Republican farmer., 1918-08-30
SENATOR JAMES
 PASSES AWAY AT BALTIMORE TODAY
One of Most Picturesque and Forceful Figures in
 Congress Expires.

Washington, Aug. 2S - Senator Ollie James of Kentucky, died at 6:30 o'clock this morning in a hospital in Baltimore where he had been sick for some time.
 Death was caused by an acute af- lection of the kidneys. Mrs. James and the Senator's brother, E. H. James, were with him when the end came.
 Senator James had been a patient in the hospital for about three months. Physicians at first believed he had good chance to regain his health and an operation was per- | formed. Later his condition became | more serious and transmission of blood was made on several occasions. The Senator rallied recently when inform l ed of his renomination to the Senate and for a time he held his own, but later his condition again became grave and he steadily became weaker. Ollie M. James was one of the most picturesque and forceful figures in Congress as well as a popular idol | among Kentucky Democrats, He 1 ranked high in leadership in both houses during his successive service | in the House and Senate, and his | towering physique and powerful I voice always commanded attention in | legislative and convention halls. He was nominated to succeed himself in ] the Senate in the recent Kentucky | Democratic primaries by an over | Whelming vote.
 After the United States entered the war in 1917 Senator James became | one of the most aggressive Senate l spokesmen of the administration and champion of the army and navy pre- parations His last appearance at the Capitol was on Feb. 14 last to deliver a fiery speech in answer to an attack upon the War Department by Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the mili- tary committees. He appealed to all
 Americans not to heckle, badger or handicap the President, and declared
 i've are going to make the Kaiser hand over his sword"
 Three dayse later he was taken i'll
 at a dinner. Several weeks afterward
 he insisted on returning to the Sen
 ate, but was too weak to take any part and soon went to Johns Hopkins
 hospital in Baltimore. He was oper.
 ated on in an effort to stay the rav-
 ages of a chronic case of Bright's
 disease.
 Mrs. James, and a brother, Edgar
 James, United States Marshal for the
 Western district of Kentucky, were
 with the Senator at the hospital dur
 ing his long fight for life. Many mem.
 bers of both houses of Congress went
 over to Baltimore frequently to pay
 cheering visits.
 Other relatives of the Senator are
 his sisters, Miss Lizzie James, who
 lives with her father at the James
 homestead at Marion, Ky, and Mrs
 J. F. Gordon, of Madisonville. and hi:
 father, Judge S. H. James, of Marion
 Mrs. James was formerly RutT Thomas, of Marion, Ky. She wa:
 married to Senator James in 1903.
 Senator James was a prophet ol Democratic success in every politica
 contest and an outspoken partisan or
 all occasions. In 1912 he was perma.
 nent chairman of the National Demo
 cratic convention at Baltimore whicf
 nominated Wilson. He made the key note speech on Democratic achieve
 ments at the St. Louis Democrati'
 National convention in 1916 and drew
 from that gathering of 10000 person.
 cries of Give it to us, again Ollie, when epitomizing President Wilson's policies. He made the speech notify ing President Wilson of his election
 to the Presidency in September, 1916 Senator James was 47 years old He began public life as a page in tht Kentucky legislature. He seconded Bryan's nomination for President 1T 7 1908, headed the Kentucky delegation , to Democratic National convention in 1904 and 1908, served in the Hous,
 in the 58th to 62nd Congresses ant has been in the Senate since 1913 when he succeeded Thomas H. Payn