Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 17
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 20, 1907
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The Blind Orator Gets a Good Job.
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       You doubtless remember the blind orator, Thomas P. Gore, who was with us and among us in Falls county in the politically stormy days of 1894 when populism was in the ascendency.  Gore wielded a two edged blade that produced some queer feelings among the democratic "war hosses."
       Well, Gore has just been nominated by the democracy of Oklahoma Territory for United States senator.  After leaving Texas some ten years ago or about that time, the blind youth got back into the democratic fold and was elected to the territorial legislature.  He has continued prominent, as he is a man of wonderful ability, eloquent, bold and aggressive.  He is as good as elected now and his clarion notes will be heard in the hall of the senate.
       His success in his ambition causes pleasure among his acquaintances in Texas, regardless of previous political affiliations.  His course in the senate will be watched with interest.

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