Show OWEN AND GORE GORf Y Two Brilliant Men Will Represent Represent Represent sent Oklahoma in United States Senate BOTH STRONG DEMOCRATS FEW VOTES FOR MINORITY CAN CANDIDATES CANDIDATES CANDIDATES Guthrie Okla Dec Dee 10 The Oklahoma ma legislature today In separate ses session session sion lon voted for two United States sen senators senators senators the first to represent the new newstate newstate state slate in the national congress The legislature is overwhelmingly Demo Democratic Democratic Democratic cratic and the two Democrats who had been named in the primaries Robert Latham Owen and Thomas Pryor Gore were elected Charles G Jones Tones and Clarence Clarenc B Douglass received the com complimentary complimentary complementary vote of ot the Republicans Tomorrow In Joint session the formal vote will be taken Vote in senate senator Gore and Owen 39 Jones Tones and Douglass 4 The vote in the house stood as fol follows follows follows lows Owen and Gore 89 Douglass and Jones Tones 18 IS absent two taro Democrats Owen of Indian Blood Senator Owen was born at Lynch Lynchburg Lynchburg burg burgr Va Feb 24 1856 He is 15 of ot ancestry with a mixture of Cherokee Indian blood His father Robert Owen was w s a distinguished con confederate confederate confederate federate soldier and later became pres president president president ident of the Virginia Tennessee rail railroad railroad railroad road The senators mother was wa a daughter of Chisholm the tho last hered hereditary hereditary hereditary war chief of the Cherokee nation Senator Owen was educated at Wash Washington WashIngton Washington ington and Lee LM university Since 1879 ho he has practiced law in Indian Terri Territory Territory Territory tory President Cleveland appointed him Indian agent for tor the Five Civil Civilized Civilized Civilized Tribes He has been active in the political affairs of the tho territory Senator Gore Blind Senator Gore has the double distinction distinction distinction tion of being the first blind member of the United States senate and of be being beIng being ing the youngest man in that body being only 37 years old His sight Bight was destroyed in childhood when he was a page in the senate of Mississippi his native state At ot that time he was boarding In the home of United States Slates Senator J T Z George and It is said these associations first inspired him with the dream of some day being a United States senator which has been his lifes lItes ambition He was educated al Cumberland university at Lebanon Tenn He has great oratorical ability and in the last two national campaigns his services were called for in many western states He is a lawyer of note Minority Candidates The Republicans cast their votes for forRon Hon Ron Charles G Jones Tones of Oklahoma City and from Oklahoma county count and Clarence B Douglass from Muskogee editor of the Muskogee Phoenix The TIle former led the theft fight ft ht for tor a union of the two territories into one state spending much time in Washington while congress was In ses session session session sion the last six years He was ably assisted by Mr MI Douglass both through his paper and at Washington |