Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-28
CARLISLE'S FUTURE.
HOW WILL HIS PARTY SERVICES BE
 REWARDEoH

The Washington Star Thinks He Is Steer
 ing For the White House-No Desire to
 Return to the Senate-His Work as a
 Party Leader.
 Secretary Carlisle returns to his desk at n time when his friends think his political prospects are very bright.
 Ex Congressman Harter of Ohio praises tho president as joint author with the AL mighty of the sound money victory and MT Carlisle, intcrrogated as to tho penti- ment in New York, smilingly indorsed it. But Mir. Carlisle's friends do not indorse it. They make up to him what the pro prieties forbade him to claim for himself. The first battle was fought in Illinois un- der the inspiration of the presidents letter to committee of Chicago business mon. That battle the admirers of Mr. Carlisle Y point out, was lost, and oven Colonel Nor risons called publicly for moro definite expression from the president on tho sub Ject of finance. The next battle was fought in kentuck, under the personal direction of Mir. Carlisle himself and was won in convention by vote of over two to one Mir. Carlisle's speeches were praised as conclusive on that side, and since then the Democratic sound money leaders in other states have closely followed them. MT. German in Maryland will secure an ex- pression in that state when the Democratic convention is held similar to that taken in Kentucky, and Mir Brice in Ohio is trav- cling by direction of the samc signpost. This, as MT. Carisle's friends assert- is distinctly the fruit of his labors and they are expecting tho work to continue to the end in the samo line and under the same inspiration.
 What political form, if any. will Mir. Carlisle's reward take? His friends de- clare that ho has no desire to return to tho senate, and he has said as much himself From present appearances everything is coming toward him at home. There are several avowed candidates for the senate, but discussion of their merit and chances is all in a minor key. Mr Carlisle, d. tlGugh protesting against tho use of ,l1t;ss l1t;ss name, is easily first End it is thought to pe noe ueGhfR6ly that, despite his protest, no 'yn be chosen. The argument used is sHl,aaaple and unansworable. The fight is his. He has planned it and brought the Democratic hosts together. Now, if tho Democracy captures the signature the prize at stake must go by all right to tho triumphant leader. Any other disposition of it would, it is held, disappoint both the state and the country at large.
 Why does Mir. Carlisle turn from tho senatorship2 Is his heart set higher? When he entered tho cabinet, many of his friends thought his ultimate aim was the presi- dcncy and that he would reach it by that route. As secretary of the treasury ho would have a potent voice in tho settle ment of the tariff question, and this would hri, hit,, to bo fnr p,rt ba endorsements that besct the administra- tion on other lines told for time heavily against him in particular and he became the target, even greater than tho president, of all the sharpest st ooting by tho opposi- tion. The free silver men and the gold men alike attacked him, and his woes so multiplied that his friends began to fear he had made q fatal mistake in leaving tho senate. Has the tide of MT. Carlisle's per sonal fortunes turEed9 And is he prepar- ing to take it at the flood and steer for the White House? If this is his play he may be wise in disregarding all signals from way landings, even from tho senate land ing, and in holding his helm triie to tho great course.
 It has always been said of Mir. Carlisle that his residence at the south end of the Cincinnati suspension bridge lnilitated against his presidential prospects; that had he moved across the bridge in early life to tho Ohio end ho would have sprung in good time into presidential proportions. The more ardent of his admirers believe that, whatever there might once have been in this observation, 1t has no longer any material weight. Noxt years issue will be national issue of nature to obliterate all but strictly business lines and as Mir Carlisle's present attitude on that issue is so acceptable on both sides of the suspen- sion bridge that structure will be com pletely eliminated from all calculations. Sound money will mean tho same in the Democratic party in Ohio as inyKentucky, in the farther north as in tho farther south, and the Democratic leader who will have contributed so much to that result will, his friends insist, be the proper man to carry tho party's banner in the presiden- tial race. Washington Star.