The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1908-10-09
SENATOR GORE
ROYALTY RECEIVED
Great Throng Gather at Station and
Demand a Speech From Okla
homa's Noted Orator
From Wednesdays Daily

From Wednesdays Daily
Senator Thomas Pryor Gore. of I.awton.
arrived Vinita last night on the Frisco
due here al 6As and was given a rousine
reception by the citizens Of Vinita, who
gathered at the station to great the blind
orator, of whom all Oklahoma and the
southwest is proud. The east bound Fris-
co was late and necessitated delay of
the senator's train and in response 10
demand Of the crowd. Mr.. Gore mounted
a truck and talked, while the trains were
switching. Senator Gore has Just been
on tour Of the United States, the last
few weeks Of which have been spent in
the west campaigning for Vim, ]. Bryan
and this was the first stop upon his re-
turn TO his own state
In beginning his short address,
Mr. Gore paid a glowing tribute TO
Oklahoma which shows the deep
de and patriotic feeling he has
for his state, and il Is this feeling that
ever asserts itself in his work in the
United States senate and in his home
life and that has endeared the blind ora-
tor to the people of Oklahoma. The Sena-
tor arraigned the republican party for
failing, in eleven years Of uninterrupted
control Of the government, TO do what
il now promises to do if the people
will again entrust il with the reins of
government He discussed briefly the
attitude Of the republican party toward
the publicity Of campaign contributions,
and compared that attitude 70 that Of the
democratic party whose platform declares
for the publication Of all campaign con-
tributions. lie took the president to task
for asserting that the people might mis-
construe the intention Of Hartman in
giving S260,000 10 aid in the election Of
a republican president. If that donation
had been published before the elec,lya
He said that If these contributions were
published the people did not need TO be
told whose interests would be best served
by the election Of the candidate for whom
these contributions were made lie point
ed out the fact that Bryan had issued a
statement, three days before the Denver
convention, in which he stated that he
would not accept the nomination for
president, unless the party plaoeda plank
in the platform favoring the publicity Of
campaign contributions.
Senator Gore also discussed the panics
and financial strineencies that have come
upon this country in recent years lie
demonstrated the fact that six of the
eleven panics had come under republican
high tariff rule and that the seventh had
come just two months after the republic
cans had gone out Of power. and showed
that the high tariff republican admins
tration was the direct cause Of that
panic
Senator Gore then made a few remarks
in behalf of the candidacy of IN. Rat
cliff foe representative in the state leeis-
lature from Craig county. lie told the
people TO not forget that the only way to
return him 70 the United States senate
over Dennis Flynn was to assure demo-
cratic majority in the state legislature.
AS Mr. Gore was on his way to Tulsa
where he spoke last night, he had only
short time 70 speak here, but his brief re-
marks met the approvalof the large crowd.
and upon his conclusion a cheer rent the
air that was sufficient TO give the sena-
tor a knowledge Of the high esteem in
which he is held here.