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Show GEN. WASHINGTON RESUMES HIS TAflRgG In a Frenzy of Oratory, lie Denounces the Carmack Editorial in Which Colonel Cooper's Name Is Linked With Disreputables He Also Declares That If Coopers Had Not Been Armed, They Would Be in Their Graves Today Nashville, March 11 The attend-rtnee attend-rtnee today at the opening of the Cooper-Sharpe murder trial, showed a decrease, and when General Wash-1 ington resumed his argument for the ' defense, there were many vacant . scats. Mrs Lucas Burch. Robin Cooper's Coop-er's sister, who collapsed jesterday, was in court today pale and wan, , but bravely attempting to cheer and encourage her brother. Mrs. Carmack . did not appear, and It was stated thai she was too ill to leave her room. ! Working himself into a frenzy or oratory, General Washington devoted , nearly an hour to the wild denunciation denuncia-tion of the Carmack editorial of Oc-; tober 21. j This editorial calls attention to a statement in the American from Rip- ley. which said that Patterson men , were advocating trading Bryan lor! Patterson votes.. Then the editorial j called "the attention of the honorable I Pan Murray .'the Honorable Dune Coop-1 cr. the Honorable Max Hartman and the Honorable Sol Cohen" to this report. re-port. Wa;ilngtou vigorously explained that two of the two honorables named were disreputables, and that when Carmack associated Col. Cooper's name with theirs, he committed the gravest offense a man could commit, and affronted and Insulted Cooper bo- j yund endurance. "Put the state says no editorial ever written justifies killing a man. We i agree that this 1& true. But wo are , ' ;only trying to show how they aroused Col. Cooper's anger and to explain his mental condition. "The state says that this 13 only I a ridiculing editorial. Well, what ot it? You can drive a man Insane with : ridicule. You can send a man's son Into a frenzy by ridicule, and ridicule is libelous and punishable with imprisonment." im-prisonment." ; General Washington asked the jur-' crs if they had ever seen a but! fight None Intimated that he had, so the speaker described one. Ho compared Col. Cooper v'th the bull and declared that Car. :k's editorials editor-ials were the banderillos which mad-dened mad-dened the bull Into a charge. "Well, Carmack wrote 'The Diplomat Diplo-mat of the Zwclbund" and bo thus de- , clared open war. He did it to declare 1 open war and to compel Col. Cooper either to let him alone or to approach , him on the street. He knew that with those crumpled fingers, Col. Coop- i er could not pull a trigger. He knew , he was safe. I "Col. Cooper saw that Carmack was In an ugly mood. So he armed him-! Eelf. and if he had not done so, he would be in his grave today." Washington saw the error here --the defense contention being that Colonel Cooper never even drew his gun un- ! til the shooting was over so he said: "If Robin Cooper had not armed him- ' self, they would be both dead today." i |