The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-01-24
DUBOIS AND R0 RAH.

Senator-elect William T.. Borah, Of
Idaho, Is a young man just entering |
upon great qualification. His state |
has answered his ambitious warnings
his legitimate and eminently proper
desire; and he is to sit In the chamber
where abides much OF the wisdom,
the dignity and the patriotism Of the
republic, Despite the suspicion OF
political bargaining between himself
and the Mormon church, there are
thousands OF people not OF Idaho and
yet interested In that state, who en-
terrain the highest admiration and the
most exalted hope for Mr.. Borah-be-
lieving that he will seek to rise to the
ethical eminence which should be
the station of a United States senator,
and thus be useful TO the lnter-moun-
tain country and influential In the
larger affairs OF the nation. But he
will not attain TO station where the
people of the country viii extend TO
him their respect, until he can elm
mate the bitterness which prompted
his reflections upon Senator Fred Il.
| Dubois.
With all Mr.. Borah's brilliancy, his
legal attachments, his flashing oratory,
his magnetic qualities; he will need To
be senator for many years and TO
learn the sublugation Of self, before
IA rstx IN t.ta ftsnx.
which II has attained through the
service OF the man whom he has sup
planted. Not all the oratory that
ever flowed, not all the magnetism
that ever throbbed, not all the bril-
liancy that ever flashed, can do as
much for Idaho as the simple dignity
and impregnable honesty OF Fred T..
! Dubois have achieved. There Is
, something at once sublime and pa
thetic In the career Of man like Du-
bois, whose worshiped ideal Is the
Constitution and law Of his country,
whose highest ambition Is 10 serve
hts fellow-otizens without any faint
Of yenality or injustice upon his labor.
Fred +, Dubois has been In public
i life for more than quarter Of GEN.
, fury. During that time he has won
the respect of all honest men and the
admiration of all intelligent men
with whom he has been associated.
Il lie has lived In straitened circum-
stances, he has never sought to make
: money directly or indirectly OF
, the opportunities OF his public lie;
and IL should be an everlasting pride
, Ia Idaho that every member OF the
, United States Senate today would
trust the word Of Fred Il. Dubois with
as much assurance of It's fnltlllment "a
the letter and In the spirit, as he
would trust 10 the honor OF the faith,
tulness Of the woman for whose sane.
tity OF soul he entertains his highest
reverence.
Q When William T., Borah is senator
o II he have the ability of mind and the
quieknesS of conscience TO appreciate
Il, the fact, there will shine before him 4
! mark 10 excel which will be impossible,
: and to reach which will require hi,
> utmost endeavor; and that mark will
q he the pure public service OF Fred L
n Dubois, OF whom every man who Ia.
= ever been associated with him will 81,
that in public life he has been SUI
y premely without fear and without ~
pruach.
e Ii In ten years William +. Boral
!. can attain to the same distinction
y Idaho viii have cause for congratula
IS tion. In the meantime the less h,
e sneeS at senator Dubois the less dis
q respect OF the Nation towards himsel
}. he viii have to overcome. Salt LAX,
Tribune.