The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-19
BACHELOR SENATORS
Hill and Dubois Are the Only
Ones in Washington.
THE GOVERNOR HATES SOCIETY
He May Resign Within a Year-Dubois is
Popular with ALI Classes-The Ladies
Absolutely DOte Oh Him.
HERALD BUREAU,
Cor. of 18th and G SITS, n. w.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is.


New York, and Fred T. Dubois,
OF Idaho, are the two bachelors of
tie Senate. The other eighty-six mem
bers of that august body are married, and
In the majority Of cases are the heads of
large families. Probably a score of the
Senators have reached the dignity of
grand-fathers. while one of the number,
the venerable Justin Morrill,, of Vermont,
is an octogenarian.
Governor Hill is forty eight years of age,
while Dubois is not yet forty-one.
GOVERNOR HILL HATES SOCIETY,
and 1t was only as special favor to Sena-
tor Dolph, of Oregon, that he attended
dinner party given by that gentleman
few days ago. Some of his friends have
offered to put up his hame at the Metropoli-
tan and University clubes but he is not
club man, aud ne declined the offer with
thanks. He is living at the Arlington
hotel, where he occupies comfortable suite
OF rooms. These apartments of the
governor bid fair to become historic.
They will be the Mecca to W hich the Demo
cratic politicians from New York and other
states will bend their footsteps upon reach
Ing Washington, and more political COM
blnations will be made there during the
next six months Than in the rest of the CITY
combined. While in no sense a society or
cluo man, the governor is possessed of
more than fair share of social qualities,
and these he displays in entertaining his
friends in the seclusion Of his rooms.
Politics Is the one passion of Governor
HIPS lifes
LOVES POI 1rTCc
as the scientist loves the mysteries of his
laboratory. 1t is the one subject over
which he grows enthusiastic, and he never
tires of discussing it in its state, national
and philosophical aspects. l doubt, how
ever, If he will be satisfied with his place
in the Senate. He doesn't like the atmos-
phere of the senatorial chamber. 1t is too
Gull and too heavy for man of his active
temperament.
1t is customary with the governor to
secure results, but he will find, as all other
men do who come to Washington, that the
man who succeeds in getting through one
or two measures of personal Importance
TO him during the course of a session is
regarded as singularly fortunate. The
governor knows this and he feels that his
time here will be practically wasted. 1t
is an open secret that he had no fondness
for the place when he allowed himself to
1t is equally well known that he doesn't
like it any better now that he has arrived
here, and those who are deepest in his con-
hdence tell me that if the Democrats of
New York state retain their coutrol of
the legislature, he win resign within a
year.
SENATOR FRED DUBOIS OF IDAHO,
differs radically from Governor Hill in
most respects. An Illinoian by birth, he
graduated at Yale college when he had
scarcely attained his majority and has
spent the last half of his life in Idaho.
There is nothing of the typical western
mani, so far as appearances go, about Du
bois. HIS trim, well built figure is all
ways encased In garments of fashionable
cut and material and he looks more like
a prosperous young Wall street broker
than anything else. His manners are
pleasant and his personality very agree
able one.
He is, l am told, popular man in Idaho,
and lie is no less popular in Washington.
MARRIAGEABLE DAUGHTERS AND MANEUvER-
ING MOTHERS
regard him as an eligible partt. This is
attributable. not so much TO his pleasing
social qualities, perhaps, as TO the fact that
be Is young and good looking; that his
morals are irreproachabIe, and that his DO
litical future is well assured.
| regard Dubois as man to be enyied
Take him all in all he is far and away the
most all-around popular man in public life.
He is popular with his senatorial assnci-
ates; he is popular with the younger men
of his acquaintance. while women, without
regard to age, admire him extrsvagantly
And yet this adulation has not spoiled him
in the slightest. He is the same amiabIe.
good natured and thoroughly agreeable
young fellow amid all the political and
social distractions Of Washington that he is
in the rough mining camps of his adopted
state.
Idaho Senator has been entertaining one of
his Idaho constituents, +. M. Merrill. of
Soda Springs. Mr.. Merrill is what some
Of our statesmen felicitously describe as
ONE OF THE PLAIN PEOPLE.
He is blacksmith by trade and was a
IL ember of the Idaho legislature that elect
eb Mr. Dubois TO the Senate. He wears a
flannel shirt and, with true western un-
conventionality, II matters nothing to him
if this necessary garment has no collar A
necktie he would regard as a superfiuity.
But don't make the mistake of believing
that Dubois was any the less glad to see
him because he wore a hand me-down suit
of clothes and his boots were devoid of
polish. You would have thought from the
attentions Dubois showed him, that Mer-
rill was a CreoSus in wealth and a Jim
Blaine in political influence. He has taken
him everywhere about Washington dur
ing his stay in the city and he has intro
duced him to all the big guns about the
capitol as his
PARTICULAR FRIEND" FROM IDAHO.
Such an exhibition of social democracy
&c oil
bois' political position. All that he needs
nnIy Is q CON Yarsinn tn Damnnratin ,,r;r.a;