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L I QUO POLI UCAL ICAL PLOT IN TENNESSEE EVIDENT II Evidence rice ce Tending T e ding to Implicate Big Men of State With Carmack MARTYRED EDITOR IS LAiD AID AT REST Throngs of Friends Pay Last Tribute to Memory of Leader in Movement to Wipe Saloon Domination Away From His H is State f f N shilI l Tumi Leitu l' l Nov ov 11 Evidence tending tending- to prove that the thc assassination tion Senator olEx Edward dwar AY Yo i by Colonel Colonel Colonel Col Col- onel Duncan Cooper and iid ud his Robin Hobin result son SOil was the of a ai apolitical i political plot closely connected with the biggest pe t in irr state was di discovered today Tonight the west arrest of a third man luan Ex Sheriff Ex John ohn a close ally of GO Governor I and tind bosom friend of Colonel Cooper who was was Patte Patterson Pat Pat- te terson teron's ons s ef qc is imminent J I traced V f. f traced step tep tepI I L by step ster the of Colonel Colone I Cooper antl and his from rom tho the Arcade j at Fourth avenue to the tile scene icene of tho or I 1 I shooting The They declare they have abI ab ab- ab I solute root roof that Joh John Sharp was with them during the entire walk and anel that i ho hA was at least within a few Cew feet j when the fight which left Carmack ead In the gutter D ran Further one lone ne witness declares that Sharp bent over oer Carma Carmack k and then fled Tomorrow Tomor Tomor- tow row the witnesses will bo ho produced be before before before be- be fore tho the grand jury jur and Carmacks Carmack's political allies s ht lio will vill be he In Indicted Indicted In In- dieted as fiS an accessory t to-jh to to l killing Whether or 01 not Gar mack's friends friend will sybil succeed In In dragging Governor Patterson Into the actual plot the they do du not say The They assert elt they have P Pt that Patterson h had knowledge of the plan to kill Senator Carmack that after atter one had been held the governor telephoned th the Coopers to come to the executive manat man- man at once Coopers Cooper's friends claim ho and find his son wore VOlo ort ori the tho way to tho mansion nH when llen the they met Senator Carmack If It this i Is true then the they went hundreds of ot yards put ut of or th their ho howay way t tl tn n him hin Grand Jury Delayed taking tho the case before JJ l 7 f J t teTi lo coiT v rc to como come tomorrow The Coo Coop Coop- c. c rs are ate having trouble securing the legal egal support they want man many lit luyN'S law lu lawyers yN'S declining to enter Into bite tho the case casen ca e eon on n either side for par pal of thu tho public ImbUe clamor lamor Whilo I e t UK- UK 1 e Prohibitionists I b I ti Anti Anti- A nIl nIl- saloon league W. 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T T. p U U. and Carmacks Carmack's Car Car- uncles uncle's personal friends and anti allies hero ero planning to prosecute tho the casOlo case casO caseto io to the und olid his hotly body was wan laid I at Tc rest t I In n Columbia his hi homo bionIc city There I never was as a simpler more mor touching demonstration paid to any man than limn Tennessee fennesee paid to Carmack Loda today In Inthe Inthe Inthe the little BUlc cit city In the hills 60 50 miles from Crom Nashville his hig own people paid Carmack the last lust rite Special trains from Nashville carried car car- ned ried perhaps 1500 of his friends s to Columbia Scores came from Memphis Mem II cm- cm I and from Chattanooga a. a Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia bla Is not a pretty city Besides the day was dull duB and gray nn and mud tilled the streets ts In a weather beaten square old brick hou house e c the body of Tennessee's most gifted Ite son was laid bald In III state A block down tho the street streel the plain brick structure of the tho Methodist Meth I odist church was draped raped in black Houses Are Arc Closed Fr Fl- m early carly morning mornin everybody's house In Columbia was closed The entire city was In mourning DIs- DIs men from all nil over Tennessee Tennes Tennes- see CL came to mingle Je with Carmacks Carmack's friends an and nel neighbors Only a few ow entered tho the old homestead home home- stead Outside the people of or Maury county poured Into the city cit In streams They came In mule teams In car cur e any way to pay tribute to tu toNed toNed Ned tiNed Carmack On tho the lawn were gathered Jather d the Elks of ut the city lined alon along the tho walk were the thc Masons the Dau Daughters of ot the Confederacy erac and I everywhere the emblem of ot tho time W V Cr C C. T. T r u. u For In Tennessee Carmack Is hailed is ns the tho martyr of or temperance an and the theman theman theman man who b by dying lying for the cause has bias ended the rule of ot the saloon over oer the I Is s state and over r politics First matchIng match march I inS Ing slowly came a group roup of little boys and girls from the schools str strewing wing flowers lowers along the walk an and through the mud of ot the tho street Lined I along the opposite Bide side the cadets of Columbia military academy stood at at rest It was W very n quiet Half Halt the themen men hen In III tho rinks ranks s of the tile Confederate Veterans were weeping and the W W. C. C T T. U. U members sobbing Just Inside the hi gate ate a haired gray old co colored lured woman sank nl down ul upon on the tho wet srn grass sobbing Marse Ned Marse Ned Then a 0 haired gray Confederate rate veteran vot- vot eran elan with general officers officer's rank on un his hl ill sleeve C lifted HUed h her hur r and anil bore her ton- ton derby derly Into the house houMe The Tc T c color line lino linesa kvas sa ap gone Jone In the common grief Prot Pretty Y son joon ten of Tennessee's leading mon inca bore jore the hidden flower casket down tho tue walk talk and men and n wept openly And then tho the saddest of ot all ail n a weman wo- wo i man widowed v III in an Instant came eam borne L orne up UI by her brother and tho the brother broth broth- r er or of ot the dead d l man At A l tho the side of his mother one arm anni clutching her pro pro- i walked a n bo boy nine years old his head held bare and no trace of or tears the tho white sot little face tuce Ho Ito held his head high and und looked straight ht ot afi a Once when the mother wavered way way- ered erell he held to her and ond said Ill take care caro of or you mother If a n master painter r had boon beon there thore thereto to draw the tite scone scene ho would have called It tho the Feud Foud for tor there was no mistaking mistaking mis mis- taking tho look on the stern pain pain- drawn little face except the 3 assurance that his fathers father's work will bo carried nn An r n. n The cortezo cortese moved down tho the muddy mud mud- dy fly street street- little girls paving it with red carnations to the church of l ri Mi rn Thoro There the services wore simple Tho Too church was filled with flowers An n I Bu car was sias required to bring th tho tributes from rom Nu Nashville I and a n dozen press express Ap wagons carried time tho floral offerings of or- brings to 50 the church Tho The rail wan ivas a bank of at flowers and tho the altar was coy covered ore ore-d. Besides masses mosses of at blossoms had been hauled to tho the cemo- cemo tery simple Tho Cho Too The services wore llev Hev Continued on OD r T Flit u. u. u POLITICAL BLOT IN INi I i TENNESSEE EVIDENT Continued From I Gc One Oae I W. W T. T Boaz Donz pastor of ot the Christian church of ot Senator Carmack wn WIlS WIlSa a member spoke and tho n Rov v n n. U L. Cavo o of ot Nashville of ot tho life o ot Carmack There Thore was not a n. note noto o of vengeance The Tho speakers said had sacrificed I need himself In the tho lIght fight for God am an home Then again tOe the corte cortege e woun down dO the valley alley and up the tho hill bill to the bleak hillside half hidden in ever cr greens reens Tho sun camo out then ani nn shone bhone warm and bright as tho mortal remains of or Tennessee's most man was Vas lowered into the flower grave gra There Thera tas not so much wild talk tane of lynching but rather r a sober discussion of or how 1101 best to secure punishment for assassins Men Ien of or affairs men groit roat In tho public life Uto of the commonwealth seriously discussed whether It would be bemore moro more advisable ad to organize a select of chosen men to lynch tho assassins or whether they should allow the legal machinery to move In It own o way Carmacks Carmack's friends are aro determIned determined deter deter- mined to force tho prosecution Arrangements Arrangements Ar Ar- are arc being made matIo b by to pro procure ure tho best lawyers possible to assist tho state in the case casc It was announced today that Assistant States State's Attorney General ral Stock ell probably would not assist Attorney General Gloo In n the prosecution is a cousin of or Robin Cooper Cooper Quiet In Tall Colonel Cooper remained quietly in Jail all today seeing only his counsel and Intimate friends and refusing to make any st statement of the case Robin Hobin Cooper who is slightly woun wounded ed continued continued con con- to Improve He lIe Is held a close prisoner in the hospital with deputy deptH sheriffs on OD guard The Thc defense is making making- elaborate plans and tho first move after the Jur Jury Investigation will be to ask ho release of ot Colonel Cooper en on ball Il Th Th-j Carmack supporters declare that Couper's release will mean more sho tIn t- t In The Thc resentment a against Governor Go Patterson is almost as IlS bitter aa as a the men actually Involved etI in tho thu kill kill- ing Patterson left Nashville a few Cew hours after attel tOe tho killing and went to Memphis He lie returned to Nashville Nash toda today and left again for tor Union City In Inthe Inthe the heart of or the night rider country Pattersons Patterson's friends declare thc they fear he will be assassinated ho was waR warned not to expose himself at Union City where he ha Is scheduled to on tho nl ht rider situation tomorrow Tim WC C T T. U. U of ot oven every city ana town In state ha has arranged m memorial mem- mem In orial services for Senator Carmack to tobe tobe be heM held next Sunday They havo sent the following request to cr c every town In Inthe the tho state That at nt 3 p. p 10 m. m SUI Sunday day nIl all citizens of or Tennessee both men and women without regard to creed or political conviction conviction con con- Jut but law and sympathize with civic lc Integrity meet and pay tribute of respect to Senator Carmacks Carmack's mem ory |