Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-17
New U. S. District Attorney Is
Said to Handle Gun Better
Than LaW-PoSSibly
By HENRIETTA GooDkOUGH HULL


There is just one thing Jeff NJ
earn knows, and can handle better
than the law-that's a gum .s.. ~
This is almost first:hand informa-
ton for although Hawaii's new Unit
ed States district attorney has not ar
rived, Charles A. Stainback, late chair
man of the Democratic state central
committee and state elector of Ten
|nessee, also politician and college
|chum, vouches for the above state
Iment, Mr., Stainbaek has been visit
ing in Honolulu and before leaving
for Nashville on; the Manchuria last
Tuesday told interesting details of
EMcCarn's, picturesque career.
"The most dominant feature of his
life SO far, has been his immoVable
stand for the suppression of vice in
all its forms and most particularly of
the liquor traffic." said Mr.. Stainback
.4He took the platform for prohibition
when it would have been considered
political suicide by any other man
running for office and he not only
upheld the cause publicly but he lived
up to his standards in his private life,
which is far more than the majority
of Tennessee prohibitionists are do
ing, many of them supporting the is
sue for political reasons only and<con-
Stunning their whiskey and mint ,juleps
with constituencies disregard"
jeff Packs Gun
"McCarn was practically unknown
until he became attorney for the COM
mittee of 100, which was organized in
1903 to suppress gambling and elfmi-
nate vice in general" continued Mr.
Stainbaek, "and when feeling was
running pretty high and Jeff was the
target for the threats of the gamblers,
he did not hesitate but went steadily
on with his work. One day a rumor
that he was to be assassinated reach
ed his ears. 1t did not deter him in
the least. He just buckled on a gun
and went his way, causing no end of
comment and excitement. He was ar
rested for carrying a pistol but do
not think his case ever came to trial,
for he was never .convicted-nor were
there any further rumors of assassi-
nation.
b soon after this he became a candi-
date for 'attorney-general,' as they
call the district officer in Tennessee.
and won one of the hardest fought po-
litical battles in the history Of that
warning state. Five days after he as
sumed the duties Of his office Rob
bin Cooper shot and killed U. S. Sen
ator Carmack in the streets of Nash
Vile and as prosecuting attorney of
this famous murder trial Jeff Nc
earns name was sent broadcast over
the country.
Here again he demonstrated that
he had gun and could use it when
the occasion demanded it The sLer-
iff of the county, who was a strong
Patterson man and a political Oppo-
nent, objected to some of Jeffs re-
marks in the course of the case and
called him to account for it in the
corridor of the courthouse. The ar
gument was brief and warm and both
men had drawn their guns when
friends interviewed and prevented a
shooting. You remember that young
Cooper and his father, Colonel Coop
er, were pardOned Immediately after
conviction by Governor Patterson,
Jeff and Patterson were bitter enc
mics for a number of years after that,
but Patterson recently joined the pro-
hibition ranks after having been ar
rested on i charge of intoxicatiOn and
he and Jeff have buried the past"
Not Evela Southern Type"
Mr.. Sr3tnback shifted his position
in the big wicker chair and went on
in his delightful southern Irawl:
What effect his attitude will have
upon prohibition and other such
questions in Honolulu l cannot say
| have not been here long enough to
draw conclusions, but will say that
McCarn will uphold his ideals in
whatever community he makes his