Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-16
DEATH OVERTAKES
SENATOR DOLLNER
CONTINUED From First Page.)

of Senator Allison, one of the standpat
leaders of the Senate, Deliver then the
Junior Iowa senator, was constantly
within the shelter Of his venerable col
was succeeded by Senator Cummins, who
had long been known as a progressive,
Senator Dolliver Joined hands with his
new colleague 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 Senator Dol
liver contributed many of the brightest
pages of the Congressional Record of the
tariff session of last year He was one of
the ten senator's who voted against the
Payne-Aldrich bill.
Lines Up With Insurgents.
In the last year of President Roose-
velts administration. when a demand
for a change in the tariff was echoing
across the continent, and after Beve-
ridge and La Toilette nerved them
selves to the point of opposing the or
ganizatiOn i'll the Senate led by Sem
atOr Aldrich, Senator Dolliver became
an advocate Of lowering of duties
on iElportS and became a progressive or
inSurgent."
Senator Dolliver, at the opening of the
special session of Congress called by
President Taft Immediately after his in
fight on the wool, cotton and sugar
schedules of the present Aldrich-Payne
tariff law. His part was conspicuous.
Throughout the long debates against the
many times charged juggling of rates in
the various schedules the sharp tongue
and bright wit of the IOwan was felt
both by members Of the organization of
the republican party and the democrats.
Having fought and lost in the Senate,
and having seen the bill become a law
ho GA nf
Senator Dolliver refused to heed the fran
tic appeals of the republican campaign
managers and call truce for the sake
Of party harmony. He was responsible
largely for the ultra1p rogressive tariff
plank in the Iowa republican platform.
With 1t he won an overwhelming VIC
tory for the insurgent cause in his state,
a victory that had no distant connection
In behalf Of the progressive faction in
Iowa weakened him until he was COM
paratively an easy prey for the organic
heart trouble from which he died.
His insistent war on the tariff. together
with his opposition to the President s
railroad and postal savings bill. brought
about breach between Senator Dolliver
and President Taft
Prominent in His Party.
In the republican national convention
at Philadelphia in 1900, which renom-
mated Mckinley for the presidency, Dol
liver probably would have been the nom
inee for vice president IL Senator Platt and
other republican leaders then in power had
not determined upon the nomination OF
Roosevelt. Again, in Chicago at the last
republican national convention, the Taft
leaders wanted a man from Iowa for sec
ond place on the ticket, but the delegation
was so divided between CumminS and
anti-Cummins forces that the selection OF
Dolliver the real choice. became impOs-
sible.
When Senator Dolliver left Washington
at the close of the last session, apparently
strong and vigorous he told many of his
friends that he felt that he had lust
come into his own" By that he meant
that, though associated for many years
with the ''old guard in Congress. he had
frequently felt lack of sympathy with
many of the measures they advocated
He was at heart q progressive