The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-20
DOLLIVER HAD NO FEAR
THAT DEATH WAS DUE

they opened a law office. They were not
denied that valuable schooling which
comes from the struggle OF vigorous youth
to gain a professional footing with but
small financial backing. They had ths
Usual struggles, such as other young men
it was not long until the people Of Fort
Dodge began to know that the Dolliver
boys We're made OF good stuff and that
there We're some things they could do bet-
ter than others.
The future senator soon gained a local
reputation as a speaker and 1t spread to
the surrounding counties until he was
frequently called upon for public adj
dresses, lectures, etc. In 1884 q friend. the
late DR.. Charles Beardsley OF Burlington.
who was chairman Of the republican state
committee, told the committee about this
wonderful young man from Virginia with
the gift Of orntory and the brains and in-
dustry and ambition to put something be-
sides high-sounding phrases into his
speeches. So Mr.. Dolliver was invited to
be temporary CHAPMAN OF the republican
state convention IN Des Moines In April,
1854.
Famous In Ono Speech.
= The speech. he made then lifted him from
the nhsnurit Of n country law efass@iIta1
national fame. 1t was the rising of a new
star in the political tirmament and its
pOVcTE uItG pTlilluIICy W6T6 III QIC6 ECCuk-
nized by the republican leaders in charge
of the national campaign Mr.. Dolliver
was called east and bore a conspicuous
part In that memorable campaign, travels
ing for a time and speaking with James
G. Blaine, the republican nominee for the
presidency In that year. In every CAM
paign since then Mr.. Dolliver assisted his
party wherever he was most needed. Ex-
p~erience and study ripened him into an
orator who not only appealed to the sem
timcnt and aroused the enthusiasm of par
tisans, but convinced the Judgment OF
the honest inquirer who. without partisan
prejudice Yves seeking the truth.
In 1885 the friends of Mr.. Dolliver In
the Tenth district concluded to bring him
out as a candidate for the republican
nomination for congressman. Cyrus G.
Carpenter, Of Fort Dodge. former gov-
ernor end former congressman from tho
Tenth district, took a leading part in this
movement. He was a devoted adTnirer
of Mr.. Dolliver, who was then less h a
.. % years old. In the campaign which fol-
lowed Mr.. Dolliyer developed moro
strength than any other candidate, but
was unable to secure enough to nominate.
The opposition succeeded In combining
against him and renominated A. j.
Holmes of Boone county for q third term.
Two years later, however. Mr.. Dolliver
was nominated in the convention at Web
ster City, and at no time subsequently did
he have any serious opposition for renom-
nation. He was renominated by acclama-
ton every year up to an including 1900.
The death Of Senator John n. Gear July
IA, 1900, left a vacancy in the Senate which
the friends and admirers of Congressman
Dolliver felt he was entitled, by his long
and able service in the House, to receive.
Governor Shaw rendered to Mr.. Dolliver
on August %, 1900, the appointment to be
United States senator to fill the vacancy
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the Appointment was accepted. Mr.. Dolli-
yer at onca resigned as member Of con-
gress and Judge J. p. Conner of Craw-
fford county was nominated and elected to
succeed him. The appointment OF Mr.. Dol
liver was at once found to be so strong
with the people that all thought of oppo-
sition faded away and he was left a clear
field, both for the vacancy and for the full
term following, and for reelection In 1908.
Mr.. Dolliver was married November 20.
1895, to Miss Louise Pearsons, daughter OF
George R. Pearsons of Fort Dodge, who
while she was born in Vermont, has lived
in Iowa practically since she was 2 years
old. She is a graduate Of Wellesley col
lege in the class of 1889, and is a woman
Of great intellectual yigor, who co-operat-
ed with her husband in his work and
rendered him most valuab assistance
They have three children.
The late James G. Blaine said OF him
WHO ne WIS YET III ulS youliis Lit ~
the most eloquent orator I have ever
heard"
The Honorable Sam Clark wrote the fol-
lowing sketch of Senator Dolliver. Two
days passed with Mr.. Dolliver at his home.
made us know that great young orator
in a way we have desired. When we last
met Congressman Dolliver he was tall
and slight; now he is filled out almost
massively, and he moves and looks every
inch a king of the platform. When he
was younger his head was smaller, after
the fashion cf Shelley, Ryron end Keats,
but now 1t Is large and proportionate to
his body. He was born February 6, 1858.
on a West Virginia farm. Ten years later
his father moved to Morgantown to edu-
cate his children. J. p. entered the pub
lie schools at once; at 13 he passed into
the freshman class Of the the state uni
versity there. and four years later he
graduated. He read law and taught school,
was admitted to the bar in 1873, came to
Iowa in 1881, and settled at Fort Dodge.
Since then his growing fame as an orator
and as a congressman Is part of the pride
and present history of the state. As we
expected, you can not put out your hand
at his home without putting 1t on a book.
He is surrounded by them.
w all have our times when our
thoughts go as high as anybody's; we
don't keep them there, but let them come
down and go commonplace ways. But
the choice souls. great men and women,
refuse to be commonplace. They say with
Emerson: I am a freeman Of the whole
realm of mind; what Plato has thought I
may think And these fashion themselves
into the rare and thoughtful souls that are
monuments and leaders to idle folks. We
are glad of the thoughtfulness and dignity
with which Mr.. Dolliver says everything.
1t shows that he does not have one parade
day Of brilliant display and then throw
the blade OF his wilt and speech on the
ground or in the gutter to rust there; but
that we have in him a man who will not
deteriorate, but staring high, will grow
upward and not downward"
In a recent interview James B. MORROW
asked Senator Dolliver:
How do you spend the time wher, con-
gress is not in session." The senator an
swered:
"On a beautiful farm that is touched
by two rivers. We go there with the chill
} dren and live in tents. If I ever get any
} ! money ahead 1 shall build a house"
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