Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-25

The following from leading and usually well-informed newspaper from the Eastern section of the re public is mingled with truth snd error:
 John c. Carlisle was ls when he took the gayel in the Forty-eighth congress. He had won his spurs by a course of cold reason in the ranks of the minority. He had studied the silver question. and was regarded as the ablest man championing the sill yer cause. He had studied the tariff question and was accepted as an au- thorisy on the revenue tariff idea. He was a scorching disputant. but always fair and defferentiaL His op- ponents, whether in his party or the other, never feared a trick Of any kind from him as respecoei figures of speech or any kind of figures. It is true his early silver record arose at last to plague him, but hs wran y- led with his critics on the basis ol their own quotations from his del.y- erances."
 Mir. Carlisle won his spurs" m the ranks of the majority. not in the minority In 1877 he entered the na- tional council as a member of the Forty-afth congress that had a pro nounced Democratic majority. Sam uel J. Randall. the speaker, shd Carlisle won his spurs" at the very beginning when he spoke on the constitutional question involved in the then Republican idea of the em- ployment O, the United States army as police force at the polls in the states. From that day he was the first constitutional lawyer sLd the greatest philosophical statesman n the American congress.
 Mir. Carlisle had not "studied the silver question" and was never the champion of the silver cause" On the contrary, he distrusted the itea of Bland and agreed with the idea of Jefferson that the true ratio be- tween the two metals was that txe1 by the market, the only economical proposition as to which Jefferson and Hamilton were agreed. He nev' CT made but one speech on the sil- yer question while in congress, ana that was to convince the house o' representatives that the limited coinage of the Bland-Allison bill. that provided s2.O00.O0O a month was better than unlimited and free coinage at 16 to 1.
 That was the speech that was garhled in 1896, and they who did 1t misled in that meanest way that wickedness can be perpeTated-oy suppressing the truth. I defy any body to show a single utterance oi John c. Carlisle in favor of the 16 to as advocated by Richard P. Bland On the contrary, the entire six years he was speaker he packed the committee on coinage, weights ana measures against 16 to l, just as ne hacked the committee on education against the Blair educational Dill The fact it is was John G. Carlisle and not Grover Cleveland who Kin ed 16 to ].
 know that in 1877, or 1878, his first congress, NIT. Carlisle voted Ioi ! the Bland bill, but be did 1t unoei protest and as a perfunctory act oi rarty discipline. That bill passed both the Democratic house and th} Republican senate and was vetoed by R. B. Hayes. The outome was the l compromise Bland-Allison limited coinage on government account o' ! g .NOO.Oo monthly. Mir. Carlisle ad ] vocated that bill. as I said before and chamrioned it against Blanc himself and those who thought a' i Bland did. It is also true that in hii single speech in congress on coin age. NIT. Carlisle denounced the de monetization of silver by certain governments of Europe as a crime that had wrought more havoc ana more misery than war or pesulence but he also held that only by inter national agreement oyld silver fe re i habilitated and made basic money But when the silver q1estiol threatened to crowd the tariff out Q the paramoUntcy. as the theft of 'h' presidency did in 1877. Mir. Carlisle set about a thorough stu1y ot th' coinage problem. He was a genius a wonderful intellectual ordinarill his mind saw things as they wer' at a glance. but he could also laboi like an OK when at study, and h' rose from the contemplation of in silver question as pronounced r,onometalist as Tilden or Clevelaa' and a far mo-e pronounced gold maj than John Sherman. or Ben Harri son. And such Carlisle contnue' 10 the end, and his utterances on tn subject were the dearest and ables ever delivered in the Western hem isphere.
 I know they lied about him as fe' men have been lied on. I'll tell yo' a cock-and-bull story heard ma narrate atout a year ago. 1t wa this. Carlisle opposed the issue bonds while he was secretary Of tn
 treasury. ahd proposed to put hin
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