The San Francisco call., 1895-12-15

the rights of citizenship because they were
Democrats He has been ever ready to
recognize the rights of all in the broadest
sense, and as National legislator he has
legislated for the benefit of all.
Senator Allison, in the great tariff strug-
gle of 1894, upheld the claims OF Louisiana
to the sugar bounty just as strenuously as
he advocated the claims OF Ohio wool and
of New England manufactures, and he did
not suffer any schemlng for petty partisan
advantage to silence the voice of reason,
demanding justice for the South as we'll as
the North.
Mr.. Allison is one of the working mem
bers of the Senate and as active in its
counseIs as when he first entered the cham
Der of that body of legislators. He con-
siders public office in the highest sense a
public trust, and he never wearles in full
filling that trust. He has been an active
participator in all important legislation
since he took his seat in the Senate and his
influence has been more than once decisive
in preventing the enactment of measures
which would have affected the National
integrity and diminished the National
credit.
Mr.. Allison's position on the free coin
age question as stated, no doubt with
authority, by Colonel Dorus NJ. Fox, of
Des Moines, and as indicated by the Sem
ator's career in Washington, is, that both
gold and silver should always constitute
the metallic money of the world, with
full legal tender power, and that the
United States should use both metals so
far as they can be used, maintaining their
parity in value by means of limited coin
age of silver on Government account, but
that an international agreement, or con-
current legislative action of the leading
commercial nations for a common ratio,
with free mintage at such ratio, is a
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mints of the United States to the free coin
age of silver. That is, Senator Allison is
friend of silver, but believes in sound
money-in money that will command re-
spect all over the world.
Mr.. Allison has twice declined the i'm
portant office of Secretary of the Treasury
once when offered to him by President
Garfield in 1881, and later, when the same
offer was made by President Harrison in
1889. He preferred to remain in the place
to which he had been chosen by his
adopted STATE, and has held no political
office, except as Representative and Sena-
tor in Congress. In 1892 Mr.. Allison was
appointed by President Harrison chairman
of the American delegation to the inter
national monetary conference IN Brussels.
The unsuccessful issue of the conference
was foregone conclusion, as the British
delegates were determined to make no
concession to silver, and in fact had
no authority to concede anything, and
in this position they were supported by
a majority of the Continental delegates.
Senator Allison and his associates upheld
the interests of the United States with dig
lity and ability, although success in arriv-
ing at an international arrangement was,
under the circumstances, impossible.
Mr.. Allison has been married twice.
His first wife, whom he married in Ash
land, Ohio, in 1854, was the daughter of
Daniel Carter, of that place. She died
in 1859. In 1872 Senator Allison mar
ried Mary N. Nealley, the adopted daugh-
ter of Senator Grimes of Iowa, who died in
1888 When in Washington Mr.. Allison
resides in rented house, which he has
occupied since 1873, and his home in Du-
buque, as already stated, is the same in
which he took up his quarters nearly forty