The herald., 1896-03-27
CARLISLE THE CANDIDATE

On Sunday, November 10, 1898, THE
HERALD ran up the name of John G. Car
Isle over double-leaded editorial urging,
with some insistence, his availability as a
Democratic presidential candidate. 1t
may not be deemed matter of imperti-
nence to now declare, in view of recent po-
litical developments in the east indicating
movement favorable to Mr.. Carlisle's
candidacy, that THE HERALD's nomination
OF the great Kentuckan was based solely
and precisely on the grounds set forth in
the aforesaid editorial utterance. There
has been no pipeline communication be-
tween The HERALD and the White House
at Washington, through which was slipped
OFF, to this paper the excogitations of Pres
ident Cleveland touching the man after his
own heart to wear the civic crown "richer
from the brows If one who uttered nothing
base"
And further, be it known. THE HERALD
management owes no debt for individual
favors to the present administration, save
such as is due from every country-loving
citizen to an able and conscientious public
servant who has consecrated his time and
toll to what he coOceives to be the best in
terests of the commonweal.
1t may or may not be true that Presi-
dent Cleveland is solicitous that Secretary
Carlisle shall become his resduary legatee.
But he is The HERALD's choice for the
nomination to be made at Chicago. The
reasons for its constancy to Mr.. Carlisle
can be repeated, without modification,
from its issue of November 10, 1895:
THE HERALD has no hesitancy in declar-
ing that it discerns upon the Democratic
horizon but one man who fulfills all the
requirements of the situation, both at
large and in detail.
The best production of the post-bellum,
or new, south, in all the elements that go
to constitute statesman, is John G. Car
Isle of Kentucky. eX.congressman, eX-
speaker of the house of representatives,
ex-senator and present secretary of the
treasury; Democrat who has been con-
tinuously ascending the political ladder,
and. mounting from point to point, has
occupied no position that he did not
adorn; a statesman who, all things con-
sidered, and irrespective of party, is the
brainiest and worthiest among those who
might aspire to wear the great mantle
which Grover Cleveland will doff for his
successor in the presidential chair; man
of whom it may be said. as was written of
the Roman Fabricius, "'Twere as easy to
turn the sun from his course as Fabrlcius
from the path of honor"
Secretary Carlisle is Democracy persona
fed. He is platform in himself. He
stands for fidelity to the letter and spirit
of the federal constitution; conservation
to the interests of the mass of the people
against the spoiiations and encroachments
of the protecte few; devotion to home
rule, personal liberty, national economy
and sound money: aspiration for the
peace, progress and universal fraternity of
our common country.
The Herald affirms advisedly that no
man-not even the president-possesses to
a greater degree than the secretary of the
treasury the confidence and respect of the
financial and commercial world. His atti-
tude for the maintenance of the national
credit, by preserving the parity of all
American dollars, inspires unqualified con-
tidence in his reliability as financier, and
his unequaled powers in logical analysis of
he will continue to be the potent factor he
has already proven in dissipating none
taly vagaries in the south and middle west.
As an expounder of the Democratic doc
trine of tariff levied for public purposes
only-to gather the maximum of revenue
and afford the minimum of protection to
private interests-Mr. Carlisle is conceded
to he in the front rank, if not the first
and ablest between the two oceans.
Carlisle measured against Mckinley
would make up the issue between the two
great parties upon the tariff question, with
out reference to the glittering generalites
of party platforms.
That the great secretary. as the first
presidential candidate from the south since
the war, and one, too, of whom the whole
section is justly proud, would carry every
southern state; will not be reckoned a
doubtful proposition by intelligent politi-
clans"