The Washington herald., 1907-01-17
CARMACK MAKES HIT.
coNrINrEp FnoM F.Rsr PAaE.

/ the Ohio Senator, Ire imagined him 10 be
"a bifurcated peripatetic volcano perpetu-
/ ally exuding rhetorical lava" Mr.. For
aker Joined in the laugh at his expense
| that followed. Defending the Presidents
action in discharging the colored troops
/ Mr. Carmack said: THE President has
/ had to do what he did or nothing at all
There was no alternative presented.
! OF Senator Tillmans speech Mr.. Car
mack declared that his premises were
upon one side OF the earth and his con-
/ elusions on the other with no bridge
| between" He referred 20 Tillman's de-
nunciation Of the members of the Twen-
/ ty-iifth Infantry for repeated acts OF
/ brutality prior to the Brownsville ARRAY,
and concluded that If what Mr. TIL
man had said were true these soldiers
should have been discharged long ago.
! Mr. Carmack smoked out Mr.. Tillman.
| He had referred to the action OF Robert
/ E. Lee in discharging soldiers as pre-
tcedent for the Presidents action, and ex-
pressed the opinion that col. Lee knew
more about military law and discipline
/ than the Senator from South Carolina
and the Senator from Ohio together ~
! Mr.. Tillman replied that Col Lee dtd
not discharge without honor. hut die
( banded the soldiers and distributed them
among other regiments
The discharge without honor was not
| known until a few years ago. So Col.
! Lee could not have discharged them
without honor. The Senator from Ten
lnessee is drawing on his ina ginatiOn.
Senator Carmack created much amuse-
meut by declaring that Mr. Tillman, while
governor Of South Carolina. had dis
charged an entire company OF State
soldiers. Il think ii is a great compli-
ment to the Senator from South Carolina
/ that the President has followed his
/ illustrious footsteps" Laughter
The cases were not analogous" replied
| Mr., TiIiman.
No. retorted Mr. Cormack. I think
/ the governor Of South Carolina went even
a little farther than the President did"
Plot Against the President.
Senator Carmack insisted that there
was something personal or political back
/ OF the zeal of those who were criticising
/ the President for his executive usurpa-
/ ton. He referred 10 the post-ofice case
at Indianoia, Miss. where the President
abolished pOst-ofiice IN an arbitrary
manner. Where was the Senator from
I Ohio them asked Carmack. Where
/ was Rhoderic then?T Continuing. Mr.
&
/ termined to unload the President because
he was the only leader in the party who
stood against corporate rule. For that
/ reason he was unpopular. The storm
was already gathering over the Presl-
dents head. He would lose the fight
because the Republican leaders sighed for
a return to the old days
/ The Tennessee Senator approved all
/ The President had done in the BrownviIe
matter and ascrlbed the Republican oppo-
sition 20 his course TO a deep-Iald plot to
repudiate the President as the leader OF
the party
The President has brought the great
railways and trusts and corporations Of
| the country to recognize that there are
such things as law and government I'm
/ this country. Helpless under the com
/ Peliing force of public opinion that he
/ has arrayed behind him-hIs party leaders
/ have yielded snaTiinE and reluctantly. but
/ biding time and opportunity 10 strike. iust
as the cog that is compelled 10 fight. will
snap at the master who fed him. said he
This IS but the beginning of a night TO
! break the power Of the only leader of the
| Republican party who ever arrayed It
against the enemies OF the people 1t is
an effort 10 put the party back into its
old position. 10 renew its old alliances.
20 make peace with its old friends. and
renew its covenant with the pIunderers
and 0ppressors Of the American people.
And II VIII succeed. The resources Of
the gentleman in the White House cannot
stay the inevitable hour He has al
/ tempted the impossible task Of recreatIng
! the Republican party. Mr. President, you
may unspot the leopard, and you NAV
writewash the Ethiopian. but YOU can
not make "a lamb Of the one OF "a eau
casian Of the other
There is force rs compelling and
persistent as the law Of gravitatfon that
VIII draw the RepUbli. an party back to
the position from which by main strength
and awkwardness the President Of the
United States has lifted II up. The Re-
publican party has never felt comforta-
bic IN the strange company il has been
compelled 70 keep. 1t has tried To appear
at ease in the stolen Zarh Of Democracy
and TO comfort itself with the provsrb
that every true mans apparel fits your
thief but IL has never been able 10
conceal its yearning for the suit Of
stripes which 10 has worn so long. ana
which fitted it so becOmingly and so well
Mr. President, the Republican partv
must go back 10 its old associations even
as the dog returns to his vomit. and the
SOW which was washed 10 her wallowinK
IN the mire. II will In a little while look
hacK 10 It's brief masquerade as a friend
OF the people as a hideous dream.
'Give Us Back Our Platform"
The issue is forced. President Roose-
welt must night the course: am cay 10
Senators upon the other side Of the Cham
ber you must take your alternative: Won
must either renominate Theodore Roose-
volt or YOU must give US back cur plat
form laughter You have got to do If
The Republican party. for the first time
in years, will look natural when il sits
for its photograph in the next campaign.
But in the meanwhile. the sentiment
which President Roosevelt has created
which he has helped to arouse against
plutocracy, will turn millions Of voters
to the ranks of the Democratic party.
and. if President Roosevelt himself
chooses to come. he will find there ample
opportunity TO render great service TO
the American people and 10 learn some
respect for the Constitution and the Law"
After the conclusion Of Mr.. Carmack's
speech, Senator Stone Democrat. of Mis-
sour) declared that the whole debate had
descended 70 the plane of light comedy.
There is nothing serious involved. Mr..
Lodge has withdrawn his resolution, and
Mr.. Foraker has revised his" said he
There never was any difference between
these except in the phraseology The in
vestigation viii be had. but It will develop
nothing The flag Of the Ohio Senator
now floats from the Presidents ram
parts. and VIII continue to float there.
unless the Massachusetts Senator returns
10 the attack The whole thing will end
in nothing. The Senator from Massachu-
setts simply demands his modicum of