Show t A CLEAN DELEGATE The kind of man Mr Fred Dubois Republican candidate for Delegate to Congress from Idaho is can be told by the language he uses A clean man uses clean language He respects himself him-self and has consideration for decent people A blackguard is his opposite h in everything A blackguard is a man who should not be put into office of any kind He isunworthy the votes 1 of clean people and should ba frowned upon by the decent element regardless i of his party politics Early in October it was published in goma Democratic papers of Idaho that Mr Dubois had applied a filthy epithet to those who were opposing him The I expression was so vile that THE HERALD could scarcely believe it possible pos-sible that one claiming to be a gentleman gentle-man would employ it and we feared some of our contemporaries in I their zeal to defeat the candidate had slandered him Furthermore Republfc I can editors denied that Mr Dubois had uttered the expression To satisfy himself him-self as to the truth or falsity of the rumor EditorBoyakin of the Idaho Democrat wrote to the gentleman to whom the Delegate was said to have employed the blackguard term Below i is the reply We beg our readers pardon F par-don for reproducing itand present as an excuse a desire that the good people of our neighbor Territory may know the kind of ° man who is seeking the honor of representing them in Con Q 1 gress What will be thought of a community com-munity which sends to the national legislature a man who will express himself him-self as Mr Dubois did to Mr Oldham HAILEY Idaho October15 JBoyalin Editor Idaho Democrat Dear SirIn reply to yours of the 13th inst I have to state that I met Mr Dubois at 8bosbone on the 6th and after a pleasant pleas-ant chat of a few minutes upon general topics he said without preface or other remark re-mark I All decent people are for me and alls all-s s of bs are against me I made no reply but turned away I afterward repeated his statement to a mu tual friend through whose instrumentality I presume Mr Jubols sought another interview inter-view with me in the course of which he excused himself for the statement by saying say-ing that he intended to include in the list of those opposed to him only Mormons and segregationists and that he meant no offense to me or any of his friends I told him that I took no ollense personally at all I next met Mr Dubois olse City when he said that he had a quarrel for me if I wanted one I told him that I wanted no quarrel with him He said that I hid repeated re-peated what he had said to me at Shoshone without giving his explanation of such I statement I told him that he had been misinformed that I had repeated his statement state-ment but had also carefully given his explanation ex-planation in full He then said I had no right to repeat such a statement in view of the personal fiiendshlp then existing between be-tween us I said Mr Dubois I am and have been always a personal friend of yoursbut am not your poliacal friend and I claim the right to repeat any political information in-formation you may impart This is the substance of all that has passed between us in regard to the matter and the statement that he made to me at Shoshone is given in his exact words while I have endeavored to do him full justice in his explanation So far as betraying his confidence in anyway any-way by repeating his explanation and statement state-ment concerned I have to say that my relations with Mr Dubois have never been so intimate that have given him any reason rea-son to suppose that I held him in any higher esteem than 1 held my allegiance to the Democratic partyYours Yours truly J B OLDHAM |