Show AN OVERRATED POLITICIAN The inside history of the repeal of the purchase clause of the Sherman act presents many curious things Among them Is the part taken by Senator Sen-ator Fred Dubois During the fight when he was popping up with remarkable remark-able frequency and was apparently the leader of the silver forces the people of the west and of Utah especially began to look upon him with much interest They believed there was more to him than had appeared at first sight But the fact Is affirmed that Fred was simply sim-ply acting as the mouthpiece of the silver men The ideas he set forth the counsels he offered ens defiances he hurled at the opposition the threats that the silver men would talk the bill to death if it took all winter were not his The only things that were his words were the words in which he conveyed the thoughts he had been chosen to utter The throwing of Dubois Into the breach was a very sharp device on the part of Teller and other silver man Dubois is one of the youngest of their number He has in him a great deal of vital energy and therefore could stand the strain of staying in his seat Being thoroughly schooled in the things that the others wanted him to do they felt perfectly safe in leaving him in charge of the field Again they were not very anxious to make themselves the mark of the malicious ma-licious shafts that were directed against the silver men by the gcldite press They were quite willing to rest content with the knowledge thai they were in reality the powers in control They were quite willing too that Dubois Du-bois should get whatever glory might attach to the office of spokesman for the silver wing of the Republican side Therefore he was placed in the position posi-tion This we learn was almost wholly an idea of Tellers In fact Teller has made a sort of protege of Dubois Not that the Idaho man Is without brains In the Senate he found himself him-self in deep water as soon as he entered en-tered the chamber It is true he met men who were not so bright as himself him-self But when Dubois is sized up beside such men as Gorman Jones of Nevada Sherman Allison Aldrich Mills Vest Morgan Turpie Voorhees and others he cuts about the same figure as Gulliver in Brobdignag But Dubois has done some good work in the Senate and should be given full credit for it However he is no orator When he arises to speak he begins to swayback sway-back and forth like a schoolboy speaking speak-ing a piece Then he generally talks in a monotone with rising inflection at every comma and period suggestive of recitation day at school He is not a deep thinker on olItIcal economy He is rather a politician anxious always for the main chance and generally doing that which he believes be-lieves will help him with his own con stitutency He has taken rank among that class who are paying a great deal of attention to the machine But as a legislator on the great public Questions he is not a shining success He is rather inclined to let his leaders do the thinking and hold himself ready to help them carry through their schemes If Sweet is elected Dubois stands some chance for return to the Senate If Shoup takes the cake there will be no further senatorial slice for Dubois |