The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-02-26


an apology. but mad merely male n
demand that the use OF his name ceas'
; He showed his malice. according {
his testimony. by stating that he di
not desire any future relations OF an
kind with Senator Carmack- He mere
Is wanted relations between them Z
cease. and wanted the use Of his nam
stopped. As ne expressed himself; =
would not have my face spit in ever
morning when I got up, and it had L
cease"
Colonel COoper's story vas very
long. and he spent the entire DAY upor
the stand and is still far from the end
colonel Cooper's story began with
his birth in Maury county. sixty-hve
years ago. Senator Carmack first ap
reared in the story when the witness
stated that he employed him on the
American, and induced him TO remove
from Columbia to Nashville and enter
the field of journalism A card writ
ten by Senator Carmack at the time
that he left the American In 1892 was
introduced in evidence. and in the
course of a general statement OF his
pleasant relations with the paper, and
the Office star, Mr.. Carmack mentioned
his pleasant feeling for Colonel Coop
err
Their relations we're pleasant up till
the Carmack-Taylor campaign. when a
GOODNESS arose between them The
breach was widened during the Pat
campaign, and during
all this time Colonel Cooper, according
to his story, had never done thing to
arouse anger in Senator Carmack ex-
cept to support Taylor and Patterson.
First "offense."
When Colonel Cooper characterized |
IS the first offensive" evidence of
hostility was an editorial in the News
Scimitar of March Is, 1908, in which
colonel Cooper was mentioned as one
# the Big Four of the administra-
ion. No evidence was introduced to
how that Senator Carmack wrote this
ditOrial, but Colonel Cooper said that
ohm C. Burch relatives by mar
iage, and an employe of the paper,
ad told him that Senator Carmack
i'd The question was whether he
bought that Senator Carmack wrote
ne editorial, and for this reason it
as admitted without being identified
y any one who knew that he did
he state insisted that It was neces-
airy, in order to show the good faith {
the defendant, to show whether or
ot the authority for Colonel Cooper's
formation was one who was in such
position that he could be reasonably {
lpected to know who wrote the edi-
rial, but the defense did not do this. 6
The next time that Senator Car G
ack began to use his name, accord c
g to the witness, was during the
int debate, when he used it almost 4
lily. at nearly every appointment in
iddle and West Tennessee. How
er out of this number, Colonel Coop 4
could only remember two refer y
ces; one where he spoke of him as z
old, fat, bald-headed angel called
inc Cooper" and another where he
ked IF it was an angel of light or
darkness, and whether that g;
gels feathers were tainted by sui 81
urous smell" al
At Ashland City, Senator Carmack in
ited, according to the witness, that al
: governor was like an island com a
.tely surrounded by water, and that b
lionel Cooper was that water W
In The Tennessean. ra
He then mentioned the references to
de to him in The Tennessean. The
it of these was an editorial, printed
October, 81 in which the name of
|. Cooper was mentioned, in con- We
ction with-that of Ban Murray, Sol sh
hn, and Max Hartman. Col. Cooper ed
'ecially resented being connected de
h Sol Cohn, characterizing that sup th'
ter of the administration as a for
ack bottom dive keeper, who had on
N sentenced to the county work thu
Use and was there then" in
he next reference was exceedingly he
cure. It was an editorial, printed ing
the morning of the general cleo. ten
|, on November 3, in which charges
made against the machine" The an
ne of Col Cooper was not men, liaI
led in 1t anywhere. ma
Across the Muddy Chasm" came unit
t, and then the last editorial The at
lomat Of the Zweibund' Both of Go,
'e were read to the jury. Rol
oil. Cooper stated that he read con
ross the Muddy Chagm" nrintpd IN was