Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — Dolliver’s Rap at Aldrich. [ARTICLE]

Dolliver’s Rap at Aldrich.

The late Senator Dolliver of lowa, by clever retort and brilliant repartee, could hold an audience attentive and spellbound during the recital of the dryest statistics of a tariff discussion. He was one of the small band of insurgents who fought valiantly on the floor of the senate against the enactment of the Payne-Aldrich tariff act. The last speech he delivered in the senate before his death, in 1910, was a scathing arraignment of that bill. He spared no terms in his denunciation of the measure. And he evoked peals of laughter from a hostile and 6ullen audience by declaring: “The past year witnessed two events of unusual interest —the discovery of the north pole by Dr. Cook and the revision of the tariff downward by the senator from Rhode Island. Each in Its way was a unique hoax.”