Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-19

est OF American cotton mills. He took
a fancy to politics and held various To-
cal. offices. including membership in the
Massachusetts house OF Representatives
in 1881 and 1882, and in the Massachus-
cts senate in 1883. He went to the for
ty-ninth congress and was re-elected to
the fftieth, but declined subsequent
nominations and assumed sole control of
his large manufacturing interests. He
Was, however, reluctantly forced into
the campaign for the governorship
against William r. Russell in 1891, and
from that time until he Went to Score
tary Longs assistance he was able to
satisfy his own personal partiality for
the undis turbed enjoyment Of private
life.
For this he possesses advantages open
to few Americans, his home on the Mer-
rimac being one of the most beautiful
private estates in this country. Mr.. Al
len, whose tast ties and temperament are
eXquisiteiS artistic, has created tnere
malNeis in the line of landscape garden
ing centered around the home of rare
comforts. He isaniaccomplisheda
photograph and as a producer of arr
tistic prints has few equals at home or
abroad. While in congress his camera
was his constant companion on the floor
of the house. and many of his snap shots
of ST atesmen in repose are calculated TO
affect legislation in undreamed-of tiirec-
tions. He would frequently secure pho-
tographs of members complacently
sleeping thru a debate and offer TO dis
tribute gratuitausly around the said
congressmsn,s districts copies of the in
eisputable evidence of all their watchful
guardianship of insurgents Interests.
Mr. Allen is also Il cultivated must
clan. and one of the pleasantest exper-
fences of visitors to his home is found
in the concerts AT which. with the cello.
he accompanies his daughters, one With
the violin and another al the piano. He
= ! r. = d
us an excellent speaker. and during his
congressional career made several. of the
notable speeches Of tho congresses. On
one occasion, it is related he went down
TO Fredericksburg, Va. TO make an ad-
dress at a centenary Masonic celebra-
ton, and the principal speaker OF the
day having failed 10 put in an appear
ance Mr.. Allen consented to deliver the
address. His reception was altogether
enthusiastic, and heNxas compelled later
in the evening TO make another spssch.
both of them without preparation.
The race made by MIR Allen against
the phenomenal Gov. William Il. Rus
sell was one of the most exciting cam
paigns Of the old Bay state ever Wit
nessed. aud Mr.. Aliens defeat was at
tributed solely TO the fact that Russell
was the fashion. GOV. Bracket had de-
feated Russsll in 1889. but the latter re-
taliateJ and oSercame Bracket in the
tidal of the following presidential
5letlioI!. MEN WasfipfCed Ifofll re-
/ tirenlent as the republican champion in
1891 and the extent of his popularity
! may be appreciated by the fact that he
ireceiNed thirty thousand more votes
1 than Bracket had secured the year be-
fore
The new governor of Porto Rico will
Eleave behind him large business inter-
ests. which must be intrusted to other
hands. While fulfilling ihe duties of
This office in the navy department to the
sati sfaction of every one. h has. never
theless, kept in touch with his CONNER
fcial affairs. He is the head Of a firm
which manufactures wood preserva-
Invests the president Of one bank. a
director in.another and is largely inter-
sested in the manufacture Of high grade
paper.