The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-14

guilty and lit into you.
That's what we are doing We
have no theory, gentlemen, we Just
have the proof. They criticize us for
not producing Mrs. Burch. Gentle
men, we produced their maid. We
produced their stenographer. we pro-
duced their friends and every witness
We needd we had to get from among
their friends
General McCarn told the story of an
old negro whom he had defended for
murder before Judge Anderson. He
said that no one IN town knew of that
case. but to this old negro it was the
greatest case in the world
Pirate Of Blue Blood.
They pirate Of the blue blood and
ancestry of these defendants. II al
ways amuses me the way these fell
lows with blue blood and ancestors
always think of those ancestors when
they are brought face TO face with
the law. Now, a man with blue blood
and ancestors owes something to thi
blue blood and those ancestors ana
be should think of IT before he goes
cut to STAY. The poor negro I de-
Tended had no blue blood and no an
cestors SO the jury found him guilty
Of murder in the first degree And
when Judge Anderson sentenced him
to death, his voice was so different
from his voice yesterday that l scarce
IL could believe the same man was
talking.
yet Judge Anderson made a great
speech, the only real law speech in
this suit. And Judge Anderson had
to make a pair of trousers out of two
old ones. He took what testimony he
liked from the state and what ne
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ed you TO acquit on that argument"
General McCarn then took the first
editorial which Cooper objected to
the one of the News Scfmitar OF
March Is, 1908 and which Colonel
Cooper claimed he heard Carmack
had written.
Not Written by Carmack.
THAT editorial was not written by
Carmack and they knew IT. They
introduced IL for one purpose and that
was because it attacked Governor Pat
tersOn and they hoped TO reach you
men on the jury who and were sup
Dorters Of the governor. But [ do
not believe the will succeeded, gen
tlemen."
General McCarn assailed the de
Tense for trying to make the case
political issue and declared that
WashinstOn's entire argument was a
Political speech. He denounced
Washington for assaiIing Carmack's
name and declared IT must have taken
9 big fee to talk about a dead man
that way.
there are some men at this bar
that you could not hire TO talk that
way about a des& u1sR, whether they
nked him or hated him. And they
have never had a big case either.
General Meeks got up here and
said: Don't you sue a man for libel,
because all you can get is a Judge
ment net worth & chew of tobacco.
Now that is funny advice for a lawyer
to give to lsyman. Why, gentle
men, that is what court houses are
built for and judgment against a
poor man, whtcd he cannot satisfy is
more humiliating to him than all the
things he could say about il to YOU
would be to you. And il Carmack
died for that editorial, he died for
something that he never wrote. St.
Paul said that some men are so VI
damned for il. II he were alive TODAY
he'd say these men would believe
a lie and ne hanged for it.
And then comes the editorial of
october Fl. Now there is nothing in
this that a man SHOULD be killed for
He might be sent to the penitentiary
for life though. This editorial refers
TO the trading of Bryan for Patterson
and mentions Cooper's name with
others. It had right to do it. What
If one OF them were a dive keeper2
We know he was in politics. Cooper
says he was in politics and every
witness who testified always found
him at Democratic headquarters. Now
II Cooper associated in politics with