Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-11-26
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\ Personal Sketch ofCongre-sman Carlisle
 Louisville (Ky.) Commercial.

Personal Sketch ofCongre-sman Carlisle. Louisville lKy.) Commercial.
 "John G. Carlisle is one of the great ast men in the country" said promi- nent Kentucky politician last night q have known him since he was boy, and have watched his course with a great deal of interest. The first time l met him he was a country boy on a farm just back of Covington. 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 l always found John sitting off in one corner with big book III hls hand. He was a quiet kind of fellow, speaking only when spoken to. Whe n he was about seventeen years old he
 started to teach school. He was rather shy at first but in a few weeks hls pupils ali adored him. He taught in little, out-of-the-way school house, and the story goes that he fell desperately Tn love with young lady who lived ln Covington. and was out near where he taught visiting relatives. l don't know how or why hIs cOuTtlng ended, but the lady m question Is now the mother or four children, and avery Tat, pTOsy-look- ing married woman. She lives within A stones throw of Carlisle at COvington. I WAS practicing law Tn the COvlngton district, and one of my friends was tell | ing that Carlisle was going to make a | speech in the court house that day on | some land title. Both of us were friends of hls family and we took considerable | interest in him. We determined to go | and hear him make his maiden speach. | "The case was of a dry, hard, knotty | character, full of legal subtllIty, and l | thought to myself: Johnny, old boy, you're in for a failure today There | was hardly anyone in the courtroom ex- | cept lawyers, and, considering the case l and the audience, 1t must have been | most trying maiden effort. l can see | Carlisle now as he stood up Tn the court | room with copy of the Revised Stat | utes in his hand. lie had that same l weary. studious look in his eyes, that | same cold, passionless expression on his pale face that he has to-day. With | out the least degree of nervousness, III
 plain, calm, quiet way, he began hls
 speech. You could see that he had l mastered every detail, and the lawyers
 as tis,- grew more and more interested
 moved their bodies forward and hung on his words. 1 have no hesitation II
 saving that 1t was the best speech of tho
 kind ever made in the CovIngton court
 house. Without telling an anecdote o
 crauAins joke there was something s'
 winning in his yOlcs and in his manner
 that the interest never Jagged. Whel
 he had finished the lawyers all crowded
 mn nc had a great future before him
 From that day his fortune was made
 Practice poured Tn on hlm, and in tv,
 years he was doing more business than
 any lawyer in that judicial district.
 have heard him many times since then
 and he has never changed his style O,
 hls manner. He has a remarkably
 sweet voice, and while I never heard
 him tell an anecdote, privately or pub
 hcly, there IS something about the man that I= inexpressibly winning.
 lie made an argument before the Court or Appeals m a murder case a few
 years ago, and spoke for nearly two
 hours. When he concluded Judge Co.,
 Ter asked the other Judges to adjourn
 for the day. When asked by one of the lawyers-Eho had a case set for that day-why he adjourned court af-
 ter Carllsle's speech, the old Judge answered crisply: T hated tC hear a good thing spoiled, az would be the case II any other man had followed him
 "Carlisle's wife has a wonderful in iiuence over him, and 1t was due to her that be did not go the way of too many young politicians who come to Frankfort and get a taste of the lio- uOr that is sold there"