The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-15
ALLISON IS HAPPY
VICTORY FOR THE AGED SENATOR
 IN IOWA. .
He Has Broken Records for Service In> Congress and Defeat by Cummins Might Have
 Killed Him.

Washington, June 14-(Special. 1- Several letters have been received by friends in this city from Senator A. lison. of Iowa, in which that veteran statesman cannot help telling how hap py he is over the recent primary cleo tson.
 ! As is generally known, Mir. Allison, after red hot light, has been indors- ed by the Republicans for another term in the upper branch of Congress. Governor Cummins. his only opponent. boiled, however, surprisingly close vote. in view of the fact that it was taken for granted that Senator AllI- son was probably as safe from defeat among his constituents as was the late Senator John T. Morgan, Of Alabama, It had been supposed that on account of his long and uninterrupted service, to say nothing of the prominent com mittee places held by him, that MT. Allison would have a walkoyer when it came to a test among the people But after a look at the large vote polled. ti will be seen that Governor Cummins made a. wonderful race
 Talk among. the politicians here Is that the reason Governor Cummine did so well was on account of the sentf- ment in the State for an early revis. ion of the tariff. The people out that way have been grooming for years sun- der the evils of the Dingley law rates, and they have demanded in no un- certain tones a lowering of duties.
 Senator Allison stands with the high tarin advocates At least. hc would not go so far in the reduction of du- ties as would Governor Cummihs were he in the Senate.
 MT. Allison is one of the most aged men in the Senate. , It would doubt- less have broken his heart if he had been defeated this year. If her lives until the fourth of next March he will have rounded out thirty-six years in the Senate. That breaks the record. No other man ever served so long in that body. Benton, of Missouri waa the first man who ever served thirty years. For a couple of generations 1t looked as If no one might make another record like that. The SenA. tor who first came nearer to him was the late MT. Anthony. of Rhode Island. the predecessor of MT. AIdrich An thony was elected for his fifth conseS- utivo term. but died before he had got ten very far in his last term. Gen. eral Cockrell, of Missouri. had thirty years even in the Senate, rivaI,ing the great Benton of his own State
 Senator Morgan,of Alabama, had a little more than thitty years. Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, served a little more than thirty-two years. Hate and fTy6s OL QIdlHcs <AAoA ACiis OL EtuOQe 1S- land, Teller. of Colorado. and CulIom. of IlIonois. are all pushing well along to the thirty year mark. but Teller has not had continuous servlce as he was Secertary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Arthur.
 Before going to the Senate, Mir. Al. lison had ten years in the House. d Representative from Iowa. If his party retains control of the Legisla. ture and he is elected next winter for another term. and If MT Allison lives to the end of that new term. he will have served for flfty-two consecutive years in the House and Senate He is comparatively poor, probably be- ing worth not over s30 900 or S4O,0 900.
 Only ten men are now fin Congress who were here twenty-three years ago when the writer came to Washington as a correspondent. They are Ala rich, Allison. Teller. Hale. Frye and Cullom, VITO were in the Senate then Gallinger, in 1885. was a member oS the House. and did not take his seat in the Senate until 1891.
 In the House were Common, of uI. nois. Bingham of Pennsylvania, Payno of New York. Dalzell. of PennsyIvania. did not appear there until 1887. KCI fer. of ohio, Talbott. of Maryland and Sherwood. of Ohio. were in ConKresseS previous to the Forty ninth Congress but they we've out for a number os terms.
 Teh talk is that the Iowa Repub licans as well as many of the party