Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1920 — SEN. GORE SINGS HIS SWAN SONG [ARTICLE]

SEN. GORE SINGS HIS SWAN SONG

Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 5.— With the exception of the contest for the democratic nomination for United States senator in which Representative Scott Ferris defeated Senator Thomas P. Gore for renomination, none of the more important rates in Tuesday’s primary election had been definitely .decided by returns tabulated tonight. . Election board officials said it might be a week or more before the complete returns were available. Q Senator Gore said tonight that he expected to go to New York soon and from there to Washington. He issued a statement in which he said: “As this rings down the curtain upon my political career I take this opportunity to’ express my gratitude to the people of Oklahoma for all that they have done for me in the past hnd to express' my appreciation .to my friends for their fidelity in this contest. . “I shall continue to wish and to work for the triumph of democratic principles, liberty of. thought, speech, conscience, the press, etc. Senator Gore’s war record was made the issue in the campaign by Representative Ferris. Ferris made his campaign on a Wilson platform. Senator Gore has represented Oklahoma in the- senate since statehood in 1907 while Ferris has been a representative from ‘ the sixth district also during that length of time. . . For the republican senatorial nomination J. W. Herreid, Oklahoma City, continued to hold his lead over J. B. Cullison, of Enid, on the face of tabulated returns.