Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-11-27
DoLLIvER ON CUMMINS AND ALLISON.

Senator Jonathan 2. Dollivel
opened the Iowa senatorial campaign
for Senator Allison at Council Bluffs
on Monday evening, before an i'm
mense audience. His eulogy of Sena
tor Allison and his argument for his
reelection was a mastery effort,
which we wish we had the space to
publish in full.
i We have stated several times in
these columns that during, his guber-
material campaign last year, Gov.
Cummins publicly gave his promise
not to be candidate against Senator
Allison for Senator. Some of the un-
scrupulous politicians and editors of
this country and district have sneered
at the statement, said it was false, etc.
For this and other reasons we quote
the words of Senator Dolliver on Mon
day evening with reference TO this
matter. Senator Dolliver said:
ga year ago the slightest intima-
tion that Allison's reelection was not
desired. that younger men were
needed in the senate, that the party
was tired of his service, or in the
words of an Iowa editor. that he had
outstayed his welcome, would have
been enough TO have taken him out of
the way of all our ambitious party
leaders. 1t would only have been me-
cessary for the governor to have ig-
nored, in silence, the report which
hostile interests were circulating,
that it was his intention after his re-
election as governor to contest with
Senator Allison for his seat in the
senate. But such was his respect for
public opinion in Iowa, that in max
ing his campaign for third nomina-
tiOn as governor, he denounced in
scathing terms the report which was
in circulation that he sought to super
cede Senator Allison as malicious
falsehood, set ahoat by his enemies to
iniure him with the people.
He asked the support of Senator AL
Eson S nearest friends upon written
assurance over his own signature that
he favored the senator's reelection,
and that reports to the contrary were
calumnies, designed by his adyersar-.
les to compass defeat. At the time
of his nomination he filled the con-
vention hall with enthusiasm by his
reference to the senator and the con-
vention itself remembered the absent
leader in a message OF sympathy.
When he opened his campaign at
Churdan in the great speech which
was everywhere published as a cam
paign document, he spoke in well re-
membered words of Senator Allison
as the beloved Nestor of the party not
only in Iowa. but throughout the ma
tion, and ended his eulogy by express
ing the hope and Offering the devout
prayer that the senator's life and
strength might be preserved for long
continued service of the state and of
the country. 1t is only the exact
truth to say that the whole campaign
depended for its success upon the dis
tinct understanding that Senator ALI
son was secure in the office to which
the republicans of Iowa had so often
chosen him without dissenting vote.
and when the election was over. more
than one friend of both carried the
governors personal greeting to the
senator, together with his renewed as
surance that under no circumstances
would he allow his name to be pre-
sented against him 1t is not my pur-
pose to discuss here all the questions
involved in this situation, but | can
not forbear saying that the governor
ought, if within his power, to restrain
his friends from giving currency to
the suggestion that there is anything
mysterious or questionable about the
senator's candidacy.