The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-01-10

lances with the fiery Senator Foraker,
of Ohio, who stoutly maintains that
President Roosevelt had no constitu.
tional right to remove from the serv.
Ice of the army the three negro com
panies of the Twenty fifth infantry.
OF course Senator Lodge will p:unge
into the discussion. He always does
II any an on either side ot the sen.
ate chamber brings forward a prupo.
sition antagonistic To the present
head oil the nation. Last year Sen.
atoI Foraker was In poor health. In
deed, be looked so badly and seemed
so languid as compared with his
former self that most people feared
that his time on this earth would be
short. The friends OF the senator
are glad to note that he has picked
up amazingly In the physical sense,
and his old-time vigor has returned.
lie Is undoubtedly primed for the
light. Mr.. Lodge is an able man,
put pretty much on the classical or
der. Those who have listened atten.
lively to the discussions In the SEN
ate for number of years and are
competent to judge know that Mr..
Lodge Is no match for Mr.. Fofaker
in trough and tumble debate.
Meta aphorically speaking the Ohio
senator would "eat him up"
The concensus Of opinion here Is
that this Brownsville business would
never have made such an issue in the
senate but for the fact that certain
aspiring republican politicians think
IL Is an opportune time TO cultivate
the negro vote In some Of the north
ern and western states. During the
discussion on the Foraker and Pen.
rose resolutions calling for the rea-
sons why these negro soldiers were
dismissed ~ithout honor, Senator
Scott, Of West Virginia, put In his
oar. Most readers may not have re-
allied the significance OF bis remarks
even IL they bad perused them care.
fully. Mr.. Scott is republican and
Is IL member OF the upper branch OF
congress chiefly by resaon of the fact
that the negro vote of bis state en-
masse stands by bis party. When
Mr., Scott dipped into the discussion
he almost tearfully reminded senators
and the gallery auditors that black
soldiers did some lively lighting in
Cuba, In the vicinity OF San Juan
bill, and that but for their bravery
the present occupant OF the White
House might not even be 10 the land
Of the living, etc. What amuses In.
telligent observes in the capital city
is that 90 matter bow brave the
negro troops might have been In
Cuba, in the Philippines or elsew here
during the Spanish "A merican war.
that hss nothing 10 do With the
pending case. OF course, every one
with the sense OF jack rabbit knows
perfectly well that Senator Scott was
simply talking for home eonsump-
tion. West Virginia today, any stu
dent Of political changes knows quite
well, would be safely In the demo-
cratic column but for the suiid negro
support given The republican party
at the elections. Thousands Of
negroes began 10 iiock u the state
whsn the development Of the West
Virginia coal. iron and oil fields
commenced in earnest. And, ~ all
reports be true, they were voted In
herds by the republican niauipulatots
long before they had legal right To
march up - the polls. No system
Of registration was IN vogue either.
And 1t Is charged and pretty geper-
ally believed that lots Of repeating
was done by voting the negroes many
times in the counties bordering upon
old Virginia, Mary land. Ohio and
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Scott, cf course,
is looking out for bis party Ia West
Virginia. which would not maiutsIn
its asceDdsDcy u 1t did not receive
the support Of the negroes And
that fact Is apt 70 be brought out by
the democrats II be gets mixed up
again with the discussion at a time
when tbe big guns are being fred