Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-01-11
"ROLLED OATS" DOLLIVER.
Breezy Sketch of Morgantown' :
Former Son.

What Congressman j. Z. Doiliver is
Doing- Write up Of The
Former Resident Of Morgantown--
Personal "reminiscences, Chat and
Gossip.
Mr.. Dolliver of Iowa is one of the
best known orators of the house of
representatives. figure to be point
ed out from galleries. He is dark
hairet, dark eyed, ruddy of face and
i inclined to stoutness. He is magnifi-
Gently healthy, genial, expansive, a
teller Of good stories, man who en-
joys life.
BY birth Mr.. Dolliver is Yirginian
and there is a detected Old Dominion
twang to the turn Of his tongue. His
voice is mellow and round and large.
He is rhetorical, he is elocutionary.
The young women at Spirit Lake,
where he spent last summer, called
him ''Rolled Oats because, they said
he 'oratedn over his breakfast order
and a rolling Of every "r'' was part
of Grating. He is famous campaign
err He has been known to make one
hundred speeches in one hundred days.
/ Out of doors 10 fair weather, IS where
he likes best TO speak. He never takes
any care of his throat, and is never
hoarse. During the last campaign ,he
says he ran circus. He carried about
with him a canvas tent capable of
seating thirty five hundred people and
he had it set up in every town he
visited. In the morning there would
be speaking in the tent Midday din
ner was picnic affair. La the after
noon the speech making was continu-
ed. 1t was like an all day camp
meeting. Many of Mr.. Delivers
speeches lasted three hours and long
er. He enjoyed it all, but he thinks
the modern campaign methods lay a
tremendous burden on candidate and
tax almost beyond endurance his
physical and mental energies.
SPEECHES FRIENDS AND TASTES
He usually prepares his speeches for
delivery in the house rather carefully,
writing them out, or debating them
to a stenographer. He confesses to a
degree of stage fright before every
speech and thinks he would have ner-
vous prostration if he knew too long
beforehand when he should address
the house.
Mr.. Dolliyer has hosts of friends,
and likes to go among them His
tastes are simple. He takes little
heed Of how he shall be clad, and he
has SO little concern about what is set
he i'm, fp huf hn tya
to adopt the condensed food and beef
extracts OF Arctic explorers. He
smokes few cigars.
81 have never seen but one tragedy
that did not seem like comedy" he
says, speaking of the theatre "and
that was Hamlet, played by Booth"
Notwithstanding the deep impress
sion made upon him by that perform
ance he saw it from the retirement of
the very back of the box, which al
ways falls to the lot of the man in a
theatre party; a position, he says,
from which he could not see left field
at all.
He is lover of books but not
bibliomanic. He prefers a complete
last edition to any first edition that
was ever printed. If he has favo
rite author, a thing he is not at all
sure Of, it is Tennyson, a liking in
which Mrs. Dolliver who is Welles
ley graduate by the way, joins him.
Farming is his hobby. He owns a
fine farm, likes to live on it and is
sanguine enough to believe that some
day he will be able to make it pay
expenses.
LIKES TO GO FISHING.
When Mr. Dolliver is off duty, he
likes TO put on his oldest clothes, dig
can of bait, take his rod pole"
they call it out in Iowa-and go fish
ing for bass in the Des Moines River.
1t is the best sport in the world he
says, the crafty persuading OF wary
fish to take the bait Cod fishing,
where you dropa clothesline into the
sea and pull it up with small whale
on it, is not to be compared with the
keen. artistic delight OF bass fishing
1t is a philosophical amusement.
When he goes a fishing Dolliver COM
munes with nature; he medltates, he
has time to think long thoughts and
all the fish he catches are so much
clear Gain