Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-01-22

HERE IS SONY INTERESTING GOSSIP ABOUT
PUBLIC MEN.
Mr.. Cleveland Thinks Carlisle is the Greatest
Man 10 the COunry-A Dark Horse for
Secretary Of State Cleveland
and Gresham.
,Sp,,ial Corrs,rordsncs of Ms REGISTER.

Special Correspondent or m5 he0sSte.
WASHINGTON, January 19.-Is there
anything ia the world more interesting
than men? Some one may say, Yes,
women" This is true, but none OF US
likes to sit down in a cold blooded way
and write q two column letter about
women. / make it a rule never TO say
anything about women unless it is
something nice, and just now l don't
| happen to think of enough nice things
about women-at least, not about wo-
men that you take any interest into
fill a couple Of columns.
1t is different with men. You a
say nice things about them and things
that are not nice, so you don't go too
far, and the sensible one won't COM
plain. Shrewn public men in Washing
ton scheme and plan to get the newspa-
per correspondents to write about them.
| They prefer praise, but if they can't
get that they would rather have abuse
than nothing. Anything but to be
ignored. So if anyone has fault to find
with what I say Of him or OF his frinds
this letter let him remember that silence
is the unkindest cut Of all.
1t has been settled for some days that
MI. Carlisle is to be the new Secretary
Of the Treasury. He notified Mr.. Cleve-
land two weeks ago Of his acceptance
and will resign from the Senate Febru-
ary 1. This is no longer news, but IL
| leads up to what l want to say. / have
heretofore expressed the opinion that
Mr.. Carlisle is the most intellectual man
in the public life of this country, and l
am naturally glad to have my opinion
confirmed by so eminent an authority
as Grover Cleveland. To q certain en-
inent gentleman who called on him a
few days ago aud mentioned Carlisle,
Mr.. Cleveland said, with something like
enthusiasm: 81 am harpy TO be able to
tell you Mr.. Carlisle has accepted the
Treasury portfolio. Carlisle, in my
judgment, is the greatest man in Amer
ica."
mot excepting yourself, Mr.. Cleve-
land?" the caller smilingly inquired.
81 except no one" was the response.
MIR. Carlisle's friends think he is max
ing a great mistake. They say that
after he has worked himself to death
for a few years in the Cabinet he will
find it impossible to get back into the
Senate and will find himself out in the
cold. But these friends need not worry.
am going to strain q point in conf
ce to tell you that Mr.. Carlisle will
90 from the Cabinet to the supreme
bench.
How queer ii is that q oma always
sticks to the bird in the hand! Now,
there's Mrs. Carlisle. a fine Kentucky
woman of charming manner and keen
political judgment. When the Repub-
iicans obtained control of the House two
years ago, and Mr.. Carlisle saw a chance
to 60 to the Senate, Mrs. Carlisle said
to him:
"Don't you do it, John. Stay right
where you are. The Democrats will re-
gain control Of the House at the next
election and will hold it for six or eight
years, and you will be reelected Speak
or Just as long as you want it. A Sena-
torship is not to be compared with the
Speakership. Is it, JOhn?"
But MI. Carlisle decided to go to the
Senate and has since said, probably a
hundred times, that he wished he had
accepted his wife's advice. Mrs. Car
isle was not in favor of his going into
the Cabinet either. Let US hope that
for once a woman's intuition will turn
out wrong.
Probably Judge Lindsay will be Sena-
tor Csrlisle's successor. OF another
distinguished Kentuckian, also an as
pirant for the seat Carlisle is about to
vaeate, it is said he would have been
sent to the Senate years ago If 1t were
not for his habits. On hearing this a
cynical friend Of mine remarked:
Judging from the habits of some OF
the K~entuckians who do come here.
what must we think Of those who are
kept at home on account Of their hab-
lisp"
Probably / can write this thrust at
Kentucky with better grace than most
men because 1 have so often expressed
my admiration for those genial, dash
ing Kentuckians. How some Of them
manage TO drink so much whisky and
Al the same tine TO keep up Appearances
and do good work Is 3 thing l could
never understand. Why. = certain IA