Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-11-25
OKLAHOMA'S BLIND
SENATOR A MAN
Of POWER
DEEP ENTHUSIASM
AMONG HIS CONSTITUENTS
MuSkogee Working Hard for
the Restoration of Her
Water Course to the Stand
ard of Sixty Years Ago.
hi MIN q.


the meetings are attended.
The auditorium seats 1000 people
the meetings have been called every
morning at 8 o'clock, and taken up
promptly on the minute and by 10
O'Clock every seat has been filled.
The morning sessions seldom have
broken up before 1890, and the after
noon sessions are called at ? and last
until 6, and tonight it was 6:4O when
the meeting was adjourned and we
met again at 8 p. m. and adjourned at
1890.
such a pace is seldom seen in such
meetings n for this reason a letter
on yesterdays work could not be
thought Of.
At yesterdays session the event of
the day was the address of the blind
senator Gore. Seldom have / seen
such an enthusiastic reception. such
genuine, hearty regard for a public
mar as these people bear to this man,
who has never seen the face of a sin
gle one Of his constituents
As he passed down the center aisle
of the hall, leaning on the arm of
Senator owen, the speaker who was
addressing the crowd was stopped by
the d of applause that swept across
the great audience.
Everybody rose to their feet, cheer
ing n clapping and stood until the
two senators were seated on the stage.
In person the second of the new
states senators is a slender, grey
haired man of some As or so years. A
kindly face, smooth and mobile. eyes
looking into vacancy, a fine head with
wavy iron-gray hair, active in move
ment. graceful in gesture.
While he sat waiting for the chair
man TO introduce him he eaved back
and forth after the manner of blind
people, leaning on his cane.
His voice Is pleasing and resonant
and carried to every corner Of the
great hall.
In his speaking Senator Gore seldom
or never smiles. His face is abs0-
Iutely ~unmovable. His address isl
quiet and dignihed. his words simple
and well chosen. and If he does grow
humorous his face never changes,
though his audience is In a roar.
Evidently he doesn't mean TO build
a great navy by his vote, for he said
In speaking OF IT,: I'D rather build
reservoirs han battleships; dig bitches
than soldiers graves"
Every word he uttered was listened
to with the deepest interest by all
and IL is cas- to see how he has won
his way into the hearts of these warm
hearted southerners.
Oklahoma Is certainly well started
OF with its new senator's, and they
viii both be men OF more than ordin-
airy interest ana power III the senate
Gore from his blindness and owen
from his Indian blood.
Gore is the pacifier and owen the
fierce. passionate fighter of the two.
OF course, the great point these peo-
pie here are after in this convention
before all others Is the appropriation
of money by congress for making the
Arkansas river from here TO the Mis-
souri, deep enough for boats"
How many OF us know that Musko-
gee lies at the junction of h Arkan-
sas, the Verdigris and the Grand
rivers
That here in 1907 the federal gov
eminent placed a fort, Fort Gibson,
where ever since has been a port2
That for sixty years steam boats
came up from below regularly with
supplies for the port and the country
all about here,
All his was new to me. The river
even now is used by a small steamer
which carries freight weekly wen
with the poor condition of the river.
Now they want the channel dredged
out, snags removed and their water
way restored.
Even with the present small boats it
costs only 65 cents a ton to hau a
ton of coal from Muskogee 10 New or
leans by water, while by rail- II Is
S3.00 per ton.
II they don't get the appropriation
from congress 1t won't be because they
don't ask and work for it,.
Prince Active for statehood.
Among the very first resolutions, in
fact the very first One introduced and
passcd by the congress. was n by
Governor Prince. asking for statehood
New Mexico.
The second was asking that the pro-
Visions Of the Carey act. relative TO
large irrigation projects. be made ap-
nlicabIe TO the territories a. well as
The states. This, Governor Prince eX-
planned. was an oversight on the part
Of senator Carey. the author Of the
act. and on this explanation IL was
quickly passed.
Hundreds OF resolutions Of every
pnSsible character and view have been
introduced and when the house gets
To work at them there will be some
lively times.
This win be especially true o. one
Or two financial measures. one thing
which impresses one here. among 50
many democrats, is the universal es-
TEEN and love for President RooSc-
Welt. Man after man speaking OF him
declares himself a lifelong democrat
a confederate soldier. almost al
WAYS southern born and yet they can
sound his praises too high nor
pay him 90 great tribute
Cheers follow every mention OF his
old Major Hill. of Tennessee.
, Confederate veteran. tall. command +,
.ng and a typical gentleman % the /,
I'D school OF southern gentlemen, f,
-oused the house To- the widest en- ,
by his tribute to Rooseveit's
greatness g
democrat though am. Hin said. +
"a Confederate soldier 20 boot. yet ] /.
an proud and happy 20 stand here :
and say hat We In Tennessee .
in him the greatest American. the :
highest patriot hat ever sat In the \
house.
And Major Hill was but one OF I,
nty equally southern. equally noted .
nd equally sincere and p~roluse I'm this
to the president 4,
THE Booker Washington matter does =
.of seom 90 have ranked IN the south !.
In haeom very much nor long. 4
Evey senator who spoke We'd with +.
he one before him in his words 81 :
senator owen senator Gore. 7
stone Of Missouri eN-Gov- y
rnor Adams Of Colorado. Governor
OF Missouri. each Of them D
dded to the tribute a
Another thing noticeable was the n
following the names 81 "
prominent men.
Roots name awoke a hearty cheer
4 wave % applause for some v
while the name Of Bryan =