Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-30

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matters not to them now what the
effect of campaign may be on Sena-
Ftor Allison. who is already older than
Gear was.N They are not acting merely
out of regard to Senator Allison. for,
if any of them could see a chance
for his own success, he would be fight
ing for the place. And he would GER
tainly have as good right to it, as AL
lison had to displace the great Harlan
when he was in his prime.
No, the people who are loudest IN
their demand for Allison to run again
want to beat Cummins because he
has helped to secure the passage OF
many laws to which they were opposed.
They fondly recall the days of the
packed caucus and of .the campaign
run with corporation money, and they
have nothing but curses, loud and
deep. for the man who has openly
fought against these and similar evils
They have nothing against Senator
Allison along these lines for during his
forty wears Of political ascendency in
Iowa he has never been accused of
raising his voice or pen against any OF
the conditions, however bad, which
modern corporation politics have
brought upon US. We do not say, be-
cause we do not know it, that Senator
Allison has favored the continuation OF
these political evils, or that he has been
opposed to the laws recently enacted
in Iowa aimed at them. But it is a
remarkable fact that upon most of the
domestic questions which have agi-
tated the people Of Iowa for the last
thirty years, and the decision of which
has meant much for the good name and
the welfare of the state,' our greatest
man has said and done the least.
But we are DEPRESSING; we only in,
tended at this time to touch upon the
age question. If Governor Cummins,
and his recent magnificent fight for
popular right and needed reform, were
entirely out of consideration, we would
still be opposed to electing Senator Al
lison or any other S0-year- old man to
such an important position. 1t is not
right nor is it good politics, to elect a
man for the purpose of having him die
in office. Senators German and Alger
recently died in office, and Allison, at
the end of his term, will be about ten
years older than they were, and five
years older than the venerable Gear
when he died. He will be more than
six years older than the oldest of New
Yorks fossilized senators. He will be
nearly thirty years older than La Fol-
lette, thirty-fou years older than Bev-
eridge and about forty years older than
the Nebraska senators. He is chair
man of the. committee which holds the
purse strings of the nation, and is sup-
posed to master the details of thou
sands Of governmental expenditures,
aggregatihg hundreds of millions every
year, and yet we all know that the so
year-old man who is allowed to go to
the bank after his own money, or whose
trades will stand in law, is an excep-
ton to the rule.
y If Senator Allison wants the office
another term, or if he is willing to lis
ten to those whose political interests
demand that he should run again, he
has a perfect right to do so, but he,
and those who urge him on, must rec
ognize the perfect right of the people
to decide in favor of the man whom
they think will be best able to serve
them for the six years beginning
March 8, 1909, They are not likely to
decide in favor of man who will be
nearly 80 years old at the end of the
term.