Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1910 — SENATOR DOLLIVER, OF IOWA, DIED SATURDAY NIGHT. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR DOLLIVER, OF IOWA, DIED SATURDAY NIGHT.

Lender of Progressive Element in Republican Party Yictim of Heart Failure at Fort Dodge. Johnathan P. Dolliver, of lowa, died Saturday night at 8 o’clock at his home in Fort Dodge, lowa, after a sickness that confined him to his home for about a week. He had been in failing health for a year and a half, although appearing very strong and vigorous. He was in his 53rd year. When 31 years of age he was elected to congress. For twenty years he has been in congress, being elected to the senate after many years in the lower house.

Senator Dolliver spoke at Fountain Park at the assembly this summer and his speech was reported at some length in the Republican. Senator Dolliver was a self-made man and one of the brightest and most , universally admired of all public men. He was called the “father of insurgency,” and was a leader in that class of progressive thought that objected to all manner of corruption. He was not an insurgent with the hope of gratifying personal ambition. He was honest and would not blink at dishonesty; he was clean in his life and sought to better the world he lived in; he believed in leadership and sought to direct those who followed him in the right course. His death will be a severe blow to his state and to the nation. Kind and determined, cautious and energetic, fearless and willing to fight for the right, he endeared himself to his constituency* and made a name for himself wider than the nation, and his death will be a loss to the world, because the world is interested in the principles he advocated and needed such courageous champions.