Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-07-31
GORE ON THE roBodcAN

The closing days Of the PRIMARY
campaign nearly r'vays bring TO the
light few of the inconsistensics as
we'll as the real nature Of the capdi-
De ute for nomration.
Dine OF the ort noticeable ssBl.itS
o. this campaign has been oihs pm
r0unced break6oyn in the oceg' ]
ic spirit heretofofe displayed by
Sc, ator T. p. Gcre. Early IN June
he announced t. he was so certain
cf denomination that - ~
lca,e Washington ~ .tav IN
fluence in behalf OF his constituency,
enjoying the perfect confidence Of
his being reelected without any ef-
fort on his part. In the lattcr part
OF June, however, he reversed this
decision and hurried to Oklahoma,
forsaking his many duties at Wash
irgton, and going on the stump in
behalf of his candidacy. At that
time he took the remarkable position
of saying that he would win three
to one, and yet he was forsaking his
important duties at Washington to
campaign in this state in his ,wn
behalf.
After his initial swing around
the state, in July. he reduced his
supposed majority OF three to one
to bare majority and he is now be-
coming peevish and indhlging in the
most glaring Inaccuracies and incon-
sistencies: for instance, at a number
of places he has indulged in person
alities. not only against Judge Hayes
but against the local men at the
place where he was speaking, hurl-
ing at them vituperative epithets
for having dared to espouse the
cause Of Judge Hayes and fight the
Senator.
At Salisaw he admitted that he en-
deavored to get negro appointed
as register of the treasury, but said
he found justification for his con-
duct in the fact that he was for the
Oklahoma Negro as we'll as for the
Oklahoma white man.
At Norman. he again admitted the
accuracy of the record, which has
been produced against him. but said
he did 1t because he wanted to do
the Administration a favor. 4 But. at
Davis. when speaking to the Ex-Con-
federate Veterans. he held up the
negro record, and positively denied
that there was a word of truth in
it; denied all connection with the
affair. and said that he was for an
indian for that position all the time
Now every place he goes he singles
out some of the Hayes supporters
and denounces them personally for
having come out against him, all Of
which leads to the observation that
whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad"
The indications are that Judge
Hayes will defeat Gore by sub
stantial majority.
A number of important and ac-
curate polls have been taken, all OF
which resulted in Hayes favor.
AT Mangum. Oklahoma. with the
town full of farmsrs. the result of
a careful poll was as follows:
Hayes .....t. ...... 203
gore, lUl
Another poll which was taken on
the train going South from Oklaho-
ma City. on July 2S. was as follows:
Hayes ..1.... y2Its. ..,.. 81
..Gore ..s...... Zb
A careful poll of the people resid-
ing in and around Muskogee shows
the following:
Hayes $50. sos 4
Gore .sisl ~
It is confidently predicted that
Senator Gore will be unable to carry
his own county. even. his home pre-
cinct will go for Hayes.
The wonderful change in the sem
timent which is assuredly going to
place Samuel w. Hayes in the U.
8. Senate. is but natural result Of
the popular awakening to. the fact
that Samuel w. Hayes typifies pur-
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