The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 18, 1909, Image 6
A GREAT SPEECH
Capt Fitzhugh Opens for State
in Cooper Trial.
HE SCORES COOPER
And Sharp and Charges Them With
Kntcring a Conspiracy ? The (
Speech Was a Hitter Arraignment
of ttie Defendants. Coupled With a
Masterly Presentation of Argument
Nashville, March 8.?The greatest j
crush of people since the trial began
were in attendance this morning to
henr the opening argument in tho |
case of Col. Duncan 11. Cooper, his ,
son Robin Cooper and John I). Sharp,
whose trial on tho charge of murdering
former Senator Edwin W. Carmack,
has entered upon its eighth
and probably final week. Back of
the table reserved for the prosecution's
attorneys, who begin the argument
of their case today, the crush j
was unusually heavy.
Large numbers or ladles were lu
the crowd, which began to gather
as early as 6:30 o'clock. Tiy 9
o'clock every bit of available space
in the court room had been taken '
and many scores of people had been
turned awny.
It was 9:20 o'clock when Capt. G.
T. Fitzhugh, the eloquent Memphis
attorney and long friend of Senator
Carmack, opened the State's argument
to the jury. The court room
at this time was crowded to suffocation,
every seat being taken and
all the open places wero filled with
standing spectators.
Captain Fitzhugh began by paying
the customary tribute to the Jury,
4 L O ? * lr I r> <v fnr Hinlr lint I rill (T no.
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tienco and their uniform courtesy
and attentivenes8.
He then lauded tho citizenship of
the dead man. Ho dwelt at length
upon the distinguished servico to
his country of this son of Tennessee.
Captain Fitzhugh then defined
"malice" to the jury and said it
Could arise suddenly, in law and fact,
or could be the result of brooding
"as it has been in this case," ho
added. He told how tho defendant,
Colonel Cooper, had been heard cursing
and throatening Carmack and
6?id that this showed tho colonel
bore malice deep in his heart against
Carmack.
fluntftin Fltzhuerh declared that
Colonel Cooper did not kill Senator
Carmack because of wounded reputation,
but "'he killed him because
of his fear of the truth and his love
s of vengeance."
The speaker asked how it was
that this man's name could not be
mentioned, "this man who had shaped
the destinies of a State, this man
who had made politicians, this man
who had pulled the wires. John D.
Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan and E. H.
Harriman are not ofllce-holders, yet
they are not going around killing
men who dare to mention their
names in the paper.
"This man who has injured all
he has ever touched, this lobbyist,
this defaulter, this professional politician,"
exclaimed Captain Fitzhugh
with intense emphasis, "puts himself
on a pedestal so high that his name
may not be mentioned even in a
jocular manner."
Capt. Fitzhugh took up the editorrial
in order. The first was October
24. In this one Colonel Cooper had
complained because his name had
been linked with those of certain
ttuiuun liH-ji uiiii ^iiinuiers,
"The only difference," declared
Captain Fitzhugh, "lay In the fact
that Colonel Cooper, a gambler all
his life, had played for larger stakes
and had never paid his debts with
his killing winnings.
"The editorial of No. 3," said
Captain Fitzhugh, "did not even mention
his name, yet ho took offense
at it because the machine was attacked.
His attitude, 'I am the machine;
I am the State and when you
strike the machine you strike me.'
"Where was the offense in that unless
Colonel Cooper was looking foi
it with jaundiced and mallclout
eye?"
Captain Fitzhugh then took ur
the editorial of Sunday morning
November 9, "Across the Mudd>
Chasm," and dissected that for the
jury. "You gentlemen remember,'
said Captain Fitzhugh, "that I asked
Colonel Cooper to take the editoria
sentence by sentence and point out
the parts that were offensive and
that he refused to do so, saying il
was offensive as a whole. Yet thai
morning he wrote the threat, the
note. And there is some mysterj
about the notes. Where are the orig
inals? only copies here and a copj
of a copy; then he saw Ed. CraU
that night and after he sent th<
message, 'you or I must die,' h<
hatched up a pretext to arm himsel:
against Carmack. He tells you
gentlemen of the Jury, that Ed. Craif
reported to him that Carmack wai
in an ugly, vicious mood.
"Ed. Craig says he brought n<
such information about Carmack and
could not have been true."
TOWN HIT HARD
NEARLY WIPED OUT RY TERRIBLE
CYCLONE.
Tlio Business Section nn<l One Hundred
Duellings Demolished at
Cuthbert, (iu.?Seven Livm Lost.
Cuthbert, Qa., March 9.?A terrific
cyclone struck Cuthbert tonight
at 8:3 0 o'clock, killing six negroes
and one white man, demolishing the
entire business section, razing one
hundred or more residences and in
juring many, entailing a loss which
is estimated at $100,000.
The town is in total darkness, owing
to tho damage to the electric
light system and it is exceedingly
difllcult to estimate the loss of life
with accuracy and the damage to tho
business and residential sections. .
Tho loss of life would have been
much greater had it not been for the
fact that several hundred of the citizens
were in attendance upon a revival
meeting when the storm struck
the place.
Shortly after 8 o'clock a great
black cloud appeared in the southwest
and bore down upon the little
city. Few people were on the streets
and few were in the stores. With
a great roaring accompanied by vivid
Hashes of lightning the cyclone
struck the business blocks and
wrecked every building. Merchandise,
bricks and debris was scattered
along the streets.
It passed on the residential section,
blowing down nearly one hundred
houses, raising chimneys, fences,
barns, and doing much damage
otherwise. Few people were at home
at the time when the storm struck.
All of the wires of the Cuthbert
lighting plant are down and the city
is in complete darkness, which makes
the situation very serious and hinders
the work of rescue and attention to
the Injured.
The telephone service of the city
is crippled by falling poles and broken
wires. It is Impossible to learn
the damage in the outlying district.
Thirty loaded box cars on the siding
at the depot were blown off the
track, and completely demolished.
Cuthbert is a town of about 3,000
Inhabitants, situated in Randolph
county, on th Central of Georgia rail- 1
road, about 200 miles southwest of
Augusta, near the Alabama line.
BRIDGES TO BE REPLACED
With Better Ones by the Atlantic
Const Line.
Wilmington, N. C., March 8.?Tt 1r
announced from the executive offices
of the Atlantic Coast Line here that
from the proceeds of the recent sale
of the road's consolidated 4 per cent
bonds In New York the company has
provided, In addition to the cancellation
of Its short term, that the per
cent notes due March 1, 1910,
and all the cash necessary to retire
on .Tune 1, 1910, one million six
hundred thousand underlying G per
cent bonds, the funds required for
replacing five and one-quarter miles
! of wooden trestle with concrete piers
! and steel girders across the Pee-Dee
river, near Florence, S. C.; over Santee
river, between Lanes and Charles
tun, o. vy., iiiiii uvrr nit; D<1V<11111<111
river, between ITardeeville, S. C., and
Savannah. Py the negotiations for
I the sale of the bonds Interest charges
will be reduced $119,000 per annum.
MEETS HORRIHRE DEATH.
Negro Gin Hand Given Lye in His
Coffee.
Florence, March 8.?News reached
the city late today of a terrible
affair, which resulted in the death of
James Allison, a negro, at Allison's
1 PostofTlce, which resulted in Allison's
death Saturday night.
From what can be learned Allison
was employed by Messrs. A. Poston &
Son as a fireman at their ginnery and
* saw mill plant. After eating his
* breakfast at the mill Friday morning
* he was taken suddenly ill and never
i regained consciousness, death resulting
on Saturday.
Dr. Eaddy, a physician in that sec'
tion was called in and pronounced
* the case one of poisoning. The magistrate
in that township held an in)
quest and it was found that the ne.
gro had been poisoned by being givr
n ~ 1i,/v
UII it UU9V Ul UUUOUIIll UlCU HIIR II
i It Is now thought was administered
' through the sugar that was used in
I sweetening his coffee.
1
t NINE NEGROES .TAILED.
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Yiitftil w?i? g\t Ulii/L u I /rnL o/l In nil
^ il ivaaiK/vt v** ??aa\ a*c* aav % j? w?i
) Charge of Rioting.
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Newberry, March 11.?Nine ner
groes, eight women and one man
; were placed in jail here today on the
3 charge of rioting. On Tuesday P
3 P. Odell had warrants to arrest Kittj
f Glasgow for violation of contract and
, Pack Glasgow for enticing labor, and
; when he went to execute the war?
rants Pack Glasgow refused to be arrested,
and the women assisted in
> the refusal and brought into service
i shotguns, firing three times at the
officer. a \.YAf|
HIGH DEATH RATE
Among the Junior Senatars
From South Carolina
THE SENIOR SENATOR
Calls Attention to the Mutter in
Kulo^i/.in^ Senator Latimer I{e
oently in the Senate Chamber.
Senator Tillman has lla<l Five
Colleagues in Fourteen Years.
Charleston, March 8. ? Tho
Charleston Post says in the senate
the other day eulogies were pronounced
on the late Senator A. C.
Latimer, who died a year ago, after
five years in service as a member of
that body, having previously for ten
years been a member of the house of
representatives. As tho senior senator
from the State represented by the
departed senator, Mr. Tillman pronounced
the first expression of sorrow
at the death of his late colleague.
no ruinarKeu an interesting record
as follows:
"It is a little more than fourteen
years since 1 was sent l>y the people
of South Carolina to he one of their
representatives in this chamber. As
tilings now are that is about onethird
of the average lifetime of a
man, and while during the time there
have transpired many events of national
importance, it seems but a brief
period after all. Yet during this
comparatively short span 1 have
served here with live United States
senators from South Carolina, and
after the fourth of March my sixth
colleague will have taken the oath
at the desk. It is a strange coincidence
that all of these men who have
come and gone save one were younger
in years than I. Three of them
have answered the roll call on the
other side of the river. First in
j service, John Lowndes Manning
Irby, bright, brave, witty and genial;
next tho knightly and courtly Joseph
Haynesworth Earle, forceful,
logical, chivnlrous and in every way
well equipped for work in the forum
or on tho bench; last, Asbury
Churchwell Latimer, who, while denied
in youth those advantages of
education possessed by the other two,
was in some respects tho superior of
either of them."
13y designating none but those of
his colleagues who have passed from
life, Senator Tillman avoided the
necessity of naming and of characterizing
the one with whom his association
was most strenuous, John
Lowndes MeLaurin. It would have
been interesting to have had his estimate
of MeLaurin pronounced in
this calm mood and upon this solemn
occasion.
When Tillman took his seat in the
senate in 1895. succeeding M. f!.
Butler, who had had three terms
in the chamber, he fomul J. L. M.
Irby as his colleague in the representation
of South Carolina in that body.
A little more than a year afterwards
Joseph II. Earle was elected to succeed
Irby, who did not offer for reelection
in the primary which nominated
Judge Earle. In December,
1 907, Senator Earle was sworn in
as a member of the chamber, and
within three months he was dead.
Governor Ellerbe, who also died
in ofllce before completing his second
term as chief executive of the
State, appointed John Li. McLaurin
to fill the vacancy, and the Democrats
of Sonth Carolina confirmed
the appointment by nominating McIThatk
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Laurln at the primary held in the
summer of 1898. At the completion
of this term, a service of five years,
McLaurin retired from the senate,
not offering for re-election, and has
since been a negligible and almost a
forgotten figure in the political life
fof South Carolina.
lie was succeeded by the late Sen[
ator Latimer, who, as we have noted,
lived to serve but five years of
the full term to which ho was elected.
A year ago the general assembly
elected Frank G. Gary to fill the unexpired
term, and he is now completing
that brief service, and will
retire to private life at noon on the
day after tomorrow. The general
assembly which has just adjourned
elected E. T). Smith to succeed him,
, ratifying the nomination made in the
Democratic primary last summer.
As Senator Tillman says, Mr. Smith
will he his sixth colleague in the senate
during a period of fourteen years.
Not one of these has served a full
term in company with Tillman, and
the average length of their service
as his associates is but a little more
than two years. It is a striking record
of mortality?physical and political?and
is well calculated to give
rise to melancholy reflection in the
mind of the survivor of so many and
such brief asociations in the constitutional
representation of his State
in the United States senate.
Cowpens, S. C., March 8.?At a
railroad camp a few miles from here
one negro man brained another with
an axe. They were drunk and quar
relied .about a woman.
Indigestion or dyspepsia is inability
of the stomach?weak digestive
juices?to digest what you eat. Kodol
is a combination of all the natural
digestive juices found in an ordinary
healthful stomach, and it will
digest your food in a natural way.
Pleasant to take. Sold by all druggists.
Killed and Injured.
Brinkley, Ark., March 10.?Twenty-nine
dead and seventy-four injured
is Brlnkley's list of casualties
from the tornado of Monday. Outside
of Brinkley thirteen persons
were killed and forty-six wounded,
several of whom may die.
Most cough cures are constipating
because they contain opiates, and
you should be careful to take something
that does not tend to constipate.
You should take Kennedy's
laxative Cough Syrup. It not only
allays inflammation and irritation of
throat and lungs, but it drives out
the cold from the system by a free
yet gentle action of the bowels.
Children like the pleasant taste that
is so nearly like maple sugar. Sold
by all druggists.
Many a man has paid a lawyer
$f> and $10 for poorer advice than
his wife would willingly have given
him for nothing.
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I rvuuui ;ui ?"U iiiuigestion
is a combination of the natural
digestive juices with necessary acids,
and it actually digests the food you
oat?no matter what kind of food it
may be. It does the ordinary work
of the stomach, so that by taking a
little Kodol every now and then you
cannot possibly have indigestion or
any form of stomach trouble. Sold
by all druggists.
This is the age of women. Wo
find all the avocations, profession
and trades of life opening their doors
to admit the enterprising women.
Some are going into their own, and
some are going into other people's
business. In our admiration for the
new woman there is darker of forgetting
the wife ana momtT and wo
man's true sphere as a home maker.
Common sense always brings fancy
prices.
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President. 1
This Is just the time of year when
you are most likely to have kidney
or bladder trouble, with rheumatism
and rheumatic pains caused by weak
kidneys. Delays are dangerous. Get
DeYV'itt's Kidney and Bladder Pills,
and be sure you get what you ask
for. They are the best pills made
for back ache, weak back, urinary
disorders, etc. They are antiseptic
and act promptly. We sell and rec-.
ommend them. For sale by all druggists.
Patent leather shoes should be
cleaned with sweet oil applied with a
piece of flannel and afterward polished
with a soft duster or wad of
cotton.
If you need a pill take DeWitt's
Little Early Risers. Insist on them;
gentle, easy, pleasant, little liver
pi Us. Sold by all druggists.
It does seem to us that the United
States Government should refuse to
issue liquor licenses to persons in
dry territory. The different States
have to respect the laws passed by
congress, and it seems to us nothing
but rght. and proper that the
United States Government should respect
all laws passed by the State
legislatures where it does not coni
flict with any national law. As the
thing now. stands it looks like the
United States Government does all
it can to defeat prohibition.
| Some paper wants to know what
has become of Evelyn Thaw? Please
don't tell. Let her rest where she is.
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