The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-05

after he settled in Iowa, and finally got SO
far ahead that he was able to study law
He was a Republican until Cleveland first
ran for president in 1884. when he voted the
Democratic ticket. and he has been a Demo
crat ever since. He Is nows nearly seventy
but his physical condition is such that any
life Insurance company would give him ten
years policy at low rates. d.. se
JOHN G. CARLISLE.
I understand Secretary John G. Carlisle
is to come to the convention. If So there
will be no more striking man in Chicago.
Carlisles face is of thes Old colonial type,
barrin the fairness. He has the malariouS
complexion which you find samong men who
have been brought up along the Ohio river,
and his sallowness has been added to by
the masmatic yapors of the Potomac. Car
isles face is a cross between that of John
C. Calhoun's and Daniel iWebster's. 1t is
classical and somber, and attached to his
six feet of muscular flesh ait forms a part
of personality which attracts attention
everywhere. Carlisle is now slightly stoop-
ed, but he is the same tail, thin, dignifed,
gray eyed man that he, was when he came
to Washington something like twenty years
ago He does not seem to have been worried
by the treasury. He is not a hard worker,
and he does not let things trouble him.
He grasps knowledge by intuition and his
mind is clear that he use every bit
of brains he has. His son once told me that
he played solitaire for his amusement, and
that he often thought out the knottiest prob
lens while carrying on game of this kind.
He will come here to support Cleveland s
gold ideas. They are his own IDEAS not
withstanding many Democrats deny this.
had an Interview with him some time be-
fore he went into the treasury, and long be-
fore the free silver movement had assumed
its present proportions. He said to me:
II want to take care of the dollars of the
people. The capitalist can take care of, him-
self, but the money in which the wages of
iaborers are to be paid should be of the
Carlisle lives at GeviHseon,- KY. Joe Black
/, burn once said to him; -
Carlisle. you live three Hundred yards too
far south of the Ohio river to ever be presi-
dent of the United States"
Think what a difference 1t would have made
had Carlisle lived in Cincinnati instead of
Coylngton. which is, you know. just across
the river. In that case he would TODAY he
the greatest Democrat of the state of Ohio
He would be McKnIey's opponent, and would
undoubtedly now be the head of the Demo-
cratic ticket
ADLAI AND THE MULE.
It is wonderful how many big men there
big in body as well as In brain. Bofes, Of
Iowa, weighs more than 200. Carlisle must
touch the 200 mark. Bland is short, but
and Adlai E. Stevenson. who is something
OF candidate for the presidency, stands "A
inches tall in his stockings and weighs 2s1s
pounds. Carlisle is big brunette. Steven
him strawberry blonde for there is a
reddish tinge to what Is left Of his hair.
and there is a CLINT of gold among the silvery
threads Of his heavy mustache. Stevenson.
like Carlisle was born ant kentucky, and
like Carlisle, he was poor boy. His first
reading was done during the: intervals of
work upon his fathers farm. He had to
fight for his time for reading. and / heard
the other day a story Of how he got in some
of II unknown to his father. 1t was In. corn
blowing time and the farmers of Kentucky
worked from daylight until dark. Adlai
Crusoe. and he carried The book with him to
the fields, going out with his fathers one
eyed mule, ostensibiy4 to- 9piow corn. His
and during the old lnan's absence AdIai
rested and read. Adlai's father however
knew something Of the hoy3s tricks, and in
order to be sure thati1le iwas at work he
told Adlai he should lknowd that whea that
bell stopped ringing he had stopped work.
For some days, however, he noted that the
Hs uswnp 6ons that there
stand it, and he slipped quietly around to
the corn field, the bell keeping UP its ring
Ing as he came. When he reached the fence
he looked In vain for Adlai or the mule. But
the bell still rang. He followed its sound.
and there in the thicket at the side Of the
Held sat the bare-footed future vice president
deep in the mysteries of Robinson Crusoe,
while his foot moved regularly to and fro
pulling at string, one end of which was
attached to his big toe and the other to the
Dell which he had huEs up on a bush a.
Few yards away. 1t is needless to say that
Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday were
laid away for that day at least. Soon after
this Adlai's father moved to Illinois, but the
boy came back to Center College, KY, to
get his education.
THE SWAN-LIKE BLACKBURN.
IL was at Center college that Joe Blackburn
was educated, and Adlai and he were there
at the same time n q
Senator Blackburn will cut big figure here
piimentary vote from Kentucky for pregi
oent, ana ne may make one Of his great
speeches. In the convention. Blackburn ia
famous word painter His mouth can grind
out eloquent expressions faster than forty-
seven graphophones run by electricity ana
at his home he is known as the silver
tongued Blackburn. His speeches however.
are more noted for their beauty than for their
oepth OF thought and. athiss reminds me Of
now Blackburn was. ones ataken down in
kentucky. Candidates fer Office In that state
you know, debate with one another before an
audience Of both parties as to the questions
OF the day. They go about their districts to
snow ons their parts to their constituents
one night Senator Blackburn made the frsf
speech. He had captured 1.-The audience and
as ne sat down his frisndssiooked about IN
triumph. his opponent hem rose and turned
tne tioe OF popularity with g. single sentence.
In this he likened Senator Blackburn to The
swan, saying: 'As
''He is like that beautiful bird which pl;des
along, the perfection of grace, and dips and
inch or SO of water" .zyc{
No one expects BIackburnoto get the noni
nation. Sui he will be zone of the orna
mental features of the, convention, and If he
speaks he will bring down One house