Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1917-10-26
(FIRST SECTION-1O Pages)

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io.' the transportati,n Uf troops To
| Europe without their consent thus
! .,;nging down upon his h'ad almost
/ he solid condennat'ou % his entire
constituency
Mr.. Gore is u brainy man, AMI
without doubt one of the keenest pol
| iticians in the land. tthe same enco
niums might also be passed in con
npctiuns with the names of Benedict
Arnold and Count Won B"rns'orfiE
and as Is intimatcd above, h" II y
/ fine fence fixcr. therefore. his lat
est coup Is calculated To fix IN" many
/ breaks in his fence. Tn" country
| has been floodcJ this week with
bulky ltHtorS from Gore, sent under
Government frank. inclosed with
which ar" li-pag" pamphlets. print
I'd in the Government print"ry, pur-
porting 10 be speech of the senator
IN IN" Scna'" chamber on Monday,
Sept 10. which, according to Gus
'Om, IN" senator Is probably entitled
! 10 mail out under th' frank
/ However. the very first paragraph
70. 'hr pamphlet was very patriotic
statement by Nr Gore set in bold
face type. and the remainder Of tho
first pag" vas mad" up of lot of
high sounding phrases oi which tn"
senator was author at various times.
or sayings OF intellectual giants that
he had stored away in his rcmarka-
hl" memory Tn" second pag, was
composed Of more brilliant sayings
of tn" gentleman, with the alleged
speech in the Senate" starting az
l,.. a
part of page two and other pages
tn and including page twelve. Pag"
thirteen carries IN bold-fac" type u
constitutional amendment propoesd
by this same Gore that would have.
II adopted, made a declaration OF
war by Congress impossible withon;
vof" or III" people, unless in case
of invasion or imminent danger of
invasion Then follow excerpts from
the controversy between Mr.. Gore
and the Daily Oklahoman, III" con
trovcrsy between Mr.. Cor" and AL
ger Melton, and several other letters
written by Gore. ON" of the last
things in the document is clevcrlv
yelled criticism Of President Wilson.
when Gore inserts in hOldfac" type.
without comment. and in u place
wher" it has no hearing whatever on
the preceding or succeeding text.
President Wilson's statement in hi
Red Cross speech. We have gone
into tn" war with no special griev-
ancc of our own, h"caus" We hav" al
ways said that We were the friends
and the servants of mankind" and
which Gore included in hi Melton
letter in an attempt to b"litilc tn"
necessity Of our entrance into th"
war In this document. in various
places. appear statements from var
ious home and foreign sources which
are calculated to defend Cores posi-
lion under the right of free speech.
aud in other portions of the same
pamphlet appear vavious assertions
and statements calculated To con
vince the farmers that Gore has in
all his activities been actuatcd by a
desire to help them.
The letter, gotten ont on a mime,
ograph, and dated Oct :. is full of
flOwery rhetoric and lists the. vari-
GUS war measures that Gore says he
has supported. and along toward the
last says. II have kept the faith
Truth will triumph The people ara
just. The voice of the peopl. is the
voice of God. In these hewillcrinv
and patriotic times men will differ
as to the Rest Means 49,
unless the signs are badly mixed.