The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-21
NO DEFENSE FOR NEGROES Borah Condemns Black Infantrymen. |. DAHos SENATOR SPEAKS 4 Calls Harry Orchard sszn Incarnate
 Devil." Declare. Evidence Against Men Who wore Uniform st Brownsville is 4ovsrwheImingiy Com vincinsr-cails it Treason.
 

washington, April 2o.--The affray at 1rownsville. Texas, again called forth the most intense interest in the Sen ate today. Senator Borah of Idaho taking the ground that the testimony showed conclusively that the negro soldiers of the 18th Regiment shot up the town, gave a careful analysis oi the evidence in the case.
 There was an unusually large num- Der of Senators present on both sides of the chamber and they carefully foi- lowed the argument presented by MT Borah. so
 Senator gorah. of Idaho Idaho yra1 wh0 as special eounse, TOT nroseea. eea. tion of W. D. Haywood, secretary or the western Federation of Miners whose trial on the charge of murder ing Governor Steunenberg attracteo wide attention last year. found opportunity in his speech .o express his disapproval of any CT fort to secure leniency for Harry Or- chad the self confessed thrower Of inc bomb, which caused Steunenborg. death.
 The utterance was part of speech by the senator on the Brown yille affray, and was made In connec- tion with a condemnation or all enorts to condone the offense at broWnViiIe. the blackest shirt that ever escaped He said;
 "A cold-blooded, inhmuan, incarnate devil blows to pieces an ex-Governor upon the doorsteps of his home, IS caught and confesses, ana beforo the grave of the man who dies martyr to law and order, is green. sentimen- talism puts halo upon the brow ot the crypts of hell.
 .Men wearing the uniform of sol diers of the Union, the insignia Of government and the symbol of law and order, in the quiet of night, while homes are defenseless, assault and attempt to furder whole families, and finally succeed in committing one act or such a deed. is cowardice; it is betrayal of the government, 1t is an insult to every intelligent and right thinking negro for 1t pre-supposes he is a traitor to his country and a cri-n- final st heart"
 Besides containing an analysis of the testimony taken in the Brownsville case, his speech was in reply to Sem ator Foraker's recent discussion of the same subject. Mir. Borah made very clear his belief that the evidence es- abolished a. conspiracy on the part Of some cf the negro soldiers of the 25th regiment to shoot up the town"
 T COmBen0s 8alu AnE. DONdfs Ithh the evidence in this case is simply overwhelming and conclusive against the negro soldiers unless you resort to the proposition of a conspiracy which manufactured the evidence, and that is evidently the view taken by the defense"
 The morale of the army, he said, is paramount to any mans right to remain in it. If any man in the 25tn regiment participated in the riot and if others connived at the crime. by concealing knowledge of 1t to shield the guilty parties, then both were guilty alike, he declared.
 Mir. Borah called attention to Mir. Foraker's suggestion that the citizens of Brownsville might have shot up the town to secure the removal of the negro soldiers.
 Now. confess he said, that there might possibly have been a de- sire to attack the soldiers, but 1t seems that this conspiracy If it had an existence, would not have turned its guns upon its own people"
 Mr. Borah reviewed at length the testimony in the case and then an- nounced his conclusion that 1t dis cloees the guilt of certain members of the 25th infantry as participants