The gold leaf., 1910-08-18
John G. Carlisle.
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News and Observer, 2nd.
The most intellectual man who has
welded the Speakers gravel, worn
Senatorial toga or served in the
Cabinet at Washington since the war
passed away in the death OF Hon.
John &. Carlisle in New York on Sun
dav. At the age of twenty-five he
was elected to the Kentucky Legisla-
turc and remained in public position
until he was sixty-three years old,
having commanding influence In
every official position to which he
was called because of his clearness OF
expression and mastery OF every
question to which he gave his mind.
He was n farmers son and had no
education except such as he obtained
in the common schools and at home
after he had followed the plow.
II was as Speaker OF the House
that Mr.. Carlisle rendered his most
distinguished service and a member
of the Wavs and Means committee.
He succeeded Samuel j. Randall as
Speaker and with Henry Watterson
for many years led in the fight for
"tariff for revenue only" thus re-
versing the protecting heresies held
by Randall. No man has spoken on
the tariff in half a century, not even
Roger q. Mills or William l.. Wilson,
who could elucidate the question so
we'll as Mr.. Carlisle. There was
lucidity in his statements that illumi-
mated all his speeches and carried
conviction. He spoke seldom and
when he had finished, there remained
little else to be said. He had covered
the ground. 1t has been often said
that he made the greatest speech for
the free coinage OF silver ever made
in Congress, and that later when he
was IL member of Cleveland s Cabinet,
Mr.. Carlisle made the greatest speech
against the free coinage OF silver.
He was more the lawyer than the ad
vocate, and his intellectual powers
made it easy for him to effectively
answer his own argument more ably
than any one else could do. He had
quick, almost intuitive, grasp Of
subjects together with an astOnish-
ing capacity for doing work. Sene-
tor Blackburn once said of him:
Carlisle is entitled to mighty little
credit for what he has done in the
world; in fact, he is not entitled to
half as much as | am. The little |
know have worked hard for. Ihave
had to study, dig, grub, and toll.
Now, there is Carlisle; he knows
about four times as much as | do,
and it has all come to him without
an effort on his part. He has all the
wisdom of the ancients and the
moderns, too, rolled together. To
say great things, to say things better
than anybody else could say them,
he has but to open his mouth. That
isn't the result of work; he vas born
that way"
But it only seemed that way. He
had naturally q strong mind, hut
from bOyhOod he had been a student
and had given his days and nights
to reading. He had read almost
everything and had the capacity to
master book at a sitting. Hecould
sit in the House, with the noise and
confusion all about him, and concen.
trate his thoughts as we'll as if in his
study. He was Indifferent to society
and was wholly engrOssed with what
ever called for his intellectual ac
tivity. lie was not a brilliant cam,
paigner, but won by the sheer force
OF an irresistible logic and a lucidity
that was beyond description.
Mr.. Carlisle's place was in Congress
He made an able Secretary of the
Treasury, but made a mistake in
leaving the Senate. Mr.. Cleveland's
will power was stronger than Mr.
Carlisle's and he followed the Presi
dents policy whereas his intellectual
strength far surpassed that OF Mr.
Cleveland. If Mr.. Carlisle had re
mained in the Senate his reputation
would have been greater. Vance
urged him not to resign his seat il
the Senate to become "a clerk tC
Cleveland, and Mr.. Carlisle would
have been wiser for his usefulnes.
and reputation il he had listened tC
Vance rather than to Cleveland. But
his services as Secretary of the Treas
ury gave him acquaintanceship Will
BIG corporations and men of wealth
so that when he retired from tn,
Cabinet he was able to go to New
York and at once enter into re
munerative law practice. He retired
from the Cabinet on March 9TH, 1897
and on March 10th, in the city O
Raleigh made his first appearance a
a lawyer in the Circuit Court as coun
sci for Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan an,
the Southern Railway in the case in
volying the 99-year lease of tn
North Carolina Railroad.
Mr.. Carlisle never returned to Ken
tucky after the stormy political day
OF 1894 and 1896 that separated oil
friends. There was estrangement 10
a time, but in 1904 and in 1908 h
renewed his allegiance to the Demo
cratic party and in a quiet way CAV
his support to Judge Parker, ant
Mr.. Bryan for the Presidency. Ii
was the first, after Col Watterson
to detect the fraud that Brander
burg perpetrated when he palmed o.
that forgery representing Mr.. Cleve
land as favOring the election of MI
Taft. 1t was Mr.. Carlisle who calle,
the matter to the attention of Mrs
Cleveland which led to the arrest c
Brandenburg and the exposure OF tn
forgery.
August time tells on the nerves. But tha
spiritless, no ambition feeling can be easil
and quickly altered by taking what is know
to druggists everywhere as DR.. Shoop's Il,
storatlve. Within 4S hours after beginnin
to use the restorative improvement will b
noticed. OF course, full health will not in
mediatelY return. The gain hnwayar vi