Omaha daily bee., 1895-07-17
SENATOR ILLTSON. ms BOOM

Sioux City Journal 1t is a very high dis
tincton to be named for the office of presi.
dent of the United States by convention OF
one of the great parties. But, as matter OF
fact, no convention can honor Senator ALI
son as he was honored by the great conVen-
ton of his party associates in Des Moines
on the 10th of July, 1895
Chicago Record: While Iowa has one of
the leading and most popular candidates for
the presidential nomination next year, the
reference to him in the platform is modest
and considerate, without fulmnations tnd
pyrotechnics of the "favorte-son' order.
With man not so we'll known the reference
to Senator Allison would be amusing.
Brooklyn Eagle: He is clean, strong,
and able man, and has the advantage Of not
having been identified with any of the fac
tonal struggles of his party. If 1t were
his good fortune to hail from New York or
Indiana, his prospects Of receiving the rom!na-
tion would, of course, be greatly improved,
but even as it is, there is reason to believe
that he would make about good a race, II
nominated, as any Of his competitors, more
especially as the political tide seems to be
running in the direction Of republican sue
cess.
Globe Democrat: If there should be any
chasm in the republican party in 1896 on the
silver question Allison would be the man to
bridge it over. There will be no such chaSm,
however. The silver question will not be
seriously discussed in the canvass, as both
the great parties in their platforms and by
their tickets will declare against free coin
age. Nevertheless, Allison has strength cut
side his connection with the finance issue.
His views on the tariff are as moderate as
those on silver and are shared by a much
larger number of republicans and If the
tariff be the issue next year Allison might be
a good man to put up to represent western
ideas on this question.
New York Sun: Hon. William Boyd
Allison is a shrewd and diplomatic gentle
man, exceently well preserved, dgnifed,
sagacious, and handsome in more or less
rural way. He has the difficult art of 81
lence and knows how to seem profound with
out committing himself when tickli2h ques
tions arise. His reputation for sobriety OF
judgment is great in-the senate, and he has
the esteem Of his colleagues. He doesn't
make speeches, except when he has some
thing to say or thinks that something ought
to be said; and then he speaks well and
weightiy He is a type of the highly re-
spectacle statesman who is never ahead Of
public opinion and means never to be behind
it, He is not original and he is not brilliant,
or, If he has originality and brlliancy, he has
laborously concealed those qualities. 1t
would seem to have been the purpose Of his
life for some years to set forth those mega
tive virtues which make up the character or
absence of character of the available man.
He is prominent, but not too prominent; well
known, but not too well known. He has
never made himself too common. He has
been suspected of a strong thirst for the
presidency, but has never made himself
ridiculous in his endeavors to crafty that
thirst Bland, ample, solemn, and discreet,
this is a man upon whom honors should fall
if an ingenious course Of self-traning and an
| agreeable portentousness of demeanor are to
count for anything in politics. If ever the
! lightning descends upon Mr.. Alison's respec-
| table Uranium, his hair will be found to be
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persuasive hand will be seen straying through
it with the seeming carelessness of perfect
art. He will be ready If the people call
him. Wisdom will be in his eye, grace on
| his lips, and an admirable little speech say
| ing not too much, in the inside pocket of his
| yery Crelitable frrck cnat