The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-03-11
A BRILLIANT RANkINiTE.


The following from the Jackson
Daily News will be of interest to
Rankin countyites and specially to
friends in the Fannin neighborhood
where his boyhood days were spent.
Many members Of the Jackson bar
on yesterday sent kilograms to Hon.
lG. +. Fitzhugh, associate counsel for
the prosecution in the Cooper-Sharp
trial congratulating him on the mag
nificent argument delivered by him al
Mondays session
Exceptional local interest was felt
in Mr.. Fitzhugh's address to the jury
in the orld-famous case because of
the fact that he is native Missfs-
sippian, and has scores OF warm
friends and admirers in this city who
have watched his brilliant legal ca
reer with the keenest interest.
An address of exceptional eIoquenee
was expected from Mr.. Fitzhugh be-
cause of the fact that he was one of
Senator Carmack's most intimate per-
sonal friends 1t will DE recalled that
when Mr.. Fitzhugh was united III ma
rage in this city several years ago to
Miss Josie Millsaps the best man OF
that occasion was Senator Carmack.
Then friendship was one of the most
enduring character, and during a por.
ton of the memorable Carmack- Pat
terscn camgaign last year Mr.. Fitz-
hugh took the stump for his favorite.
The Memphis News Scimitar of yet
terday, in discussing Mr., Fftzhugh's
speech, paid him this tribute:
Jonathan never loved David with
more devotion than Fitzhugh cher.
ished for Carmack, and i'm proportion
to his affection was the grief and
wrath against the deep damnatfon of
his taking off. Since the day of the
terrible tragedy Fitzhugfl has thought
of nothing and done nothing except
plan and work to bring the murderer
of his friend the retriButipm whichthe
law should hold in store, for thosewho
shed innocent blood He, is man Of
brilliant mind and profound feeling
and gifted above most Of his fellows
in the command of the, English Ian
guage.
When, therefore, he came tn speak
in his friends Arrangement, after
months of preparation, after weeks OF
the most dramatic trial ever KNOWN
in the State of Tennessee and before
an audience wrought up to the most
intense pitch of excitement, there
was present every element for reach
ing the zenith of lbquence.
| Only when the orator is himself
aflame with passion, when he is 6
master of the power of EXPRESSION,
when his subject appeals to the pro
foundest depths of human sympathy
and his audience is thoroughly en-
rapport with him, it is possible t.
reach the hottest pfnnacles of orator,
such as were attained by Mr.. Fitz
hugh.
For five hours he swayed his aud
ence as though thousand unseei
electric currents ran from him :
them and put them so under his cor
troll that they must of necessity re
spond to his every thought and emo
ton. They followed his merciles
logic with asserting reason, weI
without restraint under the spell {
his pathos, and famed with red.nc
wrath when he painted fn lurid color
the monstrous deed that robbed a nj
BILE woman of her husband, the promi
ing young son of his father and the
state of her most distinguished an
bestowed citizen.
There was no note in the gamut (
human feeling that he did not touc
with a masters hand, and when h
splendi1 peroration was ended thel
was a confident feeling that ilsti'
would do her perfect work.