The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-20
SENATOR DUBOIS.

SENATOR woLcoTT. SENATOR DUBOIS.
uant productions of this long contest.
DUBOIS is somewhat solid, persistent,
settled, patient. He is q man who can
wait for victory. Day after day and
night after night he has been in his seat.
never impatient, always alert, ALWAYS
cheerful, always ready to exchange a
word or joke or bit of gossip with any
conner. The strain of the long battle did
hot appear to have any effect upon his
Ierves or spirits. He was as fresh at the
outcome as Mt the beginning. Wolcott.
on the other hand, has little of the great
quality OF patience He is rather cav
Nryman who likes to dash upon the bat
tlet1eld, cut and thrust in every direc-
ton and then disappear AS a fighter
and as strategist he is not the equal of
Dubois, but as an orator he is inap-
prOachable.
These two silver lieutenants are young
men az senator's CO. Dubois is barely 40,
while Wolcott is only 40. Both have
risen rapidly to their present high sta
tons. Dubois is native of Illinois. His
father. Jesse X. Dubois was an intimate
friend of Abraham Lincoln and was q
candidate for Office on the first Repub-
lican ticket in that state. AS youth
Mr.. Dubois had no ambition to become
a statesman. He did not even care for
the law or any other of the learned pro-
LESSONS. His aspirations were rather in
the mercantile line. He wanted to be a
business man. After leaving Yale he
found employment in the great whole
eale dry goods house of Farwell g. Co. of
Chicago, Charles B. Farwell of this firm
being the well known ex-senator from
illinois. But amercantile career did not
prove as fascinating to the young man
IN actual experience as it had seemed to
him in his dreams, and after a year in
the dry goods house he became a clerk in
the state auditors Office at Springfield
He was later made secretary Of the
board of railway and warehouse COM
missioners.
Getting Out of Politics.
This was in 1876, and it was about
this time that Mr.. Dubois turned the
light inward, as it were, and endeavored
to discern what he was made of and
what he was likely to make Of himself
In this world. On mature reflection he
decided that there was not much chance
for young man in Illinois or in poll
tics. and that he would go west. AL
though holding good position and hay
ing better one offered him by Mr.. Gull
lum-then governor, now sepator-he
turned his back upon Illinois and upon
politics and started for Idaho. Before
leaving he said to Cullom that he was
out of politics forever, as he did not be-
ieve politics offered any promises for a
young man. Mr.. Cullom, who had al
ready some experience with men who
declared they were going to get out of
politics, remarked to his young friend,
IF you go west, instead of getting out
of politics, you will get deeper into
them" And now that both Cullom and
Dubois are senator's they often laugh
over this prediction of Mr.. Cullom's.
Dubois rode west. about as far as his
money would carry him and happened
to drift into the town of Blackfoot, Ida.
He had no special reason for stopping
there, not knowing any one in the town |
nor having any letters of introduction,
but some chance sent him to BlaGkfoot, |
apd the morning after his arrival he
took an account of stock and found he |
bed ss4 with which to start on his new /