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

Great as were the hopes of the promot-
ers Of this formal launching of the AL
lison candidacy, they were even sur.
passed in the point of attendance and
significance of the occasion.
Senator Delivers address was q
strong presentation of the public ser
vices of Senator Allison, and much of
the inside history of congress was told
therein and large place given to Al
lison, who was ranked in greatness
with men like Mckinley, Roosevelt,
Hoar and others of unquestioned pow.
/. en- inathe affairs of the country, Sen
ator Dolliyer spoke as no mere advo
cate, but as friend of friend, and his
oratory was impassioned at times and
reused the audience to much enthusi,
asm and demonstration. ... r.
Senator Delivers Address.
Senator Dolliver spoke in part as
follows: soy a.- ar..
1T is very great pleasure to accept
your invitation to speak before this
club on subject which concerns the
dignity and moral welfare of the state,
as well as the unity, and integrity Of
the party to which we belong. 1t may
be there are some who discountenance
the expression of an opinion on such
a subject rs the reelection of Senator
Allison, by any one whose official du
ties connect him with the national
government. A year ago it was sug
gested that members of congress may
of right be required to keep silence
when questions are up involving polit
ical activities within the state, and in
i tinations were sometimes heard that
extreme penalties would be visited up
on such persons if they presumed to
take an interest in affairs at home.
At times still more recent the hint has
been conveyed to some of us with more
zeal than delicacy, that unless we OBJ
serve great caution in our behavior to-
wards the candidates in the approach,
ing primaries, the month of June will
decide not only the Allison succession,
but also our own; and that the only
chance of safety for such wayfaring
mort&ls is to keep their eyes open and
their mouths shut. This interpreta.
ton of the obligations and immunities
of our public life has not heretofore
prevented me from participating in po-
litical discussion in Iowa, and it is a
part of my business here to notify all
interested persons that it is not likely
to influence my conduct hereafter. 1t
may be an old fashioned notion, but
| am inclined to adhere to it, that the
representative selected by the public
to act for the state in the national
councils is not cut off from an inter.
est in any of the affairs Of the PEG
ple. At any rate do not think any.
body can have a cause of just criti-
cism if in response to your invitation
and before returning to the duties Of
the congress now about to convene, !
express here in a neighborly way the
opinion which / hold in regard to the
reelection of Senator Allison.
Allison and cumnnins.
ut is said that Senator Allison in
presenting his candidacy at this time,
has made himself the tool of designing
persons more interested in keeping
the governor out of the senate than
in returning Senator Allison to his old
position there. To those of us who
know Senator Allison in his daily
walk and conversation; who know how
entirely his life is absorbed in his
work in the senate; how it has taken
the place in his affections of wife and
children and home and domestic joys,
such an insinuation is grotesque far
beyond the point of absurdity. Yet
able newspapers circulate the miser-
able scandal that he is being forced
forward to pull chestnuts out OF the