The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-12-16

ccme Tie arose IN his place. The
fiery tribune from Mississippi has
taken me flcori What for?' was
the whispered cry that pervaded the
galleries All eyes were fixed upon
him. an voices hushed and such a
flow of eioqucnce. in praise of the
dead statesman, was never belJre
heard in that nall The speech WAS
helalded an over the world and pro-
daccd in an tongues of the world
The orator ceased and the chamber
Ras silent as a mansoleum a holy
hflafnce suliused itself over the vast
assembly and for the first time ia
twenty years lhc peace OF God seemed
Ia pronounce igs blessed benison over
the congress oil the United Staiesl"
nut after good feeling was again
restored. after the north and the
south began 90 understand each other
be.ter-after the bitter days of re-
c.nstruc ion had passed, and "a por-
lion Of The citizenship OF the south
hed demonstrated its entire inability
to- exercise the political rights so Lave
iehly granted them, when the whole
south was groaning under the effects
OF this political system, and was
cropping biindly for some means of
oxtrication, it was again This noble
state of Mississippi through her CON
sutulion of 1880. that led the van
guard OF the southland. and furnished
model in legislation which nearly
every other southern state has close
Is copied.
And when that constitution was as
sailed in the congress of the United
States and when IFS constitutionality
was the scene of the fiercest debates
since the days of Clay, Calhoun and
Webster, g was The great constitu-
tional lawyer OF the nation. James y.
George. Of Mississippi IN his mcmor-
able three days speech hat held the
united att1ck OF the most celebrated
men IN the United States Senate at
bay and aved It's constitutionality for
the Xpectant and GREATNESS south.
Mr. President, &c is with popular
pride and pleasure that ! refer to
heroic part taken in the United States
Senate 10y Senator James =. George
because the distinguished gentlemen
whom / have the honor to nominate
for this greatest office in the gift
of ne people of a state Is a protese
and disciple Of that famous senator
10 was under his noble iutelGge
tEat Mr. Gore spent the years OF
youth and younger manhood Close
Ny associated with this noble cham
pion of the rights of the people
brought up in the home, the very
Mecca of all the down-.rodden and
oppressed, It is quite natural that he
should have early imbibed the prin-
uples and teachings Of the man whom
the nation, but Mississippi especially
delights 70 honor
Had ! never known histyonug man
hood, had ] never heard aught Of thcl
man himself | would iust him asl
J would a brother, from the mere fsc8
that he had been matured IN the home
Of and trained by one Of the mobiles
the most ruggedy honest the grea
es, of Mi.sissippi's long list OF grea
men.
This noble state being my mother
land it is indeed gratifying 10 know
Chat the lives of thesr ilustlb9us
men were not lived 10 vain. that
rhcir roity examples. lthesr superb
stGtesmanship has lef, IT'S inaellble
Impress upon following generations.
10 IS my pleasure 10 offer TO this as
semhly for election TO the highest
office within your GIT the name of
another one OF this great common
wealth, "a young man. If you please,
whose civic laurels, political achieve
ments and developed statesmanship
will not yield ia splendor to the
brightest chaplet that ever hlossomod
upon any mans brow
Gentlemen of the assembly: So for
have J spoken to show, by presump-
t'su. what manner at man it is,
bring 30 SO fm tis hin and 10.
sponsibie ciiice. but we do not have
10 go a. the realms of another state
10 find the history OF this man We
hEye him here in our midst and we
who know him know how deserving
be Is. not only OF the responsibility
We hope TO put upon him. but of any
responsibility in any land
While but q boy, eleven years old,
az page ia the Mississippi Sta,e Sen
ate, he lost the use of that oriAn OF
sense, that IS deemed most important
10 our existence. and most essential
10 our happiness I'm this world 1t
was here in this capacity that the
Hfe dream OF service TO his people,
In the highest deliberative body on
earth, took possession OF his soul
Eut though since the very incipiency
of that life dream he has been shad-
owed Ia a physical gloom deeper than
iho shades of Erebus. the mind of
tlis rem mrkable man has continued
b. grow deeper and keener and
nobler until Il stands almcst on the
pinnacle OF human endeayor
Ii d. law as deep as eternity and
as broad as the Universe itself that
nature, the an pervading eye OF
Providence. compenss.es the loss Of
any one of the physical sacGicies
Milton, sitting under the shadow Of
age gnd infirmity must lose his
earthly vision. ere he could, through
Me distant corridors of time, see the
impeneuable secrets of the Almighty
and breathe them ont ip verse that
shall thrill forever the human race,
and Beethoven could charm and thrill