Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-09-13

The train from the west was an
hour and half or so late last even
ing, as usual it was raining and
the electric lights were out of COM
mission, both of which were alto
gether unusual. That's the COM
bination that Senator Dubois went
up against in his effort to enthuse
this town on the political situation.
AS result the crowd that gath
cred in the opera house at 9 O'Clock
to hear him do his spell binding
stunt was painfully shy numeri-
cally. But, like the conscientious
Snowman he is, he didn't ''cut the
bill'' a line, on account of the large
area of vacant seats.
]. H. Garrett, member OF the
state committee from this county,
had been notified by the chairman
that Senator Dubois would be here
on that date. He billed the town,
hired and paid for the hall and got
out the band to greet the gentle
man; but as he couldn't dispatch
the train, regulate the weather or
prevent a coil at his power plant
from burning out, he lost control
of the crowd and failed to deliver
that line of the goods. He, Doc
tor Swan and E. IC. Helfrich shared
the footlight honors with the
speaker, occupying chairs on the
stage and doing thinking parts.
MIR. Helfrich, as a steering COM
m;ttee of one, got Jim Purtill be-
hind the scenes, but when he looked
between the flys and failed to see
among the group OF American SOW
erigns gathered there a single one
of his political tillicums, men with
whom, shoulder to shoulder, he
had fought factional battles since
the Short Line put a surveying
corps in these sage brush plains, he
bolted; went away back and sat
down.
MIR. Garrett made a felicitious
speech in introducing the speaker,
after which he and his white vest
resumed their seat and thinking
part before mentioned.
For az hour and a half Mr.. Du-
bois poured hot shot into the Nor
mons. He made out a case, a good
one and did it well. That was the
verdict of those present, some of
them capable, competent judges,
uninfluenced by prejudice. So
much can not be said of his expla-
nation of his vote on the Philip
pine tariff bill. 1t would be we'll
for him to cut that out in future
and let democrats forget it.
After the applause had subsidized
and Senator Dubois returned to Ho-
tel Turner, Maverick man talked
with him for half an hour. He
had not met him before and the
event was one of interest to the
writer; to size up the man who is
so thoroughly criticised and abused,
who is not even en- rapport with
the old line leaders of the demo-
cratic party, and yet dominates that
organization and retains large fol-
lowing, adherents who are actuated
by loyalty of the last ditch kind.
Mr.. Dubois is endowed with that
rare, priceless gift from mother
Nature of being a most convincing
heart-to-heart talker. For instance,
he said, with Yam air of finality,
that there is no doubt whatever
but what Judge Stockslager will
be elected governor, and the lis
tener, who had thought it was all
the other way, begins to doubt,
and finally, through the Du-
bois glass, sees Governor Gooding S
finish.
He says that the republican re-
volt in the north is assuming
gigantic proportions that will de-
velop into land slide; that he
has never yet failed to carry his
own big county, Fremont, that
he is going to do it this year by
an increased majority and will get
nine out of every ten gentle votes,
and that if Gooding carries Ada,
the republican stronghold of the
state, it will be by the skin of his
teeth.
In the course of the conversation,
the writer remarked that the ranl
and file of voters seem to take little