The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-01-15

Ou IHe OulO senator lace when he
read the affidavit of Sheriff Arnold. of
Walton County, Georgia, in refutation
Of Brownies discriminating statements.
FROM PROMINENT MEN ~
Captain Albert B. Mobley, of Com
pany H, Second Infantry, Georgia Ma
tional Guards; Fred D. Mccarthy, AS
sistant Cashier of the Bank of Mon
roe, and others of like standing in the
community, and all white men, gave
affidavits utterly discrediting the re-
ports made to the President by the
special detectives. The latter had
erected splendid structure in the
evidence they pretended to have col
lected, but it went to smash under
the terrific and effective onslaught of
the champion of the negro soldiers
The Ohio Senator was in his best
form when he took the floor to discuss
the employment of detectives by the
War Department and the character
of the evidence they had presented
to the President His entire speech
was devoted to this one subject; it had
been more fully prepared and the Sen
ator followed the text closely mas
much as he quoted many eminent ju-
.dicial authorities in support of argu-
ments he intended to make, and in the
interest of accuracy he was compelled
to read the affidavits to which refer
ence has been made But every once
in a while he laid aside his copy to
hurl a few words of denunciation at
the President and to give warning
that day of reckoning between him
and the President was near at hand.
1t was a singular coincidence that
while he was in the midst of his in
vective, Theodore e. Burton was being
elected as his successor by the Legis-
lature of Ohio.
The thought may have been in the
Senator's mind at the time that his
early retirement to private life was
due in a measure to the rupture be-
tween him and the President At any
rate he made no effort to spare the
Executive or to soften any Of the
structures he passed upon him. On
the contrary, every time he deviated
from his typewriter copy he was
more caustic in his criticism than be-
fore. For instance, early in his speech
he paused to say:
"I have been accused of about every
thing that can be charged. That the
time is soon here when men will not
deal lightly with base charges and ac-
cusations, when they will be where
they, too, can be called to account"
WILL THERE BE a SCRAP.
There will be time" he said, as
he threw his manuscript down on his
desk and looked over the Senate
chamber, when men will not lightly
deal with such charges and insinua-
tions. There will be a time when
they will be where they can be called
TO account as other men can be called
to account"
Reading an affidavit Of G. o. Arnold,
the Sheriff, who denied the statements
of the detectives in relation to alleged
confessions" secured from Boyd Con-
vers, Mr.. Foraker asked Senator Clay,
of Georgia what kind of a man Ar
mold was.
Senator Clay said he had known Ar
mold fifteen or twenty years and that
he was "a most excellent man in
every respect"
'T do not think that Arnold needed
. certificate of characters" declared
Mr.. Foraker, "except only to those
who believe i'll of all those who do
not agree with them"
Commenting on the reDort of Her
bert ]. Brown. who had charge of the
investigation bv the detectives, Mr.,
Foraker declared he had been shocked
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