Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-17
Love for Negro Is
Declared His
Undoing
Carmack Says Discharge
of Troops Was Wise,
but Ill Accident
Tennesseean Defends Preside nts Off
eial Action but Asserts Il Was
Inspired Through Mania
on Negro Question
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The fea-
ture Of today's debate in the senate was
the arraignment by Senator Carmack
of Republican senators who have criti-
cised the president for his action in the
Brownsville matter. He regarded it as
an attempt to "dethrone" the president
as the leader of the party, and declared
that either the president must be re-
nominated or the platform on which he
stood returned to the Democrats
so far as the negro race is con-
cerned the only charge that can be
justly made against the president Is
that he loved the negro, not wisely but
too well. There is something pathetic
in the presidents plaintive recital Of all
he had rdone and attempted for the
negro race. Yet there is no man in this
country today, not even the senator
from South Carolina, who is so univer-
sally and so bitterly hated by the negro
race as the man who abolished the In
dianola postoffice and dined with
Booker T. Washington.
"All that he has done for the negro,
been utterly forgotten simply because
he has not shown that sympathy with
the criminal negro which pervades the
negro population of this country from
one end of it to the other"
Mentioning that the president had no
alternative in his action Mr.. Carmack
said:
1T may be a sound maxim in GRIM
inal Jurisprudence that 1t is better that
ninety-nine guilty men should escape
than one innocent should be hanged,
but 1t Is not true that it is better that
ninety-nine murderers shall wear the
uniform of the United States and carry
it's guns to slaughter peaceful citizens
than one innocent soldier shall be dis
charged. Such a mixim would destroy
the discipline of any army"
Denies Devotion to President
Concluding Mr.. Carmack said:
Nor is it true that I have been
moved to undertake the presidents de-
fense because of my infatuated devo-
tion to the man. I have great admir-
alton for that strong, brave, large
minded gentleman, the secretary of
war. My admiration for the president
is more temperate and subdued.
Seriously 1 suppose there is no
senator, always with the exception of
my friend from South Carolina-Mr.
Tillman-who is less likely than my
self to be suspected of excessive par
tiality for our present chief executive.
The president only recently said that
he would see a certain member of the
Tennessee delegation in hades before
he would do anything for him, re-
mark entirely gratuitous, in view of
the fact that the person supposed to
have been referred to had never asked
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 ebulli-
tions of that remarkable man that
can see the good as well as the bad in
his public conduct, and judge both
without passion In this case 1t seems
that he has acted with remarkable
freedom from impulse, with unusually
careful deliberation and with an effort
to do nothing more or less than COM
plete justice to all concerned.
Indeed, l am haunted by the suspi-
cion that the president was more care
full to ascertain the facts and to keep
within the limits of the law because
the offenders were negroes than he
would have been if they We're white"
Scores Ohio Senator
MI. Carmack tnen turned MS dlleI-
tion to Senator Foraker's criticism of
Major Blocksom and declared that 1.-The
senator from Ohio may be God AL
mighty to the Republican party of
Ohio, but not of the universe.
II can remember with what frantic
energy he used to wave the bloody
shirt, shirt dyed with the crimson
current of his own rhetoric; 1 remem-
ber how he used to go raging over the
land bifurcated, peripatetic volcano
In perennial eruption, belching fire and
smoke and melted lava from agonized
and tumultuous bowels. / can see how
In public speeches he spattered 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 a single neck, that he might sever
II at a blow. l would not have to go
back forty years or make any inquiry
into the senator's pedigree to prove that
the senator from Ohio is the last man
to sit in judgment in case of murder
where q negro was the murderer and a
southern white man was his victim.
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, 1 tell them no,
his ferocity Is purely oratorical; 1t is
simply the lingering force Of tyranni'
cal habit.
IF the senator from Ohio could con-
Wet the president Of the charge he has
charged against him, that of intiicting
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