The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-11
|sgrams Testify to Immense
|Popularity of the Former
Senator.
|iYER'S FATHER ALSO
HAS WIDE ACQUAINTANCE
i ,IprOmises to Cut Important
Figure in Politics of
State.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. lo.-Mes-
bv wire and mail from various
tors testify to the tremendous SEN
4 caused throughout the state and
,outb By the killing OF former Unit
siafes Senator E. W. Carmack by
,e Robin Jones Cooper in a street
. hare late yesterday afternoon
r,mack's brilliant career as Unit
5tstes senator from Tennessee had
A him one OF the best known Of
|opal figures.
-.)ouel Duncan B. Cooper, father of
ur Robin Cooper. who was with his
xdeu the duel occurred, has an ex-
Linz acousintance and a legion Of
|nds both in his own state and va
& other states
r,yusck's race for the nomination as
-6sralic senator. in which he was de-
Ia BIZ Senator Robert I. Taylor, and
nore recent race for the governor
IA in which be was defeated by Gov"
II Patterson, have served TO draw
. folowirg in the state closer TO MN.
a bis tragic end has spread distress
4 6itterness among them. 1t is feared
some that the end of the trouble
sot yet, and it is sure TO play a part
oning political aigpments. In each
Csrmack S recent campaigns feeling
4 10 Fever heat, a2d both occasions
|.per was with the opposition.
4 former years the men were dear
*nds, Carmack having declared In
[ie print that Cooper was his bene-
.|Df. But friendship had been TO-
Id by enmity, which was more no.
|rbIs since Carmack became editor
/ Ihe Tennesseean following the late
|nsYy. Then the editorial attacks be-
4 Ebich eliminated IN Yesterday S
Prepared for Burial.
1lfs having been prepared for burial
body, Of the dead ex-senator was
G1yed TO the home Of Frank Lander,
51ess manager of his newspaper, the
<1Isseean. There it remained until
rls removed today TO Columbia,
|re Il will be inferred. Mr. CaTmack
married at Columbia and had made
4 city his home until he went to the
EEeAeean.
>[H Carmack had not vet become q
DENT Of Nashville. Although almost
ytrated, she came to Nashville last
E1t and returned with her husband IS
" today.
oung Cooper, after having had his
End dressed, spenta quiet night in
>ospltal, in charge OF an officer. His
~ proves TO be but slight. This
pmg be was reported as resting
n Colonel Cooper. his father, speut
night at police headquarters, and
Exported to have slept well. Two
rants were sworn out against him,
accessory to murder and the
q carrying a pistol.'i
Mrs. Carmack Complainant.
The first instance the complainant
Afs, h. W. Carmack; IN the latter
Z the mayor and city council. Coop
ave his occupation as that of
ei he accepted the situation
although once or twice he
Pea affected and observed that the
vas meant for him and not for
vy, lie was reconciled to his con-
on ol imprisonment. remarking that
todier IN the Confederate army he
spent more than one year IN a fed
o'onel Cooper turned over his re-
~, none of the chambers Of which
pcen emptied, to police sergeant.
's cooper did likewise with his pis-
sSe ;n magazine having one loaded
y o tWo statements were made by
vooper while in the physicians
'est night. Ono was a request to
N {e'asI a 70 give up his pistol, and
~ other lie said: "I m sorry the
n1R occurred. -
vD,umbla, the boyhood home of
yneT senator. the news shocked
psople almost beyond measure.
1s as tnere will be suspended until
rss; aus funeral. Duncan Cooper also
dSs1ive of Columbia.
.ftvtatch from Columbia TO the
,naooea Times says the general
Sr"a Suat at Columbia is "that the
AS was inspired by the political
Fsss suVa'aalnant in Tennessee and many
n IL. 'le opinion that 1t will pro.
,nu 10 - passage of temperance lei gis.