The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1908-11-14
{. w. cARMAck.

BariSter, statesman, editor and Sen
1 ator, the sacrifice of the life of Ed.
! w. Carmack, of Tennessee, by the
bullet of an assassin, is APPALLING and
ennessee is plunged into deep grief
at the loss of son, who, at the
threshold of his fiftieth year had
| carved for himself and his native
state a name high up in the annals
of success and glory.
But Carmack, an ingenue in the
coming of invectives and hurting then
| with a fire radiating in their own
--4iancy and falling hot where they
struck, with his editorial pen wrote
his own death warrant, for the very
nature Of the man was responsible
| for his wontness for attack; to ag-
gress. Carmack was bitter and no
disappointment, too, we may add,
than he In this he was past master,
an adept with a cunning of the tru-
est type. 1t was the disappointment
in his politiacl aspirations that
brough about the tragedy of blood
on the streets of Nashville Monday
afternoon at 4 O'Clock, when Robin
Cooper, young attorney, sent the
fatal bullet, his father, Col. D. B.
Cooper, standing present, and now
held by the authorities as accessory.
Carmack was editor of the Mem
phis Commercial Appeal back in the
'90s. He was elected to Congress
and later to the United States Sen
ate. He aspired to second term,
nut Bob Taylor had "fiddled'' his way
into the hearts of the people of Ten
nessee and the first real pang of
disappointment set in. Last year, to
redeem himself from the humiliation
of defeat and with the people he
had striven to faithfully serve, to
regain the lost political prestige and
to again the arena of public life, he
decided to enter the gubernatorial
race, but with that powerful force
of the newspaper against him such
as the Commercial Appeal and the
strong personality and success of
Governor Patterson, he was again de-
feated, and attributed his failure to
what he termed the -1achine De-
mocracy."
Col. Cooper is a close friend to
Gov. Patterson, a political adiser, it
would seem, and came in fer a lib
eral share of Carmack's abuse and
bitterness through the columns of the
ennessean, which Carmack was ed
iting since his defeat and culminat-
ing in the awful tragedy of Monday
In the course of two-column edi-
torial appearing in the Memphis Com
mercial Appeal the following morning
that paper said:
Had Mr.. Carmack remained in
public life, had he remained in the
Senate of the United States, and had
lived out his allotted three score and
ten, he would have impressed the
country as a statesman as Edmund
Burke impressed England. He was
like unto Burke in this: He had
the power of eloquence and was lear
ed.
LAS writer Mr.. Carmack was as
satirical as Swift, as humorous as
Butler and as brilliant as Macaulay.
The dead statesman was one of
the best known public men in the
South. AS United States Senator for
Tennessee he achieved an envlable
reputation for caustic and effective
oratory and was a tireless worker
in the cause of his constituency. He
was born near Castillian Springs,
Sumner County, Tennessee, Nov. 5,
1858 He had an academic education,
practiced law in Columbia, and was
member of the legislature in 1884.
He was a delegate to the National
Democratic Convention of 1896, and
member of congress in 1S97-1901 from
the Tenth Congressional District of
Iennessee. He served with distinc-
ton in the United States Senate for
six years, being defeated for re-elec-
ton in the primary little over
Year ago, by former Governor Robert
Taylor. Senator Carmack then re-
sumed the practice of law in Mem
kphis, which was then his home, but
within a few months removed to
Nashville.
Shortly after his defeat Mr.. Car
mack was offered the editorship of
tie Nashville Tennesseean. He ac-
cepted the offer and since then and
for the last few months has been at
the head of the Tennessean.
Senator Carmack's newspaper ca
reer began in 1886 as a member of
the editorial staff of the Nashville
American. He founded the Nashville
Democrat in 1889, and when 1t was
merged into the American he became
editor-in-chief of the latter paper In
1892 he became editor of the Com
mercial Appeal at Memphis.
he married in April, 1890, Miss
Elizabeth Cobey Huntington, of Co
lumbia, Tenn.