The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-03-10
BAD OLD MAN
Is Duncan Cooper Now on Trial
For Murder.
Chief OF A BAD GANG

yIsGE Ug u BAD QANC
Mixed Up in the Robbery of the
State Of Tennessee With Treasur.
er Polk-Assassinatio OF Ex-Sea.
ator Carmack Was the Only Way
to Silence His Pen and His Voice.
Atlanta, March 4.-In letter to
the Journal Mrs. W. H. FELTON,. who
is very close observer OF men and
events, says the history Of Duncan
Cooper throws light on the politics
of Tennessee for the last twenty
years, and the people who throns
the court house in Nashville to listen
to the testimony, which is certainly
conrictins. tbs men who assassiRated
ex-senator Carmack are brought face
to face with the deeds OF certain men
who have used their political oflees
to rule or ruin everything in frort
of them.
The criminal court Of Nashville
may save the necks Of the assassins,
but their escape will undoubtedly be
credited to the influence Of certain
men in high Office who are tarred
with the same stick.
Tennessee is a great State, but it
has been afflicted with glaring I'M
posture, in the persons and acts of
number of its prominent officials
Many of our readers will recall
Justice Snodgrass, who sat on the
bench to shoot at his enemies. 9th
ers will remember certain Tennes-
seeans who cimmitted slarlns
fraud on the treasury Of the United
States in the conduct Of the noted,
and may truly say, the notorious
Methodist Publishing House claim
before congress.
The desaulting State treasurer who
robbed the treasury Of Tennessee Oh
large sums of money, in conjunction
with this Duncan Cooper, now on TIL
Al before the criminal court, will not
be overlooked in the story OF len
nessee's affection and humiliation.
But fiction is outdone-outclassed
-in the story Of Coopers connec-
ton with Tennessee politics, which
has eliminated in the assassinatlon
OF ex-senator Carmack, as the pos
sibl> way to curb Carmacks pen
tand take his life), in the opinion OF
this hcary and disreputable polite
ian. who is desperate and deadly IN
hate. So violent and so tyrannlcal
have been his methods that ne mas
finally showed his only son into the
dark shadows of the sallows to car
~ out his foul plans.
am sorry for the son because ne
has been brought up under the IL
Arence of a father who had no re-
spect for the presence OF nice
Young lady, and poured out sucn
filthy abuse of Carmack before ne
started out to kill nim that she
could not repeat the obsoenlty When
called as witness against him. He
Is a. self-coDfessed gambler. ana
notorious embezzler, when occupy
ing seat as chancery Judge to whom
had been committed money belong
ing TO widows and orphans, as showR
by court records.
When Tennessee was roooeo oS
Treasurer Polk Of many thousands
this same Cooper wss exploiting
silver mine down in Mexico with
money furnished by Polk as his ae1iVe
partner. We have read OF morphine
1ends. who scared continuously
their own bodies with hypoderm1c IN
ieetions until the entire eploerm1s
was tattoced and disfgurea, but mere
the governors office IN tennessee
for +he mast wear who is searres Win
evil deeds, evil thoughts and muroef-
ous ;otents, and yet has gone Us
scathed and defiant until hailed be-
fore the criminal court for consplr-
GOV to murder ex-senator 'Carmack-
Backed BY official influence ne
HI "
conferred with Tenessses cnle1 en
acn+ive before he went forth to XIII
an6 he was in no wist deferred oS
+,e nresence Of Mrs. Eastman, Then
he eausht up with his intenoeo VIC
rim and saw his own son DO the
,,ur6erors deed. coaspirins Win ms
ovn narent. also armed. 70 XIII
what a sight for men and angeiS
to look upon.
To show the extent of this Wretch-
cd mans infatuation and oesraca-
ZION and dishonesty he made puollc
boast on his oath that he donated
over thousand dollars to poor
Confederate soldier short time ago
.n6 vet was forced By his own coua-
col 70 90 back and again testlfy on
oath that the donation was less tnah
af+v dollars. This cloak OF Con-
fede-ate sympathy, so often aouseo
and misused, was attempted TO De
anolied by this man tcatcnlns at
e+ravs) to influence the jury to save
his neck.
r GOES without saying that Ten
nessee, under her present 1rouoAe'
will either repu6iate the entire gang
- consn;ratcrs or receive the public
scorn and contumely that her lmoe-
ci1irv and impotency will merit