The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-09-06
THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEES.

The gentlemen whose names We have nad the
pleasure Of placing at the head Of our columns as
he Republican candidates for Congress in the
Second and Fifth Congressional districts, have
been placed in nomination with absolute unanimi-
ty, which is the best token of success.
Col. Thaddeus G. Blair,
our standard-bearer in the Second district, is o
man of the people, and his whole life has been
spent laborng with the sturdy sons OF toll in TINS
and the adjoining counties. Like many OF the
gifted and honorcd sons of the Republic, ne has
worked hard to acquire the position that he feels
proud to occupy to-day. In the prime and vigor
of ono of the most active of lives he is what he Is
by the labor of his own hands and the industrious
Improvement of his own mind. He has taught
public school in the winter months and worked
hard on the farm in the summer months to earn
enough to support him while he was receiving
b;oher education in the celebrated colleges at New
Haven. He has been employed by the Ashland
Iron Company for many years, and by devotion
TO business has gradually risen from an unlm-
nortant position to that of assistant manager
For sixteen years he has been paying of all the
men employed by the company and is universal
favorite among them. Hc has been with them In
the ore bank, the quarry and at the furnace ana
thew all know his amiability of manner and good
ness of heart. They can speak in his penaii III
this campaign, and their voice will be more potent
for him than that of those orators who too oiten
deal only in glittering generalities And not only
the sons of honest labor will be on his SIDE, OUT 81
also will be his hosts of friends in Carroll Hariore
and Cecil counties where he is almost as widely
known and highly respected as he is in his owl
county. He is one Of the strongest supporters
nrotection to American industry, and OF ampl
wages to every laborer artisan an and mecnanl0-
is the sturdy champion of all their rights and tn
earnest vindicator of all their just demands.
Hon. Hart B. Holton,
the nominee in the Fifth district was born in Gee
countv. Md, in 1885. He received his early edit
cation in the public schools, and graduated
= HopeweIl Academy, Hopewell, Chester county, n
His early life was spent upon farm, but ate
graduating he taught school in Chester count.
and subsequently in Kent county, Md. In 1s6
he married Miss Gary, sister OF Hon. James
s Gary, and then engaged in cotton manufacturing
!. In 1863 Mr.. Holton was elected senator ITO
r Howard county by the Republican party MIN
: the full term with marked ability and industr
and by his affable manners and capacity pecan
one of the most influential members Of that bod
During his two sessions he was on the importal
I, committees of education, finance and Judiciary
: Upon the completion of his term he retired to pr
vate life, giving his attention to the manutactu
of cotton at Alberton, where he was the manag
$, of the business up to 1877, when he engaged
d farming and stock raising on the Franklin roa
near Powhatan in the LIST election district OF tn
E. ity, and among the people of his own and Howa
county is greatly esteemed. Two years ago N
/; Holton was nominated for Congress in the Fit
y district and was triumphantly elected, his maJo
ot ty being upwards of fifteen hundred. He
&c made one of the best Representatives the distr
has ever had and his constituents will put fol
their best efforts to re elect him.