Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-01-24
CARMACK ON RIOT
Presidents Action Regarding Negro
Troops Approved by Senator
From Tennessee.
SOME PERTINENT REMARKS
While His Language Bordered Upon
the Lurld He Reserved Certain
Phrases as Belonging to Pres
idential Controversy.

Washington, Jan. 17.-Addressing
the senate Wednesday on the
Brownsville ARRAY, Senator Carmack
announced that he heartily support
ed the president in his action dis
charging the negro soldiers. The &C
ton Of the the legislature Of his state
taking the same position, met his
personal views.
Mr., Carmack then paid his re-
spects to the president as follows:
Il think it proper to say that any
report that Senators may have heard
that the president personally solicit
ed my support in this matter; that
he urged me to forgive and forget
certain energetic personal remarks
and begged me to stand between him
and those twin enemies of his adj
ministration, the senators from South
Carolina and Ohio, is gross ex-
aggeration. l will not say that 1t is
an infamous falsehood because such
language belongs to the Vocabulary
Of presidential controversy rather
than that of senatorial debate.
'Nor is It true, as senators may
have heard, that l have been moved
to undertake the presidents defense
because of my infatuated devotion
to the man. l have great admir-
alton for that strong, brave, large
minded gentleman, the secretary of
war. My admiration for the
president is more temperate and sub
dued. In the language Of Hamlet, 1T
waits upon the judgment Serious
ly, l suppose there is no senator, al
ways with the exception Of my friend
from South Carolina (Mr. TiIlman),
who is less likely than myself to be
suspected of excessive partially for
our present chief executive. The
president once said that he would
see certain member Of the Tennes-
see delegation in Hades before he
would do anything for him-a re-
mark entirely gratuitous in view Of
the fact that the person supposed to
have been referred to had never ask
cd favor at his hands, but with SUI
preme Indifference to his good opin-
ion had criticised him when he was
wrong, and with like indifference to
his good opinion can support him
when he is right. l care so little
for the hasty ebullitions of that re-
markable man that l can see-what
he himself could never see in any
man who expressed an opinion con-
trary to his OWL can see the good
as well as the bad in his public con-
duct, and Judge both without pas
sion or prejudice.
"In this case 1t seems to me that
he has acted with remarkable free
dom from impulse, with unusually
careful elaboration and with anxious
effort to do nothing more or less than
complete justice to all concerned.
Indeed, / am haunted By the suapiciop
that the president was the more care
full 10 sustain ne facta, and 10 keep
within the limits OF the law. beoatme
Of the offenders were oolored, than
he would have been II they were
white.
$50 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 wise
" but too well There Is something
pathetic In the presidents recital Of
all he has attempted and done for
the negro race. Yet, there is no man
In this country today. not even. the
senator from South Carolina who IL
20 universally and 50 bitterly hated
BY the negroes a. the man who abol-
lshed the 1ndianola postoffice and
dined Vtth Bsoksr NashinRton. All