Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-02-26
COOPER TELLS HOW
CARMACK ATTACKED HIM
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but it was thought he would recover"
mo, sir"
Means of Livelihood

/
means of livelihood since you resigned
as clerk and master of chancery?'
81 enjoy an income from 9OO-acre
/ farm. was agent for a New York syn
dictate in Honduras"
You were connected with a bank that
broke there, were you not?"
J mo, sir. 1 closed up bank there for
the syndicate"
What else?'
IT was agent for the Louisville and
| Nashville"
What dolng?'
Looking after taxes"
And after legislation
Never but once. and then always in
the open. 1 resigned to go to Honduras"
"rhis employment was when the legis-
lature was trying TO raise the taxes OF
the Louisville and Nashville?"
Il don't know"
Resigns from Railroad
Did you resign Voluntarily
IT did, and have in my pocket letter
from /. NJ. Dickinson, general counsel of
the Louisville and Nashville, thanking me
for my services and offering to re-employ
me-"
did you carry that letter ever SINGER
mo, sir. 1 got II because knew you
had searched the state from one end to
the other to get anything that would hurt
me- and because the papers in some
places charged that was a lobbyist"
Did you not give Mr.. E. B. Craig an
order for four months salary on the
J Louisville and Nashville in advance, and
diun't you resign in one month";"
Yes. But when 1 gave him the orders
had no intention of resigning, and l
would have borrowed it from Craig
without the orders"
lid you pay Craig out of the Hon
duras salary?"
No, sir"
How much did you get there?"
II got $500 a month"
did you pay any debts?'
"T don't know. have always been a
business failure from lack of business
capacity"
Generous Before just
What do you do with your income
from the farm?'
use ii to live on. Only few months
ago. I drew $1,000 from this farm and
heard that an old Kentucky soldier was
in dire need. 1 took the entire H,O5C
and gave it to him. They have pictured
my dark deeds, let's have some Of the
light ones. I never before told this to
anyone, even my daughter"
You owed many debts, then?'
81 did"
And you gave the money away that
belonged to them?"
ct presume so.'
$50 you were generous before you
were just?'
'If you choose to put it that way.
There are higher obligations between
man and man than merely pecuniary
ones"
The witness turned to the court and
said:
Judge, I am very tired. Cannot you
adjourn court until 2 o'clock this after
noon? I am an old man and am very
tired. However, if you insist can &c
on
mo, SIR" said the court. I'VE will
+! be glad to give you an opportunity to
rest. The court stands adjourned until
2 p. m"
Diplomat of the Zeibwund
Col. Cooper declined to consult with
his attorneys during the recess, but in
sisted on lying down, so when the ses-
sion was resumed, he was feeling much
refreshed. $780,.
The state handed him the editorial of
November 9, entitled 1.-THE Diplomat oil
the Zweibund."
The witness was asked to take the edi-
torial up and tell wherein it reflected on
his character.
THE general attacks had been upon my
integrity, and when the editorial says
who grated the dead bough upon the
living tree and caused to blossom and
bourgeon and bear golden fruit this to
me, meant that I had caused or induced
golden graft"
Points Out Malice
'Tt was the first editorial that men,
| toned your Manner
ct was"
"And you really believed that the
| golden fruit meant graft?"
81 did,
''where do you see any malice in this
| editorial2'
why, 1t starts out with an untruth-
that had caused a reunion between Cox
and Patterson"
But you said you would have been
proud to have accomplished this?"
Eyes, but did not"
Can you name any editorial that was
! written by Carmack which charged you
with being a grafter?"
Eyes, sir, the Memphis News-scimi-
tar editorial OF March 10, 190s.'
But you said today that the editor OF
that paper now said he wrote it, not
Carmack?"
But do not believe it. 1 think and
believe that Carmack wrote it."
Editorial Gave Offense
The state took the editorial sentence
by sentence and asked the witness ex-
PLANTATION of how it was offensive. He
said every word was offensive.
Did you go to Louisville July 23d last
to meet Governor Cox7'
"I did .iot lave not been to Louis
Vile in a year"
Ibid YOU go to Pulaski, Va, to meet
/ Governor Cox?"
IT met Governor Cox there at his re-
quest last summer to help him in his
campaign for the senate"
Did you bring about the reconcilia-
| tion?"
mo, sir. 1t was brought about by Cox
! & Patterson themselves, and it was ar
ranged by letters"
What was there in this editorial to
| make you want to take human life7"
Nothing on earth would make me want
to take human life except in defense of
my own"
COL. COOPER GRILLED
BY THE PROSECUTION
| NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 25.-After
the noon recess Wednesday Judge Ander-
son resumed his argument against the
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