The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-07-28
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
An Earnest and Harmonious Meeting.


| The Democratic primary meetings. held in
| the fourteen precincts of the county, last Sat.
| urday,were well attended, showing the general
/ interest felt by the Democrats of the county in
| the nominations to be made The contests In
| most of the districts were spirited, and az is
usually the case there was more or less dissats-
| faction at the result. The outcome, however,
has been the nomination of Il good ticket.
| The convention was held m the Court HOUSE.
on Tuesday. 1t was called to order by Col.
Othu ). Ice, Chairman of the Democratic
County Executive Committee. Hollis Court
ney, Jr., of Havre de Grace, was suggested for
temporary chairman, but declined, and Joseph
E. Spencer, OF the second district, was unani-
mOusly chosen TO preside.
Mr.. Spencer thanked the convention for the
honor it had given him and said he hoped the
convention would be as harmonious as the one
held two wee KS ago.
William NJ. Whteford. of the fifth district
was elected us Secretary, but he declined and
Daniel b, Arthur, of the second district, was
made temporary Secretary.
Col. Lee then presented the credentials from
the several districts and read the list of dele
gates as shown by the returns of the primary
meetings, made to the Executive Committee.
He stated that the returns showed that ., 206
votes had been cast for the Crawford system of
nominating and 81 votes against it. This an
nouncement was greeted with applause.
A Committee on Credentials and Permanent
ORGANIZATION was then chosen, comprising one
James 7. Norris; I'd, William F. Reasin; Sd,
John 5. Young; 4th Carvil Green; 9Th, James
T. Jones' 9th, Hollis Courtney, Jr
During the absence OF the committee an effort
to adjourn until o'clock was made, but the
motion WAS rejected by vote of 81 to 2I.
The committee remained out so long that the
convention grew impatient and motion was
made that the committee be requested to re-
port Before the motion could be voted on the
committee appeared. Prior to ma king their re-
port a motion to adjourn was made, but the
chairman decided that The report oil the creden-
tiais committee must first he heard. The chair
man OF the cOInmi tee, John 5. Young, of the
third district. reported that all of the creden-
tials were correct except the one from Harkins
precinct, which had not been signed by the
primary officers. The result, he said. could not
be chang-d thereby, and the committee report
ed the following as delegates entitled 10 seats
in the convention:
mord, Harry fyle, Parker f. Everitt, J. Frank
Dalton, Augustus Rembold, Jesse L. Cuilum,
Bosley.
Second Di&irtct.-John 4. Osborn, John NJ
Michael, A. II. Wilson, d. B. Arthur, Winfield
B. Harris. George Is. Osborn, Wesley McGui-
7Aird DiStrici.-Jacob G. Durham, David IL.
Hanson, r. burlington Grafton, Edwin II.
Webs. er, Thomas j. Kehoe, George Fl. Rail-,
Hudson Bateman, John Smith, Aug ust Neu-
mann, John s Young.
fo"rth DiSttig.-B. Frank Cathcart, f. Carvil
FOLEY, John w. Barton, Grafton Eevoe, r.
CarvIl Green, James Barten, Columbus 2. Me
Clung; James 4. Wiley, John Walter STREET.,
rim DiSTict.-Dr William d. Kirk, James
L. Jones, Wesley McDoUn, Frederick Scarbor.
ough, John Cummings, William NJ Whiterord,
Z. a. shaw, Timothy Redding, George Amos,
Isaac Morris.
.SirM DiStrict-Hollis Courtney, Jr, Dr. r. |
Lee Pennington, Sichael II Fahey, Leon Hoff-
man, John n. Billingslea. Geo IL. Blu roughs, |
William III. Poplar. thomas Healy, Eyeritt j. |
Bradteld, Walter NJ. Smith. |
The committee recommended that the tenn
porary officers be made permanent. The com
mittee a lso recommended thai nominations be |
made in the following order: States Attorney, |
County Treasurer, sheriff, County Commission
err, House of Delegates, Judges of the Orphans |
Court and County Surveyor.
The report was adopted and the convention,
after another fruitless effort for adjournment,
to make nominations.
For states Attorney James w. McNabb, of
the fifth district, and Sylvester E. Penning, of
the sixth district. were nominated.
A ballot was taken, the result showing that |
Mr. McNubb had received IS votes and Mr..
mated. He received the solid votes of the list,
"a and 18th districts and from the 5th district.
MIR. Penning received the solid votes of the Sd
and 9th districts and votes from the 9th dis
trict.
For County Treasurer. Walter Finney, of the
80 district. and John Finney Wells, of the I'd
district, were named. Mr.. Finneys nominal
ton was made in an earnest speech by Mr.. John
); Young: Hisvote was precisely that given TO
siven to Mr.. McNabb. Mr.. Wells as declared
the nominee
For sheriff the candidates were james A
Amos, of the Sd district, and Andrew Kinhurt |
Of the 4th district The latter was chosen, the
vote being as before.
For County Commissioner the names of b.
Frank Hanway, of the LIST district; George |
Archer, of the Sd district, and A. l.. Mccain,
Of the 9th district were placed before the con-
Mr.. Archers name WAS withdrawn
before the vote was concluded, and the result
was that Mr.: Hanway received 30 votes and
Mr.. McCann IS.
For the House of Delegates seven persons
were voted for, and only four were to be
chosen it required two ballots to settle the |
question. The first ballot showed as follows: |
George W .McComas, 81; William b. Hopkins.
James w. Foster, SIS; James J. Archer, 25
Walter Jackson was also voted for, but before
The ballot ended his delegation. from the 9th
district, Withdrew his name and cast their 10
votes for James w. Foster.
rhe chair announced that Noble L. Mitchell.
3D. district; Howard Proctor. 5th district, and
James w. Foster, 9th district, had been elected,
but that tie having occurred between MeSSrs.
NlcComas and Hopkins, another ballot would
be necessary.
received 25 and Mr.. Hopkins 50 votes.
For Judges OF the Orphans Court DR.. John
w. Barton, received 81 votes; Charles Cres-
well, II; james NJ. Cain 60; e. CarYil Tolley 80,
and John McDoon 43.
James NJ. Cain, Sd district; ohm Nc Doom, 5th
district, and E. Carvil Tolley, 4th districr, were
declared nominated.
For County Surveyor, William T. Clark, of
the 3D. district, was unanimously chosen.
The delegations were then called uDOn to
nominate for members Of the Democratic Exc
cutive Committee. Those selected were f. n.
list; James L. Pritchard, ID; John S.
Young, Sd; William B. Wright, 4th; DIR. w. ID.
9th, and S. L. Penning, 9th dis
trict.
The time-honored emblem of jackson and
Liberty was chosen as the party device upon
the ballots, and the convention adjourned.