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COOPER-CARMACK FEUD
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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.
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