The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-20
THINGS POLITICAL.
Garrett County's Claim For the Next
Congressional Nomination
Clearly Set Out.
ALWAYS LOYAL, NEVER FALTfRING.
She Is Now the Banner Republican County
of the State; Her Claims For Recogni-
ton and = Few Reasons why She Should
Receive 1t.
Correspondence of The Republican. |

Two weeks more and the Maryland
Legislature will come to close. Soon
party lines will be drawn and ere long
candidates and conventions will claim
our attention, and we now think it
an eminently proper time to call the
attention of party leaders to our just
and honest claims for party recogni-
ton. Optimistic in the most pro-
nounced lines, we have kept the even
tenor of our way and the fires of Re-
publicanism continue to burn bright
ly until Garrett now occupies the
proud petition of being the banner
Republican county of the State, al
ways giving handsome majorities to
the standardbearers of Republican
ism on all and every occasion.
We, after these many long years of
devotion to party and party princi-
pies, call upon our fellow Republicans
of our sister counties comprising the
Sixth Congressional district to aid us
and give us the recognition we de-
serve so much. Loyal to every can
didate that the party has presented
for our suffrages, we now ask that
they accord to us our just claim for
party consideration.
The name of the present Congress
man has been publicly announced as
n candidate for
there have been other men solicited
to become candidates and they will at
the proper time announce themselves
for the nomination. We think it
eminently proper that we get together
and decide upon candidate and
when the time comes we can present
his name for the consideration of our
sister counties. We believe that our
claims so just and so deserving that
we can and will be able to convince
our fellow Republicans of the fair
ness our propositions. With de-
cided opposition against the present
Congressman in his own county and
with a sentiment against him in the
other counties comprising the Sixth
| Congressional district and with oppo-
sition growing and increasingsall the
time it will be decided factor against
his denomination.
Garrett has supported Loyalty the
various candidates from Allegany,
Washington, Montgomery and Fred
erick counties. Has supported them
in times of adversely when-their own
people from the county in which they
were nominated failed to support
them; especially is this true in regard
to Allegany and Washington coun-
! ties.
No county in the State has done
more for its party than Garrett; no
county in the State has received less
than Garrett has for all its devotion
and loyalty.
The only consideration we have re-
ceived in the past is to how large a
majority we could furnish and hav-
ing furnished that majority and cleo
ted the candidate the other or sister
counties received all the emoluments.
We have taken consolation from the
fact that we did our duty nobly, but
patience cannot endureth forever"
We now think that the people in the
other counties should be willing to
make some sacrifices to the people
who stood and supported when their
own knew them not"
We should now go to work reso-
lutely to win in the next Congress
sional nomination and in spite of op-
position that may arise in other coun-
ties keep on toiling, sustained by the
spirit of optimism which may illumi-
nate our path in the darkest hours,
believing that the justice of our posi-
ton can be so clearly establishes that
every fair-mlnded Republican will be
convinced of the fairness of our claim
and that we are entitled to portion
of the honor and emoluments that
they have so long enjoyed.
In the next issue l will give a list of
the appointments to federal positions
from Allegany county.
A REPUBLICAN.