The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-01-18

bcr how he used to go raging over
the land, mfmiatcd, peripatetic
volcano in perpetual eruption, belch-
ing fire and smoke and melted lava
from his agonized and tumultuous
bowels. l can remember how in pub
lie 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,
men, women, children and babes at
the breast, had single neck, that he
might sever it at blow. I would not
have to go back 40 years or make
any inquiry into the senator's pedi-
gree by such evidence that the sena
tor from Ohio is the last man to sit
in Judgment all case of murder where
negro was the murderer and a
Southern white man was his victim.
"But I 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 as bitted as he seems, I
tell them no-his ferocity Is purely
oratoric; it is simply the lingering
force Of tayranical habit which con-
tinucd to have some power over the
tongue long after it had been expelled
from the heart.'
Estimate of Tillman's Speech.
Paying his compliments to Senator
Tillman Mr.. Carmacli: "The sena-
tor S speech was powerful it was pic
turesque; 1t was of good and strik-
ing points, but it seemed to me that
his promises were upon one side of
the 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 those soldiers ought to have been
discharged from The army long time
ago, and that the president deserves
criticism, not for doing it now, but
for having delayed it so long"
Mr.. Carmack then gave what he re-
garded as the real purpose Of the agi-
tation-an attempt to unhorse Mr..
Roosevelt as the Republican leader.
Declaring this to be "the begin
ming Of the fight to break the power
of the only leader in the Republican
party who ever arrayed himself
against the enemies of the people, -
he said: cit is an effort to put the
party back into its old position, to re-
new its old alliances and renew its
covenant with the plunderers and op-
pressors Of the American people. -
And he declared it would succeed.
"All the resources of the gentleman
in the White House can not stay the
inevitable. He has attempted the i'm
possible task Of recrcatinc the Re-
publican party. You may whitcwash
the Ethiopian and nnspot the leopard,
but you cannot make The one a Cau-
casian or the other a lamb. There is
a force as persistent and compelling
as the law of sravitation that will
pull the Republican party back into
the position from which by main
strength and awllwardncss the presi-
dent has lifted it.
IIc declared that sentiment that The
president had helped to arouse against
the plutocracy will bring millions Of
votes to ranks of the Democratic par
ty and said that elf President Roosc-
welt himself chooses to come he will
find there ample opportunity to cXer-
else and influence for the welfare of
pcct for the law and the constitution.
Seantor Stone said he was aware
that there was disposition among
Democratic members of the senate to
vote against the resolutions. He at
first was in sympathy with that, but
added there was family feud among
the Republicans, and he saw no good
reason why the Democrats should
smother the fire or burn their fin
gers by pulling out hot chcstnuts for
the Republicans. "Lct the fun. 60
on,' he concluded
Senator Money said that if by leg
islation this battalion should be re-
stored, as he had heard ii intended, to
the army it would be the duty Of the
president to dismiss ii instantly if he
still held to his present opinion as to
its guilt. lie confined his discussion