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W. J. COOKE. 649

He makes a most remarkable statement, yet doesn’t pro-
duce a witness, No one, on oath, you will notice, has dared
to state that Mayor Candler and Mrs. Hirsch had these fre-
quently mentioned improper relations. Here is Cook, who
immediately rushes round to the husband’s office to nobly
tell what he has seen. He leaves a note on the husband’s desk
saying, “See me at once.”? This is on Wednesday. Yet the
husband is in town from the following Friday until Sunday
and Cook never told him anything about it!

Gentlemen, that note business waa all arranged. Think of
the bravery of Mrs. Hirsch in going to get that note. Oh,
yes, she saved a shooting by a jealous husband, no doubt.
Never a fireman rushed into the scorching flames with greater
bravery than she displayed. Why did Cook tell Mr. Adair
all this stuff about the terrible crimes he has committed!
To make himself out a terrible fellow and scare Mr. Candler,
as he thought. Gentlemen, the workings of the criminal
mind are sometimes very strange. He wanted to impress
upon the Mayor that he was a dangerous man; he thought
his hair would stand on end with fear. It was camouflage of
the most transparent variety. The worst thing that Cook
had done, the meanest, lowest thing of all, was to bring an
article of woman’s underclothing into this court room and
flaunt it in the eyes of the public, to show it and then not put
it in evidence. I don’t believe for a minute that he got that
garment from the floor in the office, as he saya he did. He
has had time to get dozens of pairs since then. He could have
bought a pair, or the woman could have given him a dozen
pairs.

Pretty soon my old friend Cooper is going to talk to you.
He is running for the United States Senate. He is going to
make you an old-fashioned campaign speech. I hope you've
all got your umbrellas ready to keep off the spray.

Here they are, trying to drag in the mire the reputation of
one of Georgia’s foremost citizens, known far and wide as
Atlanta’s ‘‘first citizen,’’ a man whose activities are all con-
structive, who has erected colleges, endowed universities, con-

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