The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-12-09
Carlisle Gone to New York.

Kentucky has lost the hon. John u.
Carlisle as a citizen and New York has
gained him. What was Kentucky's
loss was her gain, and New York's gain
was dead loss. Mr.. Carlisle knew
when he bent the suppliant hinges OF
the knee to Cleveland and Wall street
''that thrift may follow fawning," that
there would be no more cold Kentucky
home" for him. He put the Blue Grass
and old sour mash behind him for the
money bags of Wall street. He laid
down the convictions of lifetime and
the honors which his confding constit-
uent had so freely bestowed upon him
and burned them on the altar of the
golden calf He is man Of great men,
tai capacity with heart the size of
manikin's, and back bone of the con-
sistency of fishing worm. He has
found his proper place of abode. A
man does not need either heart or prin-
ciples, or honor, in Wall street, if he
only has the brains and the cash. In
fact. heart would be an encumbrance,
and principles, or high sense of honor
would destroy all hopes of success in
the mad scramble that goes ONT there
day and night for money. That Mr..
Carlisle has solved the meat and bread
question for the balance of his lifetime
is beyond all reasonable doubt. He
need not inquire henceforth how he
shall meet the demands of his appetite,
but he only needs to be able to furnish
an appetite for the abundance which
will surround him. Kentucky makes
to New York quit-claim of all her in
terest in the Hon. John &. Carlisle.
It was curious coincidence that the
Frankfort Lottery left us at the same
time. The state could stand several
such misfortunes every day in the year.
Kentucky would have been glad to
have assigned him mich in the tenn
pie of fame with her other great men,
and if he had remained true to his peo-
pie and his pledges future generations
of Kentuckians would have been taught
to reverance the name and the fame of
John G. Carlisle. But it was not to be,
Mr., Carlisle fell under influences for
eign to Kentucky and Kentucky ideals,
and was not strong enough to with
stand them. While all who are ac-
quainted with Mr.. Carlisle's public
record will recognise his great mental
attainments he will not be held up to
the young men of the future as model
patriot and statesman. His fame will
be clouded on account of his betrayal
to his party, and desertion of his prin.
ciples, and his treacheIy to the con
stituents who honored him. Time and
the grave soften the asperities of public
Judgment, and dull the point of criti
cism, but if the future historian will
consult contemporaneous history the
name of Carlisle will always be covered
with pail. Philosophically speaking
his place in history will depend OF
what our future history as u natiol
shall be, and on who shall make an(
write that history. If we are to hav'
another declaration of independence
freeing the United States from the fl
nancial rule of England, Mr.. Carlisl
will figure in the category with th
tories and traitors of 1776, but if we ar
to go on until America is Anglicize'
through her financial system and W
are again to pass under the rod 0
Great Britain, Mr. Carlisle will b
: among those nearest the throne. He
no dou ot willing to leave it to history
= and SO are we.-Louisville Dispatch.