Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-03-07

send to the ofhcial archives at Wash
ington and get a copy of Secretary
Taft's report to the Congress of the
United States, it will find that he
was just a whit less radical concern
ing that matter than was President
Roosevelt himself II looked then
that he was a more probable candi-
date for a United States Supreme
Court judge-ship than he was for
the Office of President of the United
States. But then, we are not here
to discuss Secretary Taft and the
Presidency, but the report Of this
committee. Let us return to "our
mutton"
After voting down every resolu-
ton offered by Senator Foraker and
those who supported him the major
ity composed of Democrats and Re
publicans adopted one OF them. It
seemed that even the Democrats be-
came ashamed of themselves. Here
is one of the resolutions offered by
senator Foraker.
The testimony wholly fails to j.
IDENTIFY the individuals. or any Of
them, who participated in the shoot
ing ARRAY"
Here is the resolution offered by
Senator Warner and adopted.
''That the testimony fails TO iden-
tify the particular soldier or soldiers
who participated in the shooting af-
fray"
The aim In this was to put the
responsibility on the soldiers and
Senator Foraker's resolution was to
leave the question open. Individuals
might have been civilians or soldiers.
Still there is some consolation in
the adoption of oven this resolution
for the reason that it makes it ap-
parent that IT was impossible to de-
termine even by the Democrats the
persons engaged in the ARRAY, and
yet President Roosevelt had married
the army records Of 167 soldiers Of
the army in a case where the COM
mittee admits and solemnly declares
that ali Of them were not guilty and
those who are alleged to be guilty
are unknown
In Texas, the authorities accorded
the accused men a trial, and released
the soldiers. AT Washington the au-
thorities did not accord them a trial.
but arbitrarily punished them, and
now the Committee on Military Az
fairs OF the senate unanimously ad-
nit that there was no evidence on
which TO find any one of them guilty.
But. President Roosevelt, one hun
bred and sixty-ssven OF them have
been punished. Talk about this mat
ter being made an issue in this
campaign. it viii De the most vital
issue before the American people en-
/ bracing as a. does a blow az human
I trusts. your railroad rate bills. your
/ interstate commerce. your railroad
employees liability measure and all
of the other propositions in the realm
/ of commercial activity. but they all
are subsidiary TO the doctrine OF the
protection of life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
Sounding from the Atlantic 70 the
/ Pacific, from Canada to the Gulf,
reverberatiug from the peaks OF the
/ Rocky Mountains TO the Valleys Of
/ the Appalachian chain comes the de-
maud for the reversal of this order
Senator J. b. Foraker will be sup
ported on this question alone by ev-
cry justice-loving citizen. white and
/ black. North and South, in this hap
by land There'n be an appeal TO
! Caesar and the joyous voices OF the
/ Negro soldiers in Cuba will be heard
reverberatlng In this country. as they
charge once again at the polls in
November. singing the spontaneous
bzttle-cry as they cast the ballot de-
claring. "There'H be a hot time in
the old town tonight"