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The Commoner.
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 23
BLIND GORE, OF OKLAHOMA
Tho following editorial Is from the
I'hlladelphhi North American:
Tho best of all modern story tellers
wroto many stories of a soldier called
Mulvaney. And one of the best of
Kipling's stories finished with this
saying of Mulvaney's:
"God's been good to mo! I've seen
n man this day!"
Now, to our nowest state, let tho
messago go from tho oldest states
that Oklahoma has shown to us a
man. , ,,, , , ,
Thoro were days In Washington
last weok that tried men's courage
and tholr personal and political
standards of right with a test of rare
aoveritv. Duty has compolled the
North American to censure every con
gressman and every senator who
inado possible tho passage of the vi
cious Wall Street currency bill. But
only those acquainted with tho truth
c.an concelvo tho pressure put u;on
the men who succumbed rufllclently
to aid In working a wrong to tho
whole country.
The more fact that Roosevelt and
his loyal i'rionds and the leaders of
the democracy allko were deluded in
to tho belief that if they did not
help in the passage of a bill that is a
legislative crime they would be guilty
of doing hurt, not to a party, but to
the nation, Is enough to show the
strength of the influences brought to
bear upon those men in Washington.
There is hurrying and scurrying in
Washington now. There is surprise
and wondorment at the uprising of
resentment in consequence of ttye pas
sage of the iniquitous currency bill,
for which republicans and democrats
must share the responsibility.
But In the crisis of last week a
few -men 'saw clearly. And one of
these few men was a blind man
Gore of Oklahoma.
An evil thing was done at the dic
tation of tho stock exchange gamblers
of New York by grace of the ignor
ance of some men wo have honored
and the cowardice of tho majority
of both parties in congress.
But there was a Hjratius to :.old
wore
wiimi. both exhausted, they
stealing a well earned hour or two
of sleep that blind Gore of Oklahoma,
roso and spoke.
It was not a wise, practical thing
for him to do. If he is to remain
a senator, he must be re-elected next
March. Tho deliberate sharing of
that filibuster, In opposition to the
leaders of his party, was absolutely
foolhardy.' He did it in tho face of
all nnlltical nracticallty.
Ho had not talked long when the
word went Into the cloakroom that
a great speech was being made. And,
soon afterward, there was no more
thought of yawning, and thero was
a quorum, with no more need for a
false counting by Fairbanks to ac
commodate Wall Street.
I Tho blind man was doing very well
In his effort to make his countrymen
see the light.
So Gore of Oklahoma, spoke hour
after hour. And those of the men
ho was fighting, who were real men,
must have looked upon his blind face
and honored and admired him.
He was sneaking against time. He
was making a fillouster. But, all the
while, he was speaking greatly.
He did not know whether it was
this day or that day, or dusk, or
dawn. He is a blind man. But his
other skilled senses surely caught the
signs of compelled attention; compre
hension and approbation.
, And so, knowing that,- even though
blind, ho had done such a thing as
no new senator had done before, Gore
of Oklahoma delivered his perora
tion and sank into his seat, certain
that some one of the half dozen sen
ators pledged to relieve him would
rise and take up the fight where he
left off.
And are you proud, gentlemen of
the democracy of the senate, that you
sat silent in your seats while the un
derstanding of your cowardice drift
ed back of tho darkness of the eyes
of Gore of Oklahoma?
And do you think, gentlemen of
the majority, that the men of this
But when Gore of Oklahoma went
away from the cheat that he thought
was a triumph in the senate when
Aldrich and Fairbanks "bilked" a
blind man he went to a noted ocu
list in Washington, who had told
Gore months ago that the knife might
make him able to see.
Gore laughed at the idea then. He
had been blind so long-that he did
not feel that he needed any eyes ex
cept those of his wife. But now he
is in the dark room of a Washington
hospital.
We are inclined to think that he is
actuated by the vish to see just what
an Aldrich or a Fairbanks or the,
democrats who deserted him look
like.
Tho Ndrth American watches the
happenings everywhere. So Gore of
Oklahoma is no novelty. We heard,
a year ago, and told our readers
then, of the freakish thing that the
nowest state was about to do. A boy,
blind from his fifteenth year, talked
day after day to mass meetings, and
asked the people who heard him to
send him to the senate of the United
States.
To us in the calm, conservative,
sedate east, it seemed a circus sort
of thing for a blind man to mount
the stump and tell his fellow-citizens
how a woman had come into his life,
and ever after had been his eyes.
The election of Gore and the
growth of Oklahoma we looked upon
merely as queer but inconsiderable
phases of national development. All
was freakish and uncouth. But now
in candor, let it be said iha
blind westerner has oper ?HKMitelL
vv ucuici iiw uuixioa ironi me aaru.
room of the hospital seeing the green
of things growing and the gold of
the sunlight matters not, so far as
his life-work is concerned. He may
still rest in the blackness to which
he is accustomed, with that one lit
tle woman's eyes his sole link with
the thought of the world. None the,
less will this man have done his
work in a world made up of
"Neither children nor gods,
But men in a worla- of men."
braska came out of the general fund
of the democratic national commit
tee to which there were' many con
tributors; that it was a proper dis
position of the money and that Mr.
Bryan had nothing to do with its
disbursement.
Nobody but a simpleton would
make tho chargo that Mr. Bryan's
support of Parker was in return for
the contribution mentioned. Well
informed democrats know that Mr.
Bryan became Judge Parker's sup
porter when the nomination was
made, and that he did magnificent
work for the ticket Judge Parker
himself attested. .
Mr.. Bryan is not a man to sell
his support and -that the American
people know full well, and they will
discredit any charge to that effect,
whatever its origin.
But, in the name of heaven, what
is the occasion of criticising the dem
ocratic campaign fund of 1904? Is
it to institute a 'comparison with tho
republican campaign fund? Long
ago the democratic committee chal
lenged the republican committee to
an itemized showdown, from the big
sums fried out of the trusts by Cor
telyou to the sum that Mr. Roose
velt himself wheedled out of his
"dear friend" Harriman. But ft no
time have the republican managers
been willing to take the public into
their confidence.
It may be that some few tainted
dollars found their way into tho
democratic fund. It is difficult to
SJ&SSLJJ&xs but it is a
, - rV after his
tho hrlrlco. And there was one" to posea toward tne roiiowers 01 an aiu-
"stand on either side." The Horatius. rich and a Fairbanks because they
No more need be 'said. Goro's
eyes failed him once. That Once was
zni,,c,t rM- k. w-. .-w v
hu.lv, u stjiuiLur among senators, in
ins ueipiessness ana ins greatness.
was LaFolletto of Wisconsin, who is
by temperament a leader of forlorn
hopes. " Though he dragged himself
from a sickbed to talk eighteen hours,
lie enjoyed th experience.
Then Stono of Missouri, atoned for
many past sins of "practical politics"
by coming to LaFollotte's aid. But
they wore only two. And It was
gagged Heyburn, the western repub
lican, at tho moment he rose to stop
the trick of your stealing away the
work that a blind man had wrought?
Surely that was the one time when
his wife did not feel that she was
needed. It is not a pretty nlctura to
keep in memory that. our elder states-
14t Imnri'iriiTC In im lnj. i
Of course the law is the law. But ""?" r n " w ? , .
i u iwi vjuie ui uirm.nnmn.
there will come a day of reckoning
for. the makers of some laws.
Now it may be a more coincidence,
though we think it a consequence.
How to Oet Well
fror BO cents in a Month
trouble with nine people in 1 Cascarets gently stimulate the liver,
don't feel well: ' 1 . Cathartics whip i': to action.
This is tho
ten who
The llvor is torpid because of abuse.
i ' Because of wrong food and too little
exercise.
1 Tho bowels have grown inactive. The
waste of the system loads the blood
-l with impurities.
. Then one takes harsh physicgaits and
pills in trying to correct tho wrong.
l Thus the stomach and bowels become
inflamed. The whole digestive sys
tem Is upset. " '
All these results end quickly by the
use of Cascarets.
. One candy tablet, once or twice a day.
In a month, or less, one knows what
it is to be well. '
Cascarets aid digestion. , Harsh physic
destroys it.
Cascarets heal the bowels. Pills, salts
and castor oil merely irritate.
If you tramped the woods for a month,
ate coarse food, fruit and green vege
tables, the result would be tn'o same
as a mouth with Cascarets.
But most people can't do that. For
them, Cascarets bring the same re
sults, just as naturally, just as
effectively.
Cascarets aro candy tablets, Thoy are sold
by all druggists, but never In bulk. Bo sure to
get the genulno, with CCC on ovcry tablot.
i ne dox ts markoa liko this:
uicavcto
Tho vest-Docket box Is 10 cents.
Tho month-treatmont box SO centa.
12,000.000 boxes sold annually.
uunu or seeing matters nnt. Th
bond of manhood holds taut through
all times and all peoples. Over the
mountains and vhe rivers and the
plains the message of the east goes
to Oklahoma:
Send back this blind man to the
senate! America needs Americans!
Praise God! We've seen a man this
day! "Philadelphia North American.
;ftftlW.',,e-Parker notified
riheehan that no contributions
from trusts or iawless corporations
and individuals must be accepted.
We daresay that tho democratic
campaign fund of 1904 was as free
from taint as it is possible to have
one in the absence of a publicity
system that will place unon Gvrv
dollar contributed and disbursed the
glare of the public searchlight.
And Mr. Bryan and those who will
conduct the campaign for him will
see to it that only clean money is
received this year.
The World was engaged in a-hopeless
and ungracious task when it
challenged Mr. 'Bryan's avnlinhiufv
It has gone so far along that line as
to array itself in opposition to the
democratic party which stands for
policies the World supports and in
favor of the republican party which
stands for policies the World exe
crates. But the attempt to besmirch
Mr. Bryan by charging him with a
disgraceful dicker is nothing short
of contemptible. Houston (Texas)
Post.
WHO. INDEED?
"Who is that stout gentleman in
the boss's room?" said the clerk in
the war ofllce to the private secre
tary. "Why, that is Secretary Taft.
Didn't you know him?"'
"No. I've only been here two
years." Life.
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CONTEMPTIBLE
Of all the silly campaign stories
now making the rounds, that origi
nated by the New York World -with
respect to an alleged contribution
by Thomas P. Ryan to the demo7
cratic campaign- fund of Nebraska n
1904 is the silliest. Among other
things it is alleged that it was in
return for this contribution that Mr.
Bryan supported Parker.
It has now been definitely ascor-
MOTIOE MAYO CABELL COMMUNI
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Amherst County, Virginia,
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