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~ like.almost without exception means you must both "bate" and "bait" owed $175,000.and didn't have a cent opponents. left with INTERVIEWS men the equal of anybody, highclass GOVERNOR TIM HEALY your COOPER-CARMACK FEUD which to liquidate his FLAG OF THE STATE VIEWS AND he itched to do more than not because they want to butservingas But indebtedness. like himself. On a In "I own a matter of concerned only boys dayvanquish the controlling stock in the , duty, and. Side and Flash Lights on he stole to London and Murderous Bullet Upbuilds Origin and History ot Famous Ban* Brief Local Paragraphs of More 01 about the conscientious discharge of Lights 1874 away crept ProhibitionNashville American.It's yours," he Interest. that duty in accordance with the law Noted Irishman. into the visitor's gallery in the house AmendmentSTORY said, or words to that effect. ner. Less ar.d evidence. Why, my dear sir, it is of commons, there to listen with Ana that was how Col. Duncan fixed on the great Isaac Brown of an inspiration; it makes me proud. If eyes burningBu^t Cooper became the publisher HOW THE COLOR CANE TO BE i»LOE as he made a for Home Rule. OF NOTABLE POLITICAL TRAGEDY PICKED UP BY BEPOBTEBS' you had seen what I have seen, you HAS WIDE REPUTATION AS A FIGHTER speech one of Tennessee's most prominent ENQUIRER was old. When would more fully understand what I Tim nineteen years dailies. Won R*" Ben" tolled that Cooper and Carmack Once Friends, Sergeant Jasper. Glory By Fo' ts and Things, mean." "Big midnight, night, Cooper had already served in the It on Fort Moultrio.It Wit Stories Concerning With Record of Bitter Opposition to above him in the tower of Fall Out Over Whisky Question and placing of Which Yi u Know and Naturally I sympathized with Judge high state legislature. But he found more Famous in the War With Some Free Staters Think He is All had heard his first Become Deadly Enemies.Killing of Mexico, Some You Don't Know.Condensed Peurifpy because of the conditions Britain, the boy Westminster, fun in pulling the strings that made and in the Civil War No Other Flag Will Get in commons.and was to hear Carmack Leads to National For Quick Reading. which were impelling him to quit the Right; But as to How He speech political puppets dance fVan in being Inspired More Martial Spirit. told him what I feel.that Want and make them for forty years to come. Prohibition.a puppet himself. He became a Talking the other day to Fred M. bench and Along With Those Who By James Derieux can ill afford to lose his When he was twenty-two he went Chas. B. Parmer, in the New York boss of gigantic power, his paper Allen, secretary of the Gastonia the state Remains for the Future. politicalAt the ou 3et of the war between It is evident that his Republicto London and stuck. His uncle edited World. his chief instrument. the American colonics and Great chamber of commerce, and if there is services.Following is an interesting character it had has been handed in with great a newspaper in Dublin, the Nation. "The nose of Cleopatra.if Prestige of Family. Britain, two regiments of South anybody who thinks Mr. Allen is not resignstidhsketch of the First Governor General of the in been shorter, the history of the world reluctance. He is not sure that he Young Tim reported speeches troops were a fort on an some live wire, that is because they the Irish Free State, who was recently He had not only the prestige that holding Carolina should quit, no matter what the parliament in.shorthand and sent them would have been changed.".Pascal. of island protecting Charleston. This - went with influence but also that don't know him. without T_T <-» nnmiln is the he it. appointed by King George IU mu pdpcr. I1U UCVUItlO HO ic^uiai If "Angel Dune" Cooper's head had but here way put wife was a cousin of was in 1775. It so happened these Among other things the conversation consequence;required to kiss the king's hand, been covered with thick, waving locks, family. His It is "For quite a while I have been beingparliamentary correspondent. President James K. Polk. One brother, wore blue uniforms, and on theirsoldiers drifted onto the road question. that observance having been waived he read law. one be able today to buy a drink would the practice of having my Mornings, might had been secretary to caps was a silver crescent. They had to "drifted." It ' following of Edmund, private hardly fair say . - . »-» -» ^ rrn«-» 5 r» cr his majesty out1 of consideration in on and Main Street. But sician iu give mv ,L muioubii phy_ by He heard every debate parliament Broadway no that as the with ~ 1 «. OQV thot t V"1 n ron- flag at time, flght iv * %«%. Andrew Johnson; another, William, Uf niurt* uuuiaic a^*j As he has found the feelings of those numerous and he came to know every phase of "Angel Dune's" head was bald. And * the road over each year. yet was Chief Judge of the Tennessee Great Britain had Just begun. William versation was "directed" to disorder, and do who so bitterly bate Great Britain.IrishmenIrish politics backward and forward. because the late Senator Edward Ward no constitutional \f Samuel Court, and Harry Cooper was Moultrie, who commanded the fort, question. that health is in any way The sketch was written by He took as his hero the great Irish Carmack ridiculed that *poll we enjoy Supreme that Gaston county not feel my also prominent in politics. was requested by the council of safety, After explaining to this time. But for the New York World. and his articles in the the manifold blessings of prohibition. concrete precarious up McCoyleader, Parnell, Cooper knew the intricacies of the an organization of leading' citizens, to was building black surface nature of the work.its Nation the cause of Col. Duncan Brown Cooper, "a spark of the hecause championing but he was*no man of fashion a flag. In those days flags roads from Gastonia to each adjoining ashes of the old counting room, physical hardship, mental anxiety, used won him instant recognitionNationalismfrom the smouldering were much more used in war than line, with a view to later Those older Irishmen who the study. The American, a county from home associations, and admiration. South," died recently in Nashville, because was more in the over to the state for separation to watch Tim Healy at Ms daily, needed new blood to enliven now, fighting these roads turningand the like, I cannot hope for more delightedlyAnd then he began using his tongue Tenn. His death forever closed the flourishing in other Mr. Allen said among accustomed recreation of chewing the its editorial pages. Some one showed open, and ways very different niaintainancc, than a chance of escaping the 1 as well as his pen.the tongue whose Cooper-Carmack tragedy that split the war. So to ' slight British lion to bits will say: the colonel a few editorials written for from modern they had other things: that have befallen so many biting rcasm and merciless wit were South a decade and a half ago. But a 'hat penalties "Sure, 'tis plain to bi seen why the a paper by a country lawyer, Ned have flag, and General Moultrie "Oh yes, I have heard argument same conditions, and ma him the Tim known all over the Nation-wide that others under the let Tim come near to prohibition that it should be like the decided as the hulk of the road king wudn't Healy Carmack. to the levying it is a question of going on and England and Ireland and America. He sprang from the ashes of the tragedy, and of his m-m. but that's no him afther he had mod Tim the flrrst Cooper was quick to spot talent in cap insignia uniforms tax on abutting property: or no.w and went back home and making we have with us. breaking down, quitting Governor General av th' Free State. began them. This explains why our state flag is account. You don't have to levy the where I will be was the South issued its call to the returning to my home, he if he Tim speeches, and when ho When he blue, and why that little crescedt, tax on tho abutting property. All you "Twas afraid, was, give "Get that man op rpy paper," more free for a life in the open where years old one speech in thetwentyfiveSouth colors in '61, Duncan Brown Cooper, looking like a new moon, is found In to do is to build the road, and the his hand to kiss, Tim wud bite it!" ordered. have 1 will have a better opportunity to of Ireland landed him in jail. seventeen years old, of one of one of corners. and do Those younger Irishmen who insist Up from Columbia came the gawky its proposition will regulate itself, conserve health. So I feel that I might have been both most aristocratic families, my that the Free State is only a mask for The penalty Tennessee's clad in That was There's a pulmfitto tree in the flag, it most equitably. Does not the as best I lawyer, homespun. have decided the matter with bitter tears long imprisonment and public the Confederate army. entered too, but that did not cpme until later. of t. road enhance the value British rule and who in '86. His editorials attracted good bujldingcould with due regard to those who He was acquitted. The stacking of arms in 'G5 found In the summer of 1776, a British fleet in their eyes are still whipping. So did his clothes. A brother of the through or by which it But of of disappointment "Hell attention. property have the first claims on me. The same year, at twenty-five, he Cooper a battalion commander in the attacked a fort on Sullivan's Island, it and with this t |),n fighting for a republic will say: worker gently hinted one day that runs? Of course does, course as 10 wneim-r i mu uumh became Parnell's private secretary. It Roaring" Forrest'^ cavalry. Only the near Charleston, and the result w*a of comes an "If King didn't ask Tim man who could write such powerful enhancement value thing, we cannot know." Geprge was the proudest moment in bravest of the brave wore epaulets in a disaster for the fleet. That and .there you right Healy to kiss his hand, 'twas only probably editorials should dress the part fort, tax assessment, increasedContinuing Judge Peurifoy said that his life. The following year, when only that outfit, commanded by one of the later named Fort Moultrie, was built i *1. ."!« *Iwhulu thine. had done it already!" Ned Carmack went to »».»-.w Tim So nave mt? auiuuvu ui i>»\ he has hopes of being able to help because he himself was elected a most intrepid cavalry leaders America accordingly.of Palmetto and those logs about the But It isn't a thing to joke about, twenty-six, a tailor, and' under careful tutelage logs, There is nothing- arbitrary certain evils he has observed in ]member of has ever produced. the shot from British cannon. The itself." reformeither way. The Free State began this parliament! soon flowered like the lily of the field. stopped>£; matter at all. It regulates the administration of the laws. For soon after he had taken his "Dune" Cooper had lived up to the result of the was soon known week its formal existence, and Ireland, One day Cooper and Carmack became boon fight Their Nerves. one thing he wants to separate the !jeat in the house, Lord Ilartington traditions of his race and caste. He all over the state and Too Much For with the first parliament elected by a companions. The older man admired everywhere it at all, general sessions and common pleas ' a speech. Young. Tim, had fought the good fight. But the told the story of how the Palmetto "If they are going to tell above. majority of its own people in its delivered the mental traits of the youngster, who people courts entirely, both below and ! County Wexford, Ireland, rose spirit of wanderlust, which seeps into logs withstood the flre of the enemy. they will tell it at the clanking of the thousands of years of history, is osten- representing was beginning to ripen. Carmack also He thinks this can be arranged so as to The members stuck their many an ex-soldier's veins, entered his. And that's the reason the figure of the bars that unfasten the jail door," said sibly free to govern Itself as it. will. reply. had served a term i" the legislature, to contribute to the swifter and surer monocles in their eyes and stared. He In the early 70's he mined in Mexico. Palmetto tree was put In the center of Deputy Sheriff T. D. Quinn to Views Hut there is no rejoicing in Ireland and his tongue was running his pen a enforcement of the laws, and that it much taller than a He He built railroads in Honduras. He the and Interviews last Wednesday nevertheless. wasn't boy. close race for laurel wreaths. flag. will also see the reform of criminal 'looked like a farm-hand. He pushed made and lost fortunes in the true All of this was before we had a "I have noticed it for a long time So as the young men who will became a national figure in morning. in certain important long black'hair back from his cavalier Cooper emblem': The colonial and it has been my observation that procedure be content with nothing less than a 'lis shock of spirit. inner political circles. He spent much troopanational For one thing he would 1 with a gesture. Back to the States. He began of the thirteen states In the Re-olu- more of them break down at the jail particulars. there are many of them forehead clumsy of his time in Washington, where he peremptory challenges of jurorsconfinerepublic.and in Washington. The tion used their respective state door than anywhere else." .continue to fire at tiose who are guffawed. Somebody contractingwas admired President Cleveland to two or three and allow the state to talk. of the Monument, left by for a time. In those They had arrested a little negro satisfied with the present form of And then Tim started Washington foundationand Democratic leaders, who realized quite bannersdays the same number that are allowed to Txrson Vio imt thrmich. there wasn't unfinished in 1876, was turned over to our forefathers were fighting- for named Anderson on the street for life in can bo little the he held down South. The defense. Also he would expedite Ireland government, power more so The the < left of Lord Hartington's him 10 complete. Under the than for union, the of the prohibition law. violationboy eliminate better than a ghastly nightmare. ;nough years were beginning to tell on the liberty the and ' he the states were more had a white man with an appeal procedure jpeech to wad a gun with. of army engineers twistedsupervision important various approached of Will it be a rightmare to Tim Hoaly? cavalier. His locks , began to thin, ^unnecessary delay in the execution He talked facts.and he couldn't be structure around to square with the units than they are now. t Not offer to sell him liquor. Pretending Tim Healy is nearly .sixty-eight Duncan Cooper was becoming bald. political a just sentence. compass. until the Civil War, or the War of that he must have a check cashed years old. He was christened Timothy ignored. Carmack was blossoming into virile man SRI.he managed to get While the gay young cavalier was Secession, or the War Between tha he could buy, the white before DR. BROWN UP STAIRS Michael Healy when he was born, In That year.1 manhood. He had learned the ways and 1i into the Land Act which intimate with Washington States.just as you prefer to call it. walked through the courthouse 1X55; but no one ever knew him, ex- clause becoming of the world. In 1889 he founded the wise. On the < millions of dollars for the Irish farm and learning ways that are was the question of union finally def put the sheriff arresting Irvin Cobb's Impression of the as Tim. Until the young Sinn sav;d politicians Nashville Democrat, and when it was cept torn men who would control the elded. Since that war the state negro, the sheriff found an empty pop Soldier. ConfederateFeiners shouldered him out of place t:enants in rents. Tim's picture, useful to merged with the American he became In went on the shelf of states, a little tow-headed have not had their old-time prestige; bcttle on his person; but no liquor. Extracts from an address delivered six ago there was only one Tim 1'rom "the paper," up destiny editor-in-chief. In 1891 he was made years of named Ned Carmack was though, of course, they will never bo a barrel nearby, however, was found Irvin S. Cobb at the U. C. V. as there was 1reside the peat fire in hundreds chap by in all Ireland, just only Wars at editor of the Memphis with. ?" another bottle full of whiskey. in Birmingham, Ala., May 16, He is that 1 through Caesar's dispensed reunionone Teddy in all America. cot;ages. struggling CommercialAppeal.This flag of ours, with Its fine Deputy Quinn was holding the boy 1916. And the stories they told of him. "Sawney" Webb's famous preparatory sort of man. Carmack was another Henry and has had a the and the boy was ««T A ^ i-nmnmKop fhfi PAP fOflom tP The little man never had any awe of school in Tennessee. pretty design, colors during search, Now, after a silence of four years, a bit more vitriol in his ink with tears; or Watterson.withthat is not surpassed by any othercareer protesting his innocence soldier with the gleam of battle in his he has suddenly emerged once more. {iny of the giants.Gladstone, Supported Hie Mother. bottle, and less of the milk of human were such as to man or or state banner. It waved in triumph but the circumstances eye. I have known him as a of anri as tho first Governor General of (Chamberlain the elder, Balfour, IrlnHnom In Vilo hrtunm Where CoODer Ned Carmack was' the son of a poor over forts and over field troops In the lead the officers to put the fellow up, and to mind the typical * or Lloyd ueorge or any 01 peace my the new government of Ireland, the \squith, Primitive Christian preacher who was the suave cavalier, CarmAck was It waved in and when the deputy began unlocking Southern soldier is not a t him lads. He anny of thim to Revolution. again vfctoyy of the pictureconnecting link between ihc Irish par- fought near Castillan the master of men. Cooper spread the Gospel dominating in the war of 1812. The Seminole the jail door, the hoy came clean with man in shoulder I picture him £l standstill. strap's. liament and people and the . British Ned's let other men carry out his wishes. once Springs in Sumner county. learned to fear it in the Indians It. as central of he as he is pictured the crown. "Members pari ament," lad was three Carmack to carry out his own. to tell the truth father died when the began war. And In our war with Seminole "Tes, I am going in a little story I shall nowcharacterWhen, less than two years ago, I first £aid. after thirty years of wrangling could hold the said, "that was my years old. When he Wins Congress Seat. in 1848, the Palmetto flag wasMexicothe' about it," he the shaded avenues of *vith them, "are not the extraordinary the barrel relate.drove through reins Ned ploughed, for neighbors at In 1896 Carmack defeated for first to be planted inside the fortress whiskey that they found in "After the war this man returned to in Dublin to call official- 1>ody of sacrosanct persons they his to that Phoenix-Park 25 cents a day and supported the 10th Tennessee of Mexico City. That was a bloody and I was trying to sell it his home in a little country town and then of > themselves." in congress ly upon Lord French, Viceroy imagne mother through bitter years of poverty. District Josiah fight, and one of the greatest honors man." began the practice of 1 edicinc. nor "The right honorable baronet who Patterson,Congressional Ireland, I could not have realized, Carmack was one of Sawney's most the our flag ever won was to be first "I have hardly ever known it to fail," of his unkempt and meagre Ilas sat he once said in the famous old warhorse of another Hecausecould any one in Ireland, that within Just down," brilliant The schoolmaster the Mexican's stronghold. It wail repeated Deputy Quinn. "If they are the well-to-dos had small need I to a lanky cabinet pupils. period. Carmack's flightsreconstruction Inside condition,two years the post of viceroy would louse, referring career for him. Sawney the Palmetto to it at will tell it knew an a great predictedof made him timous carried there by going tell all, they for his services. But the needy t who had concluded oratory have been abolished forever and that ninister Just Carmack soon made of South Carolina while we are unlocking the doors to realized was not disappointed. the state. But where Cooper made up regiment, and loved him because, they the would be occupied iinusually offensive speech against throughout to be viceregal lodge was reading law, and then piactising and those the kind that troops. the cells. There seems that behind the gnarled hands that had been born in Irish members, "reminds me of Pope's only friends, makes by an Irishman who it in a small town. of The curious and interesting feature about the process thut tYinrrht ihi-mu'hmit the war. was ability 1ine.'like a tall bully lifts its head, clung to him with tentacles steel, something a little cottage in "rebel Cork." One night in the 80's, Cooper, to would die of the history of our flag is that it them break down and come across." and that beneath the tousled and aind lies.'" Carinack made friends who Could Tim himself have dreamed it? was the elixir of life, was once a national banner, for South James E. head was a skilled brain. house whom poker for him- and enemies who wou'd Judge Peurifoy. twisted Tim father was a poor man. A roar of laughter shook the an fortune to of small means, Healy's joined a group of friends in Mooney's have killed him. Carolina was once independent It was my singular good "The doctor being a that of 8md the cabinet minister said no more. readily He had had thankless Job, saloon in Nashville. Mooney's was That was between the time we come into pretty close and intimate could not afford a nice office so he He the British war upon the The wheel of political fortune xi r.ed republic. guardian of the poorhouse at Bantry, opposed no saloon, seceded from the union and entered E. in a little stand as "Mooney's".and ordinary and Carmack was sent to the United contact with Judge James himself up musty fixed on of South- IJoers. In the house one day, a a town the Atlantic fringe it was the hangout of the gentry, the Confederate States of America, the several weeks his Honor has over the livery stable, and down below for information as to States senate. That was in 1901, RooSv. Peuril'oy western Ireland. There in Bantry Tim t hough asking (there was matter of a few months, beginning over the November he a board on the hitching post, where gentlemen gamblers velt had Just thrown his hat on the l>een presiding placed was born. And the way, it was the cost of army operations, he meekly with and in 1861. for York by such a breed once) consorted White House and was beginning late in 1860 ending early term of the circuit court reading. 'Dr. Iirown, upstairs.' frcm that poor i nquirod: sofa, forth is look- not many miles Bantry plain genucnu-u. Alter much discussion back and county. In a way, Judge Peurifoy "Hut one evening his comrades "How many asses have we sent to to show his teeth. Carmack had .just Michael Collins, nearly forty years The stakes ran high that night. Old between the houBc and senate, it was an old acquaintance. I first met him ed for him in vain. They sought him *Jr.nl J, A f.-lr"! tasted real power, and was beginning the later, was born, to become an even Luck to hover over finally agreed on January 28, 1861, that some seventeen or eighteen years ago in his otfice, but they found that so ironic. Lady began. to discover the lash hidden beneath greater figure in Irish history than Tim He was not always gently Once she smiled the of South Carolina, an when he was editor and proprietor of wiinkled hands had ceased to pick the Cooper's shoulder. his tongue. flag * U a directors' meeting in Dublin from commonwealth then, should Press and Standard, coverlet and the head was at rest on Healy. quickly, and Cooper raked in a And Col. Duncan Brown Cooper was independent the Walterboro was Tim vvhich he had been asked to withdraw with white crescent Little Tim.he Tiny then, that would have bought Man o' more be the blue field, and although he did not continue long the pillow. 1ic and shouted: jackpotbecoming a little more fat, a little Clod bless us all!.saw plenty of jumped up and wl.ite Palmetto tree. Soon in the newspaper business, because "Those who loved him were not War as a two-year-old. Cooper opinionated, and.a little more bald. misery around his father's cottage. He "Don't make an ass of yourself!" the we entered the Confederate of his subsequent prominence as wealthy people, but they buried him easily, and asked if gentlemensmiled Cooper loved a man who was a afterwards saw the poor folk who had been driven When a member of pailiament it states, and once more the banner, so and circuit judge I with honor and searched for funds to wished a chance to get some of back? That may have been one of lawyer, legislator from their farms by the unbearable t the National Irish League, atacked fighter. familiar to us all, became a state flay. have been able to keep track of him build a monument to him. The funds Piay Through Night. the reasons for his attachment to Ned burden of rent come tottering to the ' that it was; supported mainlysayngby And after the war was over the well ever since. These were not to be found among them, ' Carmack. It also accounted for the pretty He saw the wretched vie- 'criminals, dynamiters and murderers They did. Throughout the night they defeated and the union added to the however, and then one of them had an poorhouse. admiration that he to feel for Confederacy naturally considerations of haunted iicross the Atlantic," Tim threw the played, with varying luck. Lawyers, began the same remained as It was to lake the old tims famine years. They was a flag reestablished, pleasure of a renewal of his inspiration. an in merchants, the cop on Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt the him all his life and for them ho fought, 'touse into uproar by shouting doctors, judges, the distinctive insigna of this state. and the splendid worth of the hitching post from the front of a few also a fighting acquaintance, year in and year out, until he had help- > eply: the beat, and journalists dropped Republican.but So many are the stories of fights for made renewed association'with stable and put it over the grave. This see how his admiration man rd to lift their burdens. "You're a liar!" in from time to time to Cooper expressed gentleman.this flag, fights around it, and other him enjoyable. was done and until the rain obliterated for him and eventually put his especially Tiny Tim learned his lessons at the He was suspended for this, but the matters were going. openly, events in which it participated, that The talks I had with Judge Peurifoy and the sun drew away the letters, the his "Dune's raked in another pot," would legs under the president's hospitable all 'Dr. Christian Brothers' School and learned 'nember was made to withdraw one could not attempt to tell them wore not for publication of course, no monument stood there, reading, Tim be word carried o\it to the front table. them in a flash. He was r queer one. >statement. As a matter of fact, the in anything short of a book. So we more so than any ordinary Drown, upstairs.' of the where the brass rail was Down at the other end of fMiurinunu was a hook uiui nmui.> was suspended time an
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