Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
TILLMAN SCORES
TROOPS DISCHARGE
PITCHF0RK SENATOR ACCUSES
PRESIDENT
Asserts Roosevelt's Attitude Toward
Brownsville Rioters Has Stirred
Race Feeling to White
Heat
CONTINUED from rage one,

president he maintained, had encour.
aged the negro to assert his equality
and then had wrought vengeance on q
whole battalion for following that en-
couragement. He condemned the presi.
dents action in some respects.
Mr.. Patterson defended the presidents
right to dismiss the troops, but said
there might be some ground to question
its policy He condemned in strong
terms what he regarded as the radical
position of Mr.. Tillman and predicted
that the extinction of the Democratic
party in the north would follow con-
tinuance of such tactics.
The debate occupied four hours and
was listened to with great interest by
the crowds in the galleries which had
to be warned against applause by the
vice president, who finally threatened
to clear them.
No action was taken in an investiga-
ton of the Brownville affray, but Mr..
Foraker gave notice that on Monday
he would endeavor to have it disposed
of.
1t was nearly o'clock when the SEN
ate completed it's morning business and
the matter was taken up. Many men,
bers of the house were in the chamber
and every possible space in the gall
leries was occupied when Mr.. Tillman
took the floor to make his address.
Senator Tillman prefaCed his discus
sion of the question with the character
i2ation that it resembled a case in court
Certain enlisted men of the Twenty
fifth regiment were under indictment"
he said. THE president of the United
States is the prosecutor as well as
the executioner. The array of counsel
FOR the defense and prosecution is not
yet complete. So far as their names
have appeared on the record there is
an element of incongruity and of the
ridiculous. For instance, for attorneys
aiding the prosecution we have the
distinguished senator from Texas
(Mr. Culberson), a Democrat, the dis
tinguished senator from Massachu-
setts (Mr Lodge, a Republican; the
distinguished senator from Virginia
(Mr. DanieD, a Democrat
Aligned with Foraker
"And for the defense if it shall be
so considered when I'm through, l
will be put in the record as aiding
the distinguished senator from Ohio
(Mr. Foraker).
"Of course. being nothing more than
a cornfeld lawyer my contribution to
the legal discussion of the question
will be very limited, probably compare
lively worthless.
MY colleague and brother attorney
(Mr Foraker) himself realizes that so
far as legal assistance will go he will
get little or no aid from me, and thus
far 1 do not think he needs any.
But the Righteousness of the situa-
ton is again apparent when one con-
siders that the senator from the north,
who by reason of his radical and ag-
gressive utterances, and probably ac-
tions, in the past once acquired the
name Fire Alarm finds himself
aligned with that senator from the
south (Mr. Tillman himself) who is
usually supposed to have broiled
negro for breakfast Qaughter), who
is known to justify lynching for rape
and whose attitude, if not that of
hatred to the negro, is a feeling akin
to it, in the belief that white men are
made of better clay and that white
men alone are entitled to participate
IN government And so this alliance
is an odd one"
Declaring that President Roosevelt
was more responsible than any other
man." Mr.. Tillman read from order
No. %, issued by. the war department
February s. 1906, and signed by the
president, as follows:
THE uniform of the enlisted man is
a badge of honor. 1t entitled him TO
peculiar consideration-it shows that in
the great majority of cases he has
learned those habits of self command,
of self restraint, of obedience and of
fearlessness in the face of danger
which puts him above most of his fell
lows who have not possessed similar
privileges. To strive to discriminate
against him in any way is literally an
infamy; for it is in reality one OF the
most serious offenses which was COM
mitted against the stability and great
ness of our nation.
'That is the milk of the cocoanut,
calculated Mr.. Tillman, who said 1t
was this sort of stuff that put into the
heads of the negro soldier that he was
entitled to demand social equality