsville affray, Senator Carmack announced that he heartily supported the President in his action discharging the negro sol- diers. The action of the Legislature of his State. taking the same position. met his personal views.
 MT. Carmack then paid his respects to the President, as follows: T think 1t 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 remarks and begged me to stand between him and those twin enemies of his administration, the Senators from South Carolina and Ohio, is a gross exaggeration. I will not say that it is an infamous false hood, because such language belongs to the vocabulary of Presidential con troversy rather than that of Senatorial debate.
 Nor is it true, as Senators may havei heard, that have been moved to un- dertake the Presidents defense because of my infatuated devotion to the man I have a great admiration for that strong, brave, large-minded gentle man, the Secretary of War. Any admi- ration for the President is more tenn perate and subdued. In the language of Hamlet, It waits on the judgment
 Seriously, I suppose there Is no Senator, always with the exception of my friend from South Carolina (Mr. TiIlman), who is less likely than n.y. self to be expected of excessive par tiality for our present Chief Executive. The President once said that he would see a certain member of the Tennessee delegation in Hades before he would do anything for him--a remark entire ly gratuitous in view of the fact that the person supposed to have been re- ferred to had never asked a favor at his hands. but with supreme indiffer- ence 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.
 T care so little for the nasty ebul- litions of that remarkable man that I can see-what he himself could never see in any man who expressed an opinion contrary to his own--I can see the good as well as the bad in his public conduct and judge both without passion or prejudice.
 For Once Acted Wisely.
 "In this case it seems to me that he has acted with remarkable freedom from impulse, with unusually careful deliberation and with anxious efforts to do no more no less than complete justice to all concerned. Indeed, I am haunted by the suspicion that the Pres ident was the more careful to ascer- tain 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.
 "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 well. There is something pa- thetic in the Presidents plaintive reef tai of all that he has done and at- tempted for the negro race. Yet there Is no man in this country today, not even the Senator from South Carolina, who is su universally and so bitterly hated by the negroes as the man who abolished the Indianola postofice and dined with Booker Washington.
 "All that he has done for the negro all the evidences of friendship he has shown in the pasthave been utterly for gotten, simply because he has not shown that sympathy with the criminal negro which pervaded the negro popu- lation of this country from one end of 1t to the other"
 Quoting the resolutions of a Boston negro meeting justifying the action of
 
 more damaging indictments of race could be secured than this one, written by itself.
 He then turned his attention to Sen ator Forakers criticism of Major BIocksom, which he said was due to the fact that "his father was a Dem ocrat" He declared that the Senator from Ohio may be God Almighty to the Republican party of Ohio. but not for the universe "
 Continuing, he said:
 T can remember with what frantic energy he used to wave the bloody shirt-a shirt dyed with the crimson current of his own rhetoric; remem- ber how he used to go raging over the land. a bifurcated, peripatetic volcano | in perennial eruption, belching fire and smoke and melted lava from his ago. nized and tumultuous bowels
 'T can remember how in his speeches he spattered the gall of his bitterness on the South until I came to think that the Senator wished all the white peo- pie of the South. men. women. children and babes at the breast had but a sin | gle neck, that he might sever it at blow. I would not have to go back forty years or make any inquiry into the Senator's pedigree to prove by such evidence that the Senator from Ohio is the last man to sit in judgment in