Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
THE POSSIBLE SPEAKER.

4 Personnel Sketch of Congressman Carlisle.
Louisville, Ky. Commercial
''John G. Carlisle is one of the greatest
men in the country" said prominent
Kentucky politician last night. II have
known him since he was boy, and have
watched his course with great deal of in
terest. The first time met linn he was
country boy on farm just back of Gov
ington. He was a pale, studious boy,
working hard all day on the farm, and
studying and reading by night. visited
his family several times, and I always
found John sitting off in one corner with a
big book in his hand. He was quiet kind
of fellow, speaking only when spoken
to. When he was about seventeen years old
he started to teach school. He was rather
shy at first, but in few weeks his pupils
all adored him. He taught in little out
of -the-way school house, and the story goes
that he fell desperately in love with a
young lady who lived in Covington, and
was out near where he taught visiting rela-
tives. I don't know why or how his court
ing ended, but the lady in question is now
the mother of four children, and is a very
fat, prosy looking married woman. She
lives within stone's-thrOw of Carlisle, at
Covington. was practicing law in the
Covington district, and one of my friends
was telling that young Carlisle was going
to make speech in the court house that
day on some land title. Both of US were
friends of his family, and we took consid-
cradle interest in him. We determined to
| 90 to hear him make his maiden speech.
'sThe case was of a dry, hard, knotty char
acter, full of legal subtilty, and thought to
myself: Johnny, old boy, you're in for a
failure to-day There was hardly any one
in the court room except lawyers, and, con-
sidering the case and the audience, it must
have been most trying maiden effort.
can see Carlisle, now as he stood up in the
court room with a copy of the revised
statutes in his hand. He had that same
weary, studious look in his eyes, thai
same cold passionless expression on his
pale face that he has to-day. Without the
least degree of nervousness, in plain, calm
quiet way, he began his speech. You could
see that he had mastered every detail. and
the lawyers, as they grew more and more
Interested, moved their bodies forward and
hung on his words. have no hesitation
in saying that it was the best speech o
the kind ever made in the Covingtol
court house. Without telling an anecdott
or cracking joke there was something Sc
winning in his voice and manners tina
the interest never tagged. When h
had finished the lawyers all crowded
around him, the judge shook him warml.
by the hand, and Tom Jones, who hap
pened to be in the court room, told him h
had great future before him. From tina
day his fortune was made. Practice poure
in on him, and in two years he was doin
more business than any lawyer in that ju
dicial district. I have heard him man
times since then, and he has neve
changed his style or his manner. Il
has remarkably sweet voice, an
while I never heard him tell an anecdot'
privately or publicly. there is somethin
about the man that is inexpressibly wiz
ming. He made an Argument before III
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