The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-11-17
CARMACK ADMIRERS
WERE NUMEROUS
Tennessean Will Not Soon be For
gotten at the Capital Tilt
With Tillman.

among Republicans and Democrats
alike that some day he would return
TO the senate, which he adorned such
as some of the great senators Of for
mer days, when Calhoun, says
Washington dispatch to the Columbia
State, Webster, Clay, Hayne, Hen-
ton and few others were the great
figures of the time, overshadowing
the fame of even presidents. Car
mack had he remained in the senate
would have ranked with these in the
opinion of not few in the capital
city. The venerable Senator Morgan
of Alabaroa, who served so long in
the senate and who was noted for his
unbiased Judgment of men as we'll as
Of questions, declared before he died
that Carmack was the most brilliant
man he ever knew.
He was a striking figure in the
senate at all times. Rather tall and
well built, though neither bulky nor
big in any sense physically, he al
ways carried himself straight, but
with the appearance always of per-
feet naturalness, never stiff. He held
his shaggy head. with its romanes-
que face. large prominent nose, red
hair in a pompadour, high in air, but
no one who ever saw it thought for
one moment that twas not born that
way. He used to sit on the rear row
son the Democratic side Of the sem
ate chamber, just behind Bailey and
Tillman. He had way Of chewing
something-tobacco, I suppose
nearly all the time, and he would Of
ten spit into cuspidor near him.
When some Republican senator would
make a statement which in any way
reflected upon the South or claimed
200 much for the Republican party.
Carn1ack would rise up in his seat,
say something, which, in just about
three sentences, would tear the very
hide off the Republican senator. stick
his hands into his pocket, reach over
and spit into the cuspidor and walk
out Of the chamber, knowing full
we'll as he did that the Republican
had no reply. As he would stcido
out of the senate chamber somehow
his face would seem a little redder
and his red .pompadour would rise up
about two inches higher, but those
who were near enough to see his eve,
would notice that they were emitting
their steady and undisturbed light
from the bright blue centres. He Wa,
not smiling, for he meant what he
said, meant it from the very depths
cf his soul. He did not walk out as il
lie would avoid the struggle, hopeles
as 1t was so far as getting votes was
coneerned: he knew he had the last
word. He did not make personal
slines at senators on the Republican,
side. That was not his way. He
would strike deeper down and cut to
the corps of the policy being advocat-
ed, not sparing those in general who
advocated it, seeming to recognize
that the Republican senators who sat
there in the chamber with him were
sent there to advocate what they did.
but virulently throwing into their
teeth the falsene>s and the baseneS,
of their position.
Respected on Both Sides,
AS a natural consequence Of this
course. though the Republicans Of
ten felt the stineing cuts of Carrlack
they respected him. all Of those who
rad auv manhood at all. and most Of
them had. not alone for his towering
ability, but for his evident honesty
and sincerity in all he said.
.Carmack won the respect of the
Republicans of the house when he
first came to congress in a very pc.
eu1iar way, which has no parallel ii.
tthe history of congress. His seat
was contested By Republican by the
name Of Patterson, and the elections
committee of the house recommend
ed the rnseating Of Carmaek and i;
seating Of Patterso" tn:- which,.
wifi. Il large Rer'oh' :an mo: -, =:
one seriously doubted wo.ld 20
through the house As the vote was
about to be put, Carmack arose ana
the recognition Of the clair
for a speech in his own behalf. He
had not spoken before and be was
not known in the house. But in a few
minutes he had the whole house lis