The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-20
He HAS SAID THAT HIMSELF.
THE PLAIN, BLUNT MAN FROM
OVER THE RIVER WOULD
RISE.
HIS SOUL BURNS WITH DESIRE
To Turn the Searchlight of an I'm
dying Reform Spirit on State
Affairs.
Frank B. Doran. 1892

Governor Frank B. Doran. 1898
That is the epitome of his official life
which Mayor Doran would inscribe on
the gilded dome of public honor. There
is just suggestion of ''Pinafore" and
Sir Joseph Porter, X. c. B., in this
gradual rise from modest service to
high public place, but as the ruler of
the navy sang, so might diligent effort
to eradicate public evils and give the
people safe, conservative, honest and
upright administration be remembered
by grateful people with regular and
chronological advancement.
Mayor Doran Is reported. and the
G o e has it on excellent authority,
that he will be the next governor of
the state.
The mayor did not amplify this with
any recital of the intricate combina-
lions by which he has planned to cap
ture the nominating convention but
his friends do not hesitate to accept
the modest declaration of a fearless
disposition to go where duty calls as
a settled fact
They admit that Frank B. is not as
good log roller, perhaps, as David
M, but they are starring Doran and
Clough as the double Mark Antony in
contemporaneous production of julius
Caesar. Both are plain, blunt men.
Neither perhaps, has-the philosophy of
Socrates. or the learning of Minerva,
but they have sand, and sawdust, too,
for that matter.
Who has slapped so many faces po-
litically as Clough? Did he not chal-
lenge the admiring contempt of the
committee Of 100, which was fighting
him in his own city? And did not
Mayor Doran, when he found that his
administration was being betrayed by
secret treason, and crime was stalking
abroad with the badge of office on it's
black heart-did he not turn the sturdy
stream of Well-Worded proclamation
through the Augean stable of public
offense?
When the blanket of obscurity has
hidden from the sight of posterity, the
patriotic enthusiasm of the war-gov-
ernor, Ramsey, the diplomatic achieve
ments of a Davis; the astute political
combinations of Merriam, down
through all the ages will the resound-
ing record Of these two deeds rattle
in history's cavern like a cannon ball
train on a creaky bridge?
Circumstances have been accused of
making some great men, but the
friends of the twin AntonyS point to
these as incidents which men have
commanded. Men Of less heroic mould
might, in the one case have been the
Suppliant tools of scheming politicians,
or might have admitted their helpless
ness before the presence of an army
of stealthy midnight marauders All
honor, then, to the men who, by sheer
force Of character, have compelled the
admiration of all by their firm stands
against anything that looks like by
pocrisy or temporiZing with any form
of municipal or civic evil.
Let the mantle of Clough fall on the
stalwart shoulders of the Doran, not
as the pine needles fall from the mon
arch Of the forest on the humble slab
yard, but handed down by the illus
trious star of the Now, to the destined
ruler of the Then.
From the time that the stentorian
Gerlich, his heaving bosom burning
with the fire of party enthusiasm,
decked the rising West-sider's lapel
with blushing rose, there has been a
romantic ambition firing the breast Of
st. Paups present mayor. Why should
not the laurel wreath of the mayor
atty be laid aside for the myrtle that
the state confers on it's highest idol
Then would the name of Doran
known through Minnesota as the cog
nomen of Woodworking political Of
flee broker, be revered from Pembina
to La Crescent and from Adrian to
Grand Marais, as the appellation by
which men knew that man of destiny,
Gov. Doran, of Minnesota.
Let not the scoffers draw I'M
holy pictures of Red Griffin
sitting on the state pI1ar-
macy board, nor of Slunkey Norton as
adjutant general. Patient merit must
take many spurns of the unworthy, and
the traducer is too persistent a factor
in politics to be abolished, but his jibes
and filings would fall from the imma-
culate political record of the man Of
destiny, even as the down from a
thistle ball floats to the gentle breeze
of summer
The Doran boom is uncorked. Let
all ambitious Republicans stand from
under lest the wheels of the dump cart
Juggernaut crush them in their reck-
less helplessness. No human power can
stop the restless forces of nature,
which are even now breathing forth
from the pines of Beltrami and the
dairy pastures of Rice alike:
Let us have Doran for governor"
The Pioneer Press will support him.