Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-10-19
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bring him out as candidate for the
republican nomination for congress.
man. Cyrus c. Carpenter Of Fort
Dodge. former governor and former
congressman from the Tenth district.
took leading part in this movement.
He was devoted admirer of Mr..
Dolliver, who was then less than 20
years old In the campaign which
followed Mr. Dolliver developed more
strength than any other candidate.
hut was unable to secure enough to
nominate. The opposition succeeded
in combining against him and renomi-
mated A. j. Holmes of Boone county
for a third term Two years later,
however, Mr. Dolliver was nominated
in the convention at Webster City and
was elected 10 the Fifty-first congress
as representative of the Tenth dis.
trict
That was his first political office
and he was continued in the Fifty.
second. Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth Fifty
fifth and Fifty-siXth congresses.
On Aug. 90. 1900. he was appointed
by the then Gov. Leslie NJ. Shaw to
fill a vacancy in the United States
senate caused by the death of Senator
Gear; he was elected In 1909 to sue.
reed himself and reelected inll9O7 for
a term which would have expired
March 5, 1913
His Tariff Record.
When the Dingley tariff was en-
acted Mr.. Dolliver was member Of
the committee on ways and means OF
the house.
He distinguished himself then for
the active part which he took in max.
ing that law. Although more indepen.
dent than many. he was then known
as standpatter, Iowa being an agri-
cultural state he successfully advo.
Gated protection for all products Of
the soil
During the administration Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. in the height of agi.
tation for the regulation of freight
rate Mr.. Deliver. who had gone to the
senats, filled a conspicuous role. The
liepburn-D olhver law. amendatory of
the original act creating the interstate
commerce commission. was to a large
extent the product of his labors al.
though after that measure was re-
ported to the senate 1t underwent
many changes OF which he did not
approve.
During the life of Senator Allison,
one of the standpat leaders of the
senate, Dolliver. then the junior Iowa
senator. was constantly within the
shelter of his keener colleagues guild.
ance. After Allison died and was sue.
ceeded by Senator Cummins. who had
long been known as progressive,
Senator Dolliver Joined hands with his
new colleague and incurred the en-.
nifty of the republican political fac.
ton with which he had so long been
affiliated.
In debates with nearly every one of
the standpat orators, Senator Dolliver
contributed many Of the brightest
pages of the congressional record of
the tariff session last year. He was
one of the ten senators who voted
against the Payne-Aldrich bill.
In the convention at Philadelphia in
1900, which nominated Mckinley for
the presidency, Dolliver probably
would have been the nominee for vice
president II Senator Plat and other
republican leaders then in power had
not determined upon the nomination
of Roosevelt
Again in Chicago at the last republi.
can national convention the Taft lead.
ers wanted man from Iowa for
second on the ticket, but the delega.
ton was so divided between Cum.
minis and anti.Cummins forces that
tho selection Of Dolliver, the real
choice, became Impossible.
Senator Doiliver as a Speaker.
The speech which Senator Dolliver
delivered this year in the senate on
the tariff bill, in which he exposed
some of the absurdities, stripped the
bill of it's disguise and told frankly
of the manner in which it had been
built up on the give and take plan
will stand for all time as one of the
great American orations..
The last time that Senator Dollivel
fappeared in Des, Moines was last May
when he spoke with Senator Cummins
In the coliseum. 1t was a great
crowd, a great occasion, and Dollivel
was at home. He had never befor,
had such enthusiastic approval Of hi
words, either in Des Moines or an,
place in Iowa. He remarked as h
left the hall that he was never haI
pier in his life.
Still more recently Senator DOLL
yer wrote for the Outlook, probabl,
on the express invitation of Col
Roosevelt. a brief story of the rise o
the progressive movement in Iowa
He treated of his own connection will
1t modestly but with perfect candor
1t was one of the most charming COZ
tributions to political literature Of tn
year.
Senator Dolliver was truly a ns
tional figure from Iowa. He had don
as much political speaking in Iowa a
any man. He had spoken from hund
reds of Chautauqua platforms all owe
the country. Iowa was prepared t,
present his name to the Philadelphia
convention of 1900 as candidate TO
| vice president. His name would hav
been presented. with much hope o
success. but for the sudden move o
the New Workers to give that sur
posedly empty honor to Roosevelt,
How easily might 1T have been tina
Dolliver instead of Roosevelt shout
go to the white house?
| Again. in 1905. it was easily with
in the power of Iowa to have mad
Senator Dolliver the candidate 70
vice president. AT Chicago 1t wa
known that Roosevelt desired yer
much that an Iowa man be place
upon the ticket with Taft Dollive