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COOPER-CARMACK FEUD m (Continued From Page One.) ver wielded the jawbone of an ass as weapon of war." Foraker, Dolllver, and even old bull)aringr Tillmwi began to fear that mgue whose words cut like a blacklake whip. The Tennesseean became ie delight of 4he galleries, and the ead of the opposition. When the Mcumber Civil Service bill termed the ar of *61 the "War of the Rebellion" armack fought until the title, "Civil ffcr," was officially adopted. Nam* Anathema. From one end of Pennsylvania Ave IUe to another his name was anthenut. He was the one senator who sver attended presidential functions, e wajs the one man, possibly, before hom Hoosevelt quailed. Carmack had t hl? tongue wag too frequently. He ad spoken out of his time. He seem1 to delight in making others squirm, t last he realised his power. He new tie was the mental superior of iani" men around him?and he didn't esitafe to show it. He waved his eacock feathers too frequently. .He as the product, not of a class, but of is o^rn mentality. "Back home" politics was being Liked again. The direct primary sysim had been inaugurated. Former ov. Taylor, the brother of "Alf' Tayir, who was Tennessee's governor last jar, became infected with senatorial ch. Nothing could bo done for it exspt to let him run against Carmack. In the meanwhile Cooper had lost id regained control of the American couple of times. Now he no longer ad it, but he was still a power in Dlitics. He had grown dignified, more nphatlc in his opinions?and bald! Tne sugni nit mat nau apyc<vi vu uvveen the two friends when "Dune be?n flirting around the White House" ow was a chasm. Cooper said Cariack was building up a powerful )lltlcal machine?a machine that was enacing Codtyer's political power, oopcr said lt>was a machine the like which Tennessee had never seen here. Cooper was fight Carmack was iiilding up a machine. But it was not machine in thex?rdinary sense of the ord. The man's dauntless idealism ppealed to the masses, his heroic ora>richl< gestures brought to his side ien who had never taken particular iterecft in politics before. They were imarlly for Ned Carmack and not ipeclaUy for the things for which he oodf It was a case of a leader makig a1 cause. Against Whisky Ring. Those who were closest to Carmack lid he knew Cooper's ways all too ell, and was blocking the older man'a ;herpes. Then the whisky ring began > poke its head into politics too fre uenfly. Carmacv may wave carea ior drop when the t >irit called, but he Idn't fancy the breed that peddled it. ooper had the whisky crowd at his ack, and never made any bones bout it. This was in 1906. Cooper spoused le cause of Taylor with a mighty dash. That was the unpardonable n in Carmack's eyes. Carmack and Taylor went camalgning through the hills and Vales of. ennessce, and Taylor won. JRunning for governor at the same me was Malcolm R. Patterson, the >n of the Joslah Patterson whom armack had defeated for congress in J96. Carmack hated the son on gen al principles. Cooper liked Patterson nd supported him. Carmack swung is influence toward Gov. Cox. Patterson won. Col. Duncan Brown Cooper, now >tully bald and extremely emphatic in is opinions, was greatly pleased. Both is horses bad..\yon. But Cooper didn't row about it. He took his winning in le same spirit?he had won and lost bousands of dollars across the green aize table. His whole phllosoph" of fe was contained in a quatrain that e often recited to friends in the Hofflan Hpuse bar on his frequent New ork visits: To matter what you sing or say, 'he world rolls on in the same old way, .nd he who would possess his soul lustffcold on tight and lot her roll. C&rmack was never a philosopher? t least not in defeat. He declared c .was out of politics for good. He rent to Memphis to resume the ractice of law. But the lure of pubc office was too great. He anounced himself as a candidate for overnor against Patterson. The Anti-Saloon League. The latter had spent two years in tuilding up a powerful political machine of his own. Distiller and brewBrs, ba?*tenders and gamblers, honest Business men, who honestly believed hat "open towns" meant good business, reactionary Democrats who Jassea me piaie nunuays, srnrewu uu-u ?ho thought Patterson had given the itnte a good administration?all these fathered under the Patterson standxd. Then the Anti-Saloon League stepped Ctlvely into Tennessee politics. Beore that the league bad chirped, but lad been throttled by the whisky ring, 'he Anti-Saloon League demanded tate-wide prohibition. Patterson voukl not advocate it. He stood for oeal option?if the public had to have >roh1bition of any kind. The Anti-Saloon League turned to he other side, and there was Ned Carnaok, smiling an invitation. Right hen Edward Ward Carmack lost votes, fie had never been known to certain if his intimates as a white-ribbon teootaler. For the first time since the Civil War he churches of Tennessee entered poli los. The doctrine of "Jesus Christ" ind Him Crucified" was laid aside for :he time and that of "Carmack and state-wide prohibition" preached In Its place. Bitterness dropped out. Business partners disagreed on the relative merits of local option or a dry state. Brothers hated one another for their political stand. Fathers and sons differed. Cooper, of course, was giving his support to Patterson. In a sense he had been the Col. House of Patterj son's administration and his keen brain was aiding Patterson's campaign. But i Cooper was making no speeches. He was no mere orator. He pulled the wires and watched the puppets dance. Carmack became incensed at Cooper's activities and began to openly berate him on the stump with that neDnerv tongue. Dav after day he re ferred to the man who had given him his start in journalism and even went so far one night as to ask whether "baldheaded angel Dune Cooper was an angel of darkness or of light, or if there is nor the smell of sulphur in his feathers." That sunk deep. Cooper was nothing If not dignified, earmark was forty-nine, Cooper sixty-five, and feeling his age. Word weht to Carmack that Cooper was touchy about his baldness. The colonel felt he was responsible for his own individual acts, but as far as his physical appearance was concerned, "the Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away, Blessed be the name of the Lord." , The Vulnerable Spot. But Carmack had found the vulnerable spot. Achilles didn't have a tender heel, but he had a bald head?Oh, joy on the stump. Time and again Carmack referred to "bald-headed angel Dune Cooper." He went further. He began to emphasize the question "is bald-headed Dune Cooper an angel of darkness or of light." The Colonel's father had owned mapy slaves. There are some epithets, that fighting men will not take of God or the devil. Poking fun at an old man's bald head was the height of bad taste, DUX to mane me veuea insuiuawuu * that was the unpardonable offense. Carmack was made editor of the Nashville Tennesseean and went gunning for his enemies. His defeat had made the antl-Saloon league far moie militant. Sermons were preached in churches flaying Patterson as the scion of the devil. Carmack became the leader of a Lost Cause admired in defeat. The Tennesseean's new editor considered "bald-headed angel Dune" as the chief cause of his downfall. He began to attack him in his editorial columns. One day Carmack poured e.n extra portion of vitriol into his ink-holder, and wrote this editorial, entitled TH E "DIPLOMAT OK ZWEIBUND. "To Major Duncan Brown Cooper, who wrought the great coalition, who achieved the harmonious confluence of incompatible elements, who welded the pewter handle to the wooden spocn, who grafted the dead bough to the living tree and made it bloom and bend with golden fruit, who made playmates of the lamb and the leopard and boon companies of the spider and mo/in o/\H onH vinpenr tn lilt- It J, WIIU uiauv ?vu . ...vQW. -dwell placidly in the same bcttle and who taught oil and water how they might agree; to Major Duncan Brown Cooper, the great diplomat of :he political Zweibund, be all honor and glory forever." Cooper read that editorial?and saw red. That was Sunday morning, Nov. 8, 1908. Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, Senator Carmack, was walking on Seventh Avenue. At Union street Col. Cooper and his twenty-eight-year old son, Robin, hove in sight. There was shooting. Carmack fell dead with one bullet under the heart, one in the left shoulder, and one in the neck. Robin Cooped was wounded in the right shoulder. Duncan Cooper had not fired a shot, though he had drawn his revolver from his pocket. He was unscathed. There is no use trying to explain who shot first. That point is still argued in Tennessee. "Carmack?the Martyr." Nov. 14, 1908. the Coopers and John D. Sharp, an ex-sheriff with them at the time of the shooting, were indicted. In the spring of 1919 the Anti-Saloon league, determined to avenge the ! death of Ned Carmack, demanded that the legislature pass the state-wide prohibition act. The legislature did so. All over the south and the mid-west Protestant denominations were de| mandlng that the saloon be abolished as a "tribute to Carmack." The North| west Methodist conference at Dallas, Tex., passed resolutions deploring j Cat mack's death, denouncing the supporters of liquor interests in politics and declaring that "Carmack died a martyr to the cause of prohibition and civic righteousness." Feb. 23, 1909, Col. Cooper testifying at the trial for his life, said he had i heard uarmacK iiRin* m? name man; ' times in the late gubernatorial campaign and referred to the "black and white" insinuation. March 20, 1909, the Coopers, father and son. were found "guilty of murI der in the second degree and sentenced to twenty years in prison." The cases were appealed. April 13, , 1910, the supreme court of the state affirmed Duncan Cooper's case, and reversed the son's. Before the ink was dry on the de! cision (lor. Patterson issued a pardon i to Duncan Cooper. It actually reached | the office of the secretary of state be| fore Cooper left the capitol for jail. That was the last straw that broke the prohibition camel's back. Carmack had been assassinated by the Whiskey Trust, and now his "red handed murderer" was given a full and complete pardon! The liquor forces, bloated with overconfidence, awoke to the menace which confronted them, but it was too late. Through the small towns nnd hamlets of America for a decade had gone the tale of the gallant Carmack who gave his life for "the cause." Prohibition nnd civic righteousness were irrevocably linked. Carmack was enshrined. ctnto in (ho nnlnn had its a(l vocatos of nation-wide prohibition. Many of them were Btrong leaders. II I 68 I 5 II || Duri Is DON'T FORG WHE are' $|(N TIES, fir fir UUr WgailiJKtu Study A3 jl Give Us an Of || Lo ?? B. N. MOORE j|j| T. M. FEHCiU 1 r>/ H IS IX POSITION T On Your Christmas Sh ?? Were Seeking ai S That We Wish Our Frj Prosperous New I 1 j| CLO\'EI{> SOUTH CA One day they walked Into the nation s capitol?but the rest is hlutory written into, the constitution of the United St?$a. ? In the alleged transfer of 80.0C0 gallons of alcohol by Louis and Abraham Auerbach, and others, of Cleveland more than $15,000,000 changed hands In a little more than a year. 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