Volume 16 , Issue 35

1912 Senator Thomas P. Gore, Pride of Oklahoma

On 14 November 1912, Thursday, in the Farmers' Champion, out of Elgin, Oklahoma, front headlines read: "Senator Thomas P. Gore, the Pride of Oklahoma, Who Did Much to Secure Woodrow Wilson's Nomination."

Under the title of "The General Staffs of the Reorganized Political Armies," Munsey's Magazine had the following to say bout the part taken by Oklahoma's beloved blind Senator, Thomas P. Gore, in securing the nomination of Woodrow Wilson as president:

"In the fight for the nomination Chairman McCombs had the help of one of the most far-sighted blind men that ever figured out a political situation, Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma. The boys used to refer to Gore as Old Man Wisdom, and it was his function, during the pre-convention contest, to answer all questions, decide all policies and dictate moves when nobody else had the wisdom for the nerve to do it. The truth is that this man Gore is just about the biggest political personality the current campaign has developed. He is only forty-two years old, and although totally blind since he was eleven years old, he accomplished the wonderful feat of fighting his way into the United States Senate before he was thirty-seven. He became a Wilson supporter early, staked all his political capital on his judgment, never hesitated or wavered, never doubted that success would come - and contrived more to winning the fight, I suppose, than any other one man save Wilson himself or W. J. Bryan. It was Gore, more than anybody else, who convoked Bryan that he ought to take up the Wilson cause and make those wonderful assaults which at regular intervals stood the Baltimore convention on its head, and each time shook down a new bunch of delegates for Wilson, till at last the nomination had been shaken down."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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