Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-08-28
|UNS IN GENERAL R0uT BEFORE ALLIES:
HORE than 80 TOWNS Are CAPTURE)
Sen.O. James
of Kentuckeu
Passes AUay

! Ollie NJ James, OF Kentucky died
at Johns Hopkins hospital today OF
an acute affection of the kidneys
| Mrs. James and the senator's s
| brother, z. H. James, were with
J him when the end came at 6:45
! a. m.
Senator James had been a pa
| tient at the hospital for about
three months. Physicians at first
| believed that he had a good chance
! to regain his health and an opera
! tion was performed. Later his
condition became more serious and
TRANSMISSION of blood was made on
several occasions.
The senator rallied recently
when informed of his re-nomina-
| tion to the senate and for a time
held his own but later his condi-
tion again became grave and he
steadily grew weaker.
Ollie NJ. James, one of the leaders
of the Democratic party and long a
dominant figure in Kentucky poll
tics, served five consecutive terms
as a member of congress from the
First Kentucky district, was elected
United States senator by the gen
eral assembly in 1912, and was re-
nominated for that Office by large
vote at the statewide primary on
Aug 3, last
Born in Crittenden county, Ky,
July q, 1871, and educated in pub
lie and academic schools of that sec
ton, James took an early interest
in politics and at the close of a leg
islative session, during which he
served as page, he began the study
of law in the office of his father,
Judge l.. H. James, and was admit
ted to the bar a full year before he
had reached his majority.
During the next four years he
leaped into political prominence in
the western section of the state, and
he was not yet 25 when he was Sc
| lected as a delegate to the Demo
cratic national convention at Chi
cago in 1896 which nominted Will
liam Jennings Bryan for the presi
dency.
| Out of the memorable campaign
I that followed the ChicagozconVen
ition grew a close friendship be-
tween James and Mr. Bryan that
continued through life, despite the
TACT IIdL luSlI NlCnS NSlC nv al
ways in accord.
1t was his ringing speeches in de-
fense of the Chicago platform that
| first attracted nationwide attention
to the young Kentuckian and placed
him at a single bound into the in
ner councils of the Democratic
| party of his home state.
Big Ollie" as James was famil-
! iarly known to thousands, attended
I five Democratic national conven-
| tions as delegate from Kentucky
subsequent to the Chicago conven-
| tion and served as permanent chair
man of the conventions of 1912 and
| 1916, which nominated President
: Wilson.
! Senator James was married Dec.
| ., 1903, TO Miss Ruth Thomas,
daughter of R Y Thomas of Mar
| ion. Ky, who survives him. There
we're no children.
! 1t was on his return from Patter-
! son. N J.. where he attended the fu-
neral of Senator William Hughes,
! that Senator James became i'll early
| in February He was bed ridden
with tonsilitiS for two weeks, but
! spent his time preparing an address
upholding the administration con-
! duct of the war. which he delivered
( Feb. IA, against advice of physi-
/ clans.
/ Three days later he was forced to
/ his bed by acute Inflammation OF
/ the kidneys. but he was up and at
( tending to his business again three
weeks later. Finally his condition
became such that he was sent to
Johns Hopkins, where he under
went several minor operations
I Later blood TRANSMISSION was at
/ tempted in the battle to save his
( life.
/ Frankfort. Ky. Aug. 2S-Ser-
ator James. whose term would
have expired March 4 1919. was
re-nominated at the state wide pri-
mary held Aug 3. last. With Gov
ernor Stanley rests the power Of
naming his ad interim successor
I and authority of naming a candi-
date to be voted on at the election
next November rests with the
/ Democratic state executive com
mittee
That an ad interim appointment
will be made generally is accepte
while the concensus Of well in
formed opinion is that Governor
Stanley will in due tim seek the
nomination at the hands of the
committee. the members Of which
are regarded as his close political
friends