Congressman Allen

In the "Personal Observation'' coluini of the East Saginaw Saturday Telegram which, by the way, is a bright and read ab'.e ncwspaper, we fliul this in reference to the congressman from tliis district : Captain Allen, of Ypsilanti, is the per sonitication of pluck. Originally balling from Sharon lownship, in Wushtenaw county, he diifted down to the Greel named city, where he hungouthis shingle and where an admiring constitnency ha been in 'uiting to shoner donors upou hiui. During a legislative career, hls Lansing friends nick-named him " Foghorn Allen." His voice is equal to a locomotiva whUtle wlicti signaling dowu br.ikes. It matters not where he speaks within the state, his voice can telephonically be lieard at any point within its borders. That voice, however, has been ÜH makinir "t hirn, It bas landed lilm into the lower hoiine of cougress. Everybody lovi's Captain Allen - even to the ladlea and demócrata, a thouaud or more of the l.itter hüTlOg cast their b.illots for him In November. The Captain is an orthodox Presbyterian, able to flll a pulpit on special occasions, or superintend a Subbatb school, if need be. If he would eschew tobáceo, to whicb he is enslaved, he would be a model man. As a taffydispeuscr at midsummer picnic gatherings he is pre-cniiiient. Captain Allen's bill ag&lngt the republlcan party isa verv lengthy oue, and beginning with March 4, the account will undergo a process of liquldatlon at tl'e handsome rate of $5,000 per aniiuin. Undismayed by d"feat in '84, he n-entered the race in"'8ö and distanced hi ootnpetltor.