The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-11-28


fire. To those of us who have seen
with what eagerness he has looked for
ward to his reelection, in the hope and
belief that neither age nor sickness
would keep him from the performance
OF his duty, such charge against him
seems to exhibit brutality, altogeth,
er unfit for circulation in such COM
munity as ours. A year ago the slight
est intimation that his reelection was
not desired, that younger men We're
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 neces-
sary. for the governor to have ignored,
in silence, the report which hostile
interests were circulating, that it was
his intention after his reelection as
governor to contest with Senator ALI
son for his seat in the senate. But
such was his respect for public opin-
ion in Iowa, that in making his cam
paign for a third nomination as gov
ernor, he denounced in scathing terms
the report which was in circulation
that he sought to supersede Senator
Allison as malicious falsehood, set
afloat by his enemies to injure him
with the people.
HE asked the support of Senator AL.
lison's nearest friends upon written as
surances over his own signature that
ne favored the senator's reelection, and
that reports to the contrary were ca
lumnies, designed by his adversaries
to compass defeat. At the time of his
nomination he filled the convention
hall with enthusiasm by his reference
to the senator and the convention it.
self remembered the absent leader in
a message of tender sympathy. When
he opened his campaign at Churdan
in the great speech which was. every
where published as campaign docu-
ment, he spoke in well remembered
words of Senator Allison as the be-
loved Nestor of the party not only in
Iowa, but throughout the nation, and
ended his eulogy by expressing 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 coun-
| Try. 1t is only the exact truth to say
that the whole campaign depended for
| is success upon the distinct under
| standing that Senator Allison was Sc
| cure in the office to which the republi-
| cans of Iowa had so often chosen him
| without a dissenting vote, and when
the election was over. more than one
| friend of both carried the governors
| personal greeting to the senator to-
| gether with his renewed assurance
hat under no circumstances would he
| allow his name to be presented against
aim. 1t is not my purpose to discuss
| lere all the questions involved in this
ituation, but | can not forbear saying
hat the governor ought, if within his
| power, to restrain his friends from CIV
/ ng currency to the suggestion that
there is anything mysterious or cues
| :ionable about the senator's candidacy.
Asks Iowa Again To Honor Allison
My fellow citizens, there is sense
which this is no longer Senator AL
ison's fight 1t is the fight of the
| jlain, everyday people of Iowa, the
olks on the farms and in the counting
louses and work shops, for a privilege
yery dear to all of them, the privilege
/ 10 t,.;h IN
reatest and most useful career the
tate of Iowa has ever nurtured. They
| we're parties to the understanding thai
| Senator Allison should be guarded by
The good will of all from a fractional
strife in which he had taken no part
they do not intend to have that under
standing nullified; and while there is
something superb in the spectacle OF
the old leader renewed in health and
strength making his way out of the
ambuscade in which he was entrapped
putting on his armor and girding his
oins for the battle, it is their purpose
% do the fighting for him; not fol
lis sake alone, but to preserve the
high traditions which belong to the
public life of Iowa. Dr..
81 salute the old age of Senator Ali
son, now that Gladstone is no more
the most honored name in the politics
1f our times. When the hour OF his
retirement comes ! would have hin
90 like Gladstone took his leave Of
lis associates, saying with upliftet
hand, God bless you ALL as passing
through the throng he made the tri
umphal journey from Westminster tc
dawarden to wait there among his
books and trees with patient spirit
TOR the appointed summons to the cor
onation and the life everlasting"