Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-02
A White House Chance;
Senator Allison, of Iowa

SeIldlOI AiilSOlIs vi IOWd'
New York Journal.
Allison Is a bit wintry in appearance.
In person he is short, thick and gray,
like an April afternoon.
There is a sort of stocky and dimin-
ished buffalo native of Tartary It is
shaggy. a dingy gray, has all its hair.
Moreover. it wears a look of sour So
briefly, as if life was no glad, sweet
song. Our morbid little gray buffalo is
called the ROYAL Yak. And there is
much about this morose subject of the
Khan to remind one of Allison. The
Iowa statesman is the Royal Yak of the
Senate.
Personally Allison is very honest;
honest to the point OF sentiment. Po-
litically he doesne mind so much, and
so he be voyaging TO his own interest
his cOmposure will scarcely shake
should he find himself a cables length
or so TO leeward Of hard truth
Were some lunatic anxious over GER
tain legislation to offer Allison a bonus
to aid his bill, that misguided asylumite
would have to fight for his life. ALI
sons friends, however, are very fash
ionable with him; he will do much for
them he wouldn't do for any sOrdid
reason. Friendship is a talsman po-
tent to command Allison, and he's often
on the wrong side in his law-making
merely by request.
While Allison IS honest, after all he
is-aside from any pulling and hauling
of friends-much led by the expedient.
The currents Of to-day. the breezes OF
the hour, have much to do in deter
mining Allison's course. While his
voyages, no doubt have definite des-
tinatiOn he makes what sailor folk call
'leeway"
There Is that school of government,
crowded with public men as scholars,
the guiding line of which is: States
manship is the science Of circum-
stances" Allison attends on this
school and is a student of promise.
much led by that aphOrism of his sem
mary just quoted.
Among other matters which Just now
conspire to make Allison of interest is
the full blown chances that he may be
the next President
Allison asserts that he is a silver
man. AS a matter of fact. he isn't.
albeit it is highly probable that he
honestly believes he is.
While he poses for silver, Allison
cannot make such gentry of white
finance Teller, Dubois and others be-
lieve it,
The silver leaders. those like Dubois.
of the rule or ruin brood, who would
rather see the country a wreck on a
silver reef than pleasantly afioat on a
golden ocean. regard Allison as crafty,
designing deep-laden with guile
Hepbui Il, a Representative of Iowa.
and hot attendant on the Allison boom
showed Dubois a lettur from Allison
wherein ne declared for free silver, 16
to 1.
That should satisfy you" said Hep
burn. 'You ought 10 be for Allison"
oh, no. l hadn't" quOl Dubois T
know Senator Allison I've been IN the
Senate too long to be a stranger 10 Sen
tor Allison Your Letter Is all right as
far as It goes but you're a silver man.
Go and get me- the letter Allison writes
20 a goldbug. Then If he shows a silver
feather I'll talk to you about giving him
aid"
Dubois was more than two-thirds
r.gClt-Stll t is ncc SO much dupl.city
on AllisOn's part as an anxiety to be
pleasant and agree Without one
thought to mislead Allison would IN
sens,bly write silver letter to a silver
man and letter as yellow as saffron to
a gold man.
In a wCrld Of finance made up Of gold
bugs and silver bugs Allison by nature
$ e.-her one nor the other. Allison s
a s.raddle bug There Is much CT The
mirror to him. and with a faith IN The
expedicnts that IS almost religious. Al
ll9on IS apt 10 reflect q surrounding sen-
timent like a looking glass. In Rome
Allison s decidedly Roman.
This weakness 70 agree. which is
mare a genius for being easy and a tai
enc TO please rather than a bent 10 make,
plots and set .rapS for men. IS not al
ways Ccndcned in Allison's favor. HIS
brother Senator's. particularly the silver
Senators, keep their eyes on him. They
don't go TO asleep when he IS abou.
nor take Their guns or while he's visit
;ng them. Very frequently what IS me
subEmat;on Of milky innocence on ALI
sons part IS regarded by them with
deep suspicion. They sniff at it as q casa
OF three-ply cunning.
Allison can pull on wooden shoes
and run across a plank bridge aud make
no more nose shan a Tom cat" That's
wha. one silver Senator said, and they
all believe it.
Much that Alison does fer private
political kind goes far 70 justify this sur
mise that Allison IS crafty n a smooth.
!nla.d way. As. fd' instance:
He VIII leave Washington a picture
Of fashion as 10 costume, the best and
mos. accurately dressed man who ever
made a mCccas,n track in the mud CT
the Potomac flats. In Chicago, beAcld
a change, Allison VIII stop over a day
and then go into Iowa among his con