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Show HOW DOLLIVER BEAT HOLMES. At (hat time, in tho early '80s, Major Ma-jor Holmes was ongressnian from tho Fort Dodgo district. The mnjor t as a good Republicau, but no speaker. Dolliver made a tiy fo.- Holmea' tr-at. Holmes made bis campaign among the farmers about 18S I quoting Shakespeare's, ' I am no orator as Brutus is." The larmers nominated Holmes on the "no orato- aft Brutus is" platform. DVllver was in a barber's bar-ber's chair getting shaved, when a friend informed him that Holmes had Just beaten him to a fru.7lc. Dolliver jumped up half 0Laved, an 1 rushed to the convention hall. Somebody snw him entor "he hall, and a shout was made for him to make a speech. Dolliver mounted the platform, and in a dramatic speech, made himself solid forever with the farmers of the Fort Dodsc district. He pictured himself as tho man that Dante saw in Purgatory, Purga-tory, carrying his head under his ami, and continually moaning 'Woo is me." Holmes had just cut off his head, and the only thing remaining for him to do was to take the advice of hia political associates, put his head under his arm and tramp through tho Purgatory of politics, crying "Woo is me." In second thought, however, the speaker said he would adjust his head as well as he could and marching march-ing under the banner held by his erstwhile opponent, ho would cry, "Woe to tho Democrats." Two years afterward Dolliver beat Major Holmes to a frazzle, and represented the Fort Dodge alstrlct until he was sent to the United States senato. His tall form in the rear row on tho right of the senate floor will be missed, for when. Dolliver npoke everyone listened. lis-tened. National Magazine |