Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-11

OF n Blind would hardly seem
U. :. Senator adapted Tor modern po-
litical life, yet one 30
AFFLICTED has fought through three ex-
citing campaigns and has just been
elected United States senator from
oklahoma The blindness OF Thomas
Pryor Gore was caused by two painful
accidents. At eight boy playmate
injured his left eye with n stone; three
years later he himself shot n toy ar
row into the other. When his father
suggested his attenting school for the
blind, he declared. 81 will so to school
here. a school for the blind Will furnish
neither the books nor the opportunity
seek" Events justified his choice, he
gained the highest honurs there and
at law school and college. At ~ no
WAS nominee for the Legislature; at 70,
populistic delegate at-large I'm Missis-
sippi. and was unanimously selected III
1900 as congressional standard-bearer
for the same party In Texas. He owes
his success to his power as an orator.
His memory Is remarkable. 1t Is record
ed that Mt a meeting with an opposition
speaker Senator Money-Gore asked
for q division of time. Disregarding
his youth and blindness, Money replied:
II will speak as long as | please; You
are at liberty to do the same For
three hours he harangued, thinking to
exhaust Cores patience. The latter
patiently bided his time, and then Tor
four hours more entertained the howl
ingly appreciative audience. Page after
page of the Congressional Record lie
quoted from memory--quotations that
filed his antagonist with rage, but
stripped him of every defense. NOW
Cores opponents realize that he Is
not n man to be tampered with or ig-
nored. His career in the senate VIII
be worth watchins.--The Delineator.
Ideal State What we style denom-
And Worship inationalism is thus
In the Family. kept out Of sight. II
Is not allowed to di-
vide men in their worship of God ii
does not advertise itself by bullulhg
six churches where only one is needed,
or by maintaining theological schools
where an equipment adequate for the
training of five hundred students is
squandered on fifty. 1t may be that II
another Thomas More were TO dream
today of an ideal state, he would see
the family invested with even larger
significance for worship than 1t had III
the old Utopia. He might indeed see
the opposite of what we now behold,
when the home Is being emptled OF It's
religious character aud the church 10
largely regarded as the sole channel Oh
worship. 1t might appear to him IN
his dream that the hottest place IN
the community was not that where the
gospel was officially proclaimed, puN
rather that where parents ana chlluren
welcomed each new day with siau
hymn of praise, and in the evening
twilight blended their voices in thanks
giving to God.--The Rev. q. ii. Gil
bert in the April Atlantic.
Nothing changes 50
Tho JopicaI quickly as American
Candidates. politics, unless II be
.sDark Horser the weather. Nor is
there anything in ma
tional politics SO Illogical as that eN-
preston which so many times mas
| been conscripted into service, the logl-
cal candidate" There have been many
logical candidates" before the assem-
bling of presidential conventions, but
usually the logic OF them has dissolved
inst at the precise moment when the
conventions were called upon to nomi-
mite their choice. Accident, Comprom-
Use fotuitous circumstances, blended
with adroit wire pulling, have usually
been the deciding factors. This Is why
the ozark horse" is as much part
of skirrnishes for presidential nomi-
nations as the logical candidate.
Both have become Indispensable to u
really proper presidential campaign; II
either the one or the other was MISS
ing. there would be something strange
" wrong in the managing OF these
ouadrennial contests They would lack
native color, and, moreover. would be-
insufferably tame, which is thing tnat
the American public cannot tolerate
In the struggle now under way Tor
presidential nominations, an unusual
number of logical candidates are IN
evidence on the Republican side, whlle
the Democratic has at least several. A
wear ago President Roosevelt was hail
ed as he still is by his inveterate and
numerous admirers, as the logical sue
cessor of himself" Evidently Presi-
dent Roosevelt decided that the logic
in his case was being too much over
worked, for he finally, and definitely
renounced all desires to occupy the
White House for another four years.
and took pains to discourage his too
ardent followers from further cam
paigning In his behalf. This rather Ell
fectiVely cleared the way for the bound
ing into the arena of various logical
candidates" and respectable quota
of dark horses" As for the Demo-
cratic prospects, while William Jen-
nings Bryan seems to have monopoliZed
the logical candidate" qualifications,
he is now aggressively confronted by
competitors who claim TO be fully en-
titled to rank in the same class. He,
too. will have TO prove his claims
against some ambitious dark horses"
Success Magazine.
Newspapers .fter an experiment in
Better Than billboard advertising
billboaris. which continued five or
six years, the American
Tobacco company has returned to
newspaper advertising. This company,
which devoted most OF It's billboard
space 10 advertising certain smoking
tobacoos. spent 81 100000 a year upon
the billhoards. which amount VIII be
spent hereafter In newspapers and
magazines. No company knows better
the worth of advertising, and no COM
pany is doing 1t more judiciously.
Therefore the company's Withdrawal
from the billboards Is an indication of
the questionable value OF this form OF
obtaining business publicity.-Amerl-
can Civic Association Clipping Sheet.
PrcCoclty Precocity Is not al
May Mean ways thing to be de-
DegeneraCy. sired. Indeed, II may,
Just as surely an II
prematurely ripened fruit indicates de-
cay and early death, mean an early de-
generation and loss of the mental fac
ulties. BY many biologists 1t is con-
sidered an expression of premature
senlity. AS Lombroso has Indicated
many of the men OF genius We're sub