Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-29

affairs He held this office until 1s41, when
he was elected delegate to congress as a
democrat. and served two terms In 1876
he was again made governor of Wisconsin,
and after the admission Of that state to the
union was one of it's first United States
senator's. He was reelected and served al
together from June q. 1S4s till March g.
1857.
Augustus Caesar Dodge.
Augustus Caesar Dodge was born in st.
Genevienve, Mo-, January IL, 1872; died in
Burlington, Ia, November 20, 1888, received
public school education and served under
his father in the Winnebago war of 1927
and the Black Hawk war of 1892. He re.
moved to Burlington. Ia, was register Of
the land office there in 1859 and was then
elected a delegate TO congress as a demo-
crat from the territory OF Iowa, serving
from 1910 till 1s47. Upon the admission of
Iowa to the union he became one of its
United States senators and served from
1s4S till his resignation, February s, 1855,
his father being in the senate from Wis
consin during the same period. He was
a presidential elector in 1913 and United
States minister to Spain in 1863.
General Dodge was a delegate to the
Chicago national democratic convention of
| 1864 and in 1884 was mayor of Burlington,
having been chosen on an independent
ticket. On February 4, 1854, Albert G..
Brown of Mississippi alluded, in the course
of a speech In the senate, to certain oc-
equations as mental and degrading, where
upon Mr.. Dodge replied to him, ending with
the following words: II tell the senator
from Mississippi in the presence OF my
father. who will attest it's truth, that /
have performed, and do perform when ]
am at home. all OF those mental services 10
which that senator has referred in terms
so grating to my feelings. AS a general
thing 1 saw my own wood and do all my
own marketing. never had a servant
Of any color. to wait upon me day in all
my life. l have driven teams, horses
mules and oxen and considered myself as
respectable then as now do, or as any
senator upon this floor is"
william wallace Dodge.
William Wallace Dodge, now a practlc-
ing attorney in Omaha. is a native of Bur.
lington. Ia. where he was born April %
1854 He graduated from the University OF
Notre Dame, Indiana, In the class of 1874
and from the law department of the STATE
university of Iowa In June 1876; was
chosen president OF the law class day ex
ercises and awarded the literary prize Of
fered to the graduating class for the bes
written argument on q given thesis OF law
Mr.. Dodge served as the chairman OF the
democratic state convention held at De-
Moines, Ia, on September 1. 1887. In 1855
he was elected as a democrat to the stat
senate of Iowa and in 1855 reelected for
second term OF four years. being the au
thor OF the law creating Labor day al
a legal holiday in Iowa, and other I'm
portant measures. Senator Dodge wa
Chairman OF the committee on labor. Il
1886 he was chairman OF the democrats
state convention at Des Moines. In 1SS
he was delegate-at-large to the nationa
democratic convention at st. Louis.
Mr.. Dodge is the author OF the recen
book on oratory. entitled THE Fraterna
and Modern Banquet Orator." which ha
attracted unusual attention throughout IN
country. The introductions to this bool
were written by Chauncey N. Depew ant
Champ Clark.
have only room for a word OF common
on the part that was played by Henry an
Augustus c. Dodge in our national affairs
Only the red corpusoles OF the true demo
crat circulated in their big veins. as
shown In the famous speech Of Senator A
c, Dodge I'm the senate, above quoted, 4
which he giorisd in the presence OF hi