The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-09-09
THE PASSING OF A BRILLIANT
MISGUIDED FAN.

the word FINS has been penned
at the end of it's closing chapter.
The full and complete story has
been told the story of his polit-
ical glory, emblazoned in golden
letters by an acknowledging Ok
lahoma public; the story of his
political shame, chronicled by
himself and transcribed into the
indestructible Congressional Re-
cord; the story of his political
death, of his political downfall;
of his reputation by the upstand-
ing Americans of Oklahoma's de-
mocracy-all, all is now history.
Coming to Oklahoma in the days
of it's infancy, a piece of flotsam,
fioated from the wreck of the Pop
ulist ship which for time sailed
the waters of Texas politics (ma-
jestic in the beauties of it's theo-
ries, but destined to destruction
when buffeted by the waves and
pillows of cold reason and stern
common sense,) blind, but en-
dowed with a brilliant intellect,
blind physically, but possessed of
a keen political insight and the
gift of playing sweetly upon the
sentimental and sympathetic
chords of the harp of the human
heart, Thomas Pryor Gore availed
himself of Opportunity and offer
ed his services to the democracy Of
the new state, telling the Democ-
racy that he was and ever had
been, at heart, a Democrat, and
was, by the Democrats of Oklaho
ma, accepted as the simon-pure ar
ticle.
Forgotten were his political
misdeeds in the Lone Star state;
forgotten were his acts Of moral
turpitude. To err was human, to
forgive divine. Oklahoma was in
the making, diamond in the
rough from which the magic hand
of the lapidarist was to fashion,
with radiant facts, one of the
most brilliant gems which scintil-
late, today, in the galaxy of stars
which represent this great union
of staes. Oklahoma, crude, unpol-
ished, newly born into statehood,
draped in swaddling clothes
of infancy, unable yet to stand a
lone, needed brilliant minds and
bright men to represent her citi-
zenry and carve for her niche
in the halls of the national gov
eminent. Oklahoma, new, unpol-
ished and unlearned i'm the ways
of the world, was Democratic and
her Democracy, while Of sterling
integrity, was unsophisticated and
willing to accept the erstwhile
Texas Populist at the par value he
placed upon himself.
So Thomas Pryor Gore was
chosen one of the United States
senators from the great new state.
He was honored and his praises
sung from one confne of Oklaho-
ma to the other, from the rugged
hills along the Arkansas border in
the east, to the windswept plains
on the Panhandle line in the west;
from the sections where the Soon
er and the SunfOwer states meet
in the north, to where the turgid
Red river brawls along our south
ern boundary; he was honored
and trusting public, a trusting
Democracy believed in him, his
star was in the ascendancy, going
with meteor-like velocity.
Time passed and his term of
office expiring he was reelected,
defeating one of the brightest,
brainest, cleanest, most loyal A
merican Democrats. He came be-
fore the Democracy of Oklahoma
asking reelection, he was still the
unshattered idol and as such was
again crowned with honors.
And thus ended the chapter tell
ing of Thomas Pryor Cores polit-
ical glory.
Time, that irresistible force
which chronicles the events of the
world with the relentless revolu-
tions of it's cycles, brought on the
greatest tragedy and crime which
humankind had known since the
day upon which the Son of Man
was murdered upon infamy's tree
the crime which was wrought
when Kaiser Wilhelm, of Imperial
Germany, hurled the Christianized
world into the vortex of a war on
Humanity and, as the anti-Christ,
sought to compel the nations OF
the earth to bend the knee, in sup
pliance, to his power.
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