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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1908-08-05

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a great place at the bar, except before the jury. Unlike the politician, the lawyer cannot choose his cause, and Carmack was man who could not argue brief in the rectitude of which he had little faith. He had the in- tellect to. command the logic, and the mind to analyze legal principal; but he did not have the temperament of lawyer, as did Ben Hill, or Matt Car penter, or Allen G. Thurman, or John G. Carlisle.
 Hence 1t was perfectly natural for Car mack to abandon the bar for the forum. He became an editor, and no more gifted pen ever re-enforced that noble profess sion. Our country has produced but two perfect newspaper men-Charles A. Dana and Joseph B. McCulloch; possibly Henry J. Raymond might be added to the list. These were as great as writers as they were as gatherers of news. Carmack was not a news man; but as commentator on events and on men, as the advocate of living principles, American journalism has rarely known his superior. One of his favorite authors was Edgar Allan Poe, and, with the exception of Poe, the first man of letters of our hemisphere, I do not believe Edward Ward Carmack ever had an equal in America in the mas tery of the expression of the English tongue He was a dull man who would not forego a nights sleep to hear Ned Carmack recite "Annabel Lee"
 But before Camack laid hand on Poe he had drunk copiously at that richest fount of our speech. the English Bible. Except Benjamin F. Butler, I recall no man in our public life who quoted so fre- quently and so aptly from sacred writ as he He reveled in the Psalms, and in the
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By Frank V. Evans, Former Mayor

ten; that the limitations are sometimes considered as letters, and thus some peo- pie come to forget that part of self government which relates to being gov erned and remember only that part which consists in their governing. There is danger here, but everything in this world has its danger. If the idea suggested prevailed, popular absolutism would some time begin and one party rule supreme over the other. It is characteristic of absolutism that 1t believes man can be happily ruled by formulas and systems alone, while the student of liberty knows that important as systems and institu- tions, principles and bills of rights, are, they still demand rational and moral be- ing, for which they are intended, like the revelation, which is for a conscious man alone. In this lies the fearful re- sponsibility of the demagogues. Take power, bear down limitation" is their call to the people.
 Let us energetically cling to our insti- tutional governments and actively avoid extremes. The question Is always fair. whether other systems than direct pop ular government either avoid whatever the dangers thereof may be. or do not substitute greater evils for it. We must
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a trifle could cause so much discomfort. The reason is because it touched a tender spot. Now the south has it's tender spot and that is its white population, especi- ally it's women. The preservation of the purity of it's women from negro admix- ture has been the ruling purpose of the southern man ever since the negro was granted political equality. Had it not been so the race today would have be- come degenerate instead of being what it is the flower of the nation. In this spirit of preservation, in fact self-preser- yation, the southern man tries, as far as possible, to keep the negro out of any office in which he may exercise power or authority over the white man. The negros rights before the law are as safe as those of the white man. Public money much beyond his contribution, is ap- propriated to the education of his chill dren and everything is done to promote his moral and material welfare, but social equality will not be tolerated. Some peo- pie think that social equality is to be found only in parlors and at dining tables; it may exist in offices and stores
 Custom makes law, and 1t is the cus-
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mer of Thor. Withal he had the heart of Burke to sympathize with suffering and to hate cruelty everywhere His speech in loathing and denunciation of "Heli- roaring Jake" Smiths infamous order in the Philippines was as lofty specimen of indignant eloquence as ever the United States Senate heard
 And this' he exclaimed, "the Presi- dent tells us, is benevolent assimila- tionr"
 And how would the senator charac- terize it?' demanded ForalIer.
 Quick as a flash came the retort, T call it malevolent annihilation."
 Carmack was not the constitutional lawyer that Bailey is, for his genius did not trend that way, and for the same req son he had not the mastery of economic subjects possessed by John Sharp Will Hams, but in great constitutional de- bate he would have been an invaluable lieutenant to Bailey, and to Williams he could have brought aid like that Butcher carried to Wellington. In the funda- mentals he was all that Bailey or Will Hams is but he had devoted the study to higsory and to literature that they had brought to detail of law and econ omy.
 Lamar had a more riotous imagination than Carmack; and I am persuaded that had Carmack been much of a dreamer as was Lamar, and indulged in moro introspeetion he would have been a more extraordinary man than he was; but Carn1ack was a man of action as well as man of thought, and as soldier he would have been as superb on the field as he was great as a lawgiver in the Senate. He was a born leader. and Isham G. Harris was the only man he ever saw of whom he was content to be a follower. The time Lamar spent in
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of conquest and force of arms, how much more justly may the United States claim that title, being the consolidation of 90 nations held together, not by conquest or force of arms, but by bonds of mutual interest, equal laws, the same language and literature. The duty, then, of every citizen is to be an American first, with out regard to north, south, east or west; after that he may have his state, county and civic pride, but the nation comes be- fore, above and beyond all.
 It is not necessary that a crusade of political conversion be inaugurated. Con stitutional government Is based upon po- litical parties and it has been found ben efcial to promote political parties as a check upon each other. The nearer po- litical parties balance, the purer will be the politics of both just as waters are kept pure by being stirred which would otherwise become stagnant. Political diff ferences should not be sectional, they should be local, aye, even in the home. Political beliefs should arise from po- litical convictions not from predilections or affiliations. Men may as conscienci- ously differ about what is best for their
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dreaming Carmack devoted to work reading or writing. In committee Lamar was often inert; but Carmack was a pos itive force there. In open Senate, when both were aroused to action they were equals-Lamar the finer imagination, Carmack the more caustic wit, the more rollcking humor. In expression the scale nearly balanced between them.
 Carmack was 10 years in Congress-four in the House and six in the Senate. Ben Hill served two years in the House and five in the Senate. Except Lamar, doubt if any other American ever made so en- viable a reputation in the national coun- cils in so limited service as Hill and Carmaek. Hill was there but seven years to Carmack's 10, but his opportuni- ties were greater. Carmack had no such theme and no such adversary as Hill when he utterly crushed Blaine in the debate of the general amnesty resolution Nor did Carmack have the chance that came to Hill when he annihilated Ma hone. PerhapG no other southerner since the war, unless Carlisle or Bailey be he, could have contended with Carpenter as Hill did on tho constitutional question in volved in the debate of the contested cleo tion of senatorr from Louisiana.
 But all in ali John T. Morgan's esti- mate is just and it will hold-that Car mack was the most brilliant man the Sem ate knew for the 30 years that Morgan was a senator.
 If were asked to cite the most beau tifully pathetic and the most loftily pa triotic burst of eloquence that ever fell from the lips of an American orator, I should tender Carmacks tribute to the south. It was my happy fortune to hear it as 1t fell from his iron lips" Though then his political enemy-I a goldbug-I
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American mind and heart. You can not prepare for liberty by central ized despotism any more than you can prepare for light by darkness and de- stroying the means of light or vision.
 The vox populi in public Indignation meetings condemnatory of apparent evils and an exercise of the right of ap- peal for relief often have wholesome effect; and the right to do this, being provided for and guaranteed by our con- stitution, really constitutes part of our system of government.
 With this right of appeal, there must ever be popular suffrage, with sweep ing real power, so vast that even it's semblance would bear down eyeryth ing before it; and no board of commission should administer the affairs of a city unless they be elected for that pur- pose by the people, by whom they should be held strictly accountable for every official act or deed.
 The idea of all government by the people directly implies power for good, while that of liberty under popular control implies check and protection. A popular government without power and inherent strength is like all else without power, unless for action, yet action is the object of all government.
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pulpit he would have been another Simp- son-perhaps another Campbell. In the editorial chair he was far more than a gifted writer: he was a student and d thinker. But he was more, infinitely more than that than these, than all-he be- lieved something, and, like another Lu- ther, he would go to Worms though 1t were to his death; and so he did, and so he was martyr to duty and to country.
 Though an editor were Hazlett, Macau- lay and Hume combined; and had no be- lief except as the wind listeth, he would be a Samson without his locks-one Gree ley or one Carmack worth ten thousand like him. To convince others one must himself be convinced; to move others one must. himself be moved. It was his char acter and his beliefs that made Carmack the force he was, that commanded the love of millions and, pity 'tis true, that brought him to an untimely grave.
 In the national councils Carmack took the lead left vacant by the transfer of Lamar to the cabinet and the bench. Though so prodigally endowed by nature Carmack trod no royal road to civic emi- hence. The rich soil of his mind was ceaselessly cultivated. He burned the midnight oil In communings with the mighty minds that had left their i'm press on the world and while others slept he delved in the lore of past ages, digested and assimilated the wisdom of those who had gone before. That was what made him so formidable and so ready in debate. That was what made him feared in intellectual combat as neither Ingalls, nor Reed was feared.
 One cannot compare Carmack and Ben Hill, or Carmack and Judah P. Benjamin, or Carmack and James G. Green He was as different from Robert Toombs as the repier of Crichton fro mthe ham
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Ward Carmack had scarce emerged from his physical prime and was just entering his intellectual zenith. With out any loss of brilliancy, he was daily augmenting and solidifying his trans cendant intellectual powers and the golden promise of an exuberant ef- fiorescence was then yielding a harvest of plenty beyond the dreams of hope itself
 In twinkling he was cut down, and all without warning, as he was peace fully on his way from the place where he worked to the place where he slept and thus he fills a martyrs grave, be- cause he was man whose pen dared write what his heart dared forge-one who never feared to look on the face of man. When we contemplate the trival provocation pleaded by those who so savagely took his life, we cannot but agree with Bishop floss that Car mack was murdered, not for what he had written, but for what 1t was feared he would write.
 He was a scholar, and a ripe and good
 one;
 Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and per-
 suading;
 Lofty and sour to them that loved him
 not;
 But to those men that sought him
 sweet as summer
 Great as Carmack was in either house of Congress, eloquent as he was on the stump, powerful as he was as an advocate before "12 men in a box. he was yet made for the editorial chair of widely read independent political newspaper. Like Clement L. vallandigham, Carmack was too posi- tive and too intense a nature to gain
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pass under the 'critical dissection" of Brother Bircher; and so they invited an other preacher from a distance. This preacher, however, failed to appear, and Brother Bireher was the only chance He was taken aside privately by one of the family and strictly enjoined to say noth- ing about the character Of the deceased, good or bad. To this he agreed, and opened his sermon thus: Just before talk ing the stand I was privately instructed by one of the family to say nothing about the dead: and I agreed to this But it was not worth while to curb me in this way; for if I had been allowed to speak as I pleased should have said only this: The deceased was good husband and a kind master; and if any one of you ever heard of any other good thing that he ever did, go and do thou likewise
 Funerals have undergone reconstruction within my own recollection. In the olden time, preachers in the country districts were few and far between, and it was not uncommon to have the funeral at coun-
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John Quincy Adams and Albert Gallatin were his colleagues. The peace was con cluded before the battle of New orleans was fought; but the news of the peace did not reach America until after the battle. If we had only had submarine cable!
 Old soldiers of the war of 1872 were llv- ing all around me in my boyhood; and [ can recall three relicts of colonial days, and of the Revolution-Captain Slaughter an officer under Washington; old Bob Jones, colonial preacher. and pr. Nor rls, local Methodist preacher. who had been Revolutionary soldier. Of Captain Slaughter I remember nothing except that he looked old and battered but not imbe- eile. Old Bob Jones, I am sorry to say was a Baptist who adorned neither his denomination nor his calling. He was a used-up, broken-down preacher who had taken to drink and was a notorious sponge. He would impose himself upon q family and stay until his welcome was worn to frazzle. The grace" which he
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tom in the south for the clerks in offices and stores to be exclusively white or ex- c.usively colcreo. The custom works well and gives satisfaction to all Here, then, is where the grain of sand illustration fits in. When the southern white people have succeeded in establishing a custom why does the government come in and over ride it? Why should negroes be appointed postmaste.s and revenue collectors in southern states when the government well knows that 1t is contrary to the customs, and in direct opposition to public senti- ment? If negroes are to be rewarded for political services let them be given ap- pointments in places and among people glad to receive them. There are many such places and people, if professions of friendship count for anything, and if a southern negro secured such an appoint ment his white neighbors will congratu- Ia te him. It Is no feeling of envy or jeal- cusy that causes resentment on the part of the southern white man, it is the evi- dent disregard, perhaps the defiance, of his established custom. This is the grain Of sand, MT. Taft, that initiates and inhames.
 With this irritating and infiaming
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cities be placed in the hands or under the control of the state government thus centralizing power.
 No thoughtful or reasonable man can favor entire separation of state and city government, because he knows that the municipality is the creature of the state; but the object of such creation is to afford self-government and home rule to the people of these communities. Wis dom. patience, political forbearanee and manly independence can alone decide the proper degree of union and the necessary balance.
 State legislatures ought to exercise the greatest caution in granting powers to municipalities, but should allow no in terference with carefully granted charter Bills of rights to communities of citi- zens should mean something and no right to delegate authority should ever be given. The people should rule. There is force in the old and universal adage that what is everybody's business is nobody's business" Charters should say what they mean and mean what they say.
 It must be admitted that one of the dangers to municipal government lies In the fact that the importance of the in- stitutional charter is somtimes forgot
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in this, and in everything else, while honestly endeavoring to remedy or pre- vent evil, have an eye to the whole, and see which yields the fairest results.
 Nothing is more dangerous in dis eussion like this than to take single bril- liant facts as representatives of systems, plans or schemes. Galveston's present successful administration under commis- sion may yet meet the fate of the Mem phis commission, which was annulled and the old system re-established. These brilliant examples prove general sound ness as little as brilliant deeds necessari- ly prove their morality.
 What the taxpayer, citizen. indweller and well-wisher of a city mostly desires for his comfort. happiness and safety. is the right to wield his ballot for direct self-government under a strong organic law; for he must recognize that the of flee of a good constitution. besides that of pronouncing and guaranteeing his rights a citizen and property holder, Is that as a Fundamental law 1t so de- fines and limits the chief power that each morning in its own orb, without jostling the others, it prevents jarring and grants harmonious protection to all the minor powers that be.
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The American people are competent to rule their own affairs-their nation, their states their cities. their home hresides, without delegating authority to others.
 Is there any sense of justice or req son in delegating authority to a gov ernor, elected by people of every eoun- ty in the state. and representing them as a while to choose or select man agers of local municipal affairs?
 Have not the people reason to fear that there is much danger in this lat ter day idea of departure from the old rule of local self governments; and that it may lead to a centralization of power not contemplated by the framers of the organic laws of the several states nor consistent with the idea of free government?
 Of course the argument is often pre- sented that popular political control of public service is apt to make less ef ficient such government, to breed cor ruption; and that local government really impedes measures of general character. If this rule be general in it's application, 1t were better that municipal home government be abol- ished and the management of all our
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posed popular measure for the financial relief of a city on the very verge of bankruptcy, and expressed a willingness, or even desire, to put the blot of re- pudiation upon the fair escutcheon of young city struggling to reach strength and glery; while the people fought for and won way for relief from an impending danger, which would have incurred great CT loss to the city than all the cost of all the lands Qncluding grafters commis- sions) ever bought for the use of that city's governmental purposes. The ques- tion is not inapropos: Would such ap- pointing power be more competent to se- feet a governing board for a city than are the inhabitants thereof?
 It Is a sad commentary on the condi- tions of this day, when writers and pub lie speakers express the idea that the people arc not capable of self-govern- ment. It is not true. History denies it; political philosophy gainsays 1t; common sense contradicts it.
 Government and people must move abreast like the horse of the Grecian chariot; public opinion being the char ioteer. Liberty requires the union of the whole. Napoleon's famous dictum, Everything for the people, nothing by the people" is repugnant to the
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was transfixed with wonder that turned to rapture ere he finished the noble sen- timent. The entire House was entranced- republicans as much so as the demo- orats-and even the stern and cynical Reed gazed a one bewitched. l have sec. the House moved to more tumultuous ap- plause by William L. Wilson and Bourko Cochran. but never in my time-now near iy 30 years-has that House been so pro fcundly impressed, so deeply stirred, as, when Carmack bowed and sat down that day. There were too many tears fof rot
 I know shall me pardoned for insert ing it here:
 The south is a land that has known sorrows; it Is a land that has broken the ashen crust and moistened it with its tears; a land sacred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead, but a land of le- gend. a land of song, a land of hallowed and heroic memories. To that land every drop of my blood, ever fiber of my be- ing, every pulsation of my heart is con secrated forever. l was born of her womb; I was nurtured at her breast and when my last hour shall come l pray God l may be pillowed upon her bosom and rocked to sleep within her tender and encircling arms.
 I have one suggestion to make, one prayer to offer-that every southern mother teach her child, the pride of her home, and the hope of her land, to re- peat that matchless passage. Plant it in his memory when it is young and plastic. It cannot but lead him to noble thoughts and generous impulses.
 Genius statesman, orator. publicist. pa triot, gentleman, Christian, farewell "the first southerner of his day. is the epitaph,
 Copyright 1908 by E. W. Newman.)