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Show e - DEATH OF SENATOR DOLLIVER. The sudden death of Senator Doilivcr of Iowa on Saturday last has brought real sorrow to his countrymen. The senator was one of the mighty forces for good in the United States senate and his independent inde-pendent attitude in defense of right was having a tremendous influence in-fluence in moulding public opinion in favor of insurgency, meaning reform within the Republican party. (fhQ death of Sen. Dolliver is a severe loss to the Insurgents, although before he died the Iowan had accomplished much toward the movement for the purification of our politics and had done much for the reformation which must go on until a complete change is accomplished. ac-complished. With Dolliver dead and LaFollette seriously ill, the Insurgents arc temporarily halted, but eventually the Wisconsin senator will recover and continue the battle, and, though Dolliver is dead, his words will live after him. Senator Dolliver's name will go down in our political history as that of one of the really great men of the period, and nothing that he did or said in all his long career as a public man will have a greater Influence in winning for the Iowa senator that distinction than his courageous attitude in congress during the last session of congress. |