The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-01

The body will be sent to Washing
ton and the funeral will probably be
held at the residence which Mr.. Car
Isle still retained there. Burial will
be in the family plot at Covington, KY
He was born in Campbell county, KY,
on September 5, 1885, and was admit
ted to the Kentucky bar in 1858. He
served several terms in the Kentucky
lower house and also as state senator.
From 1871 to 1875 he was lieutenant
governor of Kentucky, member of con-
gress from 1877 to 1889 and from
1890 to 1898 United States senator He
1893 to 1897 and has practiced law in
New York city since his retirement
from active participation in politics.
Fond of Reading and Figuring.
AS boy Mr.. Carlisle was studious.
He was raised on farm, with much
of the ordinary labor of farm life
thrown upon him, but for this he
showed little aptitude. His mind turn
ed rather to reading and figuring, and
many task was neglected to give play
to the natural propensities of the
young student. One day when he had
been sent to pillow his mother was at
tracted by loud talking and shouting,
and she found the boy standing on a
fancied assem- blage. The field was I'M
plowed, and the horse stood hitched to
fence close by. His mother sudden
ly cut the grafton short and asked how
The boy answered that he guessed he
hadn't done much, as the horse was
| tired.
John Carlisle had a common school
education, but at fifteen he became a
teacher as we'll as student, devoting
the time not given to his class to study
and reading. In this way he advanced
rapidly and at seventeen he was prin-
cipal of the school. ~e
1t was not long, however, before his
| ambition took another turn, and he
studied law with J. w. Stevenson and
| w. b. kinkhead and at twenty-three
was admitted to the bar.
Beginning of His Political Career.
| While yet tall, attenuated lad of
10 he was taken by Governor Stevenson
on political tour, and it frequently
happened that the governor incapaci-
tated himself by overeating to which
he was prone, and that young Carlisle
| had to speak for him. 1t is thus seen
that the future senator began his po-
| litical career very early, showing great
precociouEness even in the early matur-
| ing western country of over forty years
| ago.
| Then came his steady advancement,
not only in law, but in politics He
was member Of the state house of rep
resentatives for 1S59-61; was nomi-
mated for presidential elector on the
Democratic ticket in 1864, but declined;
| was elected to the state senate in Feb
ruary, 1866, and reelected in August,
| 1869; was a delegate at large from
Kentucky to the national Democratic
| convention at New York in July, 1868;
was elected lieutenant governor of
| Kentucky in 1871 and served until 1875;
| was alternate presidential elector for
the state at large in 1875; was elected
to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty
seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth and Fifty-first congresses,
was elected speaker of the Forty
eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth con-
crosses and was elected to the United
States senate in May, 1890, to fill the
term of Senator Beck. who died.
Ready, ResOurceful Debater.
Mr.. Carlisle soon after his appear
ance IN congress won place for him
self as a ready, resourceful debater
and a man of wide information, espe-
cially on all questions of finance. He
never attacked persons, but always
principles. He never praised and never
asked or expected it of another. Indeed
the only time he showed any feeling
was under the fire of flattery, which
Invariably met with an involuntary
frown These characteristics set of
and strengthened the strong nature
and the strong principles of John G
Carlisle.
Exceedingly simple in his habits. un-
demonstrative, yet exquisitely sensitive
and affectionate. Mr.. Carlisle has been
as imperturbable in victory as in de-
feat. Though a large reader when &
young man, his great activity of late
years made more than a glance through
a book a matter of rare occasion. His
habit has been to do much of his hard
thinking while playing solitaire he
has also thought out many a speech
while playing poker, notwithstanding
4 the fact that his luck has been pro-
Verbally SO bad that one of his friends
called it the senator's game of tWos
and threes."
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