Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-26
SOME SENATORIAL HISTORY.


SOME SENATORIAL HISTORY.
Tho annals Of Iowa for the cur
rent quarter contains spendidly
written historical article by Frank Il,
Herriott on Iowa and the First Nom
ination of Abraham Lincoln IT
shows among other things that even
half century ago 1owa's influence
was largely predominant at Washing
ton. John A. Kasson then was post
master general of the United states.
Sam f. Miller was associate justice
Of the supreme court and James Har-
Ian a United States senator.
In the face of the clamorous asser-
ton that Towa's influence Is fadlhg
because of the tendency evident among
the voters of the state to retire one
or two or three officeholders whose
terms of service have continued thru
out an average lifetime this kno"l-
edge that Iowa was highly influential
az Washington long before most of us
We're born, is interesting and instruc-
tive.
1t was candidate for the govern
orship bold enough to own himseif anu
his convictions that lifted the new
state into prominence at the national
capital James w. Grimes STOOD
openly against the extension of slav-
ery. Southern Iowa, then the most pop
ulous and dominating portion or
the state settled by southerners. raw
ored slavery. In the bruising cam
paicn that followed the free soiler
won the governorship. His victory
created the republican party OF Iowa
and as Herriott points out, sent Har-
Ian to the United States senate. There
is something in Grimes unfiinchlng
stand for a principle that fits in har-
| moniously with the long fight Cum
| Minis has made and won.
Harlan was new man In the SEN
ate but The almost Immediately be-
came great one. The history OF
his service is Iows and United States
history.
| A man of the widest political influ-
ence, a member of a presidential cab
| met, circumstances today make the
close of Harlan's national service and
the manner in which it was brought
to close highly interesting to re-
| call. Previous to the convening OF
| the legislature in 1872 Iowa had been
the arena of one of the most bitter
| political fights in the history of the
with all his years and history of high
| service behind him was the object Of
| the tiercest assault. 1t entered into
/! the legislative contests and IN some
strongly republican districts republic
! can candidates were defeated because
! OF their announced stand for one OF
/ another of the senatorial candidates
/ Republican newspapers waged wal
! to the knife. While the conflict was
| at it's hight very serious charges We're
made against Harlan, charges thai
embittered his later years and ranked
1 in the hearts Of his friends. The
| friends of the leading candidate OPP
| posed to him left no political man
euver untried. Harlan was defeated
| The man who defeated him after one
of the bitterest contests ever knowr
| in the state was William B. Allison OF
j Dubuque and the men who waged re-
lentless war upon a man whose name
is one of the brightest in the national
/ records and who defeated him in the
prime of his political life, 81 years
/ who refused to listen to the recital
Of his grand service thru the years
when rebellion, slavery and reconstruc-
ton We're absorbing issues, were the
4 supporters of William B. Allison OF
Dubuque since then United States
senator in the place of greater man
If Mr. Allison feels at present some
what as did Marius sitting among the