St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-23

Smith ana Gresham.
Special 10 the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 22.-John G. Car
Isle is the popular member Of the cabi-
net, as he formerly was the popular
speaker of the house. 1t is hard to an
alyze Mr.. Carlisle's popularity, as it
consists of such vast procession of
minor and apparently insignificant pc
culiaritles. In the first place. the Sec
rotary of the treasury is not too good.
Everybody knows that he has many
perhaps too many-human weaknesses.
To be an unbiased and competent judge
of greatness one must be great. But
any small fellow can sit in Judgment on
great mans small qualities.
There seems to be something in the
climate between the Allegheny and the
Rocky mountains tina develops in men
those small and almost unnoticeable
elements which, in the aggregate, con-
stitute the popular man. You will find
statesmen from the extreme North and
the extreme South, the extreme West
and the extreme East that make you
wonder how in the name of the good
send them to the village council, to say
nothing about congress. or into the
cabinet. Then you will meet crowd
from somewhere bordering on the Ohio
or Mississippi rivers, and 1t will occur
to YOU mentally 10 inquire how any one
OF the party misses being a senator,
Representatives, governor, or a cabinet
officer. 1t is very rare, III fact, that
every mothers son of them is not
colonel.
Well, Secretary Carlisle belongs in
this category. In the first place he is
the most apprOachable of all our public
men. Let the plainest farmer from his
own state. or the most inexperienced
reporter from Boston or San Francisco,
strike the Kentucky statesman at his
hotel, Oh the street car, i'll the lobbieS of
The capltol-any where. in Shorthand he
is as friendly, confidential and sOciabe
as though holding intercourse with his
official or social equals.
Everybody knows how district judge
IN Minnesota, fer instance, obtains and
holds popularity. If it should be that
any Ole of the new candidates for judi
cial honorS up there has not yet learned
the lesson let them learn it from this
article. Judicial popularity is readily
obtained by treating the opinions of the
pln-feathering lawyer just out of the
university as though they were the
sage utterances-the written opinions
OF the chef justice. When it becomes
necessary for his honor to correct the
law points of his legal ducklings, it
should be done in friendly and depre-
catory manner, as though the principle
enunciated ought to be the law, and
would doubtless have been only that
Marshall and Storey and Kent blunder-
lngly gave it twist in different diIec-
ton.
That is the way Secretary Carlisle
meets young congressman. young heads
OF bureaus, young fellows in all official
position, and especially young newspa-
per men.
But this is not all. MIR. Carlisle is
really one of the great men of his gen
Grafton; but he has that rare gift of
making it appear that it is the fellow he
is talking TO VINO is really the oyershad-
owing personality of the century. He
never offends the self-love of any man
with whom he is brought into contact.
II he is compelled 10 refuse favor,
the refusal is couched in such
gentle and sympathetic language that
the applicant retires from his presence
ceiling that the Kentucky statesman