The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-19

1909 be- went to the senate. where .
his brilliaurt boz debate quickly won /
him front raut. The Congressional .
Record Ton tine hfty--crcuth uItH- (
eight and htty ninth congresses I
fairly teens with witty and sarcas- !
tic utterauccs from his tongue He .
was the terror OF Beyeridge and T.
Spoouer, and even of Bailey. with F.
whom he did not always agree. In F.
the art OF saying much in little. Car .
mack was conceded 10 be without ,
an equal In replying TO Beveridge 1
in one of the PHILIPPINE debates, he /
said
The senator from Indiana says
the nation will not beat retreat.
That sounds fine, it sounds brave, !
but is il a retreat to turn from |
wrong path 10 go back to right !
If 50. IT is a brave mans retreat
of which only a coward need be
afraid. There is neither heroism nor
wisdom nor craftsmanship in refus-
ing to retreat from the bog to the
highway"
Brilliant Filibuster.
He conducted the filibuster
against the ship subsidy bill in the
gress in March. 1907. He resented
Senator Gallinger's characterization
of his fight as a filibuster. however,
and spoke for half an hour on die
tionaries. Just to kill time and have
la little fun. Gallinger in all serious
ness, quoted from the Century die
tionary the definition of filibuster,
Il read from a good old nonparti-
san authority that was made before
the republican party was born" re-
piled Carmack, holding Webster
aloft
The parting of the ways between
| Cooper and his illustriouS protege
came three years ago, when the latter
was a candidate for reelection to
the senate. Ex-Gov Bob Taylor OPP
posed him for the democratic nomi-
nation before the primaries and
| Cooper supported Taylor for the al
| legged reason that Carmack was
building up a machine, the like of
which Tennessee had never seen be-
| fore.
The senator denied the charge
vehemently and questioned the sim
cerity of Coopers attitude, both in
the press and on the stump The lat
| ter had long since lost control of the
! Nashville American, which he is
said to have owned now less than a
| half dozen times, but he was still a
| considerable figure in the politics
of the state.
! In the old days. when | got broke
| bought the American, said Cooper
once during his campaign.
! How did you pay for it," asked
/ a friend.
well" he replied sometimes
! it cost money and sometimes it did
! mot AT least twice he is said to
have won it at poker.
Pursues Old Enemies.
Running for governor at the same
time that Carmack was trying to be
ireturned to the Senate, was Malcolm
r. Patterson, son of the man whom
he had defeated for congress eight
years before, and in turn his sue
cessor in the lower house. Opposing
him was Gov Cox. who had the sup
Iport of Carmack
Cooper espoused the cause of Pat
terson uproariously, going so far as
to start a weekly campaign paper
for the sole purpose of booming his
candidacy This was like adding fuel
to the flame for Carmack. He bore
the same hatred toward the young
Patterson that he had treasured
Iagainst his father, and he took the
action of Cooper as an added person
al affront
| Taylor won, and Carmack return
ed to Memphis, where it was an
Inounced that he would resume the
practice of law, which he had given
Iup years before to 60 to Tennessee
| Legislature. He declared that he was
out of politics for good and his best
wishers hoped SO. Whereas he had
made quite great name for him
self, he had made himself obnox-
ious to President Roosevelt and the
members of the cabinet that he was
persona non grata from one end of
Pennsylvania avenue to the other.
| Back Into Politics.
| But the call of public Office was
too great for him, especially when
there was chance for him to defeat
Patterson. A year ago found him on
the stump and anathematizing his
enemies with all his energy of yore.
Cooper again opposed him, though
Patterson had succeeded in building
|
to many as the Carmack machine
had been.
Patterson won. Carmack got con-
troll of the Nashville Tennesseean,
paper that was started only few
years ago in opposition to the Amer
lean, and hit the trail of his enc
mics.
Senator Taylor, who supported him
against Patterson, tried to act as
peacemaker, as did other influential
friends in Tennessee, but to all
Carmack said he would not listen
to any proposition that meant even
the consideration of Cooper in any
way whatever.
"Carmacks place is in the sane
tum," said Taylor, in discussing him
with friends in Washington a few
weeks ago. There he is more bril-
liant even than Watterson. II he
! were to continue in politics he
would die with his boots on"
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