Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-03-27
AN INTERESTING STUDY OF oi.Evr-
LANDS MAN FRIDAY.
A Born Cat's-Paw. Mounted ON the
Shoulders of the Kentucky
Lottery.
A. II. Lswla in the New York Morning.

1aAtAhbhIb anu UAlBA 1SNAaAs hA-S t'-~T
shaven and smooth no vestige OF mus
taohe or beard. His forehead is full
and round, his cheeks are hollow, whi1e
nose aud jaw nave such ruggedness
as TO promise hope OF stability and
courage; a promise Cancelled, however
by the furtiVe anxious eye, Whicn
Turks rather than looks through the
grizzly bramble Of his brow.
Carllsle's face, while gross, Is sensi-
tive and appreh 3nsive. II shows MN
helpless rather than weak. II wears
the look of one who fees from an I'M
doubted past TO future full of doubt
Carllsles face Is fraught with indecis-
ion as well as a cry for leadership, and
tolls plainly Of the unvirile ductllity
OF his nature. 4 strong and stubborn
personality, made impressive by
position and the power position coufers,
can draw and coil Carlisle like bale
OF wire.
As mere thought engine none Of
finer or more elaborate and hair-line
finish than Carlisle was ever round
housed at the capitol. His brain, when
1t comes to thought grinding, has all
the power and accuracy OF machine
No one VIII think more lucldly or with
clearer brittlenegs. lie Will give to
every argument its weight, to every
fact It's value. His conclusions Will be
absolute In their integrity. Yet he will
Ahlf lhNNlub lOI NltUl. ne VIII htStIk
them abandon them, forget indeed,
what and where they are, at the least
OF invitation; like some cold, bad par
cnt uignt his children There are
more OF these thought offspring OF Car
Isle. mind-children he has abandoned,
and every one legitimate, who are now
being reared and cared for by others
than would ill a founding asylum.
What strikes one as he studies Car
Isle and watches him is his unblush-
ing lack OF what may be termed mind
morality He has no more of It than
n chh register He Will consort with
any view, good or bad. which promises
rAulnnUly and seems most pleasantly
profitable at the time.
Men use Carlisle and do things with
MIN. He is u born cats-paw. and his
furcfoOt Is scared and cnarred today
from much pokng Of the chestnuts
OF others from the fire. II there's
ANYTHING in theosophy and the doctrine
OF the tranamtgratlOn OF souls Carlisle
was once good-natured horse In
country neighhorho0d, and everybody
rode him who wanted to. And fire.
quently left him covered with mud
wlthaL Yet after all is said, he is
unusual, rather than eccentric.
Carlisle was born in 1896. He Is q ma
tive kentuckian. When the war rushed
down like a storm he was OF excellent
age for a soldier, II would appear,
however, that gaining his cue from the
neutrality declared for by his state,
Carlisle withheld himself from both
sides. Neither Confederate nor Federal
gained by his valur As az the war
reeled on, however Kentucky herself
may have DETECTED, Carlisle at least
was neutral.
Carlisle's Democracy, while II existed
during the war, was on the retired list
until 1856, This has proof from his dec
lination to be an elector on the Demo-
cratic ticket in 1864. Two years later.
however, he took to himself an office
mat OF state senator-and has never
been without one since. Carlisle Is a
lawyer. Still, the law is only his pro-
iession politics is his actual, serious
pursuit
II is worth ones while to know the
source Of man, just as 1t is to know
the source Of river. In LOUSY lille
there was--nnd probably is--a theater.
II Is called the Buckingham. 1t was
and Is owned by Il John Whalen. This
unworthy person is what Is colloqulally
termed hard, and is the Billy Nc
Glory or Louisville.
With Whalen and his Buckingham ms
the lower rung, Carlisle mas mounted
the ladder OF politics by the whisky
interest and the Kentucky lottery This
Inst In chartered monster which lives
In web spun by some venal leglsla-
AhAN "a a ~ Wv EIu-S lpllk ago. HOf Nn0Tg
the better and more honest element has
tried In court and out to tear down
the web and crush the lottery.
carlisle has been the lottery attorney
from the first. He has succeeded In
preserving II In Its blood sucking.
When Cleveland was first president
Carlisle was speaker of the house n
was then Cleveland adopted him for
his own. Cleveland practically made
up the committee ON ways and means
and that of coinage in that congress.
Just as he did in the last. He found
I'rlisle Yielding, plant, malleable. Car
isle had been for silver Cleveland
land has practically dominated Carlisle
and furnished him his side of every
Issue.
orc has been but one short spacn-
the first nix months of 1S9s-when Car
isle was beyond the Cleveland in
huuhcs. borman took possession Of
MN. CARLISLE wanted to he president
then, Just as he wants to be prcsi.
dent now. He VIII never suo9eed In
nus ambition; but he will not believe
inns ana Is consumed with the flames
OF a white house fever now.
:, GorInan worked on this hope of Chr
use. lie urged him to become. n can
didate and take Kcntucky's delegation
NJ chicago. For a space Carlisle lie
tened to the Maryland fox. himseIf
merely trying TO use Carlisle In his avn
plane for presidency. Under Cor
Inan's sugl,cstion Carlisle nuhliqhed
an interview in March. 1892 sevinp
Cleveland while good man vvn,,iI
be bad candidate. As late as conven-
zion day at Chicago Carlisle was ,,r~-
lng kopi esentafive Ffthian to see that
Illinois cast Its vote for Colonel Nor
flson In the convention.
:, IT you VIII hold Illinois solid for
MORRISON said Carlisle to Fithian
| yet" e'elaiiu)
But Illinois was not held so,id fo-
Morrison. Cleveland was named ana
elected, and Carlisle crept 10 n po,.tl
folio In his cabinet. He has NOT bcen
oad officer. Nor would proper blame
be his II he had. CLEVELAND ~,
directed every syllable CARLISLE bes
ever uteredi commanded every move
ne mas made; framed every policy ~
finance no Inns ever Illuminated since no
mas served ms secretary OF the treasury
Cleveland will control to the end
as a matter OF last fact 1t Is probnh,,,
true thai so far as this adminIstI-tiny
Is powerful In the next conventlnn 4,
VIII do what II may 20 give Carlisle n
presidential nomination. 1t will he
win and emntv should he get il or i,
wlll be good fortune to him should no
TAU. Were the chances Of the ma
mocracy now roseate II Is the onInion
OF experts that Carlisle would b. very
much retired by folk now noisiIy III
!. 10 the outlook that March 1907