The San Francisco call., 1907-01-17
LAUDs PRESIDENT;
FLAYS SENATOR
Carmack Lashes Buckeye
State Solon for Views
on Ousting of Negroes
SPEAKS OF ENMITIES

ers tonight regard the end OF the
Brownsville discussion as pelhg III
sight, and it is confidently expected
that a compromise resolution oiLereu
by Senator Foraker just before the
close of today's session will be adopted
Foraker had the floor today to make
what he hoped would be the concluo-
! ing speech on the subject. He Will pro-
ceed Immediately after the morning
/ business tomorrow, unless lnterIered
with by the special order OF the day,
which is the delivery OF euiogles on
! the life of the late Senator Bate OF
| Tennessee Whether he speaks to-
morrow or Friday, 1t is expected that a
vote will soon follow, although 1t is
/ possible that other brief speeches may
be made before the end is reached.
! Foraker offered a substitute for all
OF his previous resolutions on the
! Brownsville affair as follows:
Resolved, That the committee on military ar
! fairs is hereby authorized and directed by sub
I committee otherwise TO take and have printed
1 tbe facts i'm reference TO or connected with the
! aHray at Brownsville, Texas, ON the night OF
to send for persons and papers TO aulllnister at
oaths. TO sit during the sessions of the Senate
and, if deemed advisable, at Brownsville or else
/ where; the expenses of the investigation 10 De
paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate
DEFENDS PRESIDENT
The feature of today's debate was the
arraignment by senator Carmack OF
| Republican senator's who have criti-
! cfsed the President for his action in
the Brownsville matter. He regarded
! IL as an attempt TO "dethrOne" the
! President as the leader of the party,
and declared that either the President
must be renomInated or the platform on
which he stood returned to the Demo-
Gratis.
Senators Stone, Money and Knox fol-
! lowed, each upholding the authority of
/ the President to take the action he ala
and favoring an investigation or the
! facts connected with the Brownsville
affray. Senator Foraker started to
make his closing speech, but before he
concluded the Senate adjourned for the
day, leaving him in possession of the
/ floor.
In his address Senator Carmack de-
/ clared that he heartily supported the
! President in his action dfscharglng
the negro soldiers, and also the ac-
ton of the legislature of his State in
taking the same position.
| II think it proper to say that any
report that senator's may have heard
that the President has solicited my
support in this matter; that he urged
me TO forgive and forget certain per-
sonal remarks and begged me to stand
4 between him and these twin enemies
of his administration, the senator's for
South Carolina and Ohio. is gross ex-
aggeration," said Senator Carmack.
ADMIRER OF TAFT
Nor is it true that 1 have been
moved to undertake the Presidents
! defense because of my infatuated de-
votion to the man., continued Mr.. Car.
mack. 81 have great admiration for
that strong, brave, large-minded gen
! tleman, the Secretary of War. My ad
miration for the President is more
temperate and subdued. Seriously. i
suppose. there is no senator. always
with the exception of my friend from
! South Carolina (Senator Tillman), who
is less likely than myself to be sus-
pected of excessive partially for our
present chief executive.
The President only said that he
would see a certain member of the
Tennessee delegation in hades before
he would do anything for him, re-
| mark entirely gratuitious, 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.
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 re-
cital of all that he has done and at
tempted for the negro race.
HATED By NEGROES
"Yet there is man in this country
today, not even the Senator from South
Carolina, who Is universally and so
bitterly hated by the negroes as the
man who abolished the Indianola post
Office and dined with Booker It. Wash
ington. All that he has done for the
negro. all of the evidence of friendship
have been utterly forgotten simply be-
cause he has not shown that sympathy
with the criminal negro which pervades
the negro population of this country
from one end of 1t to the other"
Quoting the resolutions of a Boston
negro meeting justifying the action
the negro troops, Carmack said no more
damaging indictment of a race could
be secured than this one, written by
itself
He then turned his attention to Sem
ator Foraker's criticism of Major
Blocksom and declared that the SEN
ator from Ohio may be God Almighty
to the Republican party of Ohio. but
not of the universe"
i can remember with what frantic
energy Senator Foraker used to wave
the bloody shirt a shirt dyed with the
crimson current of his own rhetoric;
L remember how he used to go raging
over the land, bifurcated, peripatetic
| volcano in perennial eruption, belch-
| ing hre and smoke and melted lava
from agonized tumultuous bowels.
can see how in public speeches he spat-
tered the gall of his bitterness upon the
South, until / came to think that the
Senator wished all the white people
OF the South had but single neck,
tnat ne might sever it at a blow. 1
would not have to go back forty years,
or make any inquiry into the Senator's
pedigree to prove that the Senator from
onio is the last man to sit in judg
ment In case of murder where a
negro was the murderer and Southern
Whlte man was his victim.
But l will not do the Senator such
gross injustice as to Judge his heart
Dy the testimony of his own mouth:
ana when my Southern friends ask me
IL the Senator from Ohio. is really
as rabid and bitter as he seems, I tell
tnem no., his ferocity is purely orator
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