The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-30

eies. Know one very aecepta bic speaker.
VINO, during the anti-slaverv and tarifr
PERIODS, made the same speech for tyUer-
ty years He spoke it we'll and race,,y.
co liberal applause. But when the flnan-
ciai question came to the front he could
not master the problem and had to re-
eiie from the platform. There was one
quite Famous orator who came into a,,r
state who had the remark able fac,,IsZ,
OF memorizing other peoples speeches.
ne could repeat speech verbatim a flor
nearing 1t once. He was a fine eloc,,-
| ZIONIST. He caused great embarrassment
70 several distinguished citizens nv do
nVefH'g their speeches beforehand a.
Places which they subsequently visited
caught MIN after he had stolen two of
10y speeclIes' and his usefulness as a
campaign orator was brought to snd-
den end. 0uo
a stump speaker has always to de-
clde whether he cares more to make q
reputation as an orator or Statesmen, oT,
10 carry his audience; the two seldon,
go together. The reason is that WIN
nc cIlllc The editorial comrnenta for
ana me opponent discuss the printed
speeGh' uhless 1t rs very carefully pre-
eoteu' lhey give 1t seant attention Pro-
.ouho speeches usually empty the han
NO speaker can hold a popular audiences
upon political questions unless htS snaeob
IS renewed and enlivened by hun,or an
ecaote and what might strictly he COLL
eo irrelevant excursions An audience
oearly loves to laugh, and will remember
d story long after a speech is forgotten
w men nave spoken at a place where
haa addressed an audience twen+v-4I,,e
years before, people tell me and tba io,a !,
papers usually publish a story With
they heard from me d quarter of CO.
fury before u F" Cell
THE VALUE OF HUMoR.
John Van Ruren was one IF +ha -.
acceptable speakers on the nnbl;c , rIoe'
form His argument was dull ana ,s,-
interesting, but at il tervals there woI1l,1
De naShes of wit worthy of the ssniI,. ~
oyoney Smith. He always smoke sac-
erai hours, and his audiences inva ria biv
waited Patiently to the end for thA ~.
pose OF catching the stray diamonds
II IS almost fatal to the political adj
VaHceheht OF a. speaker to be humorous.
ana yet the humorous speaker who Is
also fully eq1lipped in other dena -
Oh eIoquence is Infinitely more effective
ana valuable to the cause than +bo
afgumentative orator. Very few In .
great miscellaneous audience can PolloxT,
an argument which is unrelieved or Nil,
make the unaccustomed effort IN do -
bul an anecdote or a humorous skit will
Iasten the argument indeIibly in the mind
., OF the audience The effective speaker.
however. gets nothing like the ren,,t, =
uon OF the ponderous and platitudino,,s
orator II may be personal IT &c ronob
easier and requires much less Thought ~
MAKE close argument than it does RI
relleVe an argument by wit h,1no6r a,5
anecdote, and it requires less labor =.
be dull than to be bright. had nov
sonai experience in that line in one nresJ-
denual campaign when I spoke on 49,.
nlgnt after a speech had been delivered
IN the same hall and before practtcalJv
me same audience by a statesman of
hrst rank and an orator Of national rom,
taticn. I read his speech the mornino
arrived, and SO profund, erudite and
ciose was its reasoning that I had to
read 1t twice before compreherxied its
strength, and it was a strong argument
II you could give the time and considera-
ton that it required.
My speech was relieved by much III,
NOR and anecdote. He occupied two
hours, and took two and a Quarter
hours We both had at the beginnia.,
an audience which filed every seat the
standing room in the aisles and the sr,aoo
behlnd the speaker on the pla torn ~
the end OF the first hour he had iost f1rro
thirds CT his audience. These were what
the Knowing ones called the .erounder-
1ngs, but. they were all voters. inst fha
same AT the end of my speech there
mad not soul left the hail and the
grounderlngs' We're bowling for more.
now as TO fame. The local newspapers
: OF that city reported in full the zneech
OF the great statesman; editoriailv thew
said that it was the most wonderful f.
fort ever delivered in the city or possi-
bly, IN the country and that II shonl7 ~