The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-09-26
HoKE's UNIQUE REASONS.
Why Senator Dubois BOlted An TO Pay
on An Old Debt-HOke Evil
IDENTIFY Has Wheels.

EDITOR TRIBUNE-With the best
light and understanding l have, have
been reading the newspapers these
many years and look upon them as the
great educators of the times. The only
difficulty l meet with is that their
teachings are not always reliable, and
some of them do not appear to teach
anything except gossip and scan
dial. must not say any more against
newspapers flor they are tender else
my letter win find early and sweet re-
pose in the waste basket.
have read much, too much, about
boilers and fusions in the past three
! months, and If, reading maketh full
man" am very full of those subjects.
might, then, having read all sides and
there are many of them, be forgiven
for cherishing a wish to put out
my own side. This l am aware is
an aggravation of the Affections al
ready endured by long suffering pub
lie, but while we are all at it let us
make an end to these boilers and flu
sionists-let every man, according to
his glim, down or praise them.
Fred T. Dubois, speaking only of
Idaho and 1896, was the original buck
bolter of blessed memory. A few kid
boilers with great hopes of some day
becoming buck boilers themselves fal.
lowed him, but they must remain fall
low until their limbs grow strong and
spry.
l was deeply impressed with Fred's
feat, as well as his feet, at the time; and
distressed my mind to find out what
made him do it. know that when a
man bolts that way something is pain
ing him. 1t took me long time to 10.
cate the pain, but have succeeded at
last. At first l calculated that his
proud heart had looked on silver dol
lar and busted. 1t smote my heaving
breast that Mr.. Dubois had acquired a
holy passion, and worked on that the.
DRY for several weeks. The theory did
not entirely satisfy my senses very well,
though it looked pious. You under
stand, was working blind lead, be.
cause I hadn't found single clue, yet.
First of all, Mr.. Dubois was not the
man, according to his record, to bolt
on account of silver. If he had been
of that nature he would have bolted in
1888 and in 1890 and 1892 and 1894.
That fact damaged my theory. Then
Mr.. Dubois would bolt anything unless
it was out of line with his judgment
and his judgment is dead in line with
his interests, always. And Mr.. Dubois,
reVerently be it said, loveth no thing
under the sun with love that
abideth except, in troth, MIR. Dubois.
Wherefore, mEsfrst theory, that he had
bolted for silver's sake wilted in the
light of facts. In due time l aban-
dOned that theory and worked out the
idea that he had bolted for mean and
selfish purposes. leased this theory
on the fact that he and Mr.. Teller and
Mr.. Mantle all seemed to be working
together to have Mr.. Teller nominated
for president, then, thought, Mr.. Du-
bois would be fish commissioners or
maybe something bigger. But had
to reluctantly abandon that theory
when / found Mr.. Dubois working
with great application for the election
Of Mr.. Bryan, and he, of course, is do.
ing it. Well was pretty nigh stump
ed until heard of the boilers conVen-
tion few weeks ago. That let in a
food of light. / made up my mind
when read the result of that conYen-
ton that Mr.. Dubois was the most
self-sacrifcingus gentleman in Idaho.
All that had been dark. was now clear.
Mr. Dubois had become the original
buck bolter just SO he could pay an old
account he owed Captain Gum and
Frank Steunenberg. Amt he the long
est sighted, wireppllingest, most Chris
tiap and grateful gentleman you ever
saw? ~ HoKE..
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