National Republican., 1882-12-29
SENATOR ALLISON.
How lie Is Regarded by Leading Iowa
Journal.
'oWd State Rsgisi

IOUd Sdtc heptSeT.
Senator Allison is proving wise and very
effective leader for the republican party in
the senate during the debate on the civil SER
vice reform bill He Is such a master of the
details of the public service as no other man
in the senate is, and being a ready debater
and apt speaker, is making the democrats
themselves show to the country how insinccre
has been all their campaign talk about civil
service reform, and how hypocritical is their
attitude in congress now. The republican
senators in choosing leader for the party in
this trying timo chose wisely in the selection
Of Mr.. Allison. He has the safer qualities of
leadership in admirable and abundant degree,
having such n thorough acquaintance with all
branches and details of the government and
its service as no man now in congress has.
He has with this an information on VII public
questions hardly equaled among present public
men, and he has also the high qualities of
leadership in readiness and force in debate
without pugnaoity or irritation, and that
prudence of action and word which is wisdom
and frmness and that high bearing and
established reputation for candor which COM
mands the confidence of his own and the re-
spect of the opposition party. The counsel
of Mr.. Allison in party conference has long
been recognized in Washington as that which
has best stood the test of time of any of the
party leaders, whilo his public record has
been such in strength at the time and justifi-
cation afterward as to prove him man as
sagacious as to the future as in the pres
ont. Men like Garfield, Blaine, Thur
man, Edmunds, and Bayard have for years
looked upon the Iowa senator as one of the
safest and soundcst and greatest of the men
of the present time, not merely in partisan
but in public sense. Without ostcntation,
and as quietly as the more solid and enduring
places of the strongest public men are gained,
he has grad ually and surely won in public
estimation the rank and power of statesman
ship, and as no man in congress to-day wields
more influence or does as much that is leading
in the public work as he does, so is it thought
by all the shrGwder observers of the times,
that there is now no man who is SO likely to
play most conapicuous if not leading part in
American politict, in the next few years.
One thing is ccrtain, and in this age that is
something which most commands public re-
gard, and that is that under Mr.. Allison's
leadership there VIII be no harsh mistakes
made as to party action, and yet that nothing
will be surrendered in the line of progress
and advanced merit If his calm counsel and
far seeing sense, good tense, had been observed
more in the past year or two, the party would
be on far better legs than tits now. If it shall
follow the paths into which he would put it
for a return TO power-ss it seems disposed to
do, a5 the party at large looks to him as its
leader, at least in congress, in this trying
timo--it will be able to retrieve the past and
assure the future. 1t is cheering to see so
clear a head and so firm Rand at the party
helm in IA congress which did little in its first
session except to ALLEVIATE the country and
cripple the party.