The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-08-20
SENATOR PETTIGREW
Visits Pocatello and Delivers
a Political Harangue.
FRED DUBOIS ALSO APPEARS
Both Refer 10 the Fort Hall Reservation Matisrs-
POpuist Philosophy Makes Freddy Sick
and He Turns His Face TO the Wall
"A Pair Of Demsgoeues.

The Pocatello AdUGnce contains the
following account of the staging" of
Dubois and Pettigrew at Pocatello, as
they swung around the circle:
Senator r. F. Pettigrew and our own
ex- senator Dubois gave an oratorical
and spectacular entertainment Satur-
day night to "drummed up" audience
of curiosity seekers and pateEt-applied
for Office chasers. The affair was i'm
promptu, spontaneous mot combusta-
ble) and sporadic, so far as the South
Dakota wind TANNER was concerned,
for the performance was said to have
been gotten up for his special benefit,
although Dubois was a conspicuous
figure Cd the rostrum until Pettigrew
began Keeling off Populistic philosophy
when Freddy gradually turned his
face toward the wall" and silently la
mented the horrors of the stage set
tings in the rear. The situation was
decidedly displeasing to Dubois and
thoroughly uncomfortable for the
auditors, who had presumed that Mr..
Pettigrew would give them finished
speech and not township statesman's
political harangue, made up of bonn
bast and buncombe. Nevertheless the
Senator's effort was interesting and
altogether amusing for the reason that
it was such beautiful satire on his
own reputed sincerity and honesty of
purpose,
Mr. Pettigrew preluded his political
address with few Fort Hall reserva-
tion remarks, incidentally alleging that
had it not been for the energy display.
ed by the Siamese twins-Dubois and
himself-the Fort Hall bill would not
have been presented to either house of
congress. In this connection it might
be we'll to state fact or two. The
Fort Hall bill was prepared under the
direction of the Interior department
aud Senator Shoup, and by Shoup in
troduced in the senate, carrying the
100000 appropriation, provision in
conformity with the treaty and exactly
what the people of Pocatello and south
Idaho desired. The bill then went to
the Senate Indian Affairs Committee,
of which Pettigrew is chairman, where
Dubois slyly attempted to have tackled
on several fatal amendments. The bill
was discussed by the senate committee
for some days, but finally, through the
arGumentative efforts of Shoup, went
to the house in practically the same
form that il had reached the senate.
In the house the bill was necessarily
turned over to the care and keeping of
Congressman Gum, who, as we have
frequently stated, has neither partisan
nor diplomatic influence in that branch
of congress. Speaker Reed looked at
Gum and mentally resolved that if the
Fort Hall bill was to be seriously cham.
pioned by such peculiar faddist that
it must be wrong in reason, arithmetic
and principle, and that it would be best
to let the bill remain in the hands OF
the house committee until Idaho elect
ed another congressman. The fate Of
the bill justifies the conclusion that
both Pettigrew and Dubois are delib
CRAZE falsiheTs and confirmed dema
gogues, and that Gum has not ever
decimal influence in congress, Results
conclusively prove that Shoup got the
bill through the senate, and it requires
no argument to convince Pocatello cit
liens Of that fact. We do not objecr
10 Dubois campaigning upon his man.
reservation acts of duplicity, nor do WI
object to painting the ex-senator in al
his true colors. An that Dubois eVel
did for the people Of Idaho was Il
allow bill to pass both houses of con
gress, during Cleveland's first term al
president, providing for the disposition
of the state to adjoining common,
wealths and the erasing of the name O
Idaho from the U. s. map. That dia
bolic8l scheme failed through the eff
forts of Governor Stevenson, who per
sonally solicited President Cleveland II