The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-11-20
CROWD-ASSEMBLE AT THE OPERA
HOUSE TO DO HONOR TO SENATOR CAR
MACK, THE MARTYR OF TRUTH
ELOQUENT CREATIONS ARE DELIVERED FRIENDS AND AS
SOCRATES OF THE DEPARTED AND RESOLUTIONS
REcITINe HIS VIRTUES ARE UNANIMOUSLY ADoP-
TED-MoNUMENT MAURY COUNTY.

ton. He also characterized Mr. Car
mack as a martyr to duty his life
was sacrificed in the cause of good
government.
No more feeling or expressive
tribute was paid to the departed by
/ any of the speakers than that of H. P.
| Figuers, who had known Mr.. Carmack
from early boyhood. Mr.. Figuers told
of how shortly after the close of the
last campaign Mr. Carmack had said
TO him that if he could know that his
boy would never be able to find an
open saloon he would be ready to die.
He urged that the fight for his cause
should continue.
Congressman Padgett, who had
known Mr.. Carmack from early boy
hood and who had been associated
with him in all the walks of life and
finally serving with him as a member
Of Congress while Mr.. Carmack was
in the Senate, made a most appro-
pirate address. Mr.. Padgett mani
tested much telling while speaking of
the departed. He said that not only
was Mr.. Carmack a great man, but
he was good man; he was a pure
man and no power and no influence
could swerve him from the path of
duty or make him betray the peoples
interests.
]. H. Dining spoke briefly but with
much feeling and eloquence and his
tribute was a masterpiece. He
placed the departed Senator upon the /
highest pedestal and said that his
fame and his works would endure for
ever. He called upon the people to
dedicate themselves anew to the work
which the Senator had been unable to
complete because of his untimely end.
The tribute of James A. Smiser, who
was a school-mate of Mr. Carmack in
the famous Webb School at Culleoka,
was notable effort Mr.. Smiser was
filed with emotion and it was with
much difficulty that he spoke. He
raced the life of the brilliant states
nan from the hour that he met him in
he school room until his death. He
declared that he had been assassina-
d because he had dared oppose and
Expose the corrupt political powers
hat are in power in Tennessee.
The report of the Committee on Res
buttons was then submitted by J. l.
Kinney and unanimously adopted. This /,
eport follows: +.
Edward Ward Carmack was born at :
Springs, Sumner County,
on November S, 1858. He
led at Nashville, Tennessee, at the
ands of assassins on November 8,
908 He fell martyr to Duty. The
tanner of his taking off was a shock
, every law abiding citizen Of the .
alton and his assassination deserves .
nd will receive the severest condem- :,
alton Of every right thinking indi-
dual
In the death of Mr. Carmack this
alton was deprived OF one of it's
,lest leaders; this State was bereft
its greatest, its most gifted and it's
,blest son; this community suffered
e loss of it's brightest, it's best and o
most useful member Truth lost
! most intrepid and uncompromising
vocate; Right and Justice were left
thout the most fearless, able and
termined defender those virtues gu
d In our county and our citizens on
re separated from a good neighbor III
d wise counsellor. fol
Tennessee stands bowed in grief at 60
} bier OF her martyred son, but it is raj
re In Maury county where he lived an
so long, whereshe was best known gel
1 therefore best beloved that the dol
eff at his untimely taking away is in
most poignant. The people Of this
nty had known its departed leader ba,
boyhood, In early manhood, in the qua
IS OF poverty and Of struggle; they
watched with paternal pride his tee
Id rise to the front In the ranks OF sta
country's greatest men; they knew ran
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