St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-31
MERRIAM'S RECORD.
His Course in the Legislature of
Two Years Ago and His Window
Tendency.

His Course in the Legislature of
Two Years Ago and His Window
Tendency.
A friend of w. r. Merriam, discuss
ing his candidacy tor governor lately,
said: sit is directly in the interest of
the farmer that he should be elected"
Several gentlemen who heard the re-
mark laughed, and one of them, who sat
in a session of the legislature with Mer-
riam, replied to the statement. He
said:
1t was the twenty-third session of
the legislature in which Mr.. Merriam
made his first appearance in public life.
What did he do in that session? To the
best of my knowledge, and the official
records will prove it,
He was a member of the caucus that
made Loren Fletcher speaker.
He was the political ally of Sabin be-
fore the session ended.
He was member of the house caucus
committee that issued the first call for
the Window men to rally.
He was member of the caucus that
nominated Window and voted for him
in it as against G. K. Davis, Gordon E.
Cole. and G. A. Gilman.
On the first ten ballots taken in the
house for United States senator he voted
every time for Window.
place special stress upon Merriam'S
support of Window for the reason that,
politically, believe him to be the same
stripe of politician. and foe to every
interest in this state, but that which
represents money. At that time Win
dom received an exposure of his polit-
zeal corner of a most fearful nature. 1t
was then that Senator G. F. Buck, of
Winona, rose in the house and said of
Mr.. Window that he was
"a corruptiOniSt of the school of the
Pomerey's and the ColfaXeS of the last
decade. They believe the people, that
he is the pal of the Robesons, the Bel
knaps, etc, of our political history.
Where gold worshiped, where
wealth paid its devotions, there William
Window paraded his pretentiOns."
These accusations and others were
not replied to, and Nh. Merriam voted
straight for Mr.. Window. In the Win
dom caucus of Jan. II, 1888, Mr.. Mer-
riam was present, but on Jan. 20 he
changed his vote to Cord on E. Cole,
whom he and | knew could not be
elected. Why did he do this? | be-
lieve that he received notice of the Kin
dred-Sabin combine and hedged, so
as to be ready to jump when Sabin was
nominated. True enough when on
Jan. 81 the first break was made to
Sabin, Merriam voted for him, and on
all after ballots until he was elected.
Mr.. Merriam's affiliations with Win
dom and Sabin consider to be very
strong proof that politically he is the
bosom friend of the corporate interests.
The farmer contingent OF that legisla-
ture that fought Window from the first
was referred to at that time by the
Pioneer Press, the organ of Mr.. Mer-
RAM now, as follows:
eff Mr.. WINDOWS friends Merriam
ct al. have the firmnesS and tenacity to
hold together to the number of fifty or
even forty-fve votes, there is still
good fighting chance to win. e y
There are probably some one or two
dozen of these ineffably dirty creatures
in the legislature who have been wait
ing to be bought up"
You shall know man by the COM
pany he keeps. / judge Merriam so.
After the senatorial ELECTION in that