, 1890-01-03
AFTER Mr.. ALLISON.
A Scathing ExcOriation Of
Iowa's Big Senator.
Charged that He has Been I'm
faithful for Years.
Singing Review of the Fa-
Vorite Sons Record.
Allison's Record.

Dies MONIES, Jan. "a singing re-
view of Senator Allison's public record
published to day by the Cedar Rapids
Gazette, the leading Republican newspa-
per Of central Iowa, makes many start
ling disclosures. The article occupies
sixteen columns, and is a comparison of
Iowa's Republican platforms and the con-
gressional record showing Senator Ali.
sons unquestioned action in behalf of
corporations and his refusal to heed the
demands OF his constituents for a long
term of years. 1t demonstrates that the
senator voted against the long and short.
haul clause of the inter state commerce
bill because he thought it would cripple
the railroads. and afterward attempted to
kill the bill by voting to recommit il;
that he was told by Senator Van Wyck
to go home and with his people
on the subject: that the Hennepin canal
project, so badly needed by the people OF
the Northwest and so z~ealously fought for
by all political parties in Iowa, has been
kept back by lack of appropriations. which
Allisonian influence could have secured;
that he feared to %antagonize railroad in
~ldence by getting this canal for Iowa, and
that he voted in behalf of corporations in
which he was interested and encouraged
trusts, m%onopolies and trade conspiracies.
The senator's treatment of old soldiers,
his failure to enter the army, his skulk-
ing on the prohibition question, and his
uniform failure to serve the people of
Iowa are reviewed in the most trenchant
manner. FThe Gazette concludes that
any one of a thousand different Republi-
cans in Iowa could have done ten times as
much for the state during u quarter of a
century, If they had so endeavored, by
keeping free from Wall street influence,
not by working for corporations nor by
voting for franchises in which they were
personally interested, but by making a
manly and courageous effort year after
year for hat which the people of the
state demanded and needed.
What has Mr.. Allison DONE asks
the Gazette, that shows he is infiuen-
tlal2 Who has he influence overP Who
has he influenced in favor OF Iowa? What
bill did he ever introduce that was OF in
terest to the people OF this state? What
law did he ever help pass in a quarter of
a century that was of benefit to Iowa?
The East has been benefited by some of
his votes. %monopolies have boon fostered
and trusts built up by some of his votes.
but lows interests have received no ben
eft whatever. In return for all these ser
vices that might have been and were not
rendered Iowa has lone something for
Allison. She has put him in a position
to get rich.
He had been in Iowa but a short time
before he went to congress. He had
done nothing for the state nor the party.
Since that time he has become an arts to.
crat, an autocrat. Iowa has given him a
chance to fill his pockets with gold and he
has filled them. He comes to TIE state
once in six years to give money to some
Republican candidate for the legislature to
help them get elected that they may help
eject bin. These are facts and should be
known. We have enough argument in
the mere record OF his in6delity to Iowa
and her interests to prove hat he has
been unfaithful and should not be re-
elected.
"Mr. Allison now seeks a re election to
the senate. There are many contingent
of position will figure. Money will I'M
questionably be a factor. It has been in
the past. 1t may be again. The natural
result to be looked for under ordinary
circumstances would be for Mr.. Allison's
election. Ills agents are never at rest.
No sooner is one of his campaigns over
than he Immediately prepares for another.
The offices place many men under obliga.
tons to him. Favors to corporations
form another factor of his strength. Then
again, there is as yet no Republican can
didate against him, though several strong
men have been mentioned. There seem
to be too many towards. Any one of the
twenty we could name would be elected if
they were candidates. Some of them
who could ably fill the place are muzzled.
Others are waiting for a more convenient
season. A very large portion of the Re-
publican party, especially the farmers and
workingmen, are against Mr.. Allison.
Many OF the self-appointed Republican
bosses are for him. They are for him IN
success; they are against him in defeat.
Every man whose mouth has been placed
at the national nursing bottle by him is
for him. Every man who wants Office and
thinks the senator can secure it is for him.
Every man who has had any of Allison's
money to putin the campaignc is for him.
Every man who is fO- spOllS rather than
principle is for him. Every nan who can
be whipped into line like an OK driven un
der the yoke is for him. Wall strrcr is
for him. The millionaires OF the East
who have been made rich by Alfsuu's
votes in congress and the senate, or who
have been made rich by bad law that Ali
son has quietly permitted to remain, are
for him. Many weak-minded but good
hearted fellows who have been gulled by
Allison nice letters to them, making
them think they were some pumpkins
are for him. The railroads are for him.
Every trust that is holding the people on
their backs and picking their pockets is
for him
But the people are not for Allison.
They are against him. Every farmer
who knows Of his opposition to their in
~terests for twenty-five years is against
him. Every business man who can see
that he has done nothing to advance the
material interests of the state is against
him. Every mechanic, every laborer and
every producer who can understand how
Mr.. Allison has steadily misrepresented
them and labored for laws hat are harm
full to them or has quietly permitted laws
to go undisturbed that were harmful to