Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01

in 1856 he was elected state senator. He
was reelected to the senate.
At the democratic national convention
held in New York city in 1868 carlisle
made his first appearance in the arena
of national politics as delegate-at-larse
nominated for the presidency at this con-
vention. Mr.. Carlisle was lieutenant
governor of Kentucky from 1871 to 1879.
A year later he was one of the alternate
Tilden electors-at-large from Kentucky.
When Mr. Carlisle was elected to Con-
gress, in 1876. Samuel J. Randall, whom
he was to overthrow, was a power in the
lower house. This was the Forty-f1fth
Congress. He was five times reelected
by large majorities and served as Speak
er for three terms. He was an authority
on parliamentary law, and when the
House seemed ineXtricably involved his
clear. judicial terms Strengthened things
out and brought calmness out of the APP
parent chaos.
Never Given to Bombast.
His expositions of the abstruse princi-
piles of parliamentary and constitutional
law. delivered thus extemporaneously and
instantly, read like studied treatises. He
was never given to rhetoric, political
bombast and strained arrangement of
periods which have characterized the
Mr.. Carlisle won his spurs in Congress
on the Carlisle internal revenue bill in
the Forty-siXth Congress. From that
hour he became the recognized leader OF
He was the life and soul of the per
cent bank bill. The measure afterward
passed the Senate, but was vetoed by
President Hayes.
1t was in the great tariff debates which
came later that Mr.. Carlisle won his
highest standing: When the result Of
the commission was before Congress he
took the leading part. He not only led
the debate but he led his party. He was
a member of the tariff committee of con-
ference anG fought the protectionists inch
by inch, paragraph by paragraph.
Three Years in Senate.
Mr. Carlisle stepped from the House
into the Senate in 1890, when he was
chosen to fill the uneXpired term of James
B. Beck whose service was brought to a
close by his death. He was recognized as
a leader in the three years that he served
in the Senate before the President called
him to the cabinet.
He was asked at one time if he had not
written President Cleveland's free trade
message but said that beyond consulting
with his political friends. himself among
them, the President was the sole author
of the message and deserved all the credit
for taking a broad stand for tariff reform.
Mr.. Carlisle remained in Mr.. Cleveland s
ca binet duEing the latter'S entire second
term.
In 1898 he was admitted to the bar of
the supreme court of New York state. At
the same time his son, William *. Car
Isle, received admission.
Not for Free Silver
At one time Mr.. Carlisle was accused of
, %t,o cS1
yer, but his later actions showed that this
accusation was not true. He was chosen
to fill the chair of president of the Law
yers' Sound Money Campaign Club in
1860. and also served as vice president of
the Anti-Imperiaist League of Boston.
In the later years of his Efe Mr.. Car
isle devoted his time exclusively to his
law practice. He was counsel for many
large concerns. In 1862 he Went to Cuba
to negotiate for placing loan for the city
of Havana.
and William X. The former was his
fathers secretary during his life in the
Senate and Secretary OF the Treasury.
Mrs Carlisle was Miss Jane GoodSon. a
member of an old Kentucky family. She
died eight years ago. She was leader in
Washington society for many years.
Since 1887 Mr.. Carlisle had been in pri-
vate practice ia New York.
Not of Strong Physique.
Mr. Carlisle was a man of more deli
cate physique than the average native of
Kentucky He was slightly stoop Shout
dered .tithoug, he was not an orator by
any means. he had a strong. clear voice
that could be heard all over the House.
Mr. Carlisle never lowered himself TO
personalities either in the Hause or ON
the stump. He was liked by both re-
pubicans and democrats.
; 1t was said of him that he had practi-
cally no habits at all. He went to bed
when he got ready. and go up about .
o'clock in the morning. He didn't care
much when he ate or what was served
him. His luncheon was usually cracker
and a glass of milk. He never took any
exercise, and his only recreation was
card playing. of which he was very fond.
Socially he was a delightful companion, a
charming converse tionalist. with a keen
sense of humOr.
One of the most direct of men, he was
never blunt. \ friend once said to him:
, You must have been born where the
roads were winding:
"Why?"
Because you always take the shortest
cut across fields.