Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-09
FITZHUGH BRANDS
COOPER AS LOBBYIST
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I est friend, and pleasure tnat lhdt ouby
should be entrusted to such an upright
and impartial judge and such patient,
honest ana intelligent jury"
: Fitzhugh then told the jury that the
( realized how anxious the members were
I TO get hcme. but he impressed upon
them the responsibility that had been
/ imposed upon them and said he was sure
| that when they returned to their homes
/ they would do so with a consciousness
! OF a disagreeable duty honestly per-
| formed.
ION the afternoon of November 9. there
was enacted upon the streets Of this city
/ a tragedy which robbed a woman OF the
; tenderest and most devoted OF husbands.
a boy OF a loving father and the COM
monwealth Of a brilliant statesman
I whose achievements have added luster
and glory to the state. To you has been
l charged the duty OF fixing the response
/ bility."
Captain Fitzhugh then read the indict-
ment charging the three men with muir
/ der IN the first degree, and explained
J what first degree murder' is. He describ-
Z ed malice. generalization and :ntent as
I the courts define them and quoted from
/ supreme court decisions.
/ II have shown you" he said, that II is
murder when q man takes life upon a
{ sudden impulse. How much more is II
murder when a mans heart Is so full OF
malice and revenge that he spends all day
Sunday and most Of Monday devising the
ways and means of taking the life of the
, man he hates so bitterly
! Captain Fitzhugh then described how,
on Sunday night, November s. Colonel
( d. B. Cooper was at the Tulane hotel
! 10 meet 4. r. Craig, and how Cooper
made threats about Carmack to Craig.
and how these threats were transmitted
: TO the dead senator.
| Colonel Cooper met Craig on personal
/ business, but he brushed the business
aside and revealed what was in his black
heart. He owed his friend Craig money
he owed all his friends money and he new
I er bothered about money owed. This
\ didn't bother him. But he broke and
I said: If my name appears in the Tennes-
sean again. Carmack or 1 must die
"SeIf-COnfessed Lobbyist"
! Think of II, gentlemen. this man who
is self-confessed lobbyist for a railroad;
I this man who is charged by reputable
men with having embezzled money en-
/ trusted to his care; this man whose name
/ had been banded about the state; this
+. man whose dark and devious ways have
now been uncovered, dared to send to an
honest and upright journalist the threat
| that il his name appeared in the Tenncs-
! sean again. one Of them must die. Think
! of it,
And when the tragedy was over, the
defendants began to look for a cause, for
an excuse Their attorneys searched the
/ stenographic records. They examined
the joint debates between Carmack and
| Patterson. And what did they find?
! That Carmack had referred to That lit
1! tie bald-headed angel, Dune Cooper had
asked did the angel come from above or
from below and was there the smell of
/ sulphur on his wings Is that reason
enough to kill a man? All this was prior
TO June q, and yet he sent no notes and
/ raved no rawlings.
| SWhy. gentlemen, Hartman, Rockefel-
l Ter and Morgan are private citizens. They
never held an office, but we know they
exercise a powerful influence in public
Offices. Their names appear daily in the
public press. Yet who ever heard of one
OF these men demanding that his namt,
be omitted? Who ever heard of one of
these men hunting down an editor ano
assassinating him on the street? Why,
gentlemen. they have never even chal-
lenged the right of the press to use their
names, for they know better. 1t is the
duty of the press to keep the public in
formed, and Colonel Cooper when he
went into politics. made it the duty OF
the press TO watch him."
/ Cooper's Anger Sudden
The speaker told how Cooper never OBJ
jected to the alleged remarks Of Car
mack during the campaign. and didn't
object until after the murder. But after
Carmack became editor of the Tennes'
sean Cooper became suddenly angered.
He told his son that day after day
his name was used in the Tennessean
and that Carmack was shooting poisoned
arrows at him every day and that 1t was
becoming uncomfortable. Let us see.
Robin Cooper. his son, says he never saw
them. His brother-in-law, James c.
Bradford never saw them. Who did see
them? They brought only three edi-
torials in here. and one of them was
written October q, entitled An Awful
Threat.
He objected to this because his name
was mentioned in connection with Ben
Murray and two others. One Of these he
swore had been indicted and convicted
and the other, he said, was gambler.
He had TO admit the next day that the
man he thought was indicted had not
been. So Colonel Cooper himself was not
SO careful in making charges. And, as
for the gambling. why, the colonel has
been a gambler himself and won and lost
large sums. But II - not on record that
he ever paid debt out of his large win
nings. and the man who he says is a
gambler does pay his debts.
Attacks the Machine
Now. the second editorial appeared
the same day, and il never mentioned
Cooper's name; IL simply u tackled the
machine Cooper. in his note to Car
mack. said: I am a private citizen yet
/ as soon as the machine is mentioned,
this private citizen roars out in anger
. You are hitting me now; l am the ma
chine: / am the state and, he says
, They referred to me anu others as the
machine Any record, gentlemen. of the
others referred to going out and shooting
the man who wrote it?
I The third editorial produced by the
! defense appeared on Sunday, November
s. and was entitled Across the Muddy
Chasm.' This editorial simply repeats
the charges that Governor Patterson and
Governor Cox had made against one an
I other and says Colonel Cooper is en-
titled to credit for bringing the men to-
= gether.
Colonel Cooper. in his cross-examina
: ticn. says this reconciliation was com
: mendabIe thing; that any one VIII,
brought it about was entitled to com
mendation. yet he wants to kill the mar
who gave him credit for doing com
! mendable thing.
, All these things had been printed II
other papers. and Colonel Cooper admit
ted il; yet ne never grew angry at an!