St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-19
MIR. MERRIAM,s oRAToRY.

The governor covered himself with
great honor Saturday night in a speech
which he made at the Town and Coun-
try club. and if he can do as we'll again
will begin to be rated as one of Mime
sota's orators. The GLOBE has watched
Mr.. MERRIAM's progress i'll this direc-
ton during the past few years, and
takes some of the credit for the result.
1t has from time to time, in the superior
way which its knowledge and position
warrant, suggested his deficiencies and
he has listened to the criticisms of his
intelligent opponents as well as to the
SycOphantic f~iattery of the monopoliStic
coterle which haunts his Office at the
capitol.
The beginnings of MIR. MERRIAM's
career as an orator were not promising,
and a great deal of it is best forgotten.
His first Improvement was noticed in
the speech which followed his accept
ance Of the gubernatorial nomination
two years ago. The reason why his
next syeech after this showed IN i'm
%proyement was because this was so bad
that it coull not be excelled in this di-
r%ection, nor equaled without an effort he
was not likely to make. His manner on
this occasion was marked by an auburn
agitation, and the substance of his re-
Elections on the political situation was
that, if elected, he proposed to change
the ~janitor of the state capitol because
he had noticed that the scrubwomen
employed to clean the building were not
doing the work efficiently. He has not
entirely gotten over this tendency to
profundity in his public utter
ances, which makes his state pa
pers and speeches rather obscure
to any but the most highly edu-
Gated; and he very seldom loses all
tive merits of the weather in the past,
present and future, with a wealth of
illustration and rhetoric which it is hard
to fully grasp at a single reading. But
his carriage is so much more self conf
dent and easy than it used to be that his
appearances on the rostrum are greeted
with great popular enthusiasm, even by
those who are not sure i'll advance that
they will entirely understand what he
is going to say.
The GLOBE wishes that Mr.. MER-
RAM would advance still another step
in the progress he has been making and
come over into the fold Of the Democ-
racy. 1t believes that. in common with
all the rest of the intelligence of Mime
sofa, he is really in sympathy with the
principles of JEFFERSON and JACK
SON and CLEVELAND. and that his
admiration for the work of these
great men is %unbounded and profound.
The GLOBE wants to see u genial gov
ernor reaps the highest rewards, and it
says to him what he already knows
that the party of the future is the
Democracy, which, to the sound Of mar
tial music, is gong on from glory to
glory. Having Once tasted the pleas
ures OF political advancement, the graf
ifications of wealth will always here
after seem insignificant to him in COM
parIson with them. If he will sell what
he has, give to the poor, and join the
party of anti-monopoly, there is no rea-
son why his career should have any
other boundary than his desires. The
GLOBE hopes that he will not turn
away in exceeding sorrow, as did the
in the Bible who had great riches
when similar advice was given him.
The governors vigor, robustness. ell
thusiasm and power are wasted IN devo-
tiOn TO the lost cause of MONOPOLY and
corruption.