The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-10-20
Distinguished Iowa Senator, In
Recent Conversation, Told of
His Splendid Health.
INTERVIEW AT DIES MONIES.
From The Sioux City Tribune.
BY D. X. LARIMER.

Fer, and the date was August 2 last.
The senator was seated at the break
fast table In The Hotel Slavery at Des
Mofnes. whittier he had come to at
tend the republican state convention,
He was talking to the writer and to
JOIN Fl. Kelly.
Il have been greatly entertained"
continued the senator, "by the news
paper reports which nave been sent
out all winter concerning my sup
posedly desperate condition OF health.
Each morning DR.. Jud Wslliver and
other eminent specialists have fur
nished h public with a fresh dag
nosfs of my mortal illness. They had
but all the time | was attending reg
ularly to my meals. I have noticed
that the man who is able to eat reg
ularly is not very sick
Wished Reports Denied.
Underneath his banter Senator Doll
liver seemed anxious that the %unfavor-
able reports of his condition should be
denied to the people of Iowa. To those
who, like the writer, had a mere casual
acquaintance with him, he did not look
like a sick man. His color was moder-
ately good, n his complexion clear.
Ills movements were active, and for
two or three days he mingled siren
uously and far into the night in the
hotel lobby with old friends from all
sections Of the Hawkeye state.
But those who had known tho SEN
ator throughout his public career
shook their heads ominously. The
ruddiness of other days, they said, was
gone. The well moulded face and neck
were shrunken and flabby. The clothes
hung loosely about the STOPPING
shoulders that were nee massive and
strong. More than one man predicted
that Dolliver was appearing for the
last time at an Iowa convention.
Senator Deliver himself, with great
emphasis, denied that he had had any
serious trouble. as was reported, with
the bones beneath his eye. He de-
clared that he had no intention of re-
cuperating in the rarified climate of
Arizona or New Mexico, or that there
was any necessity for his doing so.
Iowa." he said, us the greatest
Health resort iii the world. Even if /
were sick / should stay at Fort Dodge
to recuperate."
Probably Dolliver knew, even as he
talked, hat for him "life's fitful fever
was well-nigh ended. If he did know
1t, then he looked eternity In the face
without hinching; he blithaly chal-
lenged the power Of death to conquer
his resolute soul. n faced the future
with smiling countenance and a heart
undismayed.
The day after the conversation here
related Dolliver presided as permanent
chairman Of the state convention. 1t
was a stormy assemblage, n factions
wrangled and contended in bitterness
All of the trouble occurred while Dol
liver was in the chair. He presided
with vim and vigor. The sprightliness
of bygone years was In his manner
During the exciting scene in which he
and Major John r. Lacey figured, he
relieved the tensity Of the momen
several times with his humorous, half
cynical comment, and kept the dele
gates, who were perfectly ready to
fight, within the bounds of parlia-
mentary dignity.
Defiance to His Foes.
His speech on taking the chair was
brief. 1t was partly sarcastic, ant
partly the deadly earnest utterance OF
a man who felt in his inmost soul the
righteousness Of the progressive cause
which, in the autumn of his career
he had SO brilliantly e%spoused. 1t was
d ringing note of defiance to his
critics and to his enemies to do theil
worst.
ut is my intention" he asserted, ate
discuss these issues in every township
in Iowa. Some Of you say you won
invite me. Well, I've lived long enough
In Iowa to come without an invitation
and I'm coming"
Death has INTERVIEWED. Dolliver's
promise, uttered with impetuous ant
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gressive gospel in every township II
Iowa will not be fulfilled. But those
who heard him make the promise viii
carry with them always the impression
of Intense zeal which almost trans
figured him..
SKETCH OF CAREER OF
SENATOR DOLLIVEF
Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver was q resi-
dent Of Fort Dodge, whittier he went witt
his brother, Robert Fl. Dolhver, since 1878
He was born near Kingwood, Prestol
county, Virginia, now West Virginia, Feb
ruary 6, 1858. His father was the late Jas
J. Dolliver, who spent over 40 years in tn,
ministry of the Methodist Episcopa
church, mostly in the mountains of Yves
i. Virginia. Father Dolliver, as he was af
/, fe~ctionately called by his friends, wa
born in Saratoga county, New York, NO
vember Is, 1916, Of New England ancestry
who were mainly fishermen and SAILOR
along the coast of Massachusetts wher
the family name Is still common. Jane
;. Dolliver spent his youth in the state o
New Jersey, though at an carly age h
| emigrated to Ohio and began a bushes
career as a country merchant. In 1871
however, he was called to the Methods
ministry, in which he spent the most o
his active life. He was married in 1855 t
Eliza J. Brown, daughter ~ Rober
Brown. near Kingwood, Preston county
West Virginia. Five children We're born t
them. Senator Dolliver was the second il
age. Theo theirs were Robert H, a Metho
dist minister, born in 1856, now with tn
Black Hills, 8. D., Methodist mission; Vic
!, tor B., born in 1861, a lawyer and a resi-
dent of Fort Dodge to the time of hi
] shared with his brother the gift of orator,
and was one of the most popular campaign
speakers in the United States; Miss Mar
death about four years ago, and VIII
garet Gay, who is dean of women at Morn
ingside college, and Mrs. Mary III. Ora
ham, wife of Mr.. e. r. Graham, of Evan
ston, Ill.
Starts as Lawyer.
The two brothers, Robert II. and iona
thar P, were graduated from the Cniver
4 sity Of West Virginia in the same class i
! 1875. That summer j. p. Dolliver went t
Sandwich, ILL.,, where he taught school tn
A Buff O%rpington rooster. missl1l'
y for three weeks, was found wedged II
: the wooden foundation of a hystack a
$ Stanford, Kent. The bird was as thil
: as a Iath. but now is growing as lusti
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