Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-06-24
Democratic County Convention.

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The Democratic-Co Conservative Convention
composed of ten delegates from each of the
ten Election Districts of the county, met al
the Court House, in this place, on Tuesday
to select four delegates to the State Conyen.
ton at Baltimore, on Thursday, to nominate
candidate for Comptroller, and To IL Judi.
cial Convention 10 meet at Rockville ON the
gath of August next
The convention was called to order by Ii
| w. Talbot and permanent organization
effected as follows:
On motion Of Thomas Waters, of s., Hon.
M: Blair was called to the chair and Thos.
}. Owens and s. W. Davis appointed secre-
taries
1t was moved and carried that the chair
man appoint committee on credentials, one
for each district, whereupon Messrs. David
Griffith, Solomon Dowden, Samuel Darby,
W. V. Bouic, Jr, 0. II. p. Clark, Jos. 4.
fancy, Spencer Watkins, Wash. Bowie, j.
L. Benson, VIM. G. Council were appointed
recess until halfpast one o'clock was
taken in order to give the committee time
to make up their report. Upon re-assembling
the committee reported the following dele
cations;
First District-David Griffith, Silas w.
Davis, Reuben Riggs, Howell Crawford, s..
.. Jones, G. A. Pope, +. r. Veitch, Geo r..
Waters, A. G. Merriwether, G. f. Townsend.
Second District--George w. Hilton, J. w.
G. Kemp, Sol. Dowden, James b. Neel, Jas.
s. Kemp, Wallace Welsh, Jno. Il. Burdette,
Chas II. Murphy, Joseph Henderson, John
L. Dowden.
Third District-Wm. It. Jones, Chas. f.
Elgin, JAS W. Reed, r. J. sherwood, VIM.
o. Sellman, Isaac Young, Samuel Darby,
j. L. Fletchall, +. A. Dawson, E. Wootton.
Fourth District-John p. Connell, Frank
Almoney, s. Il. Mullican, C. NJ. Bean, VIM
V. Bouic, Jr., II. II. Beall, John A. Carter,
George 9. Dawson, Abraham II. Somers,
|. X. Maus.
Fifth District-Oliver H. p. Clark, A. l..
Graves, j. A. Talbot, Thomas Hunter, f.
Lazenby, Frank Murphy, j. w. Bell, Thos.
Waters, of S., VIM. M. Candy, Benjamin
Fawcett
Sixth District-B. j. Cross, VIM. Multi
can, w. A. West, james N. Benton, Jos. A.
fancy, Geo A. Rowzee, Samuel Higgins,
Jetson G. Fields, Alex. Peter, Thomas +.
Williams.
Seventh Dstrict-Montgomery Blair, NJ.
l.. Venable, VIM. Mannakee, Henson Bean,
Alfred Ray, Jas. Carroll, Richard Ray, VIM.
Offutt, Jos. Ii. Bradley, Spencer Watkins.
Eighth District-Wm. Grady, j. o. Clark,
E. w. Owen, VIM. b. Miller, Phil Laird, Il.
j. Holland, Wash. Bowie, b. ID. Palmer, ii.
o. Higgins, N. Shaw
Ninth Dstrict-John II. Benson, JAS ii.
Claggett, VIM. r. Gather, Alex. Gloyd, Jno.
4. Benson, Chas. w. Crawford, Il. q. Dor
sey, John A. Burriss, Il. G. Duley, Thos j
| Owen.
Tenth District-H. c. Fawcett, H. A.
Garrett, Samuel Jones, Richard Minniss
| VIM. G. Council, Samuel Mansfield, Syves.
ter g. Jones, Luther M. Offutt, Michael
McQuade, VIM. NJ Bull
| On motion, the making Of nominations
| for delegates to the State Convention was
then proceeded with
! George G. Dawson nominated William r.
| Dove Isaac Young nominated, w. " Bouc
Jr., Solomon Duwden, Samuel Darby ana
| A. l., Graves; Il. J. sherwood nominate.
| T.. b. Prettyman, b, b. Crawford, Spencer
Watkins AMI JOSEPH. A. fancy.
The name of Mr.. VIM. r. Dove was then
Withdrawn.
Robert j. sherwood and l. r. Maus were
appointed telers, and the count resulted as
| follows:
Crawford 60, Prettyman 81, Watkins 55
| fancy So, Bouic A, Darby 40, Dowden 40
Graves A. Messrs. Crawford, Prettyman,
| Watkins and fancy were declared delegates
TO the State Convention.
The election Of delegates TO the Judicial
Convention was next in order, but before
nominations were made Mr.. fancy offered
a resolution instructing the delegates, who
ever they might be, 10 vote for Hon. John
Richie for Chief Judge. The resolution
was unanimously adopted.
Messrs NJ Blair, r. r. Beall, A. Rouzee
A. G. Merriwcther, VIM. Il. Jones, Joseph
H. Bradley, Dr. L. Wotton and Robert w
! Carter were put in nomination.
The vote resulted-l5lair rs, Beal 66
Rouzee /, Merriwether AZ, Jones 81 Brad
ley AZ, Wootton AS, Carter AZ. Messrs. Blair
Beall, Jones and Wootton were declared thu
delegates,
AT the request Of the primary meeting o.
the Eighth District, Col Washington Bowie
offered the following preamble and resolu
ton.
WHEREAS, the present system of making
nominations by the Democrltic-C Onserva
tive party in this county is productive o.
much strife and i'll feeling, and is in ever,
way detrimental to the best interests of the
party, therefore be il
ResOioed, by the Democratic Conservative
party of Montgomery county, in convention
assembled, That the State Central Commit
tee for Montgomery county be and they art
hereby requested 10 call primary meetings il
the various districts of the county for the
purpose Of respectively sending ten delegates
to a county convention, to he held at Rock
Vile not later than Tuesday, July 26th, fol
the purpose of taking into consideration The
propriety of changing the present system o
nominating candidates.
A vote being taken upon the above reso
luton it was unanimously rejected and tb'
convention adjourned.