The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-09
A BITTER ARRAIGN-
 MENT OF COL. COOPER
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reputable men with having embedded money intrusted to his care; this man whose name had been bandied abou, the State; this men whose dark and cred, dared to send to an honest and upright journalist the threat that if hio name appeared In The Tennessean again, one of them must die! Think of tt!
 And when the tragedy was over, the defendants began to look for a cause for an excuse. Their attorneys search cd the stenosraphic records. They ex- amined the joint debates between Car- mack and Patterson. And what did they ind? That Carmack had referred to that little bald-hsaded angel, Dune Cooper and asked, did the angel come from above or from below and was there the smell of sulphur on hi, wingsr Is that reason enough to kill . man? All this was prior to June 27 and yet he sent no notes and raved nc ravingS. 8
 Why, gentlemen, Harriman. Rocke. feller and Morgan are private citizens They never held an office. but we know they exercise powerful influence ir public o61ces Their names appear daily in the public press. Yet. whe ever heard of one of these men de. manding that his name be omitted Who ever heard of one of these mer hunting down an editor and assa ss mat Ing him on the street? Why, gentle. mon. they have never even challenged the right of the press to use theii names. for they know better.
 't Is the duty of the press to keeE the public informed and Colonel Coop. CT. when he went into politics. made il the duty of the press to watch him."
 The anaQEAr objected to the alleged remarks o1 Carmack during the campaign and didn't object until after the murder But after Carmack became editor of The Tennessean, Cooper became sud denly angered
 i"He told his son that. day after day his name was used in The Tennessean and that Carmack was shooting pois oned arrows at him every day and that 1t was becoming unendurable.' Let us see. Robin Cooper, his son, says he never saw them. His brother in la W James C.. Bradford. never saw them Who did see them? They brought on- ly three editorials In here and one of them was written October 21, entitled An Awful Threat
 This he objected to because his name was mentioned in connection with Ban Murray and two others. One of these fie swore had been indicted and con- victed and the other he said was a gambler. He had to admit the next day that the man he thought was in- dicted. had not been. So Colonel Coop sr himself. was not so careful in mak- ing charges. - Cooper e Gambler.
 And as for the gambling, why, the colonel has been a gambler himself and won and lost large sums. But 1t Is not on record that he ever paid debt out of his large winnings and the man who he says is gambler. does pay his debts.
 Now. the second editorial appeared the same day and 1t never mentioned Cooper's name--it simply attacked the machine. Cooper. In his note to Car mack said: I am private citizen yet as soon as the machine Is mentioned, this private citizen roars out in anger. You are hitting me now, I am the ma chine. am the slate and he says: They referred to me and others as the machine. Any record here. gentle men. of the others referred to. going out and shooting the man who wrote itr'
 The third editorial produced by the defense. appeared on Sunday, Novem- Der 8. and was entitled Across the Muddy Chasm." This editorial simply repeats the charges that Governor Patterson and Governor Cox had made against one another and says Colonel Cooper Is entitled to credit for bring ing the men together.
 Colonel Copper in his cross-examina- ton, says this reconciliation was a commendable thing, that anyone who brought 1t about was entitled to com incubation, yet he wants to, kill the man who gave him credit for doing a commendable thing. All these things had been printed in other papers and Colonel Cooper admitted 1t. Yet he never grew angry at any other editor only Carmack.
 But we come to the day before the killing Colonel Cooper wrote some notes-but the defense doesn't produce them. They lose them. There Is no original but at last an alleged copy of a copy Is produced for your inspection" :"
 Fitzhugh went into detail on the notes and tn hen passed to the interview with ex-Treasurer E. B. Craig
 ''You know Ed Craig-as honest a man as ever lived. He swears Colonel Cooper said: If my name appears in The Tennessean again. one of us must die. Col. Cooper, swearing for his life, says he said If my name appears in The Tennesseean again, the town will not be big enough or both of us' Now who tells the truth? Let us sec. Colonel Cooper went out and borrowed revolver. Ed Craig believed his friends life was In danger and hasten ed to arn him. Now, who do you be- lieve? Can you imagine how Ed Car mack felt when he heard the threats? a64 tk ka