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TUESDAY, October ^r rV1 5- & b: Vl. SENATOR p, D0LL1VER TALKS Brilliant. Statesman Delivers Eloquent More Ottuimva Audience AUSPICIOUS OPENING OF LOCAL CAMPAIGN .UUNIOR SENATOR FROM THIS STATE MAKES MARKED IMPRESSION I ON LARGE AUDIENCE—ADDRESS COMBINED FORCE, LOGIC AND BUBBLING HUMOR—STRONGLY ENDORSED THE CANDI- DACY OF HON. A. W. 3UCHANAN. Trom Saturday's Dally, Before an audience that completely Riled the Grand Opera house the re (wbllcau campaign was formally open ed in this city last evening with an el oquent address by Hon. Jonathan P. Dplliver, Iowa's junor senator. Not pne of those who made up the splen fcld audience will soon forget" the eloquent address delivered by Sena or Dolliver. It was a masterful ef ort, combining logic and force with the utmost simplicity. The tariff question was discussed in a manner that was as readily understood by those who are but little acquainted'him •with the question as by those who have made a close study of it. Other questions of moment were also dealt with admirably. Senator Dolliver h? known as the •"silver tongued orator," and he well Reserves the title. On the lecture trtatform lie readily reaches the hearts of his audiences and his close insight Into national affairs enables him to talk authoritatively on the issues of state and nation. Uses Apt Illustrations. His address last evening was in terspersed with witty anecdotes that 'kept the house in the "best of good humor. He illustrated tnany points in a humorous manner hat never failed SENATOR JONATHAN to please the audience. Senator Dol liver's address was an auspicious open ing for the local campaign. Senator Dolliver strongly endorsed the candi dacy of Hon. A. W. Buchanan for the legislature calling attention to the splendid service rendered in the past In the councils of state by the repub lican candidate. There -tfere many women In the audience which greeted tbo speaker and they fully attested their appreciation of the address by their abundant applause." The Introductory Remarks. 7: Calvin Manning was chairman of the meeting and he introduced the speaker •with a few choice words. Mr. Manning said: "Ladies and Gentlemen:—I con gratulate the republican central com mittee upon having such an auspicious opening for the campaign this year. It gives me^great pleasure to intro duce to you ^gentleman who needs no Introduction, who having served twelve successive years in the house of con gress was promoted to the United States senate. I take pleasure in in troducing Iowa's junior senator, Jona than P. Dolliver, of Port Dodge." Sen ator Dolliver spoke in part as follows: Senator Dolliver's Speech. "Ladies and -Gentlemen:—It is a very great pleasure to ine to have the opportunity of participating with you In the opening of the campaign for Wa pello county, and I thank my friend, the chairman, for his very kind ex pressions in introducing me. I have had in other years opportunities to was- the speech of My. Sullivan in opening the democratic campaign. It IS because we appreciate the charac ter and ability of'the democratic can didate for governor that we value the tribute which he paid, to the state government of Iowa. "In a long speech, and I must- say a good one, Mr .Sullivan passed by the whole field of state politics without venturing a word of criticism or suggestion of reform. This fine char ity of silence was not accidental. It means that the ablest and most sa gacioue democratic leader of Iowa recognizes the wisdom, the diligence and the success with which Governor Cummins aud tlioso associated with make political speeches here and that makes it all (he more gratifying not to say surprising that I now have the hon or of addressing so large an audience. "I have had a little trouble in finding out what the issues are in Iowa for this campaign. I have asked several people and no one seemed to know and wlitit bothered me most was that no one seemed to care. Praises Mr. Buchanan. "In the coming election a governor of the state will be chosen and a legisla ture will be named to co-operate with in the business peculiar to the a A commonwealth, and before going on I wish to congratulate the republicans of Wapello county on the renomination of Mr. Buchanan as member of the house of representatives at. Des Moines, where for two years his influ ence has been strongly felt in the coun cils of state. He deserves and I have no doubt will have the undivided sup port and good will of his constitu ents. Jerry Sullivan's Compliment. "It *is a peculiar thing that OIK brethren oh the other side in arrang ing their campaign for this .MM provide JS campaign in Iowa. One of the most splendid compliments ever paid by the leader of one political party to another, DOLLIVER. him in the government of the state have discharged the duties committed to their hands by the people. ..... j'• Praise for Governor. Iowa has been happy from the be ginning in the character of the men who have filled our highest offices, and in the long list of state officials none has left a better record of faithful service than the present governor and the men who co-operate with him. The state itself with all its benign in stitutions, is a living witness of the political faith of the men who have built upon these prairies the enduring structure of a great pommonwealth. Mr. Sullivan on the Tariff. "My friend Mr. Sullivan covered a good many things in his fifteen column speech. I think he arranged that speceh as a lawyer does a bill of ex ceptions, covering a great many things he does not intend to argue fully. One cannot help admiring the zeal and ac tivity with which Mr.Sullivan restates the criticisms against the protective tariff policy, which have passed from one generation to another, from one century to another, from the first con gress to the fifty-eighth. It is no dis paragement to him to say that he has added nothing to the accumulated mass of this criticism, for indeed, nothing has been added to it by any body in the lifetime of the men now living and little for the past hundred years. Even the epithets aud off hand maledictions against the policy, scattered somewhat promiscuously, through the candidate's speech only serve to recall tho primitive stages of the debate when John Randolph of Roanoke, in the house of representa tives, pressed the language of vitup eration to the limit in his wild aud in coherent wrath against the tariff leg islation of his own day. Views Entitled to SympathyY "The present day argument in fav or of changing the industrial systeirf of the United States Is entitled to re spect, and sympathy: the respect which belongs to age and the sym pathy which is expected by hard luck It has made little Impression on men made has been promptly effaced by experience. Mr. Sullivan talks as if the republican party represents a school of thought which does not rec ognize the people as a source of au thority and feels at liberty to lay bur dens upon one citizen for the benefit of another, without regard to justice or right, whereas, the democratic par ty proposes 'equal rights to all and Special privileges to none,' while it clings to the constitution with one hand and gently caresses the voters with the other. The Equal Rights Myth. "Here is a myth as old as the gov ernment and with less truth in it than when it was first invented to under mine the administration of Washing ton. The republican party throughout its entire history has looked for inspir ation and strength to the American people. Its great leaders have come from the lowliest walks of American life and from the time of John C. Fre mont it has never issued an appeal that was not. directed to the conscience and judgment of the whole commun ity. The Republican Application. "We. too, have a share in the motto 'equal rights to all and special privi leges to none.' It came to us naturally after wandering for two generations through the wilderness of our darli ages: but when we come to apply it to practical things, equal rights to all Americans to do the work of the Amer ican people, and no privileges either special or general to the citizens of other countries, to take the bread out of the mouth of American labor, or to bankrupt the investments of American capital. The Tariff in Europe. "In 1879 Prince Bismarck, the groat brain of the century in the German em pire, stood in the reichstag and de nounced free trade. Re contended for that, the protective tariff laws of this country be copied, and while we are sitting here this evening, British sub pects are preparing petitions to parlia riont for a tariff to piotect their home Industries. Tariff a System. "Now, 1 uli. Know what you think about it but to me it is certain that the place our terly to tarjff democratic brethren fail ut» conceive that the protective js a system, and I never beard a speech in congress or out of it by a Mr. TBE OTTT1MWA COTJK1EK announced that he -Was ready tor the extraordinary session of congress. The Dingley Bill. 'When the extraordinary session convened and Governor Dingley offer ed his tariff bill it would have done your heart good to have heard the yell from the galleries and this yell was echoed from ocean to ocean. What did we do in that committee meeting? When we found an indus try had been forced to fight foreign competition until It was forced to go into a receivership and American la bor was pushed to the wall, we raised the protective tariff so high it gave the home product a basis of fair competi tion. It put the American people back to the employment, they were forced to leave in the panic and smoke was again seen issuing from the chim neys, which had not been darkened for months. I submit it to every man who has eyes and can see whether or not we accomplished our object. "I have studied the panic of 1837 and I have been unable to find clearly what was the cause. Some said it was the tariff: others that it was an unsound condition of the currency. I have studied the panic of 1857, and have not been able to determine positively the cause. But you cannot fool me on the panic of 1893. I have a hard grip on that. When I saw honest American industries going into re ceivership. the laboring men idle and hunger and want abroad in the land I knew what caused the panic. But I watched the hole where prosperity went, in aud watched it until I saw prosperity again come out and I know the cause for the panic and the remedy administered so successfully. Mr. Sullivan's Mistake* "Now. talking of the duties on lum ber. I don't know whether Mr. Sullivan' knows it or not, but the lumber tariff is an old one. In discussing the duties a protective tariff and recommended on the lumber tariff, and the salt tariff.. billed 4 ii iv id a A Mr. Sullivan said if Henry Clay and Al. exander Hamilton knew what the re publican party was doing with these articles they would turn over in their graves. A slight acquaintance wtih the history of the subject would have informed Mr. Sullivan that Henry Clay was the author of the lumber tariff and Alexander Hamilton of the duties on salt, which were nearly twice as high democratic orator where the protective! thirty per cent. That is a higher duty tariff was not spoken of as a conspira cy. An Amusing Incident.'' "In the Fifty-second congress a young congresman from Troy, New fork, gained notoriety by wheeling a monster petition from his constituents! town in his state where the principal interested and amused at the actions of the young man and the speech with favored handling the tariff on other in-i 'ens no matter how high, would do no good, because there would be no busi- ness and consequently the people Sullivan and it has been the that a™ custom of democratic speakers from time immemorial to assail the lumber Tariff Not New Measure. "Another error is that our democrat ic brethren fail to understand that the tariff is not of today alonte. Mr. Sul livan in a speech in my town laid the blame for the protective tariff on me. In other places I am told he lays It on Mark Hanna. But he has been so busy In his law office that he has hau no time to look into the history of the tariff, and to find the history of the tariff you must study the history of the country and of the world. It is history intrenched in the great tradi tion of the country to summon to its defense every practical thinker who has given distinction to American pub lic life. The Dingley Bill. Let me cite Mr. Sullivan's attack on the lumber tariff. He says he in tends to go into every congressional district in the state and hold every congressman up to contempt includ ing Major Lacey, because, he says, each one is a party to the outrage or else consented to it by not prepar ing a bill to repeal It. Now I suppose if any one should come forward and defend the tariff it should be me as I not only Voted for the passage of the Dingley bill but helped, with my colleagues of the ways and means committee in framing the bill. A «»uu IUUUV uinv ui i- cooiuu 11 IU'^M 'over 2i and such impression as it has| day. .Ou March 10. Governor Dlugloy Hi The Committee's Session. "The ways aud means committee was summoned to Washington early in the winter of IS9(i by Governor Dingley at the request of the Presi dent-elect to devise ways and means for revising the tariff laws. When arrived iu Washington, Governor Ding ley was already there and he stated that he had hired a room in a hotel that the committee might work un hindered. We worked all day long and until midnight the greater part of the time from November 10 until March 15. Wc worked every Sunday we worked Christmas day, New Year'* Washington's birthday and groutid hog 12* as they are now. Lumber on Free List. "The tariff of 18-12 made all manu factures of wood subject to a duty of than we have today or have had at any time since. The rate now is twenty per cent. The rate was so obviously fair that it wasii't touched in the free trade revision four years later. The democrats transformed all of the schedule that relates to the manufac ture of WOod on up the main aisle in a wheelbarrow. It! They didn't put many more there. Why was a petition from the residents of a di(]n they put on the for dustries. He said he stood with his, speakers. party ready to slaughter every other Tlie Leading Industries. industry but raise the duty on the one .j don't think they knew anything in which he was interested. I told him about industry or they wouldn't have that if this was clone the duty on lin-! list. time immemorial to including silks, woolens and cottons, tariff. They have been wont to go into the rural communities and tell the, ..Tliey farmers that they were being robbed I the tariff on lumber, the material ly assailed.They enumerated the man ufacturers as producers and they class ed the eighty odd millions of popula tion as consumers. But the consumers of lumber and salt are producers of some other articles and if you go about without considering the relation of these industries to our industrial sys tem and slaughter one after another the occupations by which our people make their living,you will at last have covered the entire field and fpund after it was too late that consumers and pro ducers, are, after all, the same people. the free list in 1894. textiles, iron and steel ^ee listj Industry is the manufacture of linen them so high that we had to reduce collars and shirts. He wanted the Mc them in 1897? Why did the democrats Kinley duty to remain on linens. I was piace jn8tead of placing himber on the free list? Because twenty years they had been sneak- ing which he followed his presentation of telling the farmer h.e,.was robbing him the petition and I asked him how he }ut0 the country, school houses and SG]f an(j pilt they put it on the free list t0 save t]le face, of the old stump iuraber on the free list when they dj(j nqt would not wear shirts. time when you couldn't get out of debt One Democratic Error. and couldn't get in. It was the fourth The lumber tariff has been attacked greatest inW in the United States v,eCause then the lumber yards Were closed up and the people were building houses. It was at that wel by the tariff on lumber the -enJhlc^ithhada* they used in building their hog pens, their "barns, fences, houses, etc. Salt is. outside another article that has been vigorous- GOING the free Agricul ture, which leads them all: textiles, &Jsteel and hnnbel, ere dealing UU8try ouls a with an 50.000 es pay roll leading in- 00 n00 men_ the of agriculture and transportation in Iowa. It was the chief industry in thirty different states, and the total outlay per annum would reach $1,000,000,000. Shipped Canadian Lumber. "When the Dingley bill revised this dutv ships were hauling lumber from British Columbia to California and the states on the western coast, and Canadian lumber yards were shipping their product into the markets along the border and the sea coast under-' selling the American producer until the scripture was literally fulfilled, 'from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.' A large bridge acrosF the St. Louis river, connecting Superior. Wisconsin, and Duluth. Minn., two of the biggest lumber points in the country, was built during that time with Canadian lumber, an everlasting monument to free trade. Failures In 1894. So the Dingley committee had many things to contend with. For four years the failures averaged from 20 to 50 per cent of all the industries. During the year 1894 there were 44G failures every month in the year, with American workmen idle. It was un der these circumstances that the com mittee undertook the gigantic task of overhauling the tariff and I have no apology to make for the part I took in It. Mr. Sullivan and Bryan. "Mr. Sullivan says'we have trusts. Well, I have never found any trusts, and if the last census can be believed there are none now. Mr. Sullivan says prices have gone up. I am glad they have. One thing admire about. Mr. Sullivan is that he knows a good thing when he sees it. Mr. Sullivan was once a great friend of Mr. Bryan's, but that was long ago. Mr. Bryan said in '9t tliat nrices must, be inflated. Mr. Sul livan was then a follower of Mr. Bry an. Now Mr. Sullivan says they are too high. One Plan of Killing Trusts. "The democrats say to kill the salt trust put salt on the free list. What will be the result? We will bp thrown into the grasp of the British salt union capitalized at $30.000 000. Now if I am going to be robbed by a trust I want it to be by a home trust, I wa,nt to be near it. Some one has said to kill the tin plate trust put tin plate on the free list. It would klll.lt but In killing it the Welsh tin plate trust would get in. I would rather be robbed by scoun drels in Indiana than by scoun.ilrels across* the sen: Tgusts Cannot Survive "Whatever laws have been passed for the purpose of defeating conspir acies in restraint of trade have been passed by republicans but I am not one to believe that the trusts will be jv Law of Maximum Consumption. "I find one law that it a good one and one thai congress did not make, or will not try to repeal. It is the law of maximum consumption. Take the monopoly of postage stamps. Now why don't they charge $1 for postage stamps and make more money from their sale? Many of you remember when stamps sold for fifty cents each. What was the result? There was a great deficit in the postal department and the price was made twenty-five cents. The result was that the revenues of the department dou bled.The decrease was then from twen ty-five to ten, from ten to five, from five to three and then to two cents, and increased revenues have marked every change. Why? Because the con sumption was proportionately greater. I venture to say that within five years the price will go to one cent. The Sugar Situation. t- $5.00 Suits for $4.00 4.00 Suits for 3.10 3.00 Suits for 2.25 2.50 Suits for 2.00 1.50 Suits for 1.12 Reefers worth $5.00 for $3.25 Reefers worth 3.50 for ... 2.25 Reefers worth 2.50 for 1.25 congress. My conviction is that no corporation essentially bad in character as most all of the great trusts are can. Jong survive in a mar ket place like'ours. Nobody ought therefore be discouraged even if con gress does not effectually deal with them if they are living in the world in which a thousand forces operate under laws which man did not make and cannot repeal for justice and fair dealing among men. The ele^ mentary laws of consumption are such as to uefend the community against the greed and extortion of monopoly while the law of competition has never been seriously disturbed ev en by the greatest of trusts and is now undermining all of them and push ing them steadily toward bankruptcy. CLOSING OUT SALE OF BOY'Sa.dCHILDREN'SCLOTHING TO DISCONTINUE the Children's Department and will close out every Suit at ACTUAL COST. We bought a nice line of Fall and Winter Clothing for children before deciding on this change, Many of the goods were ordered in May and June and have just arrived, All will be sold at cost, Don't pay a profit to any store while these goods last, Everything in Knee Pants Suits and Boys' Long Pants Suitsunder fourteen years of age. Some broken lots only one of a lcind, at less than half price per Suit or Coat, of Overcoats worth $5.00 for $3.00. About iiO Suits worth $2.50 for $1.35. THE HUB that changes ought to be made when they are necessary, but I am also one who believes that it would be better to let the tariff laws remain always as they are rather than to commission the democrats to change them. Reciprocity with England. "If England completes its protective tariff legislation, too. it will require some changes in the American laws and I think it would be vastly better to await England's proposition of reci procity with us than to throw away any part of hie power of negotiation which resides in our own tariff sched ules. Wm. McKinley's Life Work. "The great problem of the future will be to find a market for our sur plus. I would not sacrifice anything on our market, either capital or labor, if it were possible without doing so, to find a way to get the surplus on the markets. I am a disciple of the late president. William McKiuley, who favored making treaties giving ex changes for reasonable concessions. All of McKinley's life time was spent in trying to find markets for American industries and when he passed away the greatest champion the American laboring man ever had was gone. and that you will give him your hearty support for re-election." "Then there is the American Sugar jUg orators and ablest statesmen of Co., which is probably the greatest country. His advance to his pres trust, controlling 95 per cent, of theienj position of highest influence has product. Why don t. they raise thai ^een Law of Alternate Consumption. Another law not made by cong. ess .e alternate consumption. p0i]jver illustrations and they show what near- which has been doing business since the creation of man. This is the 'law by virtue of which if anyone has a good The Steel Trust. Take the United States steel cor poration. For years before its organ ization there" were several steel, wire and tin plate factories in operation, which were compelled to purchase crude pig iron from Andrew Carnegie. The owners of the steel factories ob- up the mines and put in machinery for the purpose of supplying their own pig iron. Carnegie heard of this and he set about to start the manufac ture of steel. "The steel men got together and de cided to get Carnegie out of the way. They went to Carnegie and were ask ed an enormous price. They bought the plant, giving over $200,000,000 of cash and gave bonds secured by mort gages on the plants for the balance. The result has been that t.liey have been paying bonded indebtedness, div idends and interest and their financial reports shows that the entire divi dends have gone toward the payment of the bonds. We once feared the steel trust but now it has our sym pathy. The Democrats and the Tariff. one 0j price of sugar to twenty-five cents a pound instead of giving twenty pounds Born in Virginia in 1853. for a dollar? Because the people would I John Prentiss Dolliver was born near quit using sugar or would curtail the Kingwood, Preston county, West Vir usagfl to such an would be lighter. 'iai? steady progress. usage to such ail extent that the profit jginia, SruaryT HiTfathJr, nTa? al?\hought'Cof'opposition,§3 J. Dollher, the son of a New in If price of, one article goes up use an-: ^ren Robert h., an elder brother, is other similar article. As ai\ illustra* miniQtpr I a Methodist Episcopai minister resid Lion, if the price of lumber goes up jng jn n]jnois, buy brick. There are a thousand such and 0r brother is a lawyer and resident of Ft Do(lge He ly every trust is up against. brother the gift of oratory and is one Law of Deferred Consumption. of the most popular campaign speak "Then there Is the law of deferred i_ers h5gll sci10ol. Came West In 1878. thing he had better keen it to himself.: boys invested all their money in law So no one will be allowed to keen books and came to Ft. Dodge where They were good thing to himself very long because others will want in. In the spring of 1878 the Dolliver .H .-{cyf- Eulogizes President Roosevelt. "I am glad that in Theodore Roose velt'the American people had a worthy successor to the martyred president. and in closing I wish to express the hope that he will have the undivided July 14, 1900, left a vancancy in the support of his party for renomination' senate which the friends and admirers Mr. Dolliver sprang into national fame as an orator in a single day at •, $4.50 Suits for $3.2 .50 Suits for ij-2.7 2.50 Suits for '2.0! 2.00 Suits for 1.25 Suits for 1.00 Suits for BOYS' REEFER OVERCOATS $4.00 Reefers „...$2.7D 3.00 Reefers 1.75 1.50 Reefers 1.00 the vacancv ly before the public as one of the lead- senator Gear. This appointment was$ accepted. Mr. Dolliver at once resigned aSf, Ep fa(le(j gland sailor, spent over forty years in „oth for the vacancy and the,-,* service as a Methodist Episcopal min- western Virginia. Senator wag the second of five cliil- Victor B., a young- shares with his in the United States. consumption, or in other words, wear The two brothers, Robert H. and the old one. If the article you wish to John P., were graduated from the uni buy is too high priced' don't buy it to-! versity of West Virginia in the y®P-r day, wait until the price goes down, 1875. John P. after his graduation They say there is a hat trust and that taught a country school near Sand the price is tqo high. That is impossi-! wicJ1 for one ble, for every new hat in the land is to ^oFg,ant0.WI1 in open competition with every foHowing yea^" Law of Competition. where^ie^taughf asf%ncipalBor^ 'Then there is the law of competition ^!ntfr" 6 1 better than others. The future senator soon gained a reputation as a speaker aud it spread to the surrounding counties until he to tne surrounding .•uuuues u«ui was frequently called upon toi public addresses and l^tuies. In 1884 a friend, the late Dr. Charles Beardsley, of Burlington, who was chairman ot the republican state committee told the committee about this young man from Virginia with the gift of oratory and the brains and ambition to put some- thing besides high sounding phrases, into-Jus speeches. Mr. Dolliver was, invited to be temporary chairman of the republican state convention in Des Moines iu April 1884. The speech that he made upon that 'occasion lifted him from the Obscurity of a country law office Into national fame. It was the rising of a new star in the political firmament and its power "1 do not want to leave until I have aud brilliancy were at once recognized again touched upon the industrial sit uation. The tariff laws are not per fect. No human institution is per fect. But the tariff is hotter than it was in 1897. 1 am ,yne who believes by the republican leaders in charge of the national campaign. Jfr. Dollivej4 was called east and bore a conspicuous part in that memorable campaign, trav eling for a time and speaking with 41 xs 0 1.00UL6 .75 A lot James G. Blaine, the republican nomi nee for the presidency. In every campaign since that tinja Mr. Dolliver has assisted his party wherever he was most needed. Exper ience and study have ripened him into an orator who not only appeals to the sentiment and arouses the enthusiasm _.v of partisans, but convinces the judg ment of the honest enquirer who with out partisan prejudice is seeking the truth. In 1886 the friends of Mr. Dolliver in the tenth district concluded to bring him out as the candidate for the re publican nomination for congressman, Cyrus C. Carpenter, of Fort Dodge, a former governor and former member of congress from the tenth district took a leading part in this movement. He was a devoted admirer of Mr. Dolliver who was then less than twenty-nina years of age. In the-campaign which followed Mr. Dolliver developed mora strength than any other candidate, but was unable to ^secure enough »o nomi nate. The opposition succeeded in combining against him and renominat ing A. J. Holmes of Boone county for a third term. Two years later, how ever, Mr. Dolliver was nominated in the convention at Webster City and at no time subsequently did he have any serious opposition for renomination He was renominated every year by ac clamation up to and Including 1300. Appointed Senator in 1900. ,, ,,, own interests, he tendered to Mr. Dol the opening of the state republican, ]jver August 22, 1900. the appointment convention in 1884 and from that day until the present he has been constant- The death of Senator John H. Gear of Congressman Dolliver felt he was entitled to by his long and able,ser vice In the house, to receive. Gover nor Shaw took this view of the situ a tion and unselfishly putting aside his of the Unjted States senator ,%s. to fill out caused by the death of congressman and Judge J. P. Conner,®, of Crawford county, was nominatedr|S and elected to succeed him. The,ap-5|jg& polntment of Mr. Dolliver was at onc8||L|[ found to be strong with the people,fWf- away am] full term following. entrusted by his Associates with many--*—''5 responsibilities and duties of the high- ggt lmportance to the The Master of Wit. Those who imagine that Mr. Dolli ver's oratory is a spontaneous out- they opened a law office. not denied that valuable which comes from the struggle of course, the master of wit and invec« vigorous youth to gain a professional five and his natural command of Ian footing with but small financial back- guage is marvelous but the thought, ing. They had the usual struggles the ideas, the logical arrangement, the such as other young men under similar finish which make Mr. Dolliver circumstances have had but it was not: speeches attractive, powerful and con long until the people of Ft. Dodge, be-!vincing are the result of the hardest gan to know that the Dolliver boys kind of labor and the most systematic were made of good stuff and that there I study. This is not for a day, a week, schooling burst are greatly mistaken. He is,-ol a month for Senator Dolliver is a stud ent the year round. He devotes him self unsparingly and conscientiously to the serious "business of statesman ship. He has already collected a W01.king ends a asi&fL aWSft." V'-'i he was left a clear"" ..® republican party, the administration and the country, He was often the spokesman of the administration upon the floor of the house and in many emergencies, was selected to present the policy' of the ways and means committee jt which he was a member to the con' gress and to the country. Not only on matters connected with this committee but upon other great occasions he has been called upon to make a principal speech in which he set forth strongly as possible the policy for which the republican paity stood. To meet these demands as well as to sustain himself upon other occasions has re quired not only great industry but prodigious capacity for assimilating facts and presenting them logically. •ftv-mw )arge share of his time pre- Darin(J to meet '"fi feat '#1 library such as few public 1)0ssess, tOS and in the intervals he en the sessions of congress he the problems which he must help to solve. For a number of years while he was a member of congress Mr. Dolliver was eagerly sought after as a lecturer aml as an after not,aijlp dinner speaker upon occasions. His elevation as senator has taken liiui out of the lec ture field to a great extent but other demands upon him have increased from various organizations through out the country. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No .cure, no paty. Price, 25 cents. ''. »r A good roads association ^-as beet organized in Webster..'•i j' V,. :i