Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-15
DOLLIVER AT HOME
UNITED STATES SENATOR HAS A
STRONG HOLD ON POP
ULAR AFFECTION.
Mrs. Doliver a Clever Politician
Largely Through tIer Influence That
Senator Refused Vice Presidential
Nomination.

The following interesting sketch Of
ne home life of Hon. j. P. Dolliver,
published recently in a Des Moines
papcr will be of interest to his many
0ttumwa friends.
The brilliant and eloquent junior
senator from Iowa leads bucolic ex-
Silence in his Fl Dodge home when
The duties of state and politics permit,
Senator Dolliver is by instinct and
preference a farmer He loves soil
Jude. He has a farm of his own near
tt. Dodge, but somehow or other he
has not worked up great deal of en-
lhusiasm over this bit of country life
n the concrete, and prefers 10 appre.
siate it in the abstract.
The senator has another agricultur.
lily inclined friend at FIT. Dodge in
The person Of Judge William S. Ken.
1on. district attorney for the Illinois
central railroad. Judge Kenyon is
IT'LL young. Not reprehensibily so,
but he is young by choice, and stays
Toung by persistence. If he has his
way about it he will never grow old.
AS means of keeping the crows
Feet from collecting in too great pro-
Susion about his eyes, the judge has
purchased a farm out on the Lizard
creek, in lonely. wooded and Sc
.luded spot-not much of place for
arming purposes. but powerful good
o look at. Senator Dolliver says he
likes his friends farm because it is the
onesomest place on earth, and here
he two friends repair on Sundays and
hscuss the questions and solve the
problems of the universe 1t would
probably be a difficult matter to find
wo more brilliant conversationalists
md M In. the Sunday 81 meetings are epoch
eEstt - this is merely cross section of
he life which the junior Iowa senator
ipends at his FIT. Dodge home. He
1kes TT. Dodge. And well he might,
or TT. Dodge has been good to the
unlor senator. 1t received him when
ne was. nletaphorically, treading on
lis uppers. and after fondling him for
while, made him a United States
!enator. OF course, Iowa will insist
lpon claiming part of the credit, but
NE people of Ft. Dodge will go on
the calm assurance that they did it.
Enjoys Society.
The senator is social being, He
thoroughly enjoys the whirl OF official
life in Washington and in the east, but
every summer and every possible vaca-
lion finds him hieing himself to his
Fort Dodge home.
Senator Delivers house is unpreten.
aous. 1t is white frame structure
with a porch which is locally historic.
It was from this porch that Senator
Dolliver addressed his fellow towns.
men upon the occasion of his appoint,
nent as senator, and it was in front of
The porch that all Fort Dodge gathered
% do him homage. Fort Dodge was
happy, and one may readily imagine
The feelings OF the man, who only a
lew wears before landed in that same
community briefless barrister, with
gut cent in his pocket and nc friends
10 look to.
From such condition to high and
honored place in the United States
senate is a precious BIT of romance
which might well grace the pages of g
novel
While the home is modest and un
pretentions on the outside, ii is ever
hoiS 81 ol IuS iuSluS. II is Il com
'ortable, old fashioned home, but PEG
pie and not walls made Rome, and /
IS people and not walls that make III
HE wealth of the Dolliver household
And in his people Senator Dollive
IS exceptionally fortunate His mothe
lied when he was yet young man
Ind 1t has always been a source O
sorrowful regret to the senator tina
she did not live to enjoy some of tn,
aonors that have come to him But hi
'ather is living, and few men can re
loice In such a father Time has deal
lightly with the old West Virginia cir
cult rider who used to exhort in thu
mountain Businesses of that state
against evil and the powers of thu
9eEil. He was Methodist circuit rid.,,