| Show OI LAHOMA D IS SELECT A A MAN hAN fOR roi fiRST So SENATOR GUTHRIE Okla Okia June Jun 18 returns from the Democratic primaries last lest week show that T T. P. P Gore a blindman blind Wind Windman blindman man man was nominated ted for one of the two United States from the new State of Oklahoma Nomination is equivalent to election Mr Gore has been since be he was 11 years old when be he accidentally shot his ri right ht eye out with an arrow run gun n. n At that time he was a page in rn the thc Mississippi Mis Mis- Senate Three years before a playmate while in a a. boyish bolish passion had blinded his left with eye wIth a a. stone Gore has won laurels in in politics and S the law A ra page e at 11 nominee for th the Legislature at 19 Populist elector elector-at- large in Mississippi three years yeara later latet unanimously selected in m 1900 for Con- Con standard standard hearer bearer by the same party in Texas exas while absent in South Dakota for th the fusion ticket tic such suli u h is th the p political hi history ory of Thomas Pr Pr-or Pr r Gor Gore Gor But alws vs s lie IH was dlf defeat nt- nt cd od He held office since liis liik never ne p page page- ge ship He stump speeches peechEs in in Oklahoma and has been aC in jn all campaigns n since he went there Gores character is best portrayed by three instances When told by his his' father father fa father fa- fa ther th that t he must prepare to attend a 6 school hool for the blind he re I HI will go o to school here in Mississippi Misais- Misais sippi A blind school will furnish neither neither nei nei- ther th the books nor the opportunity I seek And he did Charles Pitman read his books to him in the normal school and he be took first honors in his class T. T L. L Lamb was was- his amanuensis in the law school both being bein graduated r at the same time All through the nOrmal school and university memory was wasy y young ung Gores Gore's reliance That acute Mute memory nemory emory defeated Congressman Con Con- gressman Money now now nowa a a. United Stat States s Senator benator from Mississippi Th The Congressman Con gressman was to speak in n a small rural town Mr Gore 20 and blind bUnd requested a division of time Mr Ur Money who had heard of him r rudely dely replied replied- I I I will will speak as long as ael I please you rou are at liberty to do the same samen He harangued the voters for three hours hours never dreaming ming that young Gore would woula reply The younger man waited patiently until his time and then enter enter- tamed the he rui rural l crowd for four hours He quoted the Con Congressional Record page by by pa page of his celebrated d a tag ruSt ridiculed him unmercifully Atthe At Atthe Atthe the close the thoroughly enraged Congressman Conre Con Con- gressman re remarked If you were not blind 1 would debatt debate de de- de bate batt with you yon in another w way y Came ne the reply C Congressman hi blindfold yourself and march Out ut But th the challenge went unheeded His first forensic effort of a le legal al na nature nature ture hue was the defense of his his' friend Smith charged with murder At that time Mr Gore was attending law school Hearing that his neighbor and friend was in sen serious us trouble trou ble his he wrote J I I trust st I may defend him He is too n be to have murdered murder d anyone The same day young Gore wrote this letter the boy boy- in jail h had d said to the father of that student Youn Young Tom must Speak for me His Hip el eloquence will save me nIl An And it did S u |
