The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-10

State. among friends and enemies. and reached thousands of people."
 General Meeks then read the three editorials introduced by the defense, phrase by phrase and asked the jurors if they could imagine anything more insulting or degrading than these edi- torials.
 Every time the press turned; every time paper fell out of the machine. came fresh insults upon the Colonel. The Colonel had no means of reply. he had to bear it. And for months and months this old man carried that load.
 You talk of the liberty of the press Why. no man lives who believes more firmly in the liberty of the press than do. But when a man in an editorial position turns the liberty of the press and defame you and your family. what are you going to do? The State will say. go into courts. Yes. and get a Judgment for $25,000 against man who is not worth a plug of tobacco
 "Gentlemen. 1 tell you that the streets of our city have run red before with the blood of men who have improperly used other mems names in public prints. 1t is perfectly reasonable to believe that Colonel Cooper was angry. that he used violent language. He may have said 'Carmack or I must die, but he was talking in frenzy. And they tell you he Is not an example Of the old school of chivalry, that he IS not a type of the old Southern gentle man. say he is. say he Is one or the grandest and bravest men l know If there were nothing else in his favor would be willing to trust his case on his behavior on the stand.
 He is an old ex-Confederate soldier. He entered the service when a beard- less boy of IT and you know that men such as he Is, do not make assassins."
 General Meeks.~growing tired ana weak, showed 1t plainly. He appealed to the jury to look at the case req sonably and coolly. and not to be in- hueneed by passion or prejudice. Then he turned his attention Co Robin Cooper and recited the efforts Robin made to prevent trouble, declaring that me touched every button possible.
 Not Common Thieves.
 Lou are not trying common thieves or murderers, now. gentlemen fou are trying men who come from as me stock as ever human flesh was made of, the best people of the South. You saw them on the stand and you saw the manIiness, the chivalry, the gentle- manliness that marker their behaviour Why did they put Miss Daisy Lee, Jim Bradford's stenographer, on the stand! Did they. mean to say that Jim braa- ford Is a murderer? Why. should he want Senator Carmack murdered? They have shown no motive. l do not say Miss Lee lied. I would not say mat about any woman. But I do say that she was mistaken. And 1t makes no difference whether he was called back to the telephone after he left the once or before he left. You heard the GOV ernor of the State swear that he sent for Colonel Cooper. and the state oid not cross-examine him"
 General Meeks went exhaustively into the incident of the message from Gov ernor Patterson, why the Governor sent 1t and argued that 1t was this message alone which brought the Coopers to Seventh Avenue and led to the shooting:
 Miss Lee alone says that Coionel Cooper was not called back. Now, even if 1t were material. which It Is not, we have four witnesses against her who swear that he was recalled General Brown, Governor Patterson, James Bradford and Robin Cooper. And yesterday Captain Fitzhugh ar raigned this old white-haired soldier for using vile language in Miss Lees presence. Now. Miss Lee. herself. said that Colonel Cooper was in another office when he used that language But the Colonel says he was not in the office at all at noon; that he was only in Bradford's office twice that day. once at g a. m. and again at 5 D. m. To corroborate him we have the men who showed Colonel Cooper the horse he wanted to huy for his granddaughter and who swears he was with them between II and IF. Now, Miss Lee may have beard Colonel Cooper swear early that morning. In fact, the Colonel>told you himself that he used profane language frequently. But we maintain that Miss Lee was mistaken in the time. and if she was mistaken about one thing. then she may have been mistaken in others.
 General Meek next took John Sharps case and ridiculed the evidence offered by the State. He asked of the jury If they were going to hang man be- cause he said Carmack "should have been dead and in hell twenty years ago." He claimed that even If John Sharp did say to Miss Skefhngton. That Is Dune Cooper shooting Car mack" he predicted his assertion upon what he saw when he looked back.