The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-03
TELLER SPEAKS OUT
Colorad O's Senator Condemns a Recent
Attack on Dubois of Idaho.
REVIEWS HIS WHOLE RECORD
He Believes the Coldites and the
Lead Trust Are Conspiring to
Defeat an Able Foe The
Pair With Senator Smith.


Glenn b. King is just i'm receipt of the
following very interesting letter from
United States Senator Teller of Colo
RADIO:
United States Senate Washington. ID.
c.. February is, 1896:
c. Il. King, Occur d'Alene City, Ida
no, Dear Sir-I am I'm receipt of your
favor of the 18th inst, inclosing clip
ping from the Haley Times, which
reads as follows:
"A Washington dispatch stated few
days ago that Senator Dubois enter
tanned grave doubts of his success in
the next election for a United States
senator to succeed himself. We agree
with Senator Dubois. lie is in jeopar-
dy There is a feeling I'm this state
that he betrayed the interests of his
constituents by consenting to a reduc-
ton of the tariff on lead from $50 to SIS
per ton. That he did this at the behest
of the lead trust. AS SIS is inadequate
protection. and as inadequate protec-
ton is not protection at all, il follows
that, while an avowed protectionist,
Senator Dubois really acted in such
way as TO deprive what was then, and
would still be but for the want of pro-
lection. the leading industry of Idaho.
of a vital advantage. Hence the dis
favor of which he complains and which
he Justly breads. Senator Dubois sue
cessor will doubtless be a republican;
he win certainly be reliable protec-
ZIONIST"
/ have quoted the article in fun be-
cause similar articles have been called
TO my attention in other Western pa
pers. l assume, therefore, that wide
circulation has been given to the state
ments made. This article is so clearly
in harmony with the threat recently
made by the New York Press, to de-
stroy and defeat everysilver senator and
representative i'm congress by breaking
him down in his own state or district
that / feel justified I'm embracing the
opportunity your inquiry affords to set
the seal Of my unqualified condemna-
tion upon this nefarious scheme be-
ing worked by the advocates of the
single gold standard, to delude our
Western people and destroy the sena-
tors and representatives in congress
who have had the manhood and cour-
age in season and out of season. to ad-
vocate the free and unlimited coinage
of silver.
severely condemned. 1t is untruthful
and fiagrantly unjust In the Fiftieth
and F1fty-first congresses, Mr.. Dubois,
as a delegate from Idaho, distinguished
himself as an able, fearless and untir-
ing advocate of an adequate protection
on lead ore. Notwithstanding the fact
that he did not have a vote in the
house of representatives, all persons
conversant with the facts will freely
concede that Dubois contributed ser
vices of inestimable value to the miners
of his territory, by his vigorous and
faithful advocacy of their interests.
When the Wilson tarIm bill reached
the senate, lead ore was practically on
the free list. 1t would be there still had
not Senator Dubois made a special and
long continued fight for some little con-
cession from the free traders in control,
for the lead interests OF the West. EV-
cry person who was here to further the
lead ore interests of the West relied on
Dubois for assistance in the prosecu-
tion of their work He guided and di-
rected the work of the lead miners. The !
fact that he has accomplished so much
was really surprise. In the begin
ming no one deemed IL possible TO Sc
cure a specific duty of three-quarters of
a cent pound, or, in fact any other |
sum, on lead. Dubois not only secured |
this, and all the credit and honor is |
due him in the premises. but he likewise |
urged and secured the expunging of |
the proviso admitting ores free where |
the silver value predominated over the |
lead value. He also secured a modih- |
cation of another obnoxious proviso de- !
signed to prevent collections of duties |
on ore.
In the same bill. he procured clause |
prescribing commercial sampling for |
obtained from a reluctant committee |
and congress n law for which lead I
miners have been contending for many
years.
BY way OF recapitulation Of the vau-
able service rendered by Senator Du-
bois TO the interests of the lead min
ers of the West, IL would be necessary
10 go back to every variation of the
contest for protective duties on lead
from the time Dubois entered the house
of Representatives as a delegate
A INDUSTRIOUS OUTRAGE.
To now charge him at the instigation
of either the White Lead trust or the
goldbug press, with infidelty to this
great interest. is such a monstrous out
rage that have no patience with any
Idaho man who would either publish or
give credence TO such a statement II
is simply cruel
l also observe that IL is intimated I'm
the article that Dubois in the course
of this long and severe struggle made
financial gains derived from the lead
trust. This intimation appears TO me
as cunning device instituted by the
lead trust 10 break down "A foe whom
they have been unable TO wholly de-
feat in the halls of congress. 1t can
not be possible that the intelligent peo-
pie Of Idaho viii be deluded by such
an insinuation. Everybody knows that
Dubois was a poor man when he came
10 congress, and that he. like many OF
the balance of us is still poor. Every
man who knows him here is well
aware Of the fact that he lives from
month to month on the meager salary
received-and that his personal char
acter stands above reproach or suspic-
ion.
on the basis OF this well known in
tegrity. and his high order OF ability in
dealing with public questions. Mr.. Du-
bois has been accorded a standing in
the senate second 10 that of no younp
man who has appeared here in the
whole course Of my experience. He has
reached a point on the various COM
mittees OF which he is member as
well as in the senate chamber. which
makes him not only valuable 10 the i'm
faregfg Of Ida hp rb. !