The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-18
Eulogies Were Delivered To-
day in the Senate by Bev-
eridge, Cummins, Lafol-
lette and Clapp.
PRINCIPAL ADDRESS
BY SEN. BEVERIDGE
Says Iowa Statesman Gave
Life to Fellow Countrymen
the Same as Any Uni
formed Warrior.
palladium Specially

Washington, Feb. 1S.-Touching eu-
logies were delivered in the senate
today to the late Senator Jonathan
Prentiss Dolliver of Iowa. Senators
Beveridge, Cummins. Clapp, LaFol-
lette were among the eulogists.
The principal speech was by Senat-
or Beveridge who said in part:
THE American people have enshrin-
ed Jonathan Dolliver in the temple of
their regard because he gave to the
uttermost all his noble and peculiar
powers in the service of his country.
men, and with an abandonment of de-
votion to their cause, threw the ele.
mental force of his extraordinary
gifts against the peoples enemies. For
Jonathan Dolliver gave himself, a liv.
ing sacrifice, to the cause of human
advance as much as Winkelreid i'm
his Swiss mountain, or Warren at
Bunker HILL He fell in the battle
for the people as surely and as really
as any uniformed soldier ever fell on
the field of armed conflict.
"A remark of Senator Dalliver's on
| one of our morning walks threw a
| flashlight upon that towering out OF
his genius during this period which
| engaged the attention of all of us
/ here, of the country at large and in
deed, of the English speaking world
Talk With Old Negro.
"We had stopped while Dollivel
talked few minutes with an old
gray haired negro. AS we continued
| our walk, said to him: The country
always recognized your intellect and
, eloquence, but the country did moi
give you it's confidence in the same dc
gree that it gave you its admiration
You have grown more in the las
twelve months in the peoples trust
and faith than during your whols
public life
| "Dolliver stopped, and taking off hi:
hat, passed his hand over his brow ii
that characteristic gesture all of us sc
we'll remember and said: Yes. l thinl
that is SO, and why is it so? 1t i:
because for the first time in my life
l have determined to be intellectual,
free. That old gray haired negro t.
whom we were talking a moment agt
was not SO much emancipated physic
ally fifty years ago as l have beer
emancipated intellectually within tn,
last year and half
HE had determined to be free; SO
like another Samson, he broke tn,
withes that bound his mind and hear
and stood forth. an unshackled giant
acknowledging no master but trutl
and conscience.
And yet it was not strange that a
the period which God had appointed
there awoke in Jonathan Dollivert
soul the spirit of his West virgini;
mountaineer, circuit riding, abolition
ist, preacher-father
Blood Always Tells.
Blood tells and the blood of
hero and martyr flowed in the vein
of Jonathan Dolliver unsuspected o
those who gauged his character from
his gift of wit, and almost boyish Low,
of fun.
Had he lived in the fifties he woul,
have been another Wendell Phillips
only more human, and therefor
more powerful. Had he lived in pre-
revolutionary times, he would hav
been another Patrick Henry, onl
broader minded, more kindly AM
therefore more influential Had h.
been an Englishman at the time o
Lord North, he would have been an
other Burke, only more pointed, NOR,
.pungent and therefore more effective
or another Chatham, only more toler
ant and more practical, and therefor
more compelling. Had he been
Frenchman in the period of France
iepochal upheaval, he would hav,
been another Mirabeau, only with
greater blood sympathy with the com
mon people from whom he sprung an,
/ therefore with wider potentiality 70
good.
1 And SO with his rare endowment
as an orator he answered the higl
lcall which had come to other gifte,
men in like periods of human history
He put his hand upon the shoulder o
a country. being lulled 10 a neglect o
its own interests and. rousing il from
this creeping lethargy. turned its eye
lonce more to the sacred fires burnin
on the altar of those ideals which es
tablished the republic and which aIon
lean preserve it,