People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — ALLEN WINS THE PRIZE. [ARTICLE]

ALLEN WINS THE PRIZE.

The Nebraska Judge Is Elected United States Senator by a Combination of Independent and Democratic Vote*—He ia a Populist. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. B.—William V. Allen, populist, was elected United States senator from Nebraska on the joint ballot of the legislature Tnesday. The vote for Paddock, republican, was 57. All the independents and democrats voted for Allen. His election was then made unanimous. Judge Allen was born at Midway, Madison county, 0., January 28, 1847. He is 48 years old. In 1856 he moved to lowa, and enlisted at the age of fifteen years with Company G, Thirtysecond lowa, In the war of the rebellion. He carried a musket for three years. He studied law with L. L. Ainsworth, of West Union, la. Nine years ago he moved to Nebraska, locating at Madison, Madison county, his present home. He is at present judge of the Ninth judicial district. In 1888 he was senior vice commander of the grand army in Nebraska. Judge Allen Is an enthusiastic believer in the doctrines of the people's party and an uncompromising advocate of the state ownership and control of railroads, telegraph lines and all means of transportation and communication. He Is an out and out free trader and an advocate of the free and unlimited coinage of sliver. Through nearly all his life Senator-El«st William Vincent Allen has been a republican he has always belonged to the anti-monopoly wing and been radically opposed to the machine element He was always a great admirer of Samuel J. Tllden, and in 1876 cast his vote for Mm. He voted for Garfield In 1880, for Blaine in 1884, Harrison In 1888 and for Weaver In 1892. In 1878 he was nominated by the anti-monopoly republicans and democrats for congress from the West Union district of lowa, and made a vigorous canvass, though of course he was defeated, as the movement was not then strong enough to hope to win. Since he came to Nebraska be has always been an anti-monopolist republican, and In 1891 was nominated by the populists and democrats for judge of the Ninth district and was elected. He has been on the bench for a little over a year, and has proved himself an able and competent jurist