The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-14

dive keepers and gamblers he had
no right to resent the coupling of his
name with theirs
After the American.
Then General McCaTn got after the
American, the Cooper organ, as he
said:
There are some newspapers that
are rather sensitive. There is one So
called high class journal here. which
daily writes editorials tearing TO
pieces men WHO go upon the stand
and tell the truth. Young women
are not secure from attacks, neither
are mere children. That is all right,
but you mUstn's critic Colonel Pune
Cooper. he's d spark from the eXpir-
inc embers of the old Southern chiV.
airy. We will attack whom We
please, but no one must attack Dune
Cooper. Now isn't that nice theory
for highClaSs newspaper Why, he
reminds me of the fellow who went
to sleep and some friends smeared
some limbuTgeT cheese on his mus
tache. He woke up and went out to
get some fresh air. But everywhere
ne went there was the same smell,
so ne came back to the saloon and
said amt it TOtten| what's rotten?
asked the bar tender Why he
whole world, can't you smell ito That
is what Colonel Duncan Cooper
thought. Every man he has intro
duced here either never read the edl-
torial or did not consider it often
sive; yet ne smells it!
The Reconciliation.
"Then comes the editorial of No
vember Across the Muddy Chasm'-
nc ia Of
son. Gentlemen, at the instant Car
mack was falling dead, at the very
second the smoking pistol of the as
sassin was being put into his pocket,
Governor Cox and Governor PatteT-
son were in intimate conversation not
SOC feet away. And this fact shows
that the editorial was true and that
Cooper knew it is was so. Yet after
admitting that the reconciliation was
a laudable work, he wants tc kill a
man for giving him credit for bring
ing il about
We have heard a good deal Of talk
about the failure to send the note
Now. I don't know how il seems TO
you. but when a man says if you do
a certain thing, one of you must die
and you do it, You do not need to
wait for a note. do you?
We'll, Carmack uses Cooper's
name again twelve hours after he gets
COOper's message that If he does use
it again, one of them must die He
had right TO use that name. The
law says he may He used il in a
humorous way and there was not a
nan in Davidson county who read it
who did not enjoy it. If he had
charged him with an infamy why 1t
would have been different.
There has been a contention here
that Carmack DETAINED Cooper. Why,
gentlemen. CarmaCk knew that Coop
er defaUlted and embczzled as mas
ter IN chsHcery ears before. If he
had wanted TO defamc Cooper. why
he could he not have printed these
faCts2 40. gentlemen. there is no de-
fam8JiOn OF Cooper in anything Car
mack ever wrote
We come to November Q. What
an eventfuI day that was. Do YOU re-
member the vail Of this poor widow
when I asked 1eT when she mad last
heard from her hUsbaud2 Do YOU re
member that scream and that Ditjful
oh, Ny God Ny God. as that aw-
ful day was recalled TO hero
The defense asks you 10 turn these
defendants loose in The name of JUS
tee. And they say that If you do not
that your children viii be ashamed OF
SNu LIS Fl4r s7vlLlC.-A4tH- j gu uU
turn them loose. how viii YOU explain
70 your daughters, how you turned q
man loose who sent word TO another
that if he did a certain thing he would
XIII him and who did kill him? Can
you explain II?
These lawyers seem worried be-
cause We failed to put Mrs Burch on
the stand Now. why should We? We
proved what We wanted by Mrs.
Burch's maid. And DO you think that
anyone with the beautiful, truthful,
devoted features of Mrs. BuTCh would
enjoy going on the stand and contra
dieting her father You know she
would not. But I promise YOU that II
If she had gOn on. ] would never hsd
questioned her. ] would never had re
ferred 10 her story as 'C0ck-aDd
bUl[story' and il anyone # my assist
ant counsel had dared 20 do - Z
would have thrown him Cut Of the