| Show DREW ON HIS 1 IMAGINATION K Senator Dubois Denies the T bime Correspondents Statement IT IS ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE vmTE AND PnTTIGREV NOT T THE IDAHO DELEGATION Tn the Senate Restaurant When Sweet Declared He Vould With drarr From the Senatorial Race Unless dominated By the State Convention Kelly Disputes Shoups Word The Situation Unchanged Un-changed Washington D C Dec 25 Special Spec-ial Regarding the telegraphed story in Fridays Tribune Senator Dubois said tonight In this matter the Tri Tjunes correspondent seems t < have drawn on his imagination as there is absolutely no truth in the statement that White and Fettiffrew were with the Idaho delegation in the Senate r restaurant when Sweet declared that he would withdraw from the senatorial senator-ial race unless nominated by the state Convention The Tribune correspondent correspon-dent came to us when my secretary brought down the telegram but there was no discussion regarding candidates or about the telegram Sweet Shoup aind I had fully decided on the advisability advis-ability of sending a telegram in the Senate chamber and there Sweet and I toad gained Shoups consent that his name should be affixed The subject was not one that we cared to discuss again and that is why we said nothing about it in the Senate restaurant I am confident that even Senator Shoup will uphold me in this statement Another man has disputed Shoups i word This time it is Mr Kelly Sweets room mate whom Shoup quad t qua-d in his letter Kelly said to The Herald correspondent tonight I am sorry Shoup has brought me into this controversy because I am Sweets room mate and therefore am supposed io be in his confidence Havin contden Having no res VjWence in Idano I cm not especially sijoncerned in its politics although I claiming it as a privilege t be nicely acquainted with the Idaho delegation I Sweet ntver told me he would not be a candidate for the Senate and at i r time did I ever remotely intimate Senator Shoup or any one else that I te had Sweet was disappointed be u Shoup and his friends did not support the senatorial resolution at the eonxentiem He thought Shoups opposition op-position to The resolution and support of McConnell acts of bad faith and that they 1inade his senatorial fight der I always understood Sweet was a candidate and that he counted en Shoups active support Shoup re peiaedly told me that it was his chief derire that Sweet should succeed him Shoup never repeated to me any interview in-terview regarding the senatorial situation sit-uation supposed to be had between i himself and Sweet Regarding Shoups charge that Sweet and I contemplated I going 1 Kew York to practice law I am not a lawyer and never anticipated practicing I might have made some F I byplay about Jaw practicing in New I Tork being more profitable than holding t hold-ing a congressional scat But Sweet T always told me that if defeated forte for-te Senate he would settle down in Idaho and again practice law The I statement as made is utterly without foundation in fact I |
