Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — SENATOR ALLISON’S IDEA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SENATOR ALLISON’S IDEA.

Publio Ufa Does Not Pay financially, if at All. Senator Allison, of lowa, is one of the healthiest looking men in public life. He is now 66, bat he is in splendid condition, both physically and intellectually, and I might also say psychically. He has always cultivated looking at matters in a common sense, conservative way, and, while he has been a hard worker and a fairly good liver, his life has been an even one, and he has not allowed the chase for the dollar nor the ambitions of politics to contract and distort his soal. He is clear headed and clean. Always well dressed, he makes yon think of a New York club man or banker rather than of the average American statesman- His black clothes are well cat, and the linen of his shirt and his broad, expansive collar, which exceeds even that of William M. Evarts’ in size, is of the finest material and as white as the driven snow. His hair within the last year has perceptibly whitened and it is fast becoming iron gray. His eye, however, is bright, and the rosy corpuscles that shine through his fair skin show that his blood is full of iron. He has a strong face. His forehead is very broad and above the average height. His nose is large and his mouth and lower jaw are indicative of determination and

will. He is a good story teller, and he has a hearty laugh. He was sitting at a table with a box of cigars and a pile of papers beside when I called, and he smoked as he talked. “It is nearly thirty-three years since you were first elected Senator. That is a full generation. Do you think it has paid you to be a public man? ” “I don’t know,” replied Senator Allison, reflectively. “I have thought of it many times, and I have sometimes decided that It has not. It has been pleasant in many ways, but it has often se6med to me that it would have been better for me had I closed my public career with my term in the House. There is really a great deal of hard work connected with Congress, and my life in the Senate has been one of hard work and much worry. When I left the House in 1871, twenty-four years ago, I was, you might say, in the beginning of my prime. Had I dropped politics and devoted myself to my profession of the law I would certainly be much better man to-day. I think perhaps I would have been happier.”

SENATOR ALLISON.