Show WHAT FREDDY SAYS I He Has Not Received a Solitary Personal Pledge BUT I SHALL BE ELECTED Candidates for Office as Numerous as the Flowers That Bloom In the Spring General Business Good BOISE CITY Idaho Nov 26 1S90 Special correspondence of THE HERALD Discussion of the prospective Senator ship has not been active this week Governor Gov-ernor Shoup has been absent from his office almost continually on account of I sickness there have been few arrivals of arrivas members of the legislature and the new state officials are too busy to talk There is some debate on the question whether the Democratic members will take part in the contest but the belief is that they will not A careful classification of the legislative membership shovs that if the north Idaho men stand firm for one Senator they will win as the Republican delegation from the II southern portion ofthe state does not constitute I stituto a majority of the whole body But I the north Idaho men have two candidates and this fact is a source of weakness i Fred Dubois said a week ago to a per sonalfriend of THE HERALD correspondent I have not asked or received from a single member of the legislature personal pledge to vote for me and I do not need to I understand the situation perfectly I shall certainly be elected This was not said in a boastful tone or like a man bracing up a failing cause by large claims but the exDelegate spoke as if ho believed all he said The basis of this is that he has laid his men under such obligations obliga-tions through the distribution of federal patronage that they are in honor bound to promote the one great ambition of his life I find on inquiry that he has a basis for this claim but it does not seem to mo that there is enough in it to justify his confidence con-fidence Candidates for offices within the gift of the executive and of the legislature are here in liberal numbers and are demonstrating demon-strating their fitness for the positions to which they aspire by generous and frequent fre-quent invitations to proper persons to step in and take something Others have so unsuccessfully grappled with the tiger that the obtaining of the positions which they desire is now a matter of serious necessity ne-cessity lime general business ana growtn 01 tan town this fall surpasses all expectation Statistics will be prepared for THE HERALD in due time I am informed that one of pur brickmakers has already contracted for delivery in 1S91 an amount of brick equal to the full capacity of his plant |