The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-09-01

Senator Morton In Maine.
The Massachusetts, Republican,
from which we copy the following
truthful sketch of Senator MORTON,
is one of the best of New England &
reliably sound Republican papers,
and the thousands of the Senator
friends in his native county and
State, know and feel that he is just.
ly appreciated for his sterling
worth in the East as well as the
West:
We are glad to see that the Repub-
licans oe Maine are to have the bene-
fit Of the services Of Senator Morton
of Indiana on the stump Tor brief
period. We regard Senator Morton
as without a living superior in some
of the most important requisites OF a
public speaker. Unlike so many
others, even able men who have form
ed the habit of constant talking be-
fore audiences. whether they happen
to be in the mood for it or not, he
wastes no time in useless verbiage.
but always speaks with a Webster-like
directness and compactness. He has
no stories to tell and INDUCES in no
personalities, but grasps the main
points and argues them out with a lu-
cidity which makes him comprehend
ed by all, and with a depth and fresh
ness which never fail to eEchain the
interest Of the best-informed. We
think he will be found pc ,uliarly &C
ceptable to a New England audience,
who always relish close thinking and
mo nonsense.
If. however, on his simple merits as
a speaker, Gov. Morton would suth-
GENTLY commend himself to his Re-
publican auditors in Maine, his words
viii be sure to carry an added weight
from his known career and record.
All remember him ae the Governor
Andrew of the West-the great War
Governor who, in the extreme crisis
of national peril, held up his State
and exerted q most benifcent interest
throughout all the Northwest in the
work of maintaining the Union.
Without him it is difficult to see how
the triumph could have been achieved.
His tireless energy, prompt and wise
measures, financial no less than mill
tary, and the moral stimulus Of his
uncomfortable determination, seemed
to be exactly what was needed ia that
sphere and cxigency; and it Is the
halo of such achievements that sur
rounds him now and makes his words
on the present situation of the coun-
try worthy of the careful attention Of
all considerate and patriotic men.
Senator Morton is nov but little
rising City years of age, having been
born in Wayne county, indiana Aug.
Z, 1873 La early years, having lost
both his parents, he was apprenticed
to the halter trade, but the business
was not eongeniai and he soon left it.
Having been fitted for college, he en-
tered Miama University at Oxford,
Ohio. He did net graduate, although
he spent Is me enGxg E ia the unlvers-
ity to acquire lifelong benefit from it.
He next began the study Of the law,
and was admitted to practice in 1914.
In 1852 he was appointed Judge of
the Wayne county judicial circuit,
and two years later he ran for Gov
ernor against the Democratic can d,
date, and was beaten. This early
prominence, however, 10 State poll
ties implies that his remarkable qual-
tiles had already received public re-
cognition. In 1860 he was chosen
Lieut.. Governor, and became Gov
ernor two days after he was installed,
in consequence Of the election of Gov.
Henry S. Lane to the United States
Senate. Since then his public career
has been before the whole Union.
Nor has there been less certainty as
to his political principles. Prior to
1854 he had acted wifh the Democrat
ic party, but the repeal OF the Mis-
souri, Compromise summoned ann. as
it did so many others of the best splr-
its Of that organization, to withdraw
from It's ranks and array themselves
on the side Of their country in the
struggle that was already looming up
before it. Since then he has consist
entity acted with the Republican party,
on few measures only differing from
the great body of its recognized expo
nents in Congress. Time has swept
away even these differences. and to-
day be enforces- Republican senti-
ments in their full breadth and unity,
as they are upheld alike at the East
and the West. The man who. when
his own finances were such that his
wife said he had difficulty in making
both ends meet, could borrow on his
own responsibility between four and
five millions of dollars to carry on the
war expenses of his State government,
left in the iurch by Democratic Leg
islature, will surely have both his
character and his principles apprecia.
ted by the Republicans of Maine, and
will be heartily. welcomed to New
England at this time.