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Show THE COOPERS CAN NOW COOL DOWN. The finding of Duncan Cooper and Ms son guilty of murder in the second sec-ond degree' for the killing of Senator Carmack will meet the approval ot The American people. Those hotheads cf Tennessee, with blood in their eyes and revolvers in their hands are richly rich-ly deserving of a blow from the heavy hand of the law a blow strong enough to make them realize that the klllras of a human being is not delegated to any supersensitive, valn-glorlous fellow fel-low who may feel aggrieved over a look, a nod or a word which might bo offensive. Senator Carmack, who was Biain, was a brilliant orator and a talented writer. His words might have been unnecessarily and unjustifiably severe in criticising Duncan Cooper, but we have read the edftorials which brought about the bitter enmity and have failed fail-ed to discover anything therein to provoke pro-voke a desire on the part of the Coopers Coop-ers to kill Carmack. The principals were men in public affairs and, therefore, there-fore, open to public criticism. There was nothing in Carmack's arralga-ment arralga-ment of them which was a charge ot criminal wrong doing,- The editor condemned con-demned Cooper for bringing about a reconciliation between the Governor and a political boss named Cox, and then, in languago plainly an emoel- llFhment for rhetorical effect, Carmack Car-mack went on to draw a picture ot Cox as he appeared when at outs with the political leaders and when he was one of the ring. That same form ot political lambasting Is Indulged in every day by newspaper writers and only a proud, haughty, selHmportant man would deem It an excuse to slay a fellow man. There are too many Coopers In public pub-lic life, who go about inflicting their slings and affronts, holding high heads, but who, when their thin skins are perforated with pin pricks, are ready to murder. They should be held In a prison cage long enough to allow their hot blood to cool to tne temperature of the rich red blood ot a perfectly sane and normal person. |