The daily gazette., 1879-07-15


once noted personal debate with Senator
Orittonden, Of Kentucky. The Btraight-
forward party ground taken by Senator
Allen on this and other subjects made
him, with Senator Cass, of Michigan,
prominent caudida.s for the Presidency
In 1848, the former having been men
toned In connection with tn office as
early az 1s45, and It has always been be.
lieved that the preseny attack made Oy
Senator Critfenden was desired to force
a challenge from Senator Allen and ruin
him as . possible candidate. However
this nay be, he reached the Baltimore
Convention in 1848 with his strength un-
impaired; and In the bitter struggle
which followed there, turning upon TIE
opposition of Mr.. Van Buren's fol- 10 wing
to Senator Cass, the nomination was
urged upon Mr.. Allen - Q compromise
candidate, but his relations with Senator
Cass forbade his acceptance and division
in the party followed.
We have before alluded to he fact of
Miss McArthur's marriage with Colonel
Coons. Colonel Coons died very shortly
after his wedding and In Q few years Mr..
cepted him at the..beginningOf his second
| senatorial term and the wedding
day was appointed. just about this
time the Texas annexation question
came up and he wrote his Hancee, who
was at that time living In Cincinnati,
asking her to postpone the ceremony
| until the question was decided. To this
she consented and the nuptials were
celebrated as soon afterwards as he could
leave. He took his bride back with him
to Washington, and for nearly two years
life was to him but long summers day
| 0f happiness. Never was husband loved
more faithfully or trusiingiy than he BY
her; never wife more tenderly and af-
fectionately than she by him. In jan
uary, 1847, his wife died, leaving an
infant child, the daughter who has since
grown up to be the head OF his house.
hold and of her husbands. At the time
of her death there was no railroad con-
Meeting the capital with the West. The
fond husband would not think for .
mOmente of consigniDg the remains of
| the one he loved and held most dear to
a grave amid strangers, and 80 he deci-
ded to transport them to Chillicothe for
burial. He procured the services of an
undertaken and started with them, he
riding behind on horseback. When
night would overtake them they would
stop at the nearest hotel, and he would
have the coffin taken from the hearse
and borns to his own apartment, where
he kept watch over it until morning
came and time to start again. More
Than week elapsed in this mournful
trip, yet at no moment during that time
was his mournful gaze taken from the
last remains of her whom he had loved
| so dearly in life and could scarce part
with in death. After her burial he re-
turned to Washington and finished his
term of office, and then betOok himself
with his child to the home at which he
has just died.
The prominence which Mr.. Allen had
achieved in the politics of the nation and
inf n h<.rv
by this time to raise personal oppOsi-
ton to him, headed by the partisAns OF
varieus corrupt schemes which he had
opposed. The mere fact of his refusal to
accept constructive mileage WIS In ltsel
, ar unpleasant rsbuke to the curren
: | virtue Of public men. With those acting
| with these motives was knot of young
! aud ambitious men headed by G. L
!. Vallandigham, who formed . successful
Y | combination to o~st Mr.. Allen from tn,
g active leadership of the party. 1t is no
. unworthy of note that the next grea
! success enjoyed by the party in Ohlt
came qnaiter of a century later, will
William Alien as candidate for Cover
nor. The estransenent which ther
sprang up between Mr.. Allen and some
5 of the leade.s of the party was first brok-
: en- when he Joined in reception o Mr.
Vallandigham in 1868, and from tha
time on Ee remained in active and un
, tiring sympa iby with the chiefs of tn,
, party. In 1873 he was nominated TO
/, Governor and elected by majority o
SIT over William M. NOyes, the previou
D majority by which Governor Noye. wa
e elected having been 20,168, and Presi
e dent Grants majority in the previou
1 year being 2T ,631. In 1875 Governor
: Allen was reno minated by the Demo
n Gratis TO: Governor, his opponent beinl
;, Rutherford B. Hayes, the pr ,eat occu
u pant of the White Horse. The detail
o Of that contest are matters of too recen
y occurrence to need mo- than mention
C In the st. Louis convention, where MI
g Tilden was nominated by the Democrat
~ AZ their candidate for the Presidency
G Governor Aliens name was presente,
h by General Ewing, the present Demo
= cratic candidate for Governor of Ohio
IL On the first ballot Ohio gave him her
votes, West Virginia 10. and Missouri
e more, making 56 In all. There were onl,
J. two ballots, but on the second ballo
IS Governor Aliens friends contributes
9 only Q vots-those from Missouri
l. Governor Tilden's, Ohio and Wss
:, Virginia still voting solidly for hin
~ whom General Ewing had called tn
y "Farmer Statesman"
s A correspondent who lest m 0uth pai
10 a long visit to Governor Allen and b
n whom the venerable gentleman told tn
e story of his life, thus described him, "H
N | is suIIl u SUTOUR RUudu-pdTICuidTiy
n IN mind. His clear blue eyes have los
- none of their wonderful magnetism an
- his sonorous voice but little Of its old
IL time volume. His tall frame has ben
e somewhat under the weight of passin
d years but, like the old stone dwellin
Is place he loves so well-a house whio
= sheltered a Governor Of Ohio fifty year
,. ago-he as yet gives no indication tina
4 he will not be able to Withstand tn
= blasts of many winter to coma." Thi
= correspondent askd the apparently stron
8 old man whv be did not enter public lii
n again aud after long pause receive
r this for a reply:
Is "Because I am one Of the few oil
II men who, unlike Harry Clay, kno'
i when have reached my highest poin
m when it is time for me to give up tn
- power which 1 am no longer stron
- enough to use for the good of the PEI
III ple."
4 The character and the record of GOV
t. ernor Allen were summarized In tn
IS editorial column of the World, whic
e. said of HIM in July, 1873, just before b
a election AZ Governor:
Mr.. Allen has never had any partic
- patton in the politics of the country e,
cept as stanch, zealous and unwave
t. ipg patriot of the best and purest sohOo
tits the good fortune of Mr.. Allen
II have had no connection with the Fug
at tive Slave act, no hand in the repeal
" the Missouri Compromise, no comphoit
r. in the ATTEMPTS to thrust slavery o.