Show I I DUBOIS FLATTERED I C EN AT OK POI rOI POINDEXTER DEXTER must have havo been affected b by v capital pital tal city humidity when he supposed 1 t that that Fred T T. T Dubois of Idaho was as in Vash Washington in inthe in 1 the interest of Western e tern industries or anything other 1 1 1 than Dubois himself The former Idaho senator is t i not interested in the tariff ho is not opposing frecIe free Ie- Ie 1 wool o l' l lr or or r free sugar He TIe cares cares' nothing at t all aU about the f ine inevitable lable effect of Democratic policies upon the tle pros pro prosperity I of tlc the w west vest st st. Dubois is in Washington attending 1 1 to o the busine business p that has occupied his attention ever er 1 since the state of Idaho purified itself by br retiring a him himas I as its representative o in the United States Senate Senate Senate-an an t. t effort to get a n 1 Job Hob 1 1 L A special from r Washington ashington recites with much 1 wealth of detail 1 that Senator Poindexter went before I this the inquisitorial committee and admitted that lief he had hod I. I been m misinformed when he lie characterized Dubois as a af ai i 1 f tariff lobb lobbyist The reason for this removal of the ther 1 1 r Stain stain on oil the Dubois character according to the crar veracious vera vcra- r rious dous correspondent I II was the threat of the latter that I i he would woul hold Poindexter personally responsible intimating inti inti- t mating u n personal encounter l Poindexter oin exter with the thc 1 I truth clearly before him hint of tho the old sa in saying that one i cannot touch pitch without becoming defiled closed 1 1 the incident L by making the demanded c explanation I The t W Washington r a a hington iu senator in accusing Dubois of I being a tariff tahI lobbyist who was opposing the thc tariff bill because of it its effect upon Idaho industries was pa paying ing Dubois a hi hilt i compliment The Tlc inference that he lie way was wat t actually trying to perform a public service endeavor endeavor- endeavoring 1 do something for Idaho other than I ing int to or disgracing 1 it was as e extremely tramel p flattering an and it displays s the Poin Pout I 1 dexter i ignorance of the Dubois character Dubois never hover displayed nay any energy for any Jn hut but J himself hi his business in Washington is to get et a job I ho he has hns nothing else in mind and never had lad anything I 1 else in min mind If Senator Poindexter had accurately 3 1 gauged his hiE intentions in his mistaken supposition t 1 1 that ho lie 10 was a tariff lobbyist it would he be the first I time on record that l Dubois ever cr tried to fo be of real I t service serice service to ally cause that was worth worthy of Ot support i 1 l Ol t. t I |