Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-13
Senator TiIman Holds President
Responsible for the Brownsville
Trouble and Criticises His Subse-
quent Course in the Matter,
PATTERSON DEFENDS
DISCHARGE OF TROOPS
Condemns South Carolina Members
Radical UtteranCeS Which He
Says Mean the Extinction Of the
Democratic Party in North.
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Washington. Jan. l2.-"he senate
listened to a debate on the race ques-
ton today in which Senator Tillmah
was the principal participant, and SEN
ator Patterson of Colorado. his op-
ponent. They brought into striking
contrast the ideas of the south ana
north.
President Roosevelt's action in the
Brownsville matter was the SUBJECT VI
discussion. Mr. Tillman held that
nothing was involved in it except the
race question, and that the admins
tration was responsible for the grow
ing acute condition of the race ques-
ton in the south. The president, ne
maintained, had encouraged the negro
to assert his equality and then hao
,vrought vengeance on a whole bat
TALON for following that encourage
ment. He condemned the president ;
action in both respects
Mr.. Patterson defended the presl-
dents right to dismiss the troops, Dut
believed there might be more ground
10 question its policy. He condemned
i'm strong terms what he regarded as
the radical position of Mr.. Iillman ana
predicted that the extinction OF tne
democratic party in the north Woulu
follow a continuance OF sucn taclics'
The announcement that senator
Tnlman was 10 speak on the Browns
vile affair crowded the galleries and
corridors of the senate. 1t was nearly
/ o'clock when the senate finally mn
ished the morning business ana the
matter was taken up. MANY members
of the house We're in the senate. ana
every seat was occupied when Mr.
'Tillman commenced his speech. The
senator characterized the president
ACTON i'm the discharge OF the heST"
soldiers as nothing more or less thah
lynching. He challenged anyone TO
produce in the army regulations or
the articles Of war any toundatlOh lot
the charge of conspiracy of silence
mutiny and treason, which was made
against the soldiers dismissed without
honor. although he declared there
was no doubt the soldiers We're respon-
sible for the outrage at Brownsville.
Mr.. TiIlman held that II was contrary
To the fundamental principles OF llp-
crty under the English and American
law, that the innocent should Sutet
because of the acts of the guilty. lie
also declared that man should pc
considered innocent until he was
proven guilty,
"in this case" he said, 49, men
have been punished while not more
than twenty had been charged with
participation in the crime.
The speaker contended that the ne
gro troops should never have been sent
to Texas. After condemning MAJOR
Penrose and Captain Mackln for al
legged gross negligence and incompe-
tence. Senator Tiliman declared thaS
race questions were at the potion Oh
the whole trouble. He insisted tha'
the president is primarily more re-
SpOnsible than any other man iol tho
position the negroes in the south nave
taken on the question of negro rights.
The president, he said gave recoghl-
ton TO Booker \, Washington in So
cial way. He did it knowing he was
fving In the face of the feelings
of seventeen millions of southern
whites and against the same teellhss
of two-thirds or three-fourths OF the
people of the north. The president
said Mr. Tillman. does not understand
the negro or the deep and vital char-
acter of the issue involved. The atu-
tude of the negro on the social ques-
tion has been the cause of a great ana
notable change in the demeanor of the
negroes throughout the south and q
question Of the relationship between
the races cannot be much longer DC
kept down.
MIR. Tillman predicted in the neal
future a race conflict in the south
and in Cuba the question was whether
the whites or the negroes shall pre-
vail. On the Pacific coast the fela
tlonship between the Mongolian am
the Caucasian is involved. He sal'
that It was high time that something
was being done to have this great ant
hRnfInhf hRfnFp
country in some sensible way. Fo
himself he was willing to battle unde
the slogan of America for American
and this Is white mans country an'
white men must govern. II.
Mr. Tillman prefaced his discussion
of the Brownsville question with tn
characterization that it resembled
case in court.
Certain enlisted men Of the Twenty
fifth regiment were under indictment,
he said. "The president of the Unitel
States is the prosecutor as well as tn
eyecutioner. The array of counse
for the defense and prosecution Is no
yet complete. So far as their name
have appeared on the record there
an element Of incongruity and Of IN
ridiculous. For instance, as attorney
aiding the prosecution we have tn
distinguished senator from Texas, (Mi
Culberson) democrat. the distin
guished senator from Massachusetts
(Mr LODGE republican, the dis
tlngulshed senator from Virginia (Ml
DnnieD a democrat.
And for the defense. II 1t shall b
so considered when ! get through
win be put in the record as aiding tn
distinguished senator from Ohio (Ml
Toraker). or course. being nothin
more than cOrnticld lawyer m
contribution 10 the legal discussion q
the question will be very limited
probably comparatively worthless.