Show H I rJ Ulilliaro S flliison I i I If A VlHlt to tho Oioat Ion Ktntofinmi mill a Chili With Him I j = I JlJI Strator Allaen looktal SMy tillilt lIt a ttMoxlmllt Tell Ho I lit n1 Jiifietlitir llftA KtuiMtrtHtt pf He ftutoli ton 4 I I itnlwK anJ Iliit it KalnfJ Ihlillm Alllta ffft i Chugrtii I Wit f WAirrj In the ndJanJ llm lit OtifliialtJ IHt Cuittm The HtiwJto 1 I I JUtic IVtlIt Av lit Ii M a dmJubh for lIe nUitty ad IXi A I I 1 4 Jltltnt in Srtond Teem ItnUentt IIlt ftftoMftti OaHaat fiOMtlMiif 1 l l ouIMo Sitar lutillan and coins Iinontuil School ll t r lIion At ltJ I Thru CaHnrl roilllant A lion llilli Afmlar Gfar litiju Thai mill J l J llttlSHitly hued AIHM la Ilit nttfliou j I i I I I gUi Cteaprdmcl iti OWI I j I ICI7rthId IWSlT I I rsok U rsritnttr I spent I nn evening i jo not long ago ultl I I I i Senoto Willialll t V ifI t IL Alholl lie if L liven on Vettflflt l annue lIhln a l I o llnce minutes1 t I r ifij t wall ol the While lloutc In one of 1 the mosthshlon I able parts of ihe city The linuses 1 t about his Washington home I are com j I parotlvcly new but nearly every ono cit ci-t them has a famous resident ant I each ol I the older places hat hid lit hWorv I III 1 J Just above It I the red btlclt loam ulnch I j Justin SMorrlll the oldest man In thn United Slates Satiate hit occupied for I veirs Jut below II the IIIR 11k I I In I I I J uhich Secretary Charlet otter I lived I iL u hen he u as carrying tic burden of the I F iJ1 United States Itcasury and n secret tailS tail-S I of personal financial ruin through tic F 1 smiles and quirks of ishlnglon r I soclely Across the WAY on Ihe corner I i of Mth strcetlt the old 1 home ol Gen Ft t t lloh bchcnck now changed Into a Hal I i j wllh a flower store ami n olic shop In 1 l 1 the basement In the block Mow lives I I It Senator McMillan of Michigan In an iotoo brIck mansion and around Ito corner on Massachusetts avenue are theft the-ft outeo I a bakers dom of Supreme Court unices famous senators and rich L cj i literary men Senator Allisons house I Is I one of the plainest ol the neighborhood F neighbor-hood Il Is a uhile three story brick t I built In the conventional Hyle with a big parlor In the front a library at the back and a dining room somewhere in If the rear It Is I well furnished and Its I t walls are covered 1 with choice engravings S r engrav-ings and good 1 paintings 1LNATOH ALLISON IN 1895 I It was In the hlrary that I met the I F Senator He I Is I one of the healthiest F F looking men In public life lie It i now t ii F slitysTibul he Is I in splendid condition I hold physically and Intellectually and i f 1 I might also say ps > chlcilly l lie has id F aluats cultivated looking at matters In it i a common seritc contervatlve way and I F if ohite he hal been a hard worker anti a lalrly good liver his life lias been in It even one and he hat nol allowed Hie I F close for Ihe dollar nor the ambitions ol politic to contract and distort hit soul lie It I clear headed and clean F Al avs well drrsted he makes you think ol a New yok club man eir honker rather than ol the average I I American statesman His black clothes are well cut and the linen of his shirt I and his broad eopanu Inn collar I uhicli I i cscecds even llial of William M Enacts I in site Is I of the finest m ilcrhl and us F white at the driven snow Ilit hair within the last year hat perceptibly l I whitened and Ills i last becoming Iron gray Hit 1 eye however It bright and J Ihe rosy corpuscles I thai i shine I I through his fair skin show thai his blood lull F of Iron He has a strong lace Ills I i lorchetd Is very road I and above the average helthlh ills I nose Is Urn and Ills mouth and lower I jaw are Indieillve of determination and whit lie I it i I F Load nor teller and I he hat a bratty laugh His voice I Is deep I and t strong I His words coma slowly but lie seldom 0 makes a mistake and the sentences ol I his private convcrnallon ate ulniut as i F I rounded at those uhicli ho delivers on the lloor of Ihe bcnale He was silling at table whit box ol cigars and i i r F pile of papers beside him when I called t and he smoked as he Hiked VAttAVtO IIiSTOKICL IAIUKS I Ash I looked at the pipers I thought 1 of a call uhicli I recently 1 made on Senator John Sherman uhcm llnund I 1 working over thin manuscripts I of his pa > t and 1 I I asked ben ilor Allison what had been his habit In regard In keeping papers I and data concerning the historic snobs ol uhich he has lormcd Io Iral a part i He replied that he h1 I preserved some letters but that lie had never kept a diily journal J I am sorre said he that I have never kepi a alr I have kept l triers i F tomcuhat and I have a lane I amount of correspondence 1 scattered llirouji mv 1 boxes 1 mal urite my memoirs In my I old age I imagine it would be rather II pleas ml w ra My attention was tiled F to it by Ihe recent death ol nip collea I lne bcnalor WIIOII I had lo I uric 1 I something concerning him and it u is In doing this Hill the past cune up I before be-fore me For thirty years back I have t known ever man who hit been cori F meted Kith our public all lira I have known the Inside ol things arid llu h oOI III1il I motives of our great men I hive been I alt were bhlll1 rite sceneo ulld liter i are many things tint have never been published uhicli it heenis tome uould F nuke Interesting reading I am nut I thinking ol riling now and I dont know tint I ever will writ llut the task strikes me as a picatint one TIIK CON NlI0N OF then Tell llo me Senator about tour first I connection uitli I lolufcs I can MV e you my first politic Jlhcc ° replied 1 t Senator Allison 1 It not at one ol the tally secretaries of the onventlon of iMo uhicli nominated resident I mcoln I I u is born mid I educate vou know m O no and ittir my I Lrmiution al thin vUitern Kenerve F Lolle e I begun the practice ol the iv al the little limit ml 1 Atlilind I I I nciiie F whim near ttI renter I vi the Mili li Is 11 lust about lilteen I lrII Irom I field whence John Slierm in c iiurs 111 where 1 the late Samuel I Klrl Hood used lo i practice law belore I he UNI Iowa I-owa Iowa vou know isscitlcdhr ly by Ohio people and alter In I 1 practiced law lor i time at AiulIIll I lot her wevle and hisne Ibis I was lit ip I was eubli can In my tendencies and though I was practicing I sin I was mnrh Inttreslfd in I polities nndAt I nude l one of the dfhunlM to thIs conveiilianln iSle Fo I name Mon in nlhr they rode r uncover I the lull clerks I Ml right in I front of George Anhmiin ol M its liuteiu who otis the president of the convention 111 I I welime that I gave to him the firtt newt I Lincolns nom nil lion I kepi fmillng up the figures as Ihury ame m and suite time U lore the mi ethers of the corn enI in nere Ward 01 l the Mel I iw tint Ineoln I uould he I tleclid and I tunic I about and Ind Mr Athmuri the tat u A few moments later the os tint than realised It and then ensued en-sued one of the inoul wnnderliil scenes ol eiur history line canoe nuhiun HAS leI < l In Ihe old 1 Wigwam In Uilaigo and them ucre nliout ten tluusand people peo-ple present Ulan the vole was nn nounced n scream went ul from thou amis of Ihroals and fully cum thousand hats utrn thrown Into the air It lined hits lora tr1 in nuut liter the ai iiuuncemenl and I can still nee Hit hats 1 rising anil falling The 1 people Icxl control uf thrmtehct and I have often wonder I ulut b came of tluwe lulu tar there wat not much possibility i recovering t our hit In a mob like thalr MOW Ilk CAlll tU CONIIKKHI How dish you happen lo come to Congress Scnilorr U IIIplioJ Senator Allison that Is I something ol a story I don t think I I was nmbllloiii to be a politician I certainly nude no elforl to secure my first nomination OIlJI ll came about Indirectly In-directly through the Influence and lures llge uhich I cquuiremi by being he Iriend ofSimucll ol Klrkwood isis vas hiurum governor of Iowa As soon nthewat elected he mil me on his Mall and oh le hue outbreak of the war he directed me to raise some regiments tar the army My territory was north low and I haul organized three reglmcntt along In 1861 whcnluat I liken sick on1 oruearl I H u unable to do anything soon as I recovered Governor Klrkwood put me again at work anoll I railed 1 three more regiments or six 1 reglmcntt 11 all This was In IS6 and ll was Just aboul the lime ol nominating member of Con grcst The candidate lor nomln Ulan ol tile republican parly from our country was an extremely radical man He uanlcd slavery abolished I at once am I anted the Presldenl to adopt the most extreme measures as to the carrying on ol Ihc war I u at little mare conservative conser-vative and the large conservative etc fluent of the dunk nude me their can dldate The rctult wat tlut I was nominated and the opposing demo cratle cnoldalo was ant editor who was then in I jail on account of disloyally He I had been ordered there by Secretary Stanton and the Issue uas a slraleli one of hoc the Union or ugainst It VOTINCl IOWA kOLlllEHH IN TIIK into 1trlr can 11 hardly Inugine I today the situation 1cr lMj6j Senator Afliior continued The democratic party Will strong and hue republican parly tin I been depleted r I by au volunteers I tror hue warn uhich had > ou know been called lor again and again In organising my regiments t for Inc army 1 noted utah nine tcnlhs I of ol then were republicans and In looking over the congressional lound I thai If all these voles Here lo be loll I would probabl be defeated lime men were lo 10 away lo the held In a hew das II I I could have their voles I would be elected How I lo get them I did no know I uoinedover 1 time matter anti Imally decided that If llieir votes couh be taken in Ihe lucId II uould save not only Ibis congressional dlitnct lo thin republican pill bul others In dilleren pails of Iowa I II nets IhII a recess or ho I lcgi 1 > lalure however and such uieaturu u ould require etlsl Ulv o uctioi 1 concluded logo to Uoternor Kirk woul and get him to tall aitcxtr tension I did so spending ull the nlili on the train to go IrOIlI lubu < hah Uivcnporl ha-h There was no direct toad then and I had to go out inU Illuioi and there connect IIh the L II nol tn and come back I presented the sin ilion i-lion lo lIme governor 110101 1 him that it 1 wit eirtaln that Uilnon could not be elected and th11 I doubted whether I i could be but that nity chances Here better thin his Governor Kirkuooil did nol Ih nk the matter so serious at lust but upon my ihouing Inn tIme I real status ot allaun lie raid llut it 1 I ennui J go and get a Idler trout Senator Cr misadvising mis-advising the nullcr he would call the extra session Klrkwood had u great respect lor Mimes judgment I thci went to see Irulles He luedatllur Imgton and 1 walked Irom Ihe Irani to hu moan I uas hold he was uloma slum the ul I looked 1 him up 1 and booth him ill grocery store owned by a young man named l < cirt the name vouug inu silo had jut been elected from my state to take Uilsons place In I the United Stales Senate 11liel I prescnlei r the situation to Senator tinmen He laughed al last hut I soon blioued hln th11 I was right and lie said Well If mat is so and think III It we will crnumly lose two ditlricts III Congress II Ihu governor dot not cat an exirt > eul 11111 III I torte him I ould nol hciliate a moment I uoult not only call a stsjlon lull I would nuk hhuun the linio nil I the e ill Here I taw my chance and said Oovtinor Klrkwood semml time toon to find out ulut ou llioughl aboul rIme milter and tu ring him an tn > uer Plow II 1011 Ihlllk that here niiuulI I be uii cxlr onsolaru he uoiiM I like to liuw It mid I 011101 I hike to cmy him a late Irum put si ing so seintor e i nes then give me a no e to Uovttiur K rkwoo I btatiii mat I I hid ealied u ion him about the I utter and that lit I t elY iniuli alarmed ov tIme alitiihiTI i in dun note hu vrol ut tuUI uloluui lam 1 more satikuin at 11 Die piitrloliM ef tie i eon e it Iw I tIFiil vlhson mill 1 Ihu k hit ihmu I 1111 I 11 01 un < t 011 01 III II U IIIO I tmiil on this 4 II imoi Ill ulc ccii In 1 lIIeellll 1111 isa iangatiiihe III ollliall on IIlha guru tunes ituvulnod Itook timma toil tk 10 haauciumou f Iii 1110001 lip CAC 1 m nel mi ummun I otimt our salmi Iqlalu mink tIn In mime Iitol Fun scull I amid Ih It uois were cOnnliniamiers aJ Ihlluclt title toknnt arid Iclued t reblc n icIeKadonJr use got a ot the and I IIIIe Iowa itt Lou KM wan nemlKM Suit alter this I thInk Mid Senator llnon the timer slant rule as > 10 011 f the north aioplool l i the same rite 1lh ftklng the votes ol the soMitrs in the lucid but I believe thut lava was iud that IIIMI to linl to attempt this I be called utue aum > r 1 return client At rae in wa 01 tine movement tony hinuih this I thaI I came to Conjress onul fluvc I been here wllh lIe eslep Ion of the two years between 1871 and 187 Irimi that lime to lithe UOKH It DHL 1lrE I IAI I 1 neatly thirty thieo > MM since were circled Senator Put 10 A on pout lull generation Plow cult back utl think It I in 1 you pout ovcr your career ron 1nsiui l you to lie a public manr J cs I dont know replied Senator All wn nnectlvely I have tltOOItttOfil 1 ntiiiv times anal uave somciinu u < cldud lint It hit not It has hnenn le Miitlnininy WJI but It hat olio flnd tome llial It would hAV boen belter lor me ml I I closed my psbitc cnicer with my lerni i in the llouw 1 1 hen U neatly n great deal ol hard work connected 1 with lonstes unit I my 1110 in the senile hat twen one ol bird wok owl much scacry Wh1I Ilelt I ito I Iouue In 1871 twenty tour yean ago lua I ou IlIliht say at hue beginning ol my firlmr Mad I dropped politics and do voted mylr to my profession ol Ihe I Iw I I would cct laiuly lieu much Ileher I1lon tItan I am today I think pitha I would luve been happier TUB IKSItllXNLV Still Senator you Inve h11 I all tint puMic life Rives to any one uitli the ex ceptlonol the presidencyand > ou may I have Hill llut I am not a candidate lor the presidency replied Senator Allison Nul No Nol In any sense ol the uod > I have I never looked upon the VAInlr House I as many other public men do I eliiubl muili concerning the Inppincst that It I Mjpppsed 1 lo come with Ihe presl dttntial other I have known many presldenlt I have been aciUitiited w lib them before they went liio olhce an11 I hive knoanu them often they came out I hove seen them go into the Vilte Houie happy and proud In their power and In their possibilities of ac complishlng groat thingt I have seen them come ont disappointed and ills titled I do not know thai I would care for lIme presidency If I could have I ll It It I certainly not a place that I should strive for I am In the Senate now and I feel thai my atone will pio J ably keep I me there as long as I desire toili > My experience there It ucirlh something I hardly feel that my uork Is I ended pet and lIne presidential pUll lion should be for the roun ling out ol ones career The exPresident hit no place to fill In our political activity and ullh the single exception perhaps of John < jamc > Adams thcru are noni ol our prcs dents u ho have accomplUhed much ul siolen mntnns hilt alter iluy line left Ihe White House II IS llttt general Idea thai the President should be i dig nllied monument of tin w Inch hat ben I I and In a certain sense Hilt Is right NO HkCOXII TLKM oUut many Presidents have had second terms said I I I un not believe In thai at all replied re-plied benalor Allison A lrld lIt should nol be elected and It would be better lor the country If Hilt stat a mlunrnu luly understood I fact We arc alwas bound lo be governed by ell of three great marbles Die president 1s the choice ol one ol lliese plrlles and Ihe man who strives Inn reelection is ito templed i-to me Ihe machinery of the olhce for his own personal I ends Injustice In-justice to bit party and I lo Ihe country I do dot Hunk that a President can be a candidate for a second term Till KUUIILICVN OlTIOOk Speaking parties Senator ulut ls the outlook of the Kepubllcin party today I til health llhmltlt I It In a perfectly healthy condition replied 1 senator Allison and I Hunk there Is no doubt ri Itl sitat II will do In lhue conunlng Intelen la II I J Hal gounuhaigni II wtih tr umulunharud I 3 nol believe that there Is I any doubt as to its success DJ you not think there uill soon be a cliinge ol patties m lute United Mates Are nol the east and west drilling ap Iftl Will ue not h ive a parly of the east and Ihe 011 t No I think nol replied Seinlor Allison I lie Denucratic md time He public parlies will be tno great politic I politi-c it parlies of lime lulled Slates for veto irs ve-to come They nny change to a err talon i Ilicir Itsuet I trout lime lo time llut Hie mam lines of division uill ben Mimic 1IIB hllVKK tClilION Mow about the silver nuetionWhit do you Hunk ol tins htilo yellow book know i at Coins Financial I School I hive read it replied Senator Allison Alli-son it In I au 1III0IClIIIIl book and It ma I ereallll somnuethuiumg 01 n onatloll in the west It It lull ol hall truths It it i not a fair book by any means and it will not bear Invesllgilion The last chapter In which It pretend to stile how we could tnilnUln our gold with thu free coinage ol silver independent ol similar action on tho put t of the natlo is ol 1 uropc falls utterly and the author goet oil Into a ttcnunciatlon ol I nil mil ami Ihelnlhoh to hInd hit readers l read-ers as lo tIme wcaKn mol Ii argument As lo time IlIv rnovenient I m the west I think the force ol it Is somewhat exag geratcd the people of the Lulled Stales will nol act hastily aboul such an important matter and the bi me al Mil which ue want II IIIIL uhich shall DC reichcd through inlernation iinrec In speakint lurlher about sitter the benitur referred I Ih speeches which ho Inil mule during the resent year and slued thai they contained l hit exact position is to silver until gold Hi I us talk however wiiinort of i personal chat than an interview lor public ition md tIme hunt ol it relating to hlnuell uat utmost interesting wit KNATO Au ISDN KIriHKll rilli IK hCKV Ueferrln to Ins modest ililement about the residency I benitor Mlisons conduct the put has I shown that he lu > acaui md arfim I refused I high I ollices and I 1 believe I th u the bee ol f niiiclal lib li am bition buzzes less clouly uiiout 1 him ih in about any oilur public nun now named as i presidential candidate lie hunt sever il tiniM refus d lo LO into the cibinet Liaiheld alone tune ruSted In n ilia nortfo lo of the I itiriur and at mother r I am told he mien led to gIve I him the treasury Department lie I reno h cd re-no uk lIme ponioho ol lime inns I icy iniun the orkiiiicalion ol President l I tic o c bmet liiume I my tilk win h m I iitkeo him why nlraJo so usistcntly related to leave the Senate lor tIme obmel Me replied that lilt j out > lo 11 > MOm anu 1 Ins Iricnds at the inlr HIMCprullloiu vvrio ollcrcd him ii I 11Ine I sued an action and that lira mlii li-ra I r irit lnlK don the tilings wlIch lie < nlil not h II l Us I illd not want the Interior cei arlment ami Itt It-t lluHifli Ills Irlluonco thin Gen hlotlmehd gave Ihil pinion to Simiiel J okwood 1 At the time tint Harrison offered to nnkc him Secretary ol the resin ty atm Clark sorb u it spoktri cl I two cabinet pos lion and Mr Allison mild not accept 1 position Hhlcli too likely to cautp irouUe In his sun party en jecnlly when the poile of 111 slate hhte hl fht that IreW o iht t J lemiln In the Sen ale GeMs ON All ISDN In cloning Ililt article I uould late niuat wheihr Alllfon vints to be n I preset pres-et nal candidate I or not there is no oubt but that lows will present lib name In the next national convention Alter leaving him I rosieil mite street bin ihc Portland Fiuni I Glh cdl upon Ufa 3 I owa new Seinlor Cov Gear 1 told hlnl 01 the move nmirk of Senator AIIIn and he repltel I believe San Slur Vliionlt lioicl In hit statemint hat lie hid no presilcntlil ambitions lust will not cflecltiwa liowcvtr It will sorely present hlsnime lo the con ention and It scent to me lint lie he tiand4 as Rood a lunco to 10 I the nut President is nn > inn In the Unllcil Stales lie I comes Irs I the right part of m country Ihc vvsl I Me I 1 u rlplit Ion I-on all lueillons and le tins proved him wll a tafc contervatl and at the same time able 1 statesman Hut Senator G ear1 said Iit I Is said that Allison U too conervatlve He Is chsrzed 1 whIm being Maps on the fence and nit opponents savhe Is I nlrald Th tIme not true aid Senilor Gear Then is nothing of no coward about Allison He it I cainlonbut not coward Ic l He huas a still iMCbone In lilnl and whenlheoicisondciaml he always shows tlut heIMS < evictions nnd the courage to support Hun here Is I no man In the United Start belter lilted by his wide tJMII < neo 011 lip till dealing with public alfiirs to b President of the Jmted States hot tb pall thlrt tuo yetrs hue lias I been In Hibhc lIlt He ImnWt the counliv ncedb and its men Me It now 51011it l years lldr but Ite dott nol look 1 to bmore llun filly six and lie is I in lIla physical conJl tun 7 > vK n |