Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-16
COUSINS, ELOQUENT
TRIBUTE TO DOLLIVER
Fornasv Conoressn,an Addresses Joint Assembly of
Legislature at Memorial Services for Dis
t;ngushed Io,va Statesman.
special to T,mes.Republacan

| AsSaee8 OStOeS tne iowa JONAH ~0SS1tS"1S
to pay tribute 20 the late Jonathan +.
Dolliver. this afternoon. recalled MS
own sitting In . seat Of the house TWEEN
ty-fve years age and the fact that Dol
liver was then his earliest companion
| In the campaigns OF the day.
The destinies of men can seldom be
| foreseen." ne declared, and fate for
ever loves to mystify the future and the
plans Of men; nevertheless II seemed
certain to many of them that Jonathan
p. Doiliyer was made and marked for
eminent success. No words Of mine are
needed now to fastep up the fame
which by his great abilities he wrote
across the nations sky. No praises or
encon'iunls are required to carry his
! il,ustrious nanre into the devoted house
holds and the fan,ets and the cities OF
the state Of Iowa"
| Followed ereei-y's Advice.
| INDICATED we'll ct home and finished
With college touch, our l7-year-old
! F;rg:nian looked above the mountains
! Of his hirth1and. took the sun tof his
pilot end Herece Gren'er for his adj
wiser and started on foot for the en-
! ni~e % the pioneers. We were all here
! waiting 10 holm him ard to shout for
| him. Roth Of nv erandfathers had
heen fer move than thirty. years wei
| coming such hone ard flesh and blood.
He tarried IN II'ireis ard dug POTATOES
| while a local school board We're dec'd-
! inr t. elect him school teacher. little
Sid the people Of So nd wich. I'll. know
wAat they were missing when they Let
the young Vi-einian leave them and
come ord locate at 2 central point in
iowa loetWean the two great rivers. But
Of course they and nobody else ever
Knows what NAV co-,e ont of a hickory
shirt ard cellr'oid collar. Thou
sands had eene awav from, there thou
sands from New England and Ohio
and Indiana arr1 other states, but no.
hodr knew which wore gennises
until the flint Of their !ntellacts came
IN contact with the stael of circum-
sts noes ard expe~ience.
When Deliver cs-re 10 Fort Dodge
i, +he snrirR Of 1873 rohaAv knew
shei,t j. except h;s brother who arcsr-
nanied him. and TIE landlord Of whom
thev rented a snslI office When the
struggle became ga hard that they had
20 s'eeo I, the office his brother went
',a ok 10 Virginia into the ministry, and
Jonathan. as he tells US himself work.
ed on the streets for a dollar and half
, day
Flowers eleesoss From Bleeding Hearts
The soul Of every individual must
always have an awakening If 1t Is to
expand. II that awakening does not
come We shall never know much of the
Individual. Perhaps many lives have
been wasted for sant OF an awakening
Nothing tends 50 much to bring out
true worth as trouble. Nobody ever
amounted to very much In this world
unless he had 70. The best flowers of
genius have blossemed from bleeding
hearts Bulwer Lyttan tells W OF his
young physician who studied and who
| suffered long and patiently in the COM
munity and that FINALLY Abbey Hill let
him feel its pulse.' Robert Burns suf-
fered and sang so sweetly in the pro-
vincial region OF Ayr that finally he
was invited to Edinburgh
SHARED Hin With State.
When Fort Dodge had discovered
Dolliver. they must share him with the
whole state He was invited to Dies
Noines. He spoke to a state conyen-
ton and the nation took up his name.
OF course he had plagued the opposition
and he had fun WITH the mugwumps
He had said they treated their con-
sciences as II they were the stock in
trade Of a baking powder factory
they s0lemniy protest that everybody's
conscience has alum In 1t except theirs
But no matter, he was awakened and
from that mement hts real life began
He was a permanent factor in Ameri-
can politics and In all political cam
paigns. He campaisnsd with Blaine
and with all Of the best Of them from
that time on"
Advent in Congress.
Passing over to his advent In the
congress he continued:
THE house OF representatives., un-
der certain circumstances. IL probably
the greatest arena IN the world. Few
men have been able to hold and con-
troll 1t tor any great length Of time
You can count on the fingers Of your
hands the occasions during the last two
decades when different speakers have
commanded it In such auietpde that
the speaker could be distinctly heard
for continuous hour. Under such Cir
| cumstances It IL a rare and wonderful
arena. The English house OF commons
is playhouse compared with It.
have heard Balfour and Bannernan on
the same day In the h0use on a govern
'nent issue and have witnessed Z dozen
| occasions in the American house OF rep
lresentattves that far surpassed such a
noted session Of parliament, Usually
In the house there Is constant cnnver-
sation while the ordinary member is
| speaking. That IL the general rule.
But sometimes while full to overlooking
the house becomes intensely quiet and
remains so II the speaker has the abil-
ity to hold 1t. Dolliver was one Of the
few who at times commanded absolute
quietude."
| Loyalty TO AIjisen.
| Mr.. Cousins RAN h:!eay over the no
lItical career OF the late senator and
quoted freely from his most notable
utterances indicating the quality Of
his craftsmanship. He quoted from a
speech in congress In 1S4 In favor Of
the building up OF strong navy. In
the same congress no delivered = great
utterance regarding the tatn and the
principles OF protection. The state
ments Of Doliiver in regard to the war
with Spain were quoted, and his beauti-
full tribute to General IAwton. Mr..
Cousins referred to his later action in
coming to the support Of Allison IN his
last campaign.
| II mention this noble event Of his
career, not for the purpose OF awaken
ing any issue which was involved IN
l that 6anrraaiRn m Nun - thu 00litica OF