The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-03
REAL FIGHT IS FOR
TOGAaOF ALLISON
Why the Railway Bosses Of Iowa
Are Bent on Retiring Gov
ernor Cummins.
Special to The journal.

special TO fDe journal.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, July Sit is
possibly, unfair to say, but it might
as we'll be understood now as later on
that the bitterness, acrimony and
malice of the Iowa political fight has
been caused almost wholly, if not en-.
tirely, by the struggle for the political
shoes Of a great man who has not yet
passed away, even from the scene of his
political labor; to say nothing OF lite
itself
If William B. Allison were twenty
years younger and as full of health as
days Of honor, the railroad bosses
would not think it so necessary to
carry on their fight against Governor
Cummins, even to the point W here they
are willing to wreck the party in the
state to secure his discontinue;
Senator Allison unquestlonably can
remain, in his seat at Washington as
long as he desires to do so. He will
never have a contest in all probability,
so long as this state remains republican.
He is stronger in this regard than Sem
ator Spooner in Wisconsin, or even
Senator Aldrich in Rhode Island. Peo-
pie out here have come to regard Mr..
Allison as much a fixture as they do a
big corn crop, and they would be as
much surprised by the failure Of one
Life Not in Immediate Danger.
But last winter the Iowa senator be-
gan to break down physically. His
long public life, dating before the
civil war, had at last begun to tell,
and during the winter and in the spring
it was whispered about again and
should be. The word passed on to
Iowa Men who wanted to succeed
him began to inquire anxiously as to
his health and the railroads, which
never assumed to control Allison
thought that in these days when there
Is a growing spirit of opposition to all
corporations, they would like to control
his successor, or at least prevent the
senatorship getting into unfriendly
hands.
There is no reason to suppose that
Senator Allison will be forced to retire
to private life at once. Neither does
1T seem to be true that his life is in any
Immediate danger, altho he left Wash
ington, contrary to his usual custom
before the adjournment Of congress and
retired to his home in Dubuque much
earlier than people had been accus
toned to see him there. There is
vacancy in the Iowa senatorship But
politics is q bloodthirsty trade, and
people begin to look up theil
chances long time in advance.
AS to Dolliver.
Senator Dolliver is young. He comes
from good part of Iowa, is energetic
q good talker. good campaigner, anc
does not make more than the usua
average of political enemies. He was
the real leader Of the republicans il
the senate on the railroad rate bill
and he and Senator Clapp of Mime
sofa were consulted by President Roose
welt more confdentially and more otter
than any other two men in the senate
+ 10 defeat him for reelection would b.
an indirect attack on the president him
( self, and not even the railroad LOBBY
here Or in Washington would reallysun
dertake fight of that character. T
can be assumed, therefore, that whethe
Governor Cummins wins or loses thi
year he will not interfere with Dolli
ver's ambitions
AS to the prospective Allison vacanc,
things are entirely different. It is mo-
Governor Cummins alone who is pird
ing on ,armor for that event which
Z everybody is expecting, but which n,
one wants to see, because of the uni
Versal respect and love for Senate
allison. The woods are full of candi
dates. and half a dozen little persona
machines are being organized in dif
ferent sections of the state in the inter
est OF this, that or the other man.