The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-10-19

THE BLIND ORATOR OF oKLARo.
MA HERE LAST NIGHT.
Addressed the People at City Hall
Came Unannounced but Was Greet.
ed by Good crowd-Oemocrats
viii Win by $4,000 Votes.

State Senator Thomas I. Gore OF
Lawtoa. known as the blind orator
of Oklahoma, addressed the people OF /
Ardmorc last night at the city hall
lie came unannuuuccd and very few
people knew of his presence in the
city. However every available seat
in the hall was occupied ana many /.
people stood and listened to the |
speech throughout Senator Gore was
accompanied from his hotel by r. T. .
Turner. chairman of the Democratic
central committee. Mayor Dick intro.
duccd the speaker as one of the great.
est orators of the new state. The
speaker began with the statement that
he had long desired To address the
Democrats of Ardmorc and regretted
that he was forced to make his visit
unannounCod. He said ArdmOrc IS
the Mecca OF Democracy and that
there is no good Democrat who can
not afford to make pilgrimage %
this town. He termed Ardmore Che
political Pool of Bethesda" where
one might come. bathe and be whole
again. Ardmore is the ieweled crown
of the new state and the state the ON
press of the Union.
To the Republicans he said: IF
YOU have come here expecting to be
vilifcd. YOU will go away disappoint-
ed have great faith in American
citizens, no matter to what party they
belong"
The speaker referred to the speeches
made i'm the famous campaign be-
tween Douglas and Lincoln, and show.
of today is not the Republican party
of yesterday.
| lie said: In the days of Lincoln
the Republican party Joined by the
antislavery element of the north and
south, rose in its might and struck
/ the shackles from the feet of four
million slaves, while the Republican
party Of today has instituted CONNER
clal slavery and centralized wealth
Favoritism Is today the body and sodl
of the Republican party, is made
up in part by bondholding aristoc
racy The Democratic party stands
today for the same principles it stood
for i'm the beginning"
Senator. Gore then stated that he
was once "A Pop, and while a member
Of that party, he fought its battles as
valiantly as he could. After follow.
ing the Populist party to its grave,
he turned about in search Of party
with which to connect himself tie
then gave his reason for joining The
Democratic party. Some of the pa
pers throughout the country, he said,
were showing remarkable judgment
i'm selecting literature and were Civ.
ing publication to a Pop. speech OF
his made in Dallas twelve years ago
lie said he had followed Bryan in two
glorious defeats and that he would
follow him i'm a glorious victory in
1905.
Coming back to the local situation,
Mr.. Gore stated that ne had been in
this campaign since the 29th of June
that he had gone from one end Of the
country to the other and that he be,
Iicved Democracy would win i'm the
territory by 10000 to $4,000 votes aud
that the Democrats would control Che
constitutional convention by a major
.ity Of from twelve to twenty dele.
gates.
In referring TO the inconsistency of
the Republican party he said that In
some districts they We're demanding
separate schools and coaches and in
others were nominating negroes to
help write the constitution. The Re
publicans i'm Oklahoma maintained
mixed schools i'm that fair land fo'
twelve years, and for two years after
|tha law had been passed p,ovidinl
toy separate schools The incorpcra
ton Of the separate school plank ID
the Republican platform is for the pur
pose of holding the weak.kneed Re
{ publlcars in line, and the Republicans
/, can never be trusted to insert sucl
provisions In the constitution.
He referred TO the times when th'
s Republican party in Oklahoma stoo'
! for separate statehood and when th'
, Republican orators of that countr,
. travelled from one end of the countr.
, to the other, pouring out their vitriol
! ic vials Of yituperation upon the dc
fenseless heads of Indian TerritOr
people They asserted at that tim'
, that there were only two highway