The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-11

punished. The voice of the dead cries to you, gentlemen for justice"
 General Garner chased brilliantly at 3:10 D.. m., having spoken four hours The quick gavel of Judge Hart and the sharp work of bailiffs prevented an outburst of applause that seemed imminent.
 Then. with a sob. Mrs. Carmaek stood up, staggered and fell in a faint The diversion distracted the attention of the audience from the stirring peroration of Garner.
 Washington Begins. General Washington then began for the defense.
 T come to you as one of counsel fOr the defense to give you my views of the law and evidence of the case. But before l start l have something to say about the gentleman who has just entertained you for four hours. I don't know any thing about this man, but I do know he doesn't belong here
 General Washington had attired him. self In a new blue frock suit and he grew fiery at once. In a loud, high pitched voice he attacked Garner for intimating that Lieutenant Pitcher had tempered with Carmack's revolver Gar ner arose and said he had not so charged.
 T know you didn't, you don't dare to do it, but you intimated that the son of old General Pitcher, who bears the star of honor on his brow, was a thief, scoundrel, liar and a perjurer and you can't say or intimate those things when I am around"
 Several times the audience laughed at the frenzed exclamations of the speaker and the deputies seemed pow erless to suppress 1t.
 Shooting At Sparrows.
 This lawyer comes from some other county, comes over to our side of the fence" he went on, Ito brand our citi- zens and our pure. good men and law yers as perjurers and suborners of per jury. But enough of that, I have no time to shoot at sparrows; I have big ger game in view.
 This is sad. sad case. My heart and the hearts of my clients go out to that stricken woman, to that beautiful child. She Is an aristocratic southern girl, to the manner born. I am not here to rob one star from the diadem that glistens on the brow of the deceased, or to steal one rose from his memory. I am not here to defame the dead. He was great statesman, a brilliant edi- tor l know 1t well. I am here to help to investigate the truth to strip the glamor from the case and show you the man: he wrote with brilliance that put his name into the literature of the south. He spoke with a fire and power that filled the galleries of the United States Senate. He was all that was great
 When Carmack was in Washington and Colonel Cooper asked him to get a presidential appointment, he couldn't do It. his fiery oratory had built a Chinese wall between himself and the White House. His bitter invective-"
 Objection Raised. "We object to that" interrupted At torney General McCarn. There is noth-- ing In the record about a Chinese wall around the White House. nor in the letter."
 Keep within the record, general" cautioned the court.
 General Washington described how brilliant the speeches of Carmack were, but told how on his appeal for re- election he was opposed by Taylor. He declared love, was the sweetest word in the English language
 "When a man has the poison of a scorpion in his pen, the sting of a wasp in his words and the venom of a rattlesnake under his tongue, he may be brilliant, but people want a man, a Washington who can help them. The people were called upon to decide upon between the brilliant, stinging man and the gentle, iovable one. Colonel Cooper exercised his right and sup ported Taylor. Robin and his uncle, Judge Bradford, supported Carmack with their interest and their money. But Colonel Cooper committed the un- pardonable sin of believing that Tay- Tor would make a better senator, than Carmack and the people agreed with Cooper that they wanted to install love and not hate, honey and not poison. So Carmack was out of a job.
 Talents Not Idle.
 But his brilliant talents were not long idle. He announced his candidacy for governor against Patterson. Now it turned out that Colonel Cooper thought Patterson was better man than Carmack for governor Maybe 
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