The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-01-19
CARMACK ENDORSES
Presidents ACTION
TENNESSEE SENATOR pEcLARGa
EXECUTIVE HAS POWER TO
DISCHARGE TROOPS.
MAKES ADDRESS ON
BROWNSVILLE ARRAY
Only Just Charge, He Says, is That
Roosevelt Loved Negro Too Well
Opinion Of Senate Cannot Effect
Legality Of Action. .. 8

Washington. Jan. ,7.--Addrssainx
the senate Wednesday OH the Browns
Vile ARRAY. Senator Carmack of
Tennessee announced that he heartily
supported the president in his action
discharEing the negro soldiers. The
action of the legislature Of his state
taking the same position, met his per-
sonal views. He declared that his de-
Tense OF the executive was entirely
unsolicited and that 1t was not be.
cause OF admiration for the man.
In this case said Senator Car.
mack, 'it seems to me that he hax
acted with remarkable freedom from
impulse. with unusually careful DELHI
GRAFTON. and with anxious effort to do
nothing more nor less than complete
justice to all concerned. indeed, 1 am
haunted by the suspicion that the
president Was the more careful to as
certain tho facts and to keep Within
the limits Of the law because thu
offenders were colored than he would
have been if they were white.
Loved Negro Too Wsli.
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 wise
ly but too we'll. There is something
pathetic in the presidents plaintive
recital OF all that he has done and al
tempted for the negro 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 che.
man who abolished the Tndianola post
Office and dined with Booker Washing.
ton. 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 that sympathy with the
the criminal negro which pervades the
negro population OF this country from
one end of it to the other"
Quoting the resolutions Of a Bos-
ton negro meeting iustisying the &C.
ton of the negro troops. Senator Car.
mack said no more damaging indict-
this one. written by itself.
He then turned his attention to SEN
ator Forakers criticism of Maj. Block
son. which he said was due to the fact
that His father was a Democrat"
He declared that the senator from
Ohio may be God Almighty to the Re
publican party of Ohio, but not for
the universe"
Senate Cannot Change Action.
Discussing the merits Of the case
and the right Of the president to act,
Senator Carmack said that wherever
the chief executive does an act that
is within the scope of his exclusive
powers he is necessarily the sole and
exclusive Judge of the facts upon
which his act is based. Nevertheless.
for it's own purposes and with view
to possible future legislation the SEN
ate has q right to inquire into the
facts of the case. Whatever might be-
our opinion of these facts they could
not affect the legality Of the presi-
dents action
Maintaining that the president had
no alternative in his action, Senator
Carmack said: ut may be a sound
maxim in criminal jurisprudence that
It is better that 80 guilty men should
escape than that one innocent man
should be hanged, but it is not true
that it is better that 80 murderers
shall wear the uniform of the United
States and carry its guns to slaughter
peaceful citizens than that one in
nocent soldier shall be discharged.
Such maxim would destroy the dis
cipline of any army"