The Cairo bulletin., 1905-01-19

/ war with no factories, OF bought sup
, plies and equipment with no money
and no credit No. 1t was not in hel
! lack Of Il guiding and tremendous
ly energetic" leader that the south
lost; II was in her stars. The fates
decreed that the shackles must come
off and all the genius of Caesar, the
impetuosity Of Napolean or the Gun
ming OF Fahius could not have pre-
vented Appomattox.
But because Of its unusualness. we
reproduce "Savoyard's" statement.
which is as follows:
John G. Carlisle was made for the
sena @, or, better stin. the supreme
bench AS Il presiding officer he was
inferior to Henry Clay. James G..
Blaine and John G. Breckenridge: but
as parliamentarian he was sll-
perior to all Of them, and to Andrew
Stevenson, Samuel J. Randall and
Thomas r. Reed besides. PERHAPS
John c. Calhoun was the only man
VINO was his equal as an expounder of
parliamentary law. Carlisle had so
mastered the science when. as
young man, he was lieutenant govern.
or of Kentucky. that he never had to
go 10 the textbooks to find ont what
TO do. Ii seemed to be instructive.
Besides, his mind had the virtue Of
integrity The late Isham G. Harris
said Of kim: His mind is a nickle.in.
the-slotmachne ASK him a question
aud out comes the answer Could |
yon have joined The tremendous NOR
al energies of Isham G Harris 10 the !
extra ordinary intellectual capacities I
OF John G. Carlisle, what man were |
there, my countrymen, And | do
not mean to say that Mr. Carlisle has.
not moral stamina, He has it in
abundance, yet his mind is SO judicial
that ii is held in check; but Isham G.
Harris was a thunderbolt Of a man
Not like Paris. handsome, but like
Hector brave; ard / do believe that
lad he been president Of the South
I'm Confedegacy July 4, 1863, would
ave found the cause Of the south tri.
lmphant. or lost, with the chances
many fold that il had survived"
Referring to Uncle Joe" Cannon
'Savoyard' says:
Some years ago Uncle Joe Cannon /
ried 20 break into the senate. There
vas reason for Marius sitting amid 5
he ruins of Carthage-there was
where he belonged, and there is
where that fellow. who surprised him
here, ought TO have killed him; bu
is impossible to imagine any sane
eason why Joseph G. Cannon should !
'e a senator in the American con.
'ress On the house side he is not
My an important and a valuable fac. I
or, but he is a dominant force, and
is for good. He is a conservator
hough he would wade as deep in
lell for his party as Grosvenor or
hepburn, but not quite as deep as
ome folks that might be named. AS I
hartman Of appropriations MIR. Can.
ION was always intelligent and al, 9
ways patriotic. He could see Job
S far as the instinct and the judg. Z
1ent could reach, and If such a thing
ot through-and hundreds of them
id-it was in spite Of and not be-
auso OF, j. G. Cannon. That is what !
lade him speaker. If he had had a :,
ttle-just a little-of that Charming I
rhanity Blaine had he would have !,
cen speaker in 1881. but he is in !,
ne particular like that other Joe :,
dickens tells of. tough, devillsh tough, \
ut not as sly as Dickens Joe thought h,
imself to be. =.
Let the shoemaker stick to his D,
st and let Uncle Joe stay on the to
0use side"