The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-24
CARMACK'S
ELOQUENT
SPEECH.
Scathing Arrangement of
Foraker--Sharp Twists
at the President.

The effacement of Theodore
Roosevelt as the most powerful
individual factor in the Repub
lican party and its capture and
control by the trusts und financial
interests of the country was pre-
dicted this afternoon by Senator
Carmack, of Tennessee, during a
speech on the Brownville affair.
Solely because the people were
standing by him the President thus
far had succeeded in putting the
Republican leaders to rout3 Senator
Carmack said, but he was bound
to be overwhelmed eventually by
the combined influences of cor
porate wealth, whose representa-
tives in the Senate had seized up
on the dismissal of negro bat
TALON as means of breaking down
his power. "It is not the most
honorable act of his Admins
tration that the President has
aroused so deadly an antagonism in
his own party" said the Senator.
"He might have continued to
trample upon the law until the
end of time and multiplied his in
fidelities to the onstitution in
definitely, but if he had not other
wise offended no voice would ever
have been lifted ON the Repub-
lican side to protest against the
outrage on the negro troops.
.'But the President has made
the mistake, of the compelling
his party to violate all traditions,
to break with its old time friends
the allies of a hundred battles.
He has forced the great corpora
tions of the country to recognize
that there is such thing as law
in tue government of this country.
Helpless under the compelling
forces of public opinion that is ar
rayed behind him, his party leaders
have yielded reluctantly, but bide
their time for an opportunity to
strike back. 1t is but the begin
ming of strike to break the power
Of the leaders of the Republican
party who have ever arrayed it on
the side of the enemies of the
people. 1t is an effort to put the
party back into it's old position to
renew its old alliances to make
peace with it's old friends and re-
new it's covenants with the plunder-
ers and oppressors of the Ameri-
can people. And it will succeed.
The resources of the gentleman in
the White House cannot stay the
inevitable hour. He has attempt
ed the impossible task of recreat-
ing the Republican party. You
may unspot the leopard and you
may whitewash the Ethiopian, but
you cannot make lamb of one of
or Caucasian of the other.
ssThere is force as compelling
and persistent as the law of grAvi-
tation that will draw the Rep1b-
lican party back to the position
from which by main strength and
awkwardness the President has
lifted it up. The Republican
party has never felt comfortable
in the strange company it has been
compelled to keep. 1t has tried
to appear at ease in the stolen
garb of Democracy and to COM
fort itself with the proverb that
every true mans apparel fits your
thief, but 1t has never been able
to conceal its yearning for the suit
of stripes it has worn so long and
which flied it so becomingly and
so we'll. The Republican party in
little while will look back to its
brief masquerade as friend of
the people as hideous dream.
The issue has been forced. Presi-
dent Roosevelt must fight the
course and 1 say to Senators on
the other side, You must take
your alternative; you must either
renominate Theodore Roosevelt,
or you must give us back our plat
form"
sit is a divine law that the sins
shall be visited upon the children,
but l question it's applicability in
this case. | question the right of
the Senator from Ohio to pro-
nounee judgments. He may be
fha God lmiuhfv of tha Rannh.