Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-10-22
SENATOR D0LLWER
DIED VERY SUDDENLY
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then for the active part which ne took
in making that law. Although more
Independents than many. he was then
known as a standpatter Iowa being
an agricultural state, he successfully
advocated protection for all products
Of he soil.
I, During the administration of prest-
dent Roosevelt, in the height Of aglta-
ton for the regulation of freight rates.
Mr.. Deliver, who had gone TO the Sen.
ate. filled a conspicous role. The Hep
burn Dolliver law. amendatory Of the
original act creating the interstate
commerce commission, was to 4 arge
extent the product OF his lahors, al
| though after that measure was report
ed to the Senate il underwent many
changes of which he did not approve.
II was in connection with the enact
| ment Of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill
during the present Congress that Sen.
ator Deliver attracted the greatest at
| tention throughout the country. Dur
| ing the life Of Senator Allison, enc OF
the standnat eaders Of the Senate,
Deliver, tEen the junior Iowa senator,
was constantly within the shelter OF
his venerable colleagues guidance Az
| ter Allison died and was succeeded by
| Senator Cummins, who lad long been
known as a progressive, Senator Dolli-
yer joined hands with his new col
league, and incurred the enmity Of the
republican political faction with which
he had so long been affiliated
In debates with nearly every one OF
the republican standpat orators Sena.
tor Deliver contributed many of the
brightest pages of the Congressional
Record of the the tariff session of last
year. He was one of he ten sena-
tors who voted against the Payne-Ald-
| rich BIZ
Lines Up With Insurgents.
In the last year OF President Roose,
vets administration, when a demand
/ for change in the tariff was echo!ng
/ across The continent and after Beve.
| ridge and la Toilette nerved them
i selves 10 the point of opposing The or
/ ganization in the Senate led by Sen
ator Aldrich, Senator Dolliver became
| an advocate OF lowering of duties
| on imports and became progressive
or "insurgent."
Senator Dolliver, at the opening OF
| the SPECIAL session OF Congress called
| by President Taft Immediately after
| his inauguration to revise the tariff.
began his fight on the wool, cotton and
| sugar schedules OF the present Aldrch
| Payne tariff law. His part was con-
spicuous. Throughout the long de-
bates against the many times charged
| juggling of rates in the various sched-
ules the sharp tongue and bright wit
of the Iowan was felt both by mem
bers of the organization of the repub-
lican party and the democrats.
Having fought and lost in the Sen
ate, and having seen the bill become n
law through the signature of President
Taft. Senator Dolliver refused TO heed
the frantic appeals of the republican
campaign managers and call truce
for the sake OF party harmony He was
responsible largely for the ultra-pro-
gressive tariff plank in the Iowa re-
publican platform.
With II he won an overwhelming
victory for the insurgent cause in his
state, victory that had no distant
connection with his death, for the eff
forts expended in behalf of the pro-
gressives faction in Iowa weakened
him until he was comparatively an
easy prey for the organic heart trouble
/, from which he died.
His insistent war on the tariff. to-
gether with his opposition to the Pres
dem S railroad and postal savings bill,
brought about breach between Sen
) ator Dollver and President Taft.
Prominent in His Party.
In the republican national conyen-
ton at Philadelphia in 1860. which re-
nominated Mckinley for the pgesIden-
cy Deliver probably would have been
the nominee for vice pres dent II Sen
ator Plat and other republ can lead
ers then in power had not determined
upon the nomination OF Roosevelt.
again, in Chicago at the last fepubll-
can ma ional convention. the Tart lead.
ers wanted a man from Iowa for sec
ond place on the ticket. but The de q
cation was 30 divided between Cum
Minis and anti-Cummins forces that the
, selection Of DollIver. the real choice,
. became Impossible.
] When Senator Dollver left Wash.
. ngton al the close OF the as; session,
apparently strong and vigorous. he
told many OF his friends that ne felt
hat he had Just come into his own.
BY that be meant that. though asso.
ciated for many years with the "old
:. guard In Congress, he had frequently
felt lack Of sympathy with many Of
. the measures they advocated He vas
at heart a progressive.
.. His Pierpont statue Grafton.
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