The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-06-11
Blind Gore of Oklahoma


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was making a nlbusier. But all the
Whilc, he was speaking grea.ly
Be did hotkh6W whether 81 Was this
day or thai day. or dusk or dawn. he
s q blind man But his other skilled
senses surely caught the signs Of COM
|polled attention comprehension ami
appreciation.
And so, knowing that, even though
blind, be had done such q thing as no
new senator had done Before. Gore, 81
Oklahoma. delivered his peroration
and sank into his seat, certain that
some one Of the MALI dozen senator's
pledged TO relieve him would rise AMI
take up The fig4 he ictt off
Aud are you proud, gentlemea of
he democracy OF the senate that you
sat silent In your seats wnilc the IN
derstanding Of your cowardice drilted
back OF the darkness OF the eyes Of
3ore. of OBlanoma2
And do YOU think. gentlemen of the
majority. that the nen Of his coun
try who cast The votes and do the
work. viii be more kindly disposed to-
ward the followers Of an Aidrich an
Fairbanks because tney gagged Hey
garn. the western republican at the
moment he rose to stop the trick Of
four stealing away the work that .
blind man had wrought
OF course, the law Is the law. But
here WIN come n day OF reckoning fOg
lhe makers of some laws.
Now. It may be mere coincidence
nough we think Il consequence. But
when Gore. of Oklahoma, went away
from the cheat that he thought was
a triumph in the senate-when Aid
rich and Fairbanks "bilked a blind
nan-he went 70 a noted oculist In
Washington who had told Gore month
lgo that the knife might make him
able to see.
Gore laughed al me Idea then. ne
lad been blind 50 long that he did nos
feel needed any eyes eXcep
hose Of his wife But now he is IN
ne dark room Of a ashington hos
pital.
we are inclined 70 think that he s
lctuated by the wish 10 see just wh.t
IN Aldrich or a Fairbanks or tn dem
)crats who deserted him look like.
The North American watches tha
a
oklahoma is no novelty. We heard, |
i year ago, and told our readers then, |
IF the freakish thing that the newest |
state was about TO do, A boy, blind
rom his fifteenth year, talked dal
ifter day 10 mass meetings and asked /
ne people who heard him to send him |
o the senate OF tae niied States.
To us In the calm. conservative, So
late East, II seemed a circus SORT Of !
ning for a blind man to mount the |
stump and tell his fellow-citizens now
4 woman had come into his life and /
sver afler had been his eyes
We. IN the older civilizations grow
omewhat cynical SO when hte new
rude state sent Gore to ..s senate, we
bought that Oklahoma had foisted on
he nation a jeff Davis or a Varda-
man or Bloody Bride" Watts
merely because of sentimental sympa-
sAy with a blind man and a woman
ano had read TO him all the learning
hat has made him enlightened.
inc election OF Gore and the growth
1f Oklahoma we looked upon mercy
rs queer but inconslderable phases Of
0ational development All was freak
0sh and uncouth But now IN candoc,
iet It be said that the blind Westernec
las opened our eyes.
Whether he comes from the darl
room OF the hospital seeing the green
II things growing and the sold OF the
sunlight matters not, so far as his life
work IS concerned He may still re !.
IA the blackness to which he Is aC-
eustomed. VII. tnat one little wom
ans eyes his sole link with The thought
II the world None the less viii tnis
nan have done his work In world
made up OF
Neither children nor gods,
But men In world of men"
No more need be said Cores eyes
allied him once. once was wheN
he felt himself safe-w when, heaven
Knows, he should have felt safe, a sen
lior among senator's in his helpless
less and his greatness.
Surely that was the one time whom
bis Wife did not feel that she was
leeded. IL is not a pretty picture tod
keep In memory that our elder states
men gave 10 us last week.
But as for Gore. of Oklahoma, blind
OF seeing matters not The bond II
holds taui through all times
and an peoples over the rnounialns
and the rivers and the plains the mes.
sage OF toe East goes to Oklahoma:
Send back thls blind man 10 the
senate, American needs Americansl
Praise God! We've seen a man THIS
tay!'