The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-01-18
CARMACK SWAPS
THE SENATE
DEFENDS THE PRESIDENTS ACTION BROWNSVILLE AZ
rA,a-roRAKsa AND rlLLMAN VIRTUE UNDER HIS HUMoR.
Gus SARCASM.

tered the gall OF mis- bitterness Oh ths
South until / came to think that the
Senator wished all the white people
OF the SOuth-men. women, children
and babes at the breast-had but
single neck that he might sever 1t al
a blow. I would not have to go bach
forty years or make any inquiry into
the Senator's pedinee to prove BY
such evidence that the Senator from
Ohio Is the last man to sit in judg
ment in a case of murder where
negro was the murderer and a South
ern white man the victim.
II Purely oratorieal.
"But / will not do the Senator such
gross injustice as to Judge his heart
by the testimony of his own mouth
and when my Southern friends ask me
If the Senator from Ohio is really as
rabid and bitter as he seems | tell
them no-his ferocity is purely ora
torical; it is simply the lingering
force of a tyrannical habit which con-
tinues to have some power over the
tongue long after it had been expell-
ed from the heart.
IF the Senator from Ohio could con-
vict the President of the charge he
has made against him, that of infict-
] ing harsh and brutal punishment with
out any authority of law, then" con-
tinued Mr.. Carmack, che will have
placed the President on an eminence
of infamy from which no man can
take him down."
Discussing the merits of the case
and the right of the President to act,
Mr.. Carmack said that wherever the
Chief Executive does an act that is
within the scope of his exclusive pow
ers. he is necessarily the sole and ex-
elusive Judge of the facts on which his
act is based. Nevertheless, for its
own purposes and with a view to pos
sible future Legislation the Senate has
a right to inquire into the facts of the
case. Whatever might be our opin-
ion of these facts, they could not af-
feet the legality of the Presidents ac-
ton
No Alternative.
Maintaining that 'he President had
no alternative in his action, Mr.. Car
mack said:
1T may be a sound maximum in
criminal Jurisprudence that it is bet
ter that ninety-nine guilty men should
escape than that one innocent man
should be hanged, but it is not true
that it is better that ninety-nine muir
derers shall wear the uniform of the
United States and carry it's guns to
slaughter peaceful citizens than that
one innocent soldier shall be discharg-
ed. Such a maximum would destroy
the discipline of any army"
Paying his compliments to Senator
Tillman, Mr.. Carmack said:
No Bridge Between.
"The Senator's speech was power
full: it was picturesque. 1t was full
of good and striking points, but 1t
seemed to me that his premises were
upon one side of tae earth and his
conclusions upon the other with no
bridge between If there is anything
that appears plainly to my mind from
that speech, it is that these soldiers
ought to have been discharged from
the army a long time ago, and that the /
President deserves criticism, not for
doing it now, but for having delayed !
1t so long"
Lively interest was developed when |
Senator Tillman took hand to JUS
tify his act in DISTRESSING "a company
Of the South Carolina militiamen when
he was Governor. Mr.. Carmack had
uuoted this as a rrecedent for the
President. and remarked that 1t was
a distinguished compliment that the
President had paid fhe Senator to fol-
ow his lead in lyLching" his COM
)any
Mr.. Tillman said he had letter
rom the Commander of the. company
'esigning from the service.
ooh" calculated Mr.. Carmack. Il
I'm surprised that the Senator acted
the slightest inquiry or in
'estlgation."
Mr.. Tillman protested that the two
ases were in no way analogous.
1.-The President has turned loose a
and of murderers on the land" he
dded. II
The Real Purpose.
Mr.. Carmack held that they were
{ least out of the army and not wear
ng its uniform or bearing its arms, I
nd then gave what he regarded as
he real purpose of the agitatlon--an
tempt to unhorse Mr.. Roosevelt as
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