Show Politicians Kept Waiting 1 as as os Gore Talks to Blind BY WALTER WALTER- J. J SLOAN One of the roost most t. t remarkable characters charac charac- In in in public life today is Thomas P Pryor-Goro Pryor United States States' senator S from Oklahoma This Il map n p who still lacks Jacks Jacksa a few months of being 38 8 years ears cars old olds is is rated as al ono ouo of the tho best campaign speakers of his party Fro From Maine to California tho the natho name of the senator from the tho youngest state in the tho union is is known despite the tho fact that be he is suffering with an affliction that hi is usually supposed to bar a man from taking part as a leader at least in any of tho great affairs of state Senator Gore Gor or is bUnd blind He Ee bas has been so 50 y youth lI lie TIo has little hope of ever eor recovering recovering- recovering his his eyesight des despite te the tho aid of t the tho e greatest rr ates in world A And lind nd yet et this man man though de denied do- do nied ono one of the tho greatest of natures nature's gifts to man has risen to the tho hi highest hest office o within the gift ft of a 11 state For be beit beit beit it known t that at this man was nominated for th the nigh high office of United States StateR senator in state primaries and carried those primaries by a plurality of lof nearly I votes In Iu spite of his affliction Senator Gore is acknowledged to bo be one of the best posted men on many of the important important import import- ant things of tho the nation at the present time As a campaigner ho bo draws thousands thousands thou thou- sands to his meetings s. s Thoy They como come partly to see tho the man who though blind could rise to the h high h office of a United States senator Those same panic thousands leave the tho meeting forgetting that theman theman the tho thoman man who addressed them is blind They have bave heard beard only the orator and his arguments ar ar- ments and have havo for forgotten otten all else Wife Constant Attendant Senator tor Gore is f fortunate in havin having havinga a wife and dau daughter who love ove him above all aU else on earth The Tho senators senator's wife is his constant companion It is she who reads to him who opens his hia mail and his tele telegrams rams Leading men of Do a aa city or state may take the tho sepa- sepa tor tot in hand a as their gue guest t but Mrs Mr Gore Gorc is his constant attendant and the I I senator seems to feel that when his wife is is near him ho be is sure that he will not speak too lon long nor miss his next en en- The dau daughter of ot S Senator and Mrs n Gore Goro is not only one ono of the greatest travelers in the country for her age but she is a little brick as a campaigner campaigner campaigner cam cam- for her ber father Nina ina ina is barely 5 years old but if anyone wants to know who her father is he ho has only to ask Lil Like e a flash comes the answer in a a. childish voice oice voice One Ono of the United States senators from Oklahoma Miss Nina is the tho youn youngest est of two children born to Senator and Mrs rs Gore The eldest a boy died in infancy The blind senator delivered an address address address ad ad- dress in Ogden last night It was one oue of the tho wittiest political speeches over ever made in Utah and at the tho same time it was punctuated with a whole lot of Continued on pa page c 2 I i I POLITICIANS I r I Continued Continual from pa page 1 good god sound argument Rr for the success B of the Democratic part party Arrives In Ogden Tho The senator accompanied b by br his hism trifo m and d daughter u arrived in Ogden at 0 o'clock clock in the afternoon lie He was met jnet at tho the depot by br State Chairman Martineau National Nation l Committeeman Frank C. C C. C Richards S S. S S. S Smith and other members of tho the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic party part from Salt SaIt Lake and aDd O Ogden Before bein being whirled to tho the fair fairgrounds fairgrounds grounds in an automobile Senator Gore said I I r believe e that Bryan and Kern will willbe willbe willbe be elect elected d. d I sac pay this after liter having ins visited a 3 number of the states of the union since in e the Denver convention and after acter getting in touch with tho the party leaders There Thero is a i Bryan Tan wave wa sweep sweep- in ing over the country from one end to the theother other and nd I I Ido do not believe that i it t ea eta be 00 stopped What What about Governor Go Haskell and his retirement from the national committee com com- W was S asked That is a subject on which I r am amnot not DOt informed except from newspaper reports which o havo been becu read to me mo Governor Haskell is a very cry popular man manin manin manin in bur state and I have havo no doubt that ho lie will be able to clear himself of an any char charges es reflecting on h his character that may havo hayo been brou brought ht against him Must See Blind Students s Ono of the tho features of Senator Gores Gore's visit isit to Ogden was the reception which ho received at tho the fair grounds by nearly twenty blind students young amen men and women of the state institution tion tion for the deaf dumb and blind It Itu ItI u I iwas Pas a touching meeting as the blind boys and aud girls were introduced to the blind senator 1 Members of f tho the reception committee wore Nero ere urging him to take the platform I Iere i gaud and address tho the waiting hundreds as his Lis time was short in in the city but there thero was a fellow w feeling a touch of nature that was greater than the tho call of the cO committee greater than tho the waiting crowd It was the tho desire for tho the l i lego of shaking hands with those who were as unfortunate as the senator and for the opportunity of leaving them thorn a word ord and au an example of encouragement to brighten their dark lives lies No committee e nor crowd on earth could uld havo have hurried this blind man when hen ho he knew that the blind students of a state school chool wanted to meet him It was not a case of putting out his hand and arid lettin letting each one shake it He wanted to Know now tho the name of each student etu- etu dent for each he had a word of cheer a word that will livo live with tho the student throughout life It was a pathetic little scene the scene the man who had bad risen to one of the greatest offices of the world shaking hands with his bis fellow men and women afflicted as he was Politics are Forgotten There was no politics in in that little meeting It was not a United States senator who was ae greeting them them only a man maD as unfortunate as those who were werl grasping his hand Just a touch of human nature that's AU all but it was waa a touch that will last Jast l throughout hout life with those who had the pleasure of witnessing the thc little scene Following tho the meeting of the tho senator and the students the senator was es es- totted to a platform on tho the midway of the Bi Big Four county fair in progress at Ogden It was a poor place to ask Mk a man to speak but the wisdom of the members of the Weber county committee commit commit- tee W was admitted d. d Senator Gore had less Jess than two hours to spend in O Ogden den and thero there was no other place lace where as man many people could bo be collected at that time as ae at lit tho the fair grounds Proves Himself Campaigner Senator Senator Gore Core was Wll introduced by State Chairman L L. L R R. R De Democratic for candidate con congress gross from Utah DurA Dur Dur- A ing nJ the next fort forty minutes ho proved that he was a campaigner of the first water He did not attempt to make any os oxe t ne neo o argument on any of of- the plea pIes of the party of which ho bo is an ex ex- Rather Father he be seemed to fire his shots as from a thirteen inch inch gun Then I I he told a story to illustrate his point I Members re of both of the national parties partie who heard tho the address said it was ono of the most pO pointed and wittiest that had ever been delivered in Utah Senator Sena Sena- to tor said in part Jokes With Audience I ask the people of Utah to vote for lor my friend Martineau for congress 1 And I promise you ou that if you elect eject him himi I I I. I ns us a member of tho the senate will vote voto with him bim for the interest of the great greal state of Utah But if he is not elected I believe that I will wW vote ote to move si at least two of the Utah state tate institutions to O Ogden den the prison and the insane insane in in- in- in sane asylum We I We Democrats ts believe o In in tho the elec elec- I tion of United States senators b by direct di direct iii- iii reet vote of the tho people anti and have havo BO so ant an announced pounced in our national platform any man who believes in that principle is is a Democrat and any man nian who docs does not believe o in iu in it is a Republican Just a a. word or two to you Republicans cans of Utah If you rou are arc loyal Joyal to your our our state and tho the nation you TOU s should havo o avo your candidate for congress tl sign n a state statement ment that he under no consideration either cither publicly or in a n. committee will vote yoto for Joe Cannon tannon for speaker of tho the next house home of representatives in in tho event e that the tho Republicans control that branch of tho legislative body Joseph J Cannon is an enemy of ot organized organized or or- labor and any man who votes for him is an enem enemy of organized la- la la a- a bor On Campaign Funds Fluids II Why Vh did not tho the Republicans put in their national platform a pIa plank uk favoring favor favor- favoring in ing the publication of tho the campli campaign n funds For Por tho the simple reason that the they knew that without a corruption fun fund they ha had no hopes of carrying carr this election That and that alone alono is wh why the Republican national convention com turned down tho the proposition Four years ago Edward II IT Irani man since designated atM by br Mr Mr Ir Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt as an undesirable citizen and nd a aI I member of or the tho Ananias club was Pas asked to raise something like liko Another railroad man was asked to raise Do you think that this money was raised without a promise on ou the part of tho the party part that asked for it that the donors would get rot returns urns f You J know DOW tho stor- stor story You Lou know that the railroads of this country that helped to raise rai that campaign fund are arc getting three times what thoy they should for carrying tho the United States mail And you vou know that practically er c every case that has been filed against the leading leadin railroad companies of tho country country country coun coun- try for violation of tho law has either cither been boen dismissed or has las never como come to trial On Money Matters The Tho senator proceeded to tako a few hot shots at the Republican party anent tho the recent panic after l ter which he took up tho the Aldrich bill as passed b by tho the last congress Ho declared it was a b bill 11 providing for neither gold l nor silver but buta a scheme to foist on tho the people a money that had bad no backing Senator Gore next took up tho the question question ques ques- tion of the tho guarantee bank clause e of the tho Democratic national platform and aud argued argued argued ar ar- ar- ar gued that the tho United States compelled every err national bank bauk to make mako a guarantee guar guar- antee anteo before it would issue currency to tho bank hank Why ho argued d. d should not the bank guarantee o its depositors forthe forthe for the tho money moncy they placed in tho the keeping of tho the bank banki address Senator Senator Sen- Sen As 50 soon on as ns ho bo closed his ator Goro was hurried back to tho the do- do pot in in an automobile and took n a train for the tho east Senator Goro Gore is billed to speak in Evanston and two other places in Wyoming today after which ho willo will go o to Omaha and then to his homo home state |