Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-01-22
TlLLMAN AND cARMAcK.
The Senator From Tennessee and the
Senator From South Carolina.

Democratic side has spoken. Foraker
several times, has spoken In opposition,
.Ti!iman has spoken and been spoken
to; Spooner has spoken; Bailey IL not
here: $50 the great debate is nearing
the end. Foraker, the Fire Alarm"
Is described by Carnack as a "bifur-
Gated. peripatetic, bob-tailed volcano
In perpetual eruption, belching forth
fire and smoke and molten lava from
HIS agonized and tumultuous bowels"
And that expression Is fair sample
OF Carmack
Carmack is to be succeeded In the
senate by Boy Taylor and his fiddle.
Tennessee never made a greater mis-
take There Is not such another man
In the United States as Carmack.
Bailey has a bigger voice, bigger
manner. more imposing look Spoon
er has a bigger reputation. Foraker Is
older In years and has more grace or
manner, though none Of them have
more grace Of speech. No senator
ever yet has had more grace Of speech.
and few, IL any. more power Of speech
than this Carmack Of Tennessee.
Red headed, rugged in feature, with
wad of tobacco in his mouth half the
time, and a careless manner, he walks
about the senate as II he was taking
little interest In what is going on. Not
often does he speak and he speaks with
an enunciation which makes II diffi-
cult at first to understand him, but
his diction Is pure, his sentences now
as easy as running brook, ana ne
makes phrases which Burke himself
never surpassed. Wednesday was one
| III those great days in the senate. i
should like to have described II for
the readers of the State, but as IL
could not have been done for the issue
Of the day after the occurrences and
the reports published Will tell the
principal happenings, / will simply go
over some OF the most striking OF the
| things which were said.
| First, will say that II any one
likes good literature, II any school
boy, or any lover OF great oratory..
which reads almost as well as II
sounds, he can find 1t In this speech OF
Carmack's when it comes out In a few
days In the Congressional Record.
Here is the passage In the speech
labout Senator Foraker. taken from the
Official stenographers notes. II any
one has read II once In the newspa-
per account already printed II viii
easily bear reading again. have read
II several times myself:
"The senator tells US that Major
IBlocksom can not be trusted to make
a fair and honest Investigation and
tell the truth because his father, for
jty years ago. was a Democrat In
Ohio. IL Is a divine law that the sins
Of the fathers shall be visited upon the
children but ! question the right OF
! the senator to pronounce the judg-
ment. He may be the God Almighty
of the Republican party Of Ohio but
he does not yet sustain that relation
to the universe. My personal inter-
course with the senator has shown
him to be genial, generous and OBJ
lliging, but remember when had q
very different impression Of him. /
remember with. what frantic energy
he used to wave the bloody shirt
shirt stained blood-red with the GRIM
son current OF his own rhetoric. can
remember when he used to go raging
i over the land, bifurcated. peripatetic,
bob tailed volcano In perpetual erup-
ton, belching forth fire and smoke and
molten lava from his agonized and
4 tumultuous bowels. remember when
n
the gall OF his bitterness until / some-
times thought that he wished all OF
the white people there, men, women,
i children and babes at the breast had
but single head so that he might
smash II with one blow. He Is the
very last man to sit In Judgment upon
lany case OF murder where negro was
the. murderer and southern white
man the victim But will not do
fAr hn ~
Judging him by the words Of his own
mouth. When / am asked by my
friends in the south II he is really as
i fierce and rapid as he sometimes
seems to be, / tell them, No. that his
ferocity Is purely oratorical, that 1t Is
but the lingering force OF the tyranny
OF habit, which continues to have some
power long after 1t has been expelled
from the heart. We can remember
when IL was nothing short Of treason for
a Democratic senator to question the
ACCURACY of any statement proceeding
from the executive department with
respect to the conduct Of American
soldiers But no charge has ever been
made by any Democrat In the fiercest
partizan debate equal In. gravity and
severity to the charge which the sem
ator from Ohio has made"
Again he said: Whence comes this
.
i stitution? This particular act OF the
4 presidents Is simply the occasion, 1t
is not the cause" Then he went on
to show that the time has come when
the Republican party leaders felt that
they must cut loose from Roosevelt
and get back to their old party moor
ings, and he declared that the Repub-
lican party must either nominate
1 Roosevelt for president or give US
/ 10 olr n,,r ,Io tfnrrn
It was when he came to Tillman,
though, that 1t was especially interest
i ing to q South Carolinan. He took up
4 the action Of Tillman when governor
Il of South Carolina In dismissing the
companies of the state militia. He said
that Tillman's dismissal order was q
perfect precedent for the presidents
action In this case.
There is no analogy at ALL" inter-
mo doubt the governor of South
Carolina was entirely justified" said
Carmack. HE tells me those men
were dudes, and agree'with him that
lynching is a proper reward for
dudes"
'Tf you will persist in not seeing
that there is no analogy cut In
Tillman. ..... FL
"That action now has the support
/ and endorsement of the president"
went on, Carmack, calmly ignoring the
sputtering South Carolinian. "The SEN
ator should be proud that the president
is following in his illustrious foot
steps"
Il tell you those men sent me word
that they wouldn't obey" cried TILL
man, red with rage. Their captain
wrote me a note about It."
"Oh." exclaimed Carmack, "and on
the strength Of what that one man
said you discharged the whole COM
pany. without trial, without exam
nation, without investigation. without
man OF them all having his day In
court promptly. Immediately you
branded them all with dishonor. l
agree with you that the case Is hardly
analogous to this. 1t was worse"
But the president has discharged
1877 when at most only 20 were guilty"
put in the despairing Tillman.
Yes. after long patient investiga-
| tion. He has at least done great
deal more than the governor Of South
Carolina did when on the statement
Of one man he discharged a whole
| COMPANY"