Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-12-26
fillmore County oMe;al Paper.
MOUNTAIN HOME, Dec. 26, 1901.
Hot Shot from Senator Dubois.


Dubois has rounded-up the Wash
ington correspondents of the Boise
Statesman and the Capital News
for disappearing his political views,
and they each addressed him let
ter acknowledging that they had
neither of them ever interviewed
Mr.. Dubois or attempted to do 30,
and admitting that their kilograms
to the effect that Mr.. Dubois was
paving the way to re-enter the Re-
publican party were without any
real foundation. The Senator sent
these letters, accompanied by one
of his own, to the Statesman for
publication, but up to this writing
the editor of that paper has not
been sufficiently fair-minded to COM
ply with his request.
Following is Senator Dubois let
ter to the editor of the Statesman
Washington, D. c., Nov. 30.
Editor Statesman, Boise, Ida:
Dear Sir:-Enclosed you will find
letter to me from your Washington
correspondent. Your correspondent
did not attempt to see me or any of
my friends. He deliberately made
up the story which he sent to you,
without offering the poor excuse
that he desired accuracy in the
statement. He was frank enough
to admit that he had nothing upon
which to base his surmises or inu-
endo, except the little squib which
appeared in the Washington Post,
in the Chit Chat column.
When | left the Republican party
it had ceased to be representative
Of the people and had become the
willing, subservient agent of cor
porate greed and wealth. 1t has
become worse since 1896. ] am not
in agreement with the national Re-
publican party in any of its policies
entirely agree with the principles
of the national Democratic party as
promulgated at Chicago and Kan
sas City. No one knows better than
the Statesman that the people of
Idaho have never questioned my
political sincerity or integrity.
They have honored me many times
because of their confidence in my
devotion to principle. The States
man put this article of its cor
respondent in its columns in such a
way as to make it appear to be an
Associated Press dispatch. 1t then
based its editorial on this dispatch
Your correspondent, to make mat
ters worse, sent out an explanation
which was as bad as the original
article. He did not see me or con-
suit me as to the explanation. Your
correspondent, who is a clerk in one
of the departments, and who re-
ceives from you the munificent sal
airy of $40 per month for interview
ing people whom he has never seen,
or tried to see, has written me, over
his own signature, stating that the
article was purely his own creation,
and the only justification that he
offers is that it was not an inter-
view. / know how difficult it is for
the Statesman to be fair or just to
those who do not agree with it. l
have had occasion to say in public
"that the Statesman interviewed
gentlemen without ever having seen
them, and if the person who was
misrepresented was foolish enough
to send them a denial, that they
garbled the denial" Hereafter, |
trust, when your correspondent
feels the necessity to give my views
or state my position, that he will do
me the scant courtesy of trying, at
least, to ascertain what my views
are.
l ask you to publish the letter
from your correspondent and this
communication from me.
Very respectfully,
FRED T. DUBOIS.