Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-17
"LOVES NOT WISELY"

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 Roosevelt Before Senate. TENNESSEE lNDORSES PRESIDENT. Carmack and His State With Execu.
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 WASHINGTON, Jan. IT.. Senator Carmack (Tenn), speaking in the sen ate on the Brownsville shooting affray, announced that he heartily supported the president in his action discharging the negro soldiers. The action of the legislature of his state taking the same position had his hearty support.
 Mir. Carmack then paid his respects to the president as follows:
 T think 1t proper to say that any re port that senators may have heard that the president personally solicited my support in this matter. that he urged me to forgive and forget certain ener- getic personal remarks and begged me to stand between him and those twin enemies of his administration, the sen ators from South Carolina and Ohio, is a gross exaggeration. I will not say that it is m infamous falsehood, be- cause such language belongs to the vo- cabulary of presidential controversy rather than to that of senatorial de bate.
 Nor is it true, as senators may have heard. that l have been moved to un- dertake the presidents defense because of my infatuated devotion to the man. I have greht admiration for that strong. brave, large minded gentleman, the secretary of war. My admiration for the president is more temperate and subdued. In the language of Hamlet, It waits upon the judgment Seri. ously. suppose there is no senator. always with the exception of my friend from South Carolina (Mr. Tillman), who is less likely than myself to be suspected of excessive partiality for our present 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 re- mark 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 indifference to his good opinion had criticised him when he was wrong and with like indifference to his good opin- ion can support him when he is right. I care so little for the hasty ebullitions 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 we'll as the bad in his public con duct and judge both without passion or prejudice.
 ''In this case it seems to me that he has acted with remarkable freedom from impulse, with unusually careful deliberation and with anxious effort to do nothing more or less than complete justice to all concerned. Indeed. l 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 offend CTS were colored than he would have been if they were white.
 ''So far as the negro race is concern. ed, the only charge that can be justly made against the president Is that he has loved the negro not wisely. but too well''
 Senator Foraker offered a substitute for all of his previous resolutions on the Brownsville affair. as follows:
 Resolved. That the committee on military affairs Is hereby authorized and directed by subcommittee or oth. erwise to take and have printed the testimony for the purpose of ascertain ing all the facts with reference to or connected with the affray at Browns. vile, Tex. on the night of Aug. l3, 1906. Said committee is authorized to send for persons and papers. to admin ister oaths, to sit during the sessions of the senate and if deemed advisable at Brownsville or elsewhere"
 Mir. Carmack. approving the presi- dents dismissal of the negro soldiers. said the purpose of Republican opposi. tion to it was to prevent Roosevelt's renomination in 1908.